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Who're you going to believe bombed that hospital, fat, me, your best friend or your lyin' eyes?

The west is completely controlled by genocidal fascists and it's hard to hold on to hope that it will ever change. Even our "lesser evils" are complete monsters.

May america suffer a thousand more 9/11s. We deserve worse.

Thinking about making a browser add on to substitute the phrase Joe Biden or president biden with genocide joe

DAY 15! GIVE IT UP FOR DAY 15!

Finkelstein approaches the lathe with some recent analysis

The Truth behind Biden's Visit, the Hospital Massacre, and Biden's Lie:

1. Hezbollah and Iran stated that unless Israeli attacks on civilians ceased, they would intervene;

2. Israel panicked. It can carry out massacres of defenseless populations but it can't fight ground wars. It has dreaded a ground war in Gaza, let alone fighting the Party of God;

3. Israel begged Biden to visit to protect it from a second-front war;

4. When Israel carried out the hospital massacre, Biden agreed to lie about the attack only if Israel agreed to cease its genocidal plan in Gaza and allow in humanitarian aid;

5. Biden lied exactly as Lyndon Baines Johnson lied in June 1967 when Israel attacked the U.S.S. Liberty, killing 34 American crewmen. Both LBJ and Biden lied to protect a key ally (and, not incidentally, a domestic electoral asset).

6. Biden will now be praised for his statesmanship in standing by Israel and enabling humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.

Biden is giving a press conference right now and he just said "You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist."

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He looked really fucking old and really fucking tired. And I mean even more than usual.

Yesterday Netanyahu quoted the War Scroll. You know your country is politically healthy when you're quoting bronze age apocalyptic texts written by a religious movement that was effectively destroyed.

"The truth might not get its pants on before the lies travel across the world."

A State Department hack just said that on MSNBC.

Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Ione Pellara: Diplomatic relations between Spain and Israel should be suspended

Turkey right now, people are attacking the Israeli Embassy

Ukrainisation of Israel

New Gunther react pic

on today's Majority Report:

• play a clip of a Saudi official saying he condemns both sides
• continue saying stuff like "the terrorist attack in Israel" and calling Hamas terrorists
• Sam has on his liberal boomer friend who says this is an extremely complicated, difficult thing, and just so hard to understand
• she also says she was disappointed in Biden at first for being "bellicose", but his speech last night was great because he's "tempered his bellicosity" and he's much more "statesmanlike" and it's great that he's acknowledging Palestinians and showing sympathy for them
• she says "I shudder to think what would be said if Donald Trump was in office right now"
• she says boomers are more sympathetic to Israel because "there's a historical reason for that, there's a lot of experience that leads people to sympathize with Israel's situation, not just in terms of this terrorist attack, but in terms of history which may seem a lot more immediate to older people"
• she says "it's a shame in my view why Hamas decided to do such a horrific terrorist attack because it sets the Palestinian cause back in some ways in the minds of many people who were coming around to that (sympathetic to Palestinians)"
• she says Trump bad because he's going to reinvoke the Muslim ban and do deportations - that's why Biden "isn't ideal, but this is the reality we're dealing with in American politics"

Putin: "They just moved 2 aviation (strike) groups into the Mediterranean Sea. I want to say-- this is not a threat, what I'm going to say now and what I will inform you about, but on my behalf, the Russian Air Force, Russian Space Forces are starting, on an ongoing basis, patrols in the neutral zone of the airspace of the Black Sea. And our planes, Mig-31 armed with Kinzhal missiles, they are known to have a range of 1000 kilometers at Mach 9 speed." Thus within range of the carrier groups.

i did everything right and they indicted meeeeee

I've said before that the US is in the same stage the British Empire was during both World Wars when it was starting to realize just how far stretched out it was and seeing the cracks. What I'm not entirely sure of is whether the US is closer to a WW1 or WW2 like scenario. Has it already reached the full extent of its reach? Or will that happens once it finally manages to subjugate the EU?

The BBC posted this yesterday, today Israel bombed a hospital killing approximately 300 people.

Update: Almost 500 people https://nitter.net/ShehabAgency/status/1714330839717212472

Out of morbid curiosity I decided to check what my local big lib newspaper had to say about Palestine

Some continued and sustained strengthening of KKE (Communist Party of Greece) in the last 1-2 years happening. After getting good results in the last parliamentary elections earlier this year (~7.5%) they now poll at ~10% in the first time since who knows when . And that level of support has been pretty much confirmed in the local elections (for regional and mayoral authorities) where communist candidates recieved ~10.5% of the votes country wide if you aggregate and elected mayors in some pretty big cities/populous Athens municapilities..

Yeah they are still at best mid-bad on LGBT issues (tho improving at a very slow pace). Yeah their foreign policy positions are still only ~70% there with some ultra left analysis on China and a couple of other issues. Yeah they have other issues. But they are still a hardboiled Marxist Lenninist party with little to no compromise on their positions and historical analysis or messaging. Very well and stricktly demcent organized ,with deep roots and activities on the union sphere and increasing membership and young support. Pretty much immune to spooks , gladio like infiltration or demsoc turns.

