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

Video of Scholz and team running for cover then getting face down on the concrete.

https://streamable.com/v38ikk

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

Netanyahu says his nephew is a hostage with Hamas

Kinda weird saying this only a week later. I want to verify that he's actually said this. And if he did, I think he's full of shit.

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

Demonstrations in Tunisia now

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The Baltic Sea is a dangerous place to leave your stuff. According to the Swedish minister of defence a telecommunications cable training between Sweden and Estonia was damaged at the same time the gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia was damaged.

The minister claims that the cause of the damage is yet unknown.

[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Two Swedish nationals were killed and one other injured in a shooting in Brussels involving a 45 year old Tunisian national. The Swedes were wearing Swedish football jerseys and were close to a stadium where the Swedish national team was meeting the Belgian for an UEFA qualification match.

The Tunisian was shot dead by police this morning.

The Belgian prime minister claims the Tunisian was inspired by Isis and he shared a video around the time of the attack where he swore allegiance to ISIS and claimed to have killed the Swedes "to avenge muslims".

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

Teach me how to not engage with stupid.

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

Death to America

Death to America

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

DEATH TO THE GENOCIDAL ETHNOSTATE OF ISRAEL.

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apparently several Swedes were shot to death in Brussels while they were there for football stuff.

The only thing I can really feel is that this is an obvious consequence, we've publicly aligned ourselves with genocide against Muslims on a world stage again and again, remember when allegations were spread that Muslim children were being taken from their families and relocated to Christian or Atheist ones, and the state literally just said "No, this is not happening, because we said so, only terrorists would believe this."

Maybe if for a second we had decided to side with humanity during the last decades instead of imperialism, we wouldnt have to expect to be seen as targets. Even if we just take it for granted that this is the result of propaganda from terrorist movements, those movements obviously cant conjure this sentiment from thin air, they do not have the support of the whole western media system, something like this cant happen without fuel for the fire being plentiful already.

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[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

I have one of those Progressive except for Palestine reps so I called and demanded they sign onto the ceasefire bill and oppose any funding to Israel. It probably won't work, but considering I'm injured and can't go to the marches, this and donating money are the only things I can do.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

~~Another entry~~ Two more entries in the “Palestinian resistance propaganda goes hard as shit” list

https://streamable.com/w0bj61

https://streamable.com/6sqnzo

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (8 children)
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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

archive.today • Israelis Gird for Invasion of Gaza Amid Mistrust of Government - The New York Times

[...]

There is little empathy among Israeli Jews right now for the humanitarian crisis unfolding in Gaza, where more than 2,600 people have been killed, according to the Palestinian health officials.

Ms. Rabinyan is the author of the 2014 novel “All the Rivers,” a love story about an Israeli woman and a Palestinian artist based on her real-life romance, and a board member of several left-wing organizations opposing Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. But she said she had no room in her heart for the suffering of Palestinian civilians.

She was moving between hospitals and hotels housing survivors of the Hamas attacks, reading stories to children. “I know it’s not noble of me,” she said. “I know there is suffering on the other side, but the other side took hostages and slaughtered so violently, with so much passion, that my compassion is somehow paralyzed.”

One of the top comments really surprised me.

Well, the only solution is to bring justice for the Palestinians. Netanyahu was successful at making the conflict invisible up to know. Violence and oppression will create more violence. Either make the Palestinians citizens or allow them to have their own state. The slow motion death by a thousand cuts that Israel subjects the Palestinians to is the root of all bad that happens in Israel/Palestine.

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

Kuwait asks all it's citizens to leave Lebanon immediately.

[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unicorn Riot goes into further detail on the Islamophobic fash at Minneapolis: https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/pro-palestine-protest-attacked-in-minneapolis/ It turns out Unicorn Riot has a drone where you can see the asshole try to drive through the crowd.

There's also another fash, this time a Zionist, at Illinois: https://twitter.com/itsmorganariel/status/1716260378835878399 CW: the Twitter account is a reactionary who works for TPUSA apparently but I can't get the video to work on Nitter. But despite being a reactionary piece of shit, she's one of those "critical support for Ay-rabs kicking out the duplicitous Jew" flavor of reactionaries. There's a decent chance he's just a garden variety white supremacist who she purposely paints as a Zionist in order to rally her reactionary following towards anti-Jewish ends.

Based on this and my previous comment, there's four flavors of reactionaries:

  1. Rabid Zionists.

  2. Reactionaries who hate Arabs/Muslims more than Jews.

  3. Reactionaries who hate Jews more than Arabs/Muslims.

  4. Patsocs who opportunistically support the Palestinians against Zionist globohomo.

There's a huge split among reactionaries that already started to form with the war in Ukraine. I don't know how much use this info is, but the split is there.

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

There's a thread with this video, but I'll post it here: Yes, Israel is Committing Genocide

[–] autismdragon@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (4 children)

My friend just asked for a source on Putin offering peace post-invasion with terms like "Ukraine no NATO" and "self determination for Donbass" that NATO vetoed or something along those lines? Ive seen the source before (I think) but I dont have it. So if someone could help thanks

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[–] CDommunist@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Imagine how much worse the United States would be if it was a catholic country

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

https://streamable.com/smn5al

Some infrastructure destruction at "Miskav Am" an IOF site

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