US envoy visited Israel before current escalation

Amos Hochstein , US President Joe Biden’s envoy, was in Israel on Monday – a day before the first wave of communications devices exploded in Lebanon.

According to Israeli media reports, Hochstein warned Israeli leaders against an escalation on the Lebanese front.

But Netanyahu’s office said that the prime minister told the US envoy that Israel “will do what is necessary” for its security.

Washington says averting a regional conflict is its top priority in the Middle East.

But critics say Israel’s apparent defiance against the Biden administration’s goals underscores Washington’s unwillingness to meaningfully pressure Netanyahu to avert an all-out war.

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Long live the joint Lebanese-Palestinian struggle in the face of zionist terrorism

Preliminary reports that Israel did it again

⚠️ A new of sabotage attacks in Beirut and all Lebanon, objects are exploding in houses and everywhere!

https://t.me/LebUpdate/42975

Appears to be walkie talkies this time

https://t.me/LebUpdate/42983

🥀 Lebanon's health ministry says nine people have been killed and more than 300 are wounded in the walkie-talkie blasts across Lebanon this afternoon.

Some of the devices that exploded are almost a decade old, bought off the civilian market.

https://t.me/LebUpdate/42988

Death to Israel this is more supervillain shit

So, latest update about the Norwegian owner of the company linked to the terror attack in Lebanon...

He was on a business trip to the U.S. when the attacks happened. VG, a Norwegian news outlet, writes that he got on a plane to Boston on Tuesday, but never attended the conference he was scheduled for:

The man was to attend a conference in Boston on behalf of his Norwegian employer, according to VG's information.

VG has seen documentation that the Norwegian arrived in the USA on Tuesday.

Nevertheless, he never took out his name tag or registered at the conference, the organizer told VG.

He's (probably?) still in the U.S., but no one has heard from him since Wednesday 👀

Mourning people I’ve never known. Glory to the martyrs

(1) Hezbollah mourns Ahmad Mahmoud Wahbi from Adloun in southern Lebanon, martyred on the path to Al-Quds.

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(2) 🇮🇷🇱🇧🇸🇾 Picture of martyr Ahmad Wahbi with martyr Hajj Qassem Soleimani during the fight against ISIS terrorists in Syria

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I looked up the EU "terror list" just for fun. I knew it was a list of scary Muslims but I would have imagined that they would have put a few token white guys in there.

But no, out of 21 designated "terrorist" organisatios, 17 are from the Muslim world. All 21 are from the global south. Was it really that hard to find some small group of politically insignificant Nazis and add them to keep up appearances?

Thoses brain chips that elon is pushing will be for sure filled with explosives. But the more I think about it the more stupid this whole pager attack was. China win again by doing nothing

What Israel did is the technological equivalent of poisoning the well. How such a rabid insane state can exist is just wild.

The new failed Trump assassin is obviously another freak as usual, but I low-key respect him for his unwavering dedication for his dumbass causes. We need this energy on the left. This guy was spamming Zelensky on twitter for any chance to help, he actually went to fucking Ukraine in some dumbass belief that he could somehow help out, he hated Trump so much that he was actually ready to kill him. It's hard to not respect a true ideologue in these days, when most libs fold at any true pressure. Good for him honestly, he truly did his best along the whole journey and almost died like a true martyr and could've gone to liberal heaven. The guy who tried this in July was just a massive loser, this new guy has some very respectable dedication all the way. It's a shame that he's not a leftist.

Isisrael destroyed Motorola Solutions didn't they? They injured a bunch of Lebanese people and even killed a few but really who is going to buy a Motorola pager ever again? What police officer is going to wear a Motorola radio when it could be hacked and blow up? What sane person is going to buy from a company that intentionally or unintentionally allowed for their devices to be turned into bombs used in a terrorist attack?

If Motorola Solutions is as cooked as it looks how does the usa respond? This is a direct attack on american Capital. A $74 billion dollar company is going to get wrecked because ISISrael cant see past their bloodlust.

