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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.


Last week's discussion post.


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[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/asml-shares-fall-as-europes-biggest-tech-company-predicts-flat-sales-in-2024-after-71-order-drop-9e841cb1

JP Morgan’s analysts described orders received by ASML in the third quarter as “very weak,” at just €2.6 billion, a 71% drop versus the same period in 2022.

Maybe the sanctions were actually to weaken the EU rather than to weaken China?

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Bibi is the Obama of our time

obama-drone

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Marxozoic got their old account back. It probably won't hurt to link both the main and the alt:

Main: https://twitter.com/Marxozoic

Alt: https://twitter.com/LeninOfNazareth

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Germany has now deployed special forces to Cyprus to enable an operation to free hostages from Gaza.

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Continuous shooting operations take place all over the West Bank now in response to the hospital massacre in Gaza that claimed the lives of over 500 martyrs. Resistance fighters opened fire on IOF soldiers in Abu Dis, #AlQuds (video). Many other operations are still not documented.

[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

A chain reaction has begun: Palestinian sources say that following the destruction of a hospital in the center of the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is leaving Jordan ahead of a planned meeting with Biden and the Quad summit and will return to Ramallah tonight

The United States is considering the possibility of using military force if the Lebanese Hezbollah movement opens a “second front” against Israel, writes the Internet portal Axios.

[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

A testy IDF spokesman and an anchor in the very near future.

"Your last guest mentioned 'The current ethnic cleansing of Gaza'. That is entirely incorrect. That is entirely unacceptable. They were not corrected as they should have been. There is no ethnic cleansing of—"

"I must interrupt. Our last guest is Gazan or perhaps I should say was Gazan and she lost 11 members of her extended family in the fighting. And she was forced to go to Egypt. She can never return home."

Not listening - starry-eyed: "What Israel is doing - what we must do - is annexing Gaza. I have seen the plans. I have seen the wonderful plans. In our new city - we are going to have an amusement park, housing, condos for our friends like Americans... It will be fantastic."

"Do you think that's appropriate?"

"Appropriate? It's our land. It just needs to be clean— I mean, reclaimed."

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Iraqi Resistance Factions established the so-called Al-Aqsa Flood Support Operations Room.

The room includes all Iraqi factions to supervise "operations".

After the the establishment of the room, Al-Wartheen faction claims responsibility for a drone attack on Al-Harir base that hosts Coalition Forces in Erbil.

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[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

https://t.me/vozhak_Z/451

DAY SEVEN Well, that's it, we're stuck. We can’t move on, they immediately cut us out of everything. Occupied positions are bombarded with cassettes, mines, and drones. In the afternoon, thank God, it started to rain, and the enemy was left without eyes. As we are. But rain is no problem for cassettes. But we don’t have cassettes. There are still problems with counter-battery warfare. The guys on the front are sitting in the cracks; you literally can’t raise your head there. Hurricanes, sunny days... Where are you? Fuck this Royal hunt already! Help us! For now we are keeping busy, but it is very, very difficult. If there is not the same powerful artillery barrage as on the first day, we will get stuck there. I know everyone is waiting for victorious reports, but the picture is a little, damn it, different. We do not export without heavy art.

Russian offensive on Avdiivka might have stalled? Not sure what got translated into cassette.

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://twitter.com/mtracey/status/1714322679174410322

Netanyahu proclaims an "Axis of Evil" that the entire world must unite to defeat, just as it united to defeat the Nazis. Which would seem to indicate Israel is preparing for a war not just against Hamas, but also Iran, and expects USA/Europe to join this "battle of civilization"

"In American terms, this is many 9/11s"

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Police trying to control crowd outside Israeli embassy in Ankara

https://streamable.com/5v2hwe

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Moon of Alabama thinks the massing of US troops is intended for Syria

U.S. Deploys Large Force - Eyes on Syria

EDIT: oops there's already a 72T subthread here

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[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Reminder about our thread for palestinian aid: https://hexbear.net/post/816379

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://streamable.com/qj4doj

The iraqi Islamic resistance released footage of todays attack on Ain al-Assad base targeting US troops

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
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[–] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Olaf Scholz’s plane evacuated on runway following rocket attack in Israel

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s plane had to be evacuated at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Tuesday evening due to rocket attacks.

Pictures and videos posted on social media show how aides and journalists traveling with the German leader had to hastily leave the plane and take cover by lying down on the runway, while Scholz was reportedly evacuated to a shelter.

“I personally saw explosions in the sky as the Israeli Iron Dome [air defense system] intercepted two missiles,” Robin Alexander, deputy editor-in-chief of German daily Welt, which, like POLITICO, is owned by Axel Springer, wrote on X, formerly Twitter, referring to rockets intercepted by the Iron Dome.

Scholz and those flying with him were able to board the plane a few minutes later, following an additional security check, according to Bild.

michael-laugh

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[–] fever@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

In the continuation of the self-destruction of the Zionists, the missiles of the Iron Dome system went to the verge of shooting down a military transport plane. By publishing pictures of this incident, the media announced that the pilot of the military plane had to throw heat balloons to mislead the Iron Dome missiles.

https://files.catbox.moe/lmizb8.mp4 Published on the Iranian state media news agencies in Persian, translated via Google Translate. Take with a pile of salt.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

All the excitement made me skip posting this

Rybar's end of day sitrep October 17 2023

spoiler❗️🇮🇱🇵🇸 Aggravation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone what is known by the end of October 17, 2023

In the evening, a major tragedy occurred in the Gaza Strip: the Israeli Air Force launched a missile attack on the Al-Ahli Christian Baptist Hospital. As a result of the incident, according to various estimates, between 300 and 1,000 civilians sheltering at the facility were killed.

Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the Arab League and other countries blamed Israel for the crime. Hezbollah militants called on Arabs around the world to stage a “day of rage” against Israel, but said nothing about their plans to enter the conflict. Israeli authorities deny any involvement, shifting responsibility to Islamic Jihad militants.

The population of the West Bank of the Jordan River en masse takes to the streets: the gathered people call for revenge on Israel. Similar rallies are taking place in Arab countries and Turkey, where clashes with police began. Representatives of Russia and the UAE demanded to convene a meeting of the UN Security Council in connection with this event.

Meanwhile, mutual shelling between the warring parties continues in the combat zone. Several IDF skirmishes with Hezbollah occurred on the Lebanese-Israeli border near Metula, Yiftah and Margaliot.

In addition, the IDF announced the liquidation of two senior Hamas members during the bombing of the Gaza Strip. In addition, the chairman of the Palestinian parliament, Aziza Duaika, a member of the group, was arrested in the West Bank.

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

The bodies are literally carpeting the field outside the hospital, wtf is this fuckin shit

[–] companero@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

https://nitter.net/WarMonitors/status/1714345412935537096

A senior Hamas official told NBC News that the group is willing to release all civilian hostages in one hour if Israel stops its bombing of Gaza.

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