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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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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Starting to notice that the most significant attacks on medical/civilian facilities seem to occur at night when it's harder to document them, drones aren't in the air, and live cams looking over the city have poor visuals. I don't think this is a coincidence. It's also the time of day when the largest numbers of people are all gathered together in one place.

I think the strat is essentially to do the deliberate extra nasty stuff at night so it's poorly documented.

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[–] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I found this article about the initial breach of the Gaza fence which is very interesting.

Israel apparently had about ~100 positions with remote controlled sniper rifles and HD cameras. If something moves beyond the fence, an alert is raised to operators located elsewhere who can zoom in and decide to fire or not. The system also includes 22 additional HD cameras along the fence, which are also the main eyes of the colonizers beyond the fence.

Hamas managed to simultaneously disable those 100 sniper positions by launching ~150 drones. I'm guessing this is the videos we saw soon after the initial assault, where drones were dropping payloads on what looked like high tech watchtowers. Then once the rifles were disabled, they immediately shot down the 22 cameras.

This all happened so fast that the soldiers on watch with the equipment assumed it was a technical failure, and literally called tech support and started to wait for a tech chefs-kiss

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[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Apparently a synagogue was destroyed by rioters last night in Tunisia. This conflict is also amplifying antisemitic violence. Just horrible all around.

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[–] Hohsia@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Sucks that Israel is (has been) behaving exactly like Nazi Germany, but you can’t dare say the h word without them saying “you’ve gone too far” or whatever shit

Did it ever occur to them that atrocities can happen to groups other than their own and you shouldn’t want the atrocities inflicted by the holocaust to happen to anyone ever again?

Holy shit, to think the main group targeted by fascists would become fascist themselves is just mind boggling. There really are no words

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[–] iheartmold@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (5 children)

My old high school had a pro Palestine protest/walkout and videos of it were uploaded on my city's Instagram page. The comments are horrible like people are commenting that they die, be deported (most of the people who were a part of the protest are muslims or poc) and join hamas. Fuck Canada kkkanada

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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Israel now tells Gazans who refuse or are unable to leave the North that they'll be considered "partners in a terrorist organization" & thus legitimate targets for carpet bombing!

idf-cool

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[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago

what part of 'another kkkrakkka down unlimited genocide on the first world' don't zionists understand

[–] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (5 children)

jesus-christ just saw a fucking ghoul saying on tv

Let me be clear, Israel is NOT committing war crimes and genocide

I feel like if you have to say that, than you're just confirming it

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[–] Trustmeitsnotabailou@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (30 children)

Idiots on tiktok really think America can just flip a switch and turn what manufacturing we have into tank factories. They think tiny private ship yards can some how scale and produce survey carries.

Being told to look at ww2 for before and after tank production.

Being told that it's fine that most of the electronics for our war equipment comes from Taiwan.

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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I have intelligence from a very trustworthy source that Hamas was responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipeline

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 68 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Genocide Joe's official Instagram pubslished an uncensored photo of him meeting the US tier 1 operators currently deployed to Israel before deleting and reposting it with their faces blurred lmao

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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Its funny to me imagining hardline Marxist Leninist guerillas sitting across from Islamic extremist miltiamen inside an armored transport. Literally the 'this is what the establishment fears the most' meme.

the awkward silence would be hilarious. Weird things occur in National Liberation Front coalitions.

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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The Iranian embassy in Syria tweeted, in Hebrew no less, "Time is up." I just want them to stop chatting shit and do something for god's sake. Like, come on, stop acting like a supervillain. I know I'm basically whining here but, "in hours," "tomorrow," "time is up," like eventually you have to back your threats up.

The tweet in question: https://nitter.net/IranembassyDam/status/1714441734300524929#m

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[–] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago (1 children)

pleased to say everyone but the hardcore zionists in my life are firmly pro-palestine now

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[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago

I'm incredibly distraught and seething about the Palestine situation. I'm mad that there is nothing I can do. I went to my local pro Palestine rally in a midsized US city, we yell around then everyone just dispersed and went home. I've donated to UNRWA, but with the aid blockade I'm sure my donation is stuck somewhere. I feel like I'm just gonna go to work and start swinging at my lib coworkers for not caring enough

[–] asa_red_heathen@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago

164 years ago today, a man did absolutely nothing wrong

JB-shining-aggro

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Reminder that Reddit has become so heavily depopulated recently that's it's size is a fraction of its former self. Most of those people posting are even more terminally online than before. Probably why they're so much more rabid.

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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago

The soviets had 9012.01602136 9/11s in ww2 but you don't seem to care about that, liberal

owned

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago (2 children)

They want us to believe that Hamas has rockets that can vaporize an entire building

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[–] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Germany's Baerbock warns Iran-backed groups against joining Gaza war

"I'm warning Iran, I'm warning Shiite militias in Iraq, I'm warning the Houthi in Yemen not to ignite and join in the terror," Baerbock said in Tel Aviv following a meeting with Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen and opposition politician Benny Gantz.

incredible that teutons still find time to lecture others when their own industrial economy is gradually sinking from american sabotage

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[–] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago

Ukraine was ready to sign a peace agreement with Russia but the US Govt did not allow it. Confirmed by Gerhard Schroeder, former leader of Germany.

[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 67 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Haven't seen it posted here yet:

China has moved six warships to the middle east (Undisclosed location): https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/115880/China-six-warships-Middle-East-war-Israel

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[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago

from the onion

[–] companero@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (4 children)

https://www.reuters.com/article/israel-palestinians-turkey-erdogan-idAFL8N3BQ56J

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday called on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza, which he said amounted to genocide, and urged the international community to work for a humanitarian ceasefire in the region.