Yemen got another Reaper
Third this week I believe

CPUSA: “For non-Black radicals to champion separatism through the resurrection of the old national question interpretation, the Black Belt Thesis, is to resurrect Jim Crow.”

I hate the CPUSA

In light of what happened, it is relevant to take a look at some ressources:

https://antonyloewenstein.com/books/the-palestine-laboratory-how-israel-exports-the-technology-of-occupation-around-the-world/

Antony Lowenstein - Palestine Laboratory which gives some insight on how the surveillance technology but also military hardware are tested on Palestine to be sold into the world. I think we can see Israel conflicts with its neighbouring countries as a giant tradeshow to sell the tech to potential buyers.

I also find it insightful some interviews by Electronic Intifada done with Shir Hever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly7qO9fGYZA&t=2839s

He is the author of the article done on Mondoweiss regarding the prolonged war can inflict a blow in Israeli economy. What I find relevant is the case he mentioned on France's Carrefour expansion into Israel. Carrefour wanted to expand into the country, but there are concerns regarding the ethical practice of some of the expansion, the company didn't want to expand inside Palestinian settlement (not for any moral arguments, but there are fear that it can be complicit in Israeli colonization and occupation). However, the Israeli court rules out that Carrefour can't decide where they can or can't open a store which to according to Shir implies that there are some political exceptionalism Israel can exercise on people who wants to do business in the country, which can lead to people thinking twice in investing into a country that doesn't allow you to have a legal even playground.

TLDR, the states exceptionalism is not good for the civilian sector of global capitalism to operate in, expecially if corporation know the trajectory of the next generation wouldn't have a positive opinion regarding the Israeli state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGVnqFK7jm0

In the second interview, Shir mentioned that Israel's main export is really in its military and surveillance sectorw, he does say that October 7th does make potential buyers question its military hardware performances, but I think today's cellphone's attack does give some Israel a good demonstration on some of its potential in terms of surveillance and population control.

I think it's important to not neglect today's attack in its context especially regarding the current state of the world which climate change causing social instability can push some states appetite to consider buying Israeli savoir faire in order to control its population more efficiently (border control, policing tech, surveillance, etc.).

In the future, we will all be Palestinians

Let's be honest, Iran has no other option than to make nukes. They are already treated like shit, isfake has shown such bloodlust that shows this is the only way. Even if the zionist entity dissolves in most peaceful way, there will be threat of nuclear attack to them at last minute. You are not missing out by not getting western goods that probably have some bomb on them

We fucking feasting comrades, what else shamans blessed russia to do

U.S. Authorities Were Warned About Suspected Trump Gunman

Thread on Motorola's collaboration with the Zionist entity. The pagers were Motorola pagers:
https://xcancel.com/Lowkey0nline/status/1836083424702194070

When you see someone on the internet saying that they are not fans of dying in a nuclear holocaust and that they would love their rulers not to escalate things to that point, those are not real people. It is fake Russian comments, disinformatskaya intended to scare you into not supporting total war against Putin's Asiatic hordes.

We already know that real westerners love getting nuked and that they would never support peace. But now the FBI and a bunch of Euro mainstream media says they have the receipts to prove it.

Here is Danish government broadcaster DR's version of the story (machine translation):

Secret Psychological Warfare Plan Revealed: Russia Aims to Strike the West with a ‘Nuclear Psychosis’

Internal Russian documents show how scare campaigns are designed to make Europeans fear a new world war.

New banger
That is the actual missile Yemen used yesterday btw, Palestine wingtips and all.

It sounds like Israel believes Hezbollah will finally retaliate tonight with a massive rocket attack. It's 21:00 in Lebanon, so the night is young.

Israel claims to have destroyed many Hezbollah launchers, which... honestly I don't really doubt at this point. Hopefully they have plenty of decoys and hidden launchers.

Inshallah, we will see the Zionazis pooping their diapers tonight

Israel apparently raided an Al Jazeera bureau and has attacked 400 sites so far in Lebanon

Iranian media constantly assuring that its ambassador in Lebanon is just slightly injured, now they say he had a "little" eye surgery and he is good and all.

