One year on. Hundreds of thousands are dying or dead, millions are displaced, the Middle East is undergoing its greatest changes in a generation, Iran has directly attacked Israel twice in one year, and Yemen has proven that the US Navy ain't worth shit. We are the closest we have been to nuclear war (discounting accidents) in decades, but also the fall of Israel.
Because one day, the prisoners of a concentration camp paraglided over a wall.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA 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.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
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 Telegram Channels:
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.
Ahahahaha fuck you occupiers, maybe if you stopped colonizing you wouldn’t have to worry about being blown up at dinner. Dozens of casualties with multiple confirmed deaths at a base south of Haifa.
~~Just a telegram rumor, but apparently Herzl Halevi may have been killed in the attack~~
Hezb statement
🟡| Statement issued by Hezbollah’s Operations Room:
We had previously warned that the Israeli enemy's continued aggression against our noble people in all parts of resilient Lebanon would make Haifa and beyond, for the resistance's missiles and drones, equivalent to Kiryat Shmona, Metula, and other border settlements with Lebanon. We accompanied this warning with information gathered by our drones, "Al-Hudhud," regarding "sensitive" Israeli military targets and "vital" Israeli facilities in occupied Palestine, especially in the occupied city of Haifa. We also assured this enemy that the Islamic Resistance sees and hears where they do not expect.
The Israeli enemy wagered that the Islamic Resistance would not be able to carry out its threat after their despicable security operations and the assassination of our honored leaders, foremost among them our most revered martyr, His Eminence, Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah (may his soul rest in peace). Ignoring our warnings, they continued their aggression against our noble people and committed the most heinous massacres against women and children, particularly in Beirut and the southern suburbs.
In response to all of this, the decision of the Islamic Resistance leadership was to discipline this enemy and show a fraction of what it is capable of, at any time and place of its choosing, whether secretly or openly. The target was one of the training camps of the elite Golani Brigade in Binyamina, south of occupied Haifa, a location unknown to many settlers.
In a sophisticated and complex operation, the Islamic Resistance's missile forces launched dozens of rockets towards various targets in the areas of Nahariya and Akka to engage the Israeli air defense systems. Simultaneously, the Islamic Resistance's air force launched swarms of various drones, some of which were used for the first time, towards different areas in Akka and Haifa. These advanced drones successfully penetrated the Israeli air defense radars without detection and reached their target at the training camp of the elite Golani Brigade in Binyamina, south of occupied Haifa. They exploded in rooms where dozens of Israeli officers and soldiers were gathered, preparing to participate in the aggression against Lebanon, including senior officers, resulting in many casualties.
The Islamic Resistance pledges to the most honorable and pure people that it will remain their protective shield and will not allow this cowardly enemy to isolate them. It renews its promise to its most revered martyr that it will continue to defend the beloved land of Lebanon according to the field plans that were personally overseen by him and the martyred leaders. The enemy is warned that what they witnessed today in southern Haifa is only a glimpse of what awaits them if they decide to continue their aggression against our proud and noble people.