There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
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 Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update is here.
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.
Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours
What an incredibly reasonable offer!
New York's subway sees an average daily ridership of only 2.4 million people. I'm sure that the UN can organize that level of mobility in 24 hours. Of course.
They're gonna bomb the fuck out of the south once they all move, I fucking know it, they've done this shit so many times
Thanks, phone stopped working for some reason
Genocidal freaks, i stg if hezbollah doesnt get involved tomorrow/after they do this they’re never going to.
Although I too long to see the northern front opened against the zionist entity, I do see the strategic value in keeping Israel guessing "will they, won't they" until they are committed in a Gaza quagmire. I can't say I know anything inside info or anything, but I don't think you should write them off so quickly. Hamas is calling this statement propaganda for one, so Hezbollah isn't likely to move on it. They have also already been harassing IDF units in the north, perhaps even probing for weaknesses, I could see an escalation happening very suddenly when most people don't expect it.
That’s fair. I made this comment before hamas said that anyways.
Patience, preparations take some time and Iran/Hezbollah seem to have been caught somewhat offguard by the escalation of this. I don't think either was fully in war footing. Reserves must be called up, logistics arranged and equipment moved. Friday is the day that has been signaled, I think we'll see something
They're going to try to push the whole population over into Egypt, squeeze them like toothpaste. Put that extra million Palestinians into the southern half of the strip with no food or water and force the Egyptians to deal with it. I think this is why US Diplomats are scrambling to talk Egypt into helping the Israelis. Big indication to me that the plan is full cleansing. I don't know if they actually want to keep Gaza or if they're just planning on pushing people out so they can get rid of Hamas, maybe they haven't even thought that far ahead. First they'll have to defeat Hamas in the rubble, which will not be an easy task. I think this will last longer than intended, and the scale of brutality and humanitarian crisis will overwhelm any publicity boost Israel received by playing victim. The strain on the diplomatic situation in the Middle East will be intense, and the longer the crisis lasts the higher the odds of weak links breaking and the situation spiraling out of control. If things don't break their way, a depleted IDF fighting in Gaza might have to face down multiple Arab armies. This is a huge historic gamble being made in a situation in which the resistance has taken the initiative. Does this happen if Netanyahu's government is stable? Will his government survive thousands of dead Israeli soldiers and a worsening international climate? When you think about how this is starting to play out Hamas's move makes more sense, even if it relies on developments outside of their own control.