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Ghassan Abu Sitta, a doctor in Gaza

No longer able to provide surgeries at Ahli Hosp. The hospital is now effectively a first aid station. Hundreds of wounded now at hospital with no access to surgery. They will die from their wounds

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Did the IDF just take down their al-Shifa tour video? Can't find it anymore.

Burn Gaza now? [Redacted]

The deputy head of Israel’s legislature has criticised the decision to allow a limited amount of fuel into Gaza for humanitarian needs, and said Israel should “burn Gaza now”.

Nissim Vaturi, deputy speaker of the Knesset and a member of the ruling Likud party, said Israel is being “too humane” in a post on social media on Friday, adding:

Burn Gaza now no less! Don’t allow fuel in, don’t allow water in until the hostages are returned back!

His post as Israel war cabinet agreed on Friday to allow 140,000 litres (36,985 gallons) of fuel into Gaza every two days amid acute shortages that threatened aid deliveries and communications in the besieged Palestinian enclave.

- The Guardian

"Not a Borat Sketch!..."

First vid - https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1724173376871141376/pu/vid/avc1/480x270/7iZw7DAjKOvgKCGr.mp4?tag=12

Not a Borat Sketch! The IDF Spokesman points to a random calendar at the Rantisi hospital as "evidence" of a "hostage keepers' list" with "terrorists' names".

But the ONLY thing on that "list" is literally the days of the week (Saturday-Friday).

No tunnels, no weapon stash... [thread]

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More vids in the thread.

Monday is the most dangerous of them all. Kill Monday now!

While Fetterman deservedly gets raked over the coals for his stance Israel, the thought occurred to me to check in on another Democratic senator - Kyrsten Sinema. Maybe this is cheating because libs hate her too. But I thought, eh, she’s nutty enough, maybe she has a not as dogshit take on Palestine. But nope! Every bit as bloodthirsty and deranged as Settlerman:

⚡️Hamas published scenes of them targeting a Zionist special force unit stationed inside a building in Beit Hanoun with machine guns, 12 anti-fortification & armor-piercing shells.

Video montage released by Hezbollah of ATGM strikes against the IDF

• 9K135 launchers, many with Dehlavieh ATGMs

• 73mm SPG-9 & 106mm M40 RCLs (some on Willys MB jeeps)

• Saeghe man portable ATGMs

• removedot & Konkurs/Tosan ATGMs

• Malyutka/Raad & Raad-T ATGMs

• Toophan ATGMs

~11m ago

Here’s a recap:

• Israeli air attacks killed at least 31 people in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to the Wafa news agency. Other air attacks have hit residential areas of the Nuseirat refugee camp and Deir el-Balah, both in central Gaza.

• Negotiations appear to be ongoing over a captive release deal, according to comments from Hamas officials and US President Biden. A Hamas spokesperson said that the Israelis were adding more conditions to the deal, which he said would see 50 captives released in exchange for 200 children and 75 women held in Israeli jails, among other details.

• Video released by the al-Qassam Brigades purports to show an Israeli military captive who was later killed in an Israeli air attack.

• Biden says that hospitals must be protected as Israeli forces continue to besiege medical structures in Gaza City. An MSF surgeon reported that patients had been shot by Israeli snipers at al-Shifa Hospital.

• The EU supports “immediate pauses” in the fighting in Gaza, the bloc’s top diplomat said.

• Israeli forces reportedly killed two Palestinians during a raid in Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank.

- Al Jazeera

BREAKING

The IDF is claiming they found Hamas hiding in syringes. This was done by dastardly Hamas using HIStK technology. The procedure is named after the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids movie.

How was Hamas able to do such complex tunnel construction? Obviously they know how I mean resource wise.

Secret Service agents protecting Biden’s granddaughter open fire when 3 people try to break into SUV

Spoiler Alert: It was a drunk Hunter who thought it was his own car.

Satellite imagery shows a water plant in Gaza City burned down amid a dire water shortage. - nytimes.com

Archive.today usually fails on the NYT Gaza war update page.

Fuck. I chopped off the final sentence...

Israeli tanks and other military vehicles were stationed less than a mile away.

The country of the week is Iceland so here is a story about an early liberal decolonisation adventure and the guy behind it. Jørgen Jørgensen, or Jörundur hundadagakonungur (the dog-days king) was a Danish privateer during the Gunboat War. In 1808 he was taken prisoner of war by the British and brought to London where he was released on parole on conditions that he didn't leave the country.