I know he is all bark and no bite, but a NATO member outright calling it genocide seems significant.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (7 children)
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[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Genocide Joe clearly thinks Palestine isn't in Israel because he said only 1300 people were "slaughtered in Israel"

And yet...

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Hezbollah are using recoilless rifles vs tanks and according to reports it is working because these weapons are so fucking old that modern design is not actually considering them at all.

I find it interesting that there is no video being released demonstrating this, but much gossip about it. Seems like an advantage Hezbollah are keeping close to their chests and not releasing footage of for a reason.

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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Wake up, feel like shit, check the news, feel like shit, check hexbear, feel like shit

fun days

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[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Trudeau not ready to accept US finding that Palestinian outfit was behind Gaza hospital blast

Little potato's position was already under threat from US right-wing backers financially supporting PP. This refusal to follow the US line is probably going to ratchet that up.

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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Fellas, what's stopping your car from looking like this:

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[–] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

No, no its totally plausible Hamas has air burst munitions capable of killing a 1000 people in one swoop, and they decided a week into the conflict after horrific casualties to finally use it, and the one time they do it just happens to malfunction and land directly on top of a hospital that was previously bombed by Israel and was slated for another attack by the IDF, yeah this is believable lenin-sure

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[–] micnd90@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Biden practically got kicked out of Jordan before he even lands

From Aljazeera

A White House official says: “After consulting with King Abdullah II of Jordan and in light of the days of mourning announced by President Abbas of the Palestinian Authority, President Biden will postpone his travel to Jordan and the planned meeting with these two leaders and President Sisi of Egypt. “He looks forward to consulting in person with these leaders soon and agreed to remain regularly and directly engaged with each of them over the coming days,” the official added. Ayman Safadi, Jordan’s foreign minister, has told Al Jazeera that it was “in everybody’s interests” to postpone the planned summit in Jordan with Biden on Wednesday. “People would expect that a summit of this nature would be able to respond to their demands to stop this war,” Safadi said of the talks. Knowing that we could not do that, it was better and it was the right call not to hold it tomorrow and to continue with consultation with a view to getting as soon as possible to a stage where this war ends and the catastrophe it’s causing the Palestinian people in Gaza stop[s].”

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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (1 children)

turning a big dial taht says "genocide" on it and constantly looking back at america for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Well, this is fucking ominous.

IDF flyers warn Palestinians in Gaza to evacuate south or possibly be considered “a partner for the terrorist organization”

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has dropped flyers in the Sabrah neighborhood of Gaza City that urgently warn residents to evacuate to the south or face the possibility of being considered "a partner for the terrorist organization,” according to a CNN translation.

The flyer reads in Arabic:

Urgent warning!

To the residents of Gaza Strip

Your presence north of Wadi Gaza puts your life in danger

Everyone who choses not to evacuate from the north of the strip to the south of Wadi Gaza might be considered as a partner for the terrorist organization.

Israel Defense Forces

The IDF confirmed it had dropped the flyers in a statement, adding there was "no intention to consider those who have not evacuated from the affected area of fighting as a member of the terrorist group."

The IDF "treats civilians as such, and does not target them," the statement said.

The IDF told CNN that the translation of the flyer from Arabic that “has spread online” was imprecise, but it did not elaborate.

The United Nations has said that the Israeli order to evacuate the entire population of northern Gaza, which is approximately 1.1 million people, is "impossible" without causing major humanitarian consequences.

There are currently 2.2 million people in Gaza.

The IDF said they continue to urge residents in northern Gaza to evacuate “for their own safety.”

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-21-23/h_f0fbb59578c2e92529b936d96a9039d2

Hello, Gazans. Flee south or risk death. But - tbh - we're shelling the south too. Pick your poison! Best wishes, IDF.

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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I just had to end a phone call with my dear old father. His sick lead-poisoned brain believes that the zionist entity is justified in everything it does because Hamas decapitated these babies, because the zionist entity is "western" (ie. us-foreign-policy) and because Hamas is actually carrying out a second Holocaust.

The man has two PhD's and speaks six languages yet he is the most maliciously idiotic person I have ever met.

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[–] Kereru@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (4 children)

jfc I'm losing my mind, I should not have gone on reddit-logo Not only denying Israel's bombing, but claiming that not that many people died. The absolute bloodlust of these psychopaths. I need to log off.

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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Its fun watching the empire crumble, but I die inside seeing whats happening to the citizens in between. Russians, Ukrainians, and Palestinians are getting killed every second for their battles resisting fascism and imperialism. Any of them are braver than I will be.

Ukraine and Russia used to be one. Arabs and Jews had worked in harmony for centuries before radicalized nationalism ruined it all. These are wars of sisters having to kill their siblings.

Death to the US

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1714854721540821300

@SeanBlackmon9 from the Party for Socialism and Liberation said that the narratives about Palestinians are dishonest, because no matter what they do, they're attacked as terrorists or anti-Semitic.

He compares the plight of Palestinians to if a person were being lynched and fought back with a noose around their neck, and then got accused of violence.

"If we want to bring down Apartheid Israel, not only will we have to defeat imperialism, we will have to overturn the capitalist system out of which the imperialist system grows," he said.

"We need a socialist reconstruction of the United States of America."

[–] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago

The old thread is dying, and the new thread struggles to be born: now is the time of posters.

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 66 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The word “terrorism” truly means fucking nothing

If no one in the west calls the most powerful nation on earth that is funding and fully-backing a country committing genocide “terrorists” then words truly have no meaning

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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 65 points 2 years ago (11 children)

How long till we get another post 'concerned about hexbear antisemitism' that provides no evidence and just turns out to be someone going "but killing settlers is genocide".

its happened twice so far

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[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 65 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (25 children)

anyone else get the feeling that we're on the brink of a proper world war 3?

and here i am, just kinda sat here posting half cut lol
wonder if people in the past felt like this

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