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Operation prosperity gospel.

It's a little known fact that Santa's sleigh was actually decommissioned during the Cold War for causing all kinds of chaos with radar systems for being a hypersonic object (in order to get the presents around the world in time). Lots of nuclear near-misses around Christmas time every year for this reason. Nowadays, Santa uses a bespoke tunnel network that spans the globe which connects to every chimney from underneath. The true evil of Hamas is that they want to repurpose this tunnel network to kill innocent people around the world, which is why they must be stopped

A different kind of new years address earlier this evening on Yemeni television, as the country prepares for the possibility of direct war with the United States.

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increasingly feeling like some stupid shit is going to happen soon

Israel hits back at South Africa after it launches genocide case at UN’s top court

South Africa said it had approached the UN’s international court of justice (ICJ) under the Geneva convention with respect to acts committed by Israel in Gaza.

In a statement, South Africa said it was ‘“gravely concerned with the plight of civilians” caught in Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip “due to the indiscriminate use of force and forcible removal of inhabitants.”

It said there were “ongoing reports of international crimes, such as crimes against humanity and war crimes” being committed as well as “reports that acts meeting the threshold of genocide” in the Palestinian territory.

An application in this regard was filed before the court on 29 December 2023 in which the court is requested to declare on an urgent basis that Israel is in breach of its obligations in terms of the genocide convention, should immediately cease all acts and measures in breach of those obligations and take a number of related actions.

It said South Africa “condemns all violence and attacks against all civilians, including Israelis”, adding that it had continuously called for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and for talks to resume “that will end the violence arising from the continued belligerent occupation of Palestine”.

John Pilger has died. RIP to a real one

The Guardian

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new NYT atrocity propaganda just dropped! let's take a look at it.

NYT - ‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7

The IOF attempted to free a hostage from the PFLP, only to kill the hostage instead before getting owned by the PFLP: https://nitter.cz/Marxozoic/status/1741134291847836017

For the one person who cares about lemmy.world: they might be changing their policies with community feedback because the admins don't like the mods: https://lemmy.world/post/10102462

Palestine and the Distorted Lens of Intersectional Feminism

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The era that began with the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States and ended after the Al-Aqsa Flood was the golden era of social justice movements. It was the ideal era for taking moral positions that might not have been easy everywhere and at all times but were exceedingly easy within their bubbles. This was the era that popularized the transformation of the Palestinian struggle into a “social justice cause” between oppressor and oppressed “adversaries,” thus ripping it from the context of colonial genocide.

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It was during this time that bizarre arguments emerged indicative of the megalomania of the heads of the social justice movement. For instance, when a Palestinian “vegetarian” activist and president of an animal rights NGO appeared in Western media declaring that there should be justice not just for Palestinian humans but also for Palestinian animals, insects, and all “conscious creatures” in Palestine.

This megalomania exhibited excessive optimism, evident in slogans like “No Free Homeland Without Free Women” and “Palestine for All of Us” (related to gender diversity). It was an optimism embodying blind faith in the ability of the NGO administrative elite to defeat Trumpism, Israeli patriarchy, and Palestinian paternalism; equating the three in their oppression.

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This optimism leads us to refrain from criticizing a fundamental enemy on the list of enemies, simply because they seem to be kind and feminist, or because they are a complex genderless being, or merely because they are a “colleague” in the professional administrative class. This enemy we are discussing is the gang of Europeans who have been sitting on our chests for decades—excluding the genuine sympathizers—those who want to “teach” us civilization and humanity, and see the Arab woman not as human and equal, but through a pathological lens due to their belief in European moral superiority.

Because of these characteristics, the excessive optimism of intersectional feminism did not prepare it for the monumental transformations in the fields of culture, politics, and media in the West following the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation. Instead, the US and European professional administrative classes decided to either expel Palestinians from being included under the umbrella of “intersectional human rights” or to move away from the ideology of social justice altogether. This excessive optimism was not prepared for the bloody Olympics of Western media. It was not prepared for the fact that the Palestinian woman killed by Palestinians is a “suitable” victim for the West, whereas the Palestinian woman killed by Israelis is an “unsuitable” victim, and the Palestinian man killed by Israeli women soldiers is a sub-human prey that is acceptable to hunt.

This excessive optimism was not prepared for the day when our fathers and brothers would resist in the face of bombs and aircraft carriers, or the day when fathers will be buried under the rubble, or when husbands remain alive to receive news of the extermination of their families while they work as doctors and journalists.

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In 2019, the year that the force of intersectional feminism emerged in Palestine, I attended one of the meetings of the gender support programs in Ramallah. During this meeting, the European director of one of the international institutions took the floor and warned us with contempt and superiority: “Palestinian men must stand with us in supporting women or stand aside.” Today we are witnessing the dire genocidal consequences after a group of Palestinian men in the resistance factions rejected the Europeans’ orders to stand aside.

New vid

⚡️WATCH: Al-Qassam (Hamas) published a new video showing its fighters clash with militants vehicles in the areas of near Khan Yunis.

THEY DID IT AGAIN, with another point-blank sticky bomb to a Merkava tank 🔥

https://twitter.com/AryJeay/status/1741136799596966207

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Update on the Red Sea: Mearsk suspends passing through the Strait again, after the attack, don't know for how long.