In London Jørgensen became acquainted with a merchant and suggested a voyage to trade with Iceland. At that time Iceland was a possession of Denmark-Norway and the island suffered food shortages and deprivations due to a Danish trading monopoly and the state of war between Denmark and Britain that made trade difficult. The climatic situation in Iceland had been bad during the 18th century and the eruption of the volcano Laki in 1783 that resulted in 80% of the island's livestock dying from eating poisoned grass and a quarter of the Icelandic population dying from famine. Jørgensen and his partners hoped to exploit the dire situation to make a large profit. The first voyage was unsuccessful though as the Danish governor of Iceland refused to trade due to the war.

Jørgensen and his business partner attempted another voyage in June of 1809 but once more the Danish governor refused to let them trade. In response Jørgensen and members of crew from the ship sailed to Reykjavik where they arrested the governor and took him back to their ship. Jørgensen proclaimed himself protector of Iceland and declared the abolition of Danish rule. Jørgensen confiscated all public funds and stockpiles, Danish debts were annulled and the people was promised independence, liberal democracy and restoration of the Althing, Iceland's traditional legislative and judicial parliament that had been abolished by the Danish crown in 1800.

Little came of these reforms though. Two months later a British warship arrived and seeing the situation, the captain negotiated Jørgensens surrender where he agreed to be taken back to London, and annul all his decrees. Government was left in the hands of local officials as the Danish governor travelled with the warship back to London to explain the situation.

In London Jørgensen was imprisoned for breaking his parole and released a year later. His heavy drinking and gambling eventually landed him in debtor's prison. He then travelled Europe and worked as a spy and translator for the British in Germany and France. Returning to London he got in trouble with the law again and was transported to Tasmania where he proved himself useful to the colonial regime and would end up taking part in the genocide of the indigenous population as a constable. He has been called the founder of Hobart, the capital of Tasmania where he is still commemorated as a local hero.

Jørgensen left few lasting traces on Iceland if any and it doesn't seem like he ever made much effort to engage the people of Iceland in his revolution. In typical liberal fashion he saw himself more as a saviour who was bringing the benighted peasants into civilization. Consequently, his rule crumbled the first time it met resistance.

Iceland would eventually gain its independence through a process starting with the emergence of a liberal national-romantic independence movement in the 1830's led by Danish-educated intellectuals. The Althing was restored as a consultative body in 1843. In 1875 the Althing gained limited legislative power over internal Icelandic affairs, although the Danish king still directly appointed some members and often would veto legislation. In 1880 Iceland was allowed to trade freely with all nations.

In 1918 Iceland nominally became a sovereign state although it remained in a personal union with the Danish king who would rule both nations. Denmark would represent Iceland diplomatically and militarily. In 1940 the Nazi occupation of Denmark and the loss of communication with Copenhagen meant that Iceland became de facto independent. The last ties to Denmark were severed in 1944 when Icelanders voted to end the personal union and declare a republic.

🔴 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine:

::: spoiler The Assault on Al-Shifa Complex and committing crimes within it is a fully constituted crime for which the American administration and the International Community are responsible.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine confirmed that the occupation's assault this morning on Al-Shifa complex, its brutal bombing, firing, and shelling inside it, targeting thousands of displaced civilians, tampering with patients' rooms and wards, and terrorizing patients and medical staff, is a fully constituted war crime for which the American administration and the so-called international community, which encouraged the enemy to commit this major crime, are responsible.

The Front considered that the defeated zionist enemy, by assaulting the Al-Shifa medical complex, is openly seeking to gain a false image of victory from within the confines of a civilian hospital, sheltering thousands of citizens, endangering the lives of hundreds of premature babies, leaving patients prey to shelling or death due to inability to treat them, and with the presence of bodies and remains of martyrs that medical staff cannot bury.

The Front affirmed that what is happening now in the Al-Shifa complex is a resounding exposure of the so-called international community and the free world, which allows this dark and criminal zionist entity to invade a civilian medical complex that should be protected under international law.

The Front added that the zionist entity, whose cowardly forces fled the battle after suffering heavy losses inflicted by our heroic resisters in the neighborhoods and alleys of the sector, found in its assault on a civilian hospital a means of revenge, an expression of its sadism and doctrine of killing, in full view of the world and satellite TV screens.

The Front emphasized that the Western world, with its alignment and complicity in these major crimes, cannot beautify or repair its criminal image, which has been exposed again, warning of a silly dramatic series directed by zionists and produced and sponsored by America and the West to try to justify this crime or the crimes to be committed within the complex.

