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Israel trying to pass the hospital bombing off as Palestine doing it is utterly disgusting and guarantees Netanyahu a spot in the deepest pit of Hell for all eternity, obviously, but do not forget that

a) the only reason why Westerners will believe it is because they want to believe it - they are not being brainwashed and this is not some masterful propaganda being weaved around us to turn kind-hearted people into monsters,

b) no Westerner opinions matter at all. In most Western countries there is no real anti-Israel option to vote for even if they did realize that Israel was a giant factory for crimes against humanity, and Westerners protesting against things in general almost never achieves anything (tens of millions protested for BLM in 2020 and not only did the situation not change, it got worse), and

c) the people whose opinions do matter (both the people in the region, and the leaders who aren't already Zionist compradors) already know that Israel is full of shit and that they just murdered nearly a thousand civilians in a single bomb attack.

It is despair-inducing to think that the genocidal Zionist entity is so brazenly, so smugly getting away with bullshitting this away into a cloud of confusion, as they release their metaphorical squid ink just like they did with the stupid babies story, but the propaganda and the media narrative that they are creating isn't what matters. It cannot address the fundamental contradictions ripping the country, the region, and the world apart any more than masterfully-applied makeup can fix a stab wound. It can merely obfuscate.


If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.


Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.


The Country of the Week is still Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants.


Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

The weekly update isn't coming because I'm sick and too focussed on the collapse of the Zionist entity.

Links and Stuff


The bulletins site is down.

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can.


Resources For Understanding The War


Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.

Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.


Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.

https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.

https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

Almost every Western media outlet.

https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.

https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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[–] Trustmeitsnotabailou@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

Sorry everyone. Turns out easefires are antisemitic

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The posts in U.S. Central Command, including the deputy commander and the commander of the Navy’s 5th Fleet, are either being held by temporary commanders, junior officers or officers doing two jobs at once, said Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz.

“As we reposition our own forces and support our ally Israel with intelligence, logistics and other assistance, we need U.S. leadership to be as strong and focused as possible,” Kelly, a former naval aviator, said Thursday. “This hamstrings our regional military leadership during a crisis. Period.”

Kelly is the latest lawmaker to lash out at Tuberville, R-Ala., for retaining his hold on more than 300 general and flag officers

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[–] Tervell@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (7 children)
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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Regarding the call by a member of the Pakistani parliament to launch a nuclear strike on Israel if the bombing of Gaza continues. Nuclear weapons in Pakistan are controlled by the military. And the chances that they will use it to support Palestine are close to zero, regardless of the statements of individual deputies or earlier rumors about the need to transfer Pakistani ballistic missiles to Hamas.

sicko-wistful

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

Some Chinese refer to anime as 'hegemonic animation' fun fact of the day for my weird research tirades

[–] newmou@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Still no Iran and still no ground invasion. Just a continual death by dehydration and bombardment of trapped Palestinians. Biden going to come in tomorrow and water will probably get turned back on a small inadequate amount but enough for them to say they did it. Palestinians still suffer, US gets to look like they did something positive even though they’re overwhelmingly evil in this. Feels like the worst outcome

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Some interesting analysis in the Jerusalem Post which aligns what I think a lot of us have long suspected here:

A number of factors seem to have caused a delay [to the IDF invasion of Gaza], but sources have told The Jerusalem Post that one factor has been a growing concern that Hezbollah is waiting for the moment that most IDF ground forces are committed to Gaza to open a full front with the IDF in the north.

In this narrative, the fact that Hezbollah did not engage at the start of the war Saturday morning and has kept its attacks on Israel at a fairly low threshold does not prove that it is deterred but is part of an elaborate fake-out to lure the IDF into a false sense of security, similar to what Hamas pulled off in the south.

Coupled with what Iran's foreign minister is saying, I think it's close to kicking off. Once the IDF begins the ground invasion, things will get spicy. Let's hope everybody keeps their fingers off the nuke triggers.

"I stated that the time for political solutions is coming to an end and the possible expansion of the war to other fronts is approaching the inevitable stage," Amir-Abdollahian noted.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

My countrys turbolib newspaper has ran a story today about the Uyghurs. So I went looking for the source.

Apparently we are doing this again. Nevermind the berry pickers of Europe being held in inhumane conditions and exploited.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-uyghurs-forced-to-process-the-worlds-fish

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Erdogan you potatoe headed wannabe-ottoman bandit...do uh something, not really sure what the deal is with that opportunist

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Really have to ask if there is ever an official "we have entered the war" point for Hezbollah or if they just allow this to continue as they move more and more troops and equipment into the area.

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[–] charlie@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] fever@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

Iran can, but will not, do these things:

  • Start uranium enrichment to 90%
  • Kick IAEA agents out
  • Close Strait of Hormuz
  • Buy a nuclear bomb from Kim and do the illegal-to-say
  • Destroy all means of oil and gas production in ME, essentially nuking the planet without nukes
  • Emptying its missile arsenal on Israel as fast as possible
  • Sending a single Shahed suicide drone, which have 2000km range, to see if Israel catches it, if not keep sending more
[–] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

War nerd man, please just say Jay-Dam.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Representative Hussein Mouanes obligates the government to remove all foreign forces from Iraq according to the decision of the House of Representatives

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago

Despite the police ban on rallies in support of Palestine, hundreds of people gathered at the Islam Gymkhana on Friday evening to express their solidarity with the people of Gaza, who have been facing relentless Israeli airstrikes for over 10 days

The World Food Program and other organizations sent tons of food and other emergency supplies to help the Palestinian people.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Al-Arabi TV: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will visit the Rafah crossing tomorrow to announce the plan to send aid to Gaza.

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[–] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I am going with "Even if it was a Hamas bomb, it's entirely Israels fault to force Hamas into launching rockets to prevent Palestines genocide."

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[–] WilsonWilson@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Charles Johnson outed Peter Thiel as an FBI informant. lol. lmao even.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, warned Iran on Sunday that “if this war grows, it’s coming to your backyard.” Speaking from Tel Aviv after leading a delegation of 10 senators through Saudi Arabia and Israel, Graham said, “If there’s an effort to unleash Hezbollah on the Jewish state to destroy it, my attention will be to Tehran.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/22/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/a45be686-1184-540a-ab63-0b8e61c86f84?smid=url-share

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[–] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 41 points 2 years ago
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