Meanwhile a low ranking conservative official raised questions about Raisi's helicopter crash and whether Israel did the same thing to the electronics aboard the helicopter that it did to Pagers in Lebanon.

I purpose adding more Hijab Police to streets because thats apparently more important than the national security 😒.

DPRK (North Korea) wins U-20 Women's World Cup in Colombia. The North Korean team won against Japan, 1 - 0.

Some unconfirmed rumors floating around in Twitter:

There were multiple brands involved, including Motorola and a Taiwanese brand:
https://xcancel.com/zenonymous11/status/1836133420038263292

The American University of Beirut hospital had a device refresh where they quietly replaced their pagers 10 days before the terrorist attack (CW: the subsequent tweet shows someone lying in a pool of their own blood):
https://xcancel.com/Somali_ICS/status/1836168564480352310

I’m repurposing a comment I left on a post about Palantir’s involvement in the pager attacks (posted to c chapotraphouse).

Palantir CEO Alex Karp appeared as the main interview on Real Time with Bill Maher on Friday. He is an enthusiastic believer in the moral authority and superiority of the US.

He says the future of modern warfare will be peer to peer and drone to drone. “You’re going to be using software to control small instruments and there’s going to be hundreds of thousands of them.” He mentions fighting China and Russia specifically.

I don’t know if this is news but interesting to hear him say a lot of evil shit out-loud on a pretty mainstream platform. Also I watched it after the pager attack happened so it took on extra significance.

edit - fixed spelling of guy’s name

New "Israeli" massacre in central Gaza as jets flatten residential block: Dozens are trapped under the rubble of homes bombed by "Israeli" warplanes in Al-Bureij refugee camp | The Cradle

The next 9/11 should be just some hacker group blowing up all Iphones in America

Israel submits challenges to ICC on Gaza arrest warrant requests

The Israeli foreign ministry said that its first legal brief outlined the ICC’s “manifest lack of jurisdiction” in the case. The second paper, it said, argues that the ICC prosecutor breached court rules by “failing to provide Israel with the opportunity to exercise its right to investigate by itself the claims raised by the prosecutor, before proceeding.”

Is this something they have a right to? Like a mass murderer being arrested and saying "you can't do that, you didn't allow me to investigate myself to see if I murdered all those people!" After they were filmed shooting a crowd.

Well so much for my "you only get to do this trick once" bit yesterday. So we've got to be looking at the prelude to invasion, right? Two attacks in two days? This one with larger explosions but a smaller number of targets (way less folks seem to have walkie talkies than pagers)? I just don't understand the calculus otherwise. What a shitshow, godspeed to the people of Lebanon.

It seems that Haiti has once again turned into a dictatorship. The pro-US Haitian elite has dissolved the presidential role and created a Presidential Transitional Council that controls the entire country, at least the parts it controls that are not under the control of the Haitian right-wing militias. The postponed the elections to 2026, which were originally supposed to be held in 2019.

Israeli captives’ families do not want all-out war with Hezbollah

Al Jazeera is reporting from outside Israel because it has been banned by the Israeli government.

There has been an escalation clearly over the last week, and many in Israel are worried.

They are concerned that if an all-out war erupts with Hezbollah, it will drag other actors in from the region – from the entirety of the Middle East – and it will not lead whatsoever to a [Gaza] ceasefire deal that would see the release of the remaining 100 captives still held in Gaza.

In fact, family members of Israeli captives spoke to American media this morning, saying that they do not want a war.

Because they know if another war is opened, if Israel does involve itself with a full-scale war with Hezbollah on that border, the chances for a ceasefire deal will be zero.

Saudi Arabia: Crown Suspends All Relations with Israel Until it Recognizes Palestine - Telesur

Damn, no wonder why the US wants to ban Tiktok:
https://xcancel.com/abierkhatib/status/1836986916291408003

Hey news nerds, just a quick check in, are we within five years of me fragging my officer after getting drafted into WWIII, or no?