The Front concluded its statement by affirming that Palestinian hospitals will remain a witness to the unprecedented crimes of this entity, which have reached a level not practiced by any occupation or colonialism before. However, our people are determined to resist and remain steadfast and firm, and will not raise the white flag. Our doctors, patients, and all our people will remain strong, undeterred by these crimes, and will not forgive or forget the complicity of the international community and international medical institutions that turned a blind eye to the targeting of hospitals and the medical system, and the killing of doctors and patients.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
15-11-2023

Xi Jinping meeting with Genocide Joe rn

I lost track. Wasn't this debunked last week?

BNE: Putin holds a third oligarch meeting

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a late-night oligarch meeting on November 16 where dozens of Russia’s top oligarchs expressed anxiety over a wave of nationalisations since the start of the war in Ukraine just under two years ago, Vedomosti reports.

As reported by bne IntelliNews, there has been a tsunami of M&A deals in the last year, as leading Russian companies and people close to the government have snapped up the businesses of departing multinationals. Amongst the victims of forced takeovers have been some leading Russian companies like Tinkoff bank and Yandex that have been acquired, or are being acquired, by state-owned businesses of people close to the Kremlin.

This is the third time that Putin has called in Russia’s business elite for a meeting. The first was held on July 28 just after he took office for the first time in 2000, where the president famously made the pact: keep what you got but stay out of politics.

The article discusses the first and second meeting, then:

The details of the third meeting, held between 10am and midnight on November 16 remain vague, as few of those that attended where willing to talk, but leading Russian business daily Vedomosti reports that one of the topics of conversation was the rising anxiety amongst Russia’s captains of industry over the Kremlin’s aggressive policy of taking control of some of Russia’s biggest businesses. At the meeting with dozens of Russian business leaders they complained of the increasing number of nationalisations that have occurred since the invasion of Ukraine, according to anonymous sources cited by Vedomosti.

The sources highlighted the trend of state seizures of private businesses over the past year and a half as "frightening" and expressed alarm. While officials attempted to address the 80 business mens' concerns during the two-hour meeting, participants left with the impression that the Kremlin would also raise taxes for increased war spending, rather than tightening fiscal policies, and that would also cause them problems.

The stated purpose of the meeting was to discuss ways to “improve Russia's investment climate” in the face of extreme Western sanctions and create conditions for companies transferring assets to Russian jurisdiction from "unfriendly" countries. However, the meeting can be characterised as yet another addition to Putin’s pact with the oligarchs: “… and pay more taxes to support the war effort or I will take your companies away after all.”

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The sanctions were designed to starve the Kremlin of funds to fuel its war machine and that goal has clearly failed. After reporting deep twin deficits in December 2022 and January 2023, the economy has made a strong recovery and the economy is on course to turn in 2.2% growth this year, while most of the rest of Europe is teetering on the edge of recession. “The worst is over”, declared Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin at an economic conference in October. The realisation that sanctions have failed to do enough damage to Russia to end the war quickly is starting to sink in as epitomised by a Wall Street Journal editorial on November 16 entitled “It's Time to End Magical Thinking About Russia's Defeat”, which admits sanctions have failed. “At the front line, there are no indications that Russia is losing what has become a war of attrition. The Russian economy has been buffeted, but it is not in tatters. Putin’s hold on power was, paradoxically, strengthened following Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed rebellion in June. Popular support for the war remains solid, and elite backing for Putin has not fractured,” the Wall Street Journal wrote.

Russia has survived the first two years of a proxy war against the West, but analysts are unanimous that the sanctions will tell over the longer term. Putin’s third oligarch meeting was all about getting ready for the problems to come, not the problems he already has to cope with.

Russia has already transformed from an open, largely private sector economy with an open current account, to a closed system where the state’s share and interference in the economy has rapidly escalated. The threat of nationalisation is seen as a component of Russia's approach to punishing countries that have seized Russian in the rest of Europe, but well connected opportunistic entrepreneurs are also making use of the war chaos and the complete shake up nearly ever sector to enrich themselves and establish new empires, as bne IntelliNews reported in Russia’s new business elite.

I just realised that I made this joke right before we learned about IDF cum extrection unit

https://hexbear.net/comment/4198378

Edit

There's already a great thread on this - Haaretz now reporting what has been known for more than a month re: lots of Israeli friendly fire - Hexbear

It is reported that Israel is about to invade al-Shifa. Don't be surprised if it finds copies of Mein Kampf in the incubators.

Finkelstein is so good at posting

Do merkavas have build in cum extractors? I heard that hamas did not jerk off the dead hostages after the airstrikes. how barbaric.

Hello , hold this and point it towards your face.