Looking at the state of communist parties and movements in most of the west , at eurocommunism and in general the post war trajectory of most , youdont have that kind of party with that kind of support and organizational strength almost anywhere else. So despite its flaws i cant really complain too much and its a bright spot for sure.

Another positive is that with KKE at this level of strength any EU promoted anti-communist or even anti-protest legislative stuff (that we see start popping up more and more around Europe) is basicaly dead on arival and impossible to implement and will only strengthen it while if KKE was weakened and at like 4% they would have attacked already

Knesset Member Zvika Vogel:

“For me, there is no such thing as innocents in the Gaza Strip.”

the revolution will be funny because 90% of the right-wing will be too old to actually do any fighting

The Israeli Military organized parties near the Gaza border to celebrate Israel’s aggression against #Gaza. Israeli settler singer Omer Adam can be seen in this video inciting violence against Palestinian children and women.

Head of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs’ Commission, Qadura Fares: — Developments in the scene inside the occupation prisons compel us to expose the injustices committed against the prisoners.

Many prisoners have had their limbs, legs, and hands broken, and after the beatings, their comrades could no longer recognize them.

The Naqab prison has become like Abu Ghraib prison, a center of brutality and savage treatment towards the heroic prisoners.

"Israel" is making the Palestinian prisoners pay the price for its failures, acting solely with a spirit of revenge.

We call upon all the countries of the world to raise your voices in support of the principles you claim to uphold, or have you returned to your history as colonial powers?

The number of Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons was 5,300, but it has increased to over 10,000 since October 7th.

I can't fucking believe what just happened...

I don't usually get emotional but this one is really getting to me...

The fuel situation in the Gaza Strip is critical. The health ministry is desperate to source fuel for the hospitals and has issued alerts requesting anyone with even a litre of fuel to get in touch.

A litre of fuel could save lives in Gaza.

Al-Shifa Hospital has already been forced to close some of its departments due to lack of fuel for its emergency generators. Other hospitals have informed us that they will be forced to shut down in the coming hours.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/17/israel-hamas-war-live-anger-after-israeli-strike-kills-500-in-hospital

Holy shit they got a lot of cope cages lmao

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

MSNBC just said "Residents in Gaza have been drinking salty tap water." They are fucking evil. They know that's hasbara-level bullshit. If there's water at all - it's contaminated.

I posted the following yesterday,

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From an article about water in Gaza.

If fuel and water don't arrive soon, the agency's commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini said, "people will start dying of severe dehydration."

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Its other water sources include desalination plants in the Mediterranean Sea and a subterranean aquifer, drained and damaged from years of overuse. When Israel severed electricity to Gaza, the desalination plants all shut down. So did the wastewater treatment stations.

That has left the entire territory without running water. People buy dwindling jugs from municipal sanitation stations, scour for bottles in supermarkets or drink whatever fetid liquid may dribble out of their pipes.

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Drinking dirty water and poor sanitation due to lack of water can lead to terrible diseases, experts say, including cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio. For the past week, the water along Gaza's coast tastes like salt, residents say.

Drinking salt water can lead to even more dehydration.

There's a lot more awfulness in the article.

Reports that an IDF unit attempted to storm Khan Yunis but were forced out after coming under overwhelming RPG fire.

If true, this was their first attempt at a ground operation and it was a massive failure.

About 1 million Algerians died in their war for independence. Millions of civilians were killed in the Korean War. The worst is still ahead of us.

Two young Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry has said. Qais Shalash, 18, and Khalil Shalash, 16, were killed in the village of Shuqba, west of Ramallah.

A witness told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces prevented paramedics from evacuating the two men to hospital for at least 20 minutes. The two men were shot in the chest, said Raed al-Khatib, who is in charge of emergency services in the villages west of Ramallah.

It is very dark that some of the proof being used to say Israel didn't bomb the hospital is "Israeli airstrikes cause way more damage"

Shit is happening? Shit is happening.

omg , next massacre .. a mosqe.. https://twitter.com/ytirawi/status/1714645289607319723

so I've always wanted to learn how to make youtube videos, and all the bullshit propaganda recently has inspired me to start learning. I just finished my first one, it's not much but I hope it's kinda funny at least. still lots to learn.

Ansrahalla just fired on a US destroyer in the Aden Strait..

Source

Moon of Alabama piece today: U.S. Deploys Large Force - Eyes On Syria

TLDR:

• Israel is toast, can be destroyed by Hezbollah and the United States cannot meaningfully respond and definitely not quickly.
• The United States is not sending its carriers to support Israel necessarily, nor to put pressure specifically on Iran (the United States also would find it very difficult to attack Iran without facing massive retaliation in response across the entire region - regardless of the ultimate victor, it would be an extremely bloody war for both sides)
• The purpose of the United States' increasing presence, purports b, is instead Syria, in order to deal a geopolitical blow to Russia and topple Assad.