Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.
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.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
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, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) 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.
It depends on what exactly is meant by ceasefire and how long it is, but I really struggle to see how a ceasefire at this point would lead to any positive developments in the future for Gaza as a whole. A substantial number of the buildings inside Gaza City are already destroyed. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced. A return to the status quo seems impossible and Israel will not allow Gaza and the West Bank to continue to exist in their current form.
Obviously Hamas knows what they're doing more than I do, but this whole thing seems like it would have achieved almost nothing if the fighting stops now. Israel gets its prisoners back, Palestine gets its prisoners back, but Israel will just mass arrest another few thousand Palestinians for bullshit reasons soon afterwards regardless to give them that leverage again. Sure, Netanyahu is probably out of power afterwards but the alternative is just going to be another bloodthirsty Zionist, and definitely not somebody who wants a two-state solution. Israel's internal forces are in disarray but the primary thing around which they can all still rally will be dealing with the Palestinians until they are all gone or dead. All settler-colonial states collapse eventually but "eventually" could still be decades in the future.
I absolutely hope that the release of the prisoners will get fuel back into Gaza and their prisoners back, this catastrophe is reaching an extremely critical point for Gazan civilians, but if this proposed ceasefire lasts a long time, then months down the line, I see millions of Gazans displaced or dead regardless in a new war that Israel is better prepared for, with the US given ample opportunity to move all its soldiers and ships and carriers to the region, and zero progress on the two-state solution diplomatically because Israel will never allow it. Hell, even if the ceasefire is only a week or two, that's still quite a lot of time for Israel to fix its wobbling. If it's any shorter then I'm not even sure what the point of a ceasefire is - Israel will just start bombing the second the timer is up and take out all the newly supplied hospitals.
the resistance is in a tough spot. obviously they want the killing and destruction to stop, but you're right, a ceasefire would mean the entire world would stop paying attention and Israel would be even more cruel to them. after a year or two Israel would break the ceasefire like they have a hundred times in the past and start this cycle over again. at least fighting could potentially change things, but it's easy to say that when you're not living in hell on earth being bombed every second of the day.
Their goal might have been to stop Saudi Arabia Israel normalization and they definitely already achieved that for at least the next little while