The zionist entity bombed Syria twice last night. Once in Damascus and another in the south (it's not officially announced where in the south). No martyrs thank God as air defense shot down most of the missiles.

Official announcement (Arabic) https://sana.sy/?p=2023985

Russia Heads Into 2024 Making A Mockery Of Western Oil Sanctions

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From The Guadian: US Navy downs missiles in Red Sea after ship attacked by Houthi rebels

The US Navy has shot down two anti-ship missiles and sunk three small boats after responding to distress calls from a container ship that was attacked twice by Houthi rebels as it crossed the Red Sea over the weekend.

The US Central Command (Centcom) said it dispatched two destroyers, the USS Gravely and the USS Laboon, after the container ship Maersk Hangzhou reported being struck by a missile at 8.30pm local time on Saturday.

“While responding, the USS Gravely shot down two anti-ship ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen toward the ships,” Centcom said.

Ten hours later, the Singapore-flagged, Denmark-owned and operated container ship issued a second distress call, saying it was under attack from Houthi gunmen in four small boats.

“The small boats, originating from Houthi-controlled areas in Yemen, fired small arms weapons at the Maersk Hangzhou, getting to within 20 metres of the vessel, and attempted to board the vessel,” Centcom said. “A contract embarked security team on the Maersk Hangzhou returned fire.”

Helicopters from the USS Eisenhower aircraft carrier and the USS Gravely came under fire from the small boats as they issued verbal warnings, leading them to fire back.

“The US Navy helicopters returned fire in self-defence, sinking three of the four small boats and killing the crews,” the Centcom statement added. “The fourth boat fled the area. There was no damage to US personnel or equipment.”

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Since the Pentagon announced Operation Prosperity Guardian, 1,200 merchant ships have travelled through the Red Sea region, and none have been hit by drone or missile strikes, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper said in an interview with the Associated Press news agency.

American aggression against the city of Albukamal on the Iraqi-Syrian border

Reports of 4 martyrs

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Has anyone seen videos of the merkavas getting murked that actually includes the aftermath?

Arguing with a lib who claims they aren’t showing it/cut away immediately after the rewind because the explosions aren’t doing much and this just “proves” how good the armor is.

It’s very dumb and sunk cost is a fallacy, but I’m invested in winning this.

is it ever valuable or worthwhile to read history from reactionary authors? I didn't realize until 20% of the way through the book I'm reading that the author's an anti-communist, neocon type guy, it's pretty annoying read. there's of course some revealing stuff and some bits of truth, but mostly it's just frustrating reading about things framed in a reactionary way.

Iranian warships & US warships are practically toe-to-toe in the Red Sea right now.

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Noooooo, you're posting cringe my dude. You're going to be put in the cuck column: https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/-israel-s--goals-in-gaza-similar-to-russia-s--lavrov

6 IOF taking an ATGM to the dome 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻

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The Resistance is starting to bring out the big boys: https://nitter.cz/BigTimeCommie/status/1740092570133532869

Al Jazeera summary of 12-27-23 live blog

• WHO has undertaken “high-risk” missions to deliver supplies to hospitals in northern and southern Gaza, and warns people in Gaza face ‘grave peril’.

• An Israeli television channel reports that the Shin Bet security service had received but ignored information on the timing of Hamas’s attack.Israeli war cabinet member Benny Gantz says the offensive in Gaza will continue and will also expand.

• The death toll from the Israeli attack against a residential building close to the El Amal Hospital in Khan Younis has risen to 30.

• Israeli and Turkish officials traded barbs after President Erdogan compared Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Adolf Hitler.

ZAKA is one of the leading organizations alleging Hamas atrocities on October 7. But the organization’s volunteers have systematically given false testimonies, and continue repeating them to journalists on behalf of the Israeli government.

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this organization that forms the basis of many of the 10/7 SA allegations is, of course because it's Israel, founded by the (former) leader of an ultra-orthodox terrorist group. the guy was also a pedophile. ZAKA member 'testimonies' were cited several times in the recent NYT atrocity propaganda piece.

Wolfgang Schäuble dropped dead

Behind the scenes footage on how Al-Qassam films their videos: https://nitter.cz/jonelmer/status/1740786340348998011

Just passed a pro-Palestine trucker convoy near the Islamic center in Rashida's district (I don't live there), kinda cool.

🛑 Israeli Channel 12: A soldier who just returned from the war in Gaza shot at other soldiers, after jumping from sleep due to a nightmare.

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2024 is the year of the DRAGON in China. Just saying, Taiwan.

Al Jazeera

Israeli bombing kills two more journalists in northern Gaza

• Two more journalists have been killed in Israeli bombings, raising the total death toll of journalists in the enclave to 105, the Government Media Office has said.

Israeli forces raided six exchange companies: Palestine Monetary Authority

The Palestine Monetary Authority (PMA) says Israeli forces at dawn raided the headquarters of six exchange companies under the PMA’s control in a number of governorates in the occupied West Bank.

“The Israelis arrested a number of the owners of these companies and seized sums of money from their safes, after blowing them up,” it said in a statement, adding that it is “following up this sinful attack with all relevant parties”.

It said it considers the attack “an act that violates all international norms, laws, charters and agreements, and aims to undermine confidence in the Palestinian banking and banking sector”.

Killing my 105 year old bed bound dementia ridden grandfather who fought in Stalingrad In solidarity with the people of The Ukraine