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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.


If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.


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.


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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

just saying let some autistic communist on the Lathe, would be epic as hell

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just last week the media in Canada was talking about how the Conservative Party had a new base of support in Muslim immigrants as they both opposed inclusion of LGBT issues in education. (How much of this support was real versus manufactured by the media I can't say). This led to a lot of liberals showing their true colours, dehumanising and insulting Muslims in Canada. But now with the Palestine conflict coming front and centre in the media cycle, I wonder if the inherent split between the Conservatives' interests and their supposed base of Muslim support has become apparent faster than expected. While many conservatives never stopped being xenophobic I think pundits were hoping they could keep it on the down low until the next election. However with many Canadians publically making calls for genocide in Palestine, that ship has sailed

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

RPG hitting a Merkava https://streamable.com/g9hwxv

So much for the active defence system? It didn't even attempt to counter fire to stop it.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

Palestinians fear repeat of 1948 as Israel calls for evacuation | AP News

“You look at those pictures of people without cars, on donkeys, hungry and barefoot, getting out any way they can to go to the south,” said political analyst Talal Awkal, who has decided to stay in Gaza City because he doesn’t think the south will be any safer.

“It is a catastrophe for Palestinians, it is a Nakba,” he said. “They are displacing an entire population from its homeland.”

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

“As South African Jews it is incumbent upon us to understand that the dual logics, intersecting histories and the conditions of possibility for antisemitism, Zionism, antiblackness, islamophobia (…) are all connected,”

https://nitter.net/ewnreporter/status/1712168587828306238

https://twitter.com/ewnreporter/status/1712168587828306238

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (17 children)

im sorry but the regular mega is about to expire and i need this opinion out there.

like its fuckin UNUSUAL that Star Wars has versions that override the original versions, right? name one other series that has engaged in such aggressive revisionism on early entries. i cannot think of a single film from the 1970s which you are legally obliged to view with CGI from decades since it was released. fucking ridiculous.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (3 children)

As Israel battles Hamas, all eyes are on Hezbollah, the wild card on its northern border | AP News

Will Lebanon’s heavily armed Hezbollah militia join the Israel-Hamas war? The answer could well determine the direction of a battle that is bound to reshape the Middle East...

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/russia-is-trying-to-break-through-ukraines-front-line-before-snow-falls/

https://archive.ph/LdT6f

"The Russian military has launched an offensive along the entire front line. Yesterday there were about a hundred military clashes, one of the most decisive of which is unfolding in Avdeevka,"

spoilerUkraine is on fire. Russian forces have launched an offensive across the entire front line in their final push before winter. About a hundred combat clashes took place yesterday, one of the most decisive of which is unfolding in Avdiivka. A suburb of occupied Donetsk, Avdiivka fell under the control of pro-Russian militants for three months back in 2014 before it was liberated. Now Avdiivka is under attack again, with Ukrainian soldiers trying to stop the largest offensive on the city since the onset of the war.

Avdiivka has been semi-encircled by Russian forces from the north, east and south for months, with little change on the ground. In the initial assault on Tuesday, approximately 2,000 Russian soldiers and up to a hundred armoured vehicles descended upon the city. Russian troops were aiming for a blitzkrieg: they live-streamed their assault, which they described as a ‘massive offensive’, and filmed their aircraft heading to bombard Avdiivka. Russian state media and their so-called military bloggers gave the impression that Russian forces were on the verge of entering the city.

Encircling Avdiivka is Russia’s best shot at gaining at least one small victory before the first snow Ukrainian soldiers, fearful of a possible breakthrough, described the situation as ‘hell’ on social media. Others said they were outnumbered and several positions were lost. Andriy Yermak, head of Ukraine’s presidential office, claimed that Russian forces had used phosphorus bombs against Ukrainian fighters. The video of what looked like white phosphorus raining down on the city emerged on social media, but it is hard to verify.

What we do know is that Russian forces have captured about five square kilometres of territory and advanced southwest of Avdiivka near Sieverne and northwest of Avdiivka near Stepove and Krasnohorivka, where they encountered minefields, anti-tank defences and heavy artillery fire. From there, the infantry began advancing in small groups of 20 to 30 soldiers, simultaneously infiltrating from more than a dozen directions with air support. Vitaly Barabash, head of the Avdiivka military administration, described Russian troops as ‘cockroaches, trying to find a loophole in’. He added that Ukrainian military positions get hit at least 500-600 times a day, but his men ‘stand firmly’.

Four days of fighting have inflicted relatively heavy losses: the Russian forces have likely lost at least a battalion’s worth of armoured vehicles in offensive operations around Avdiivka, according to the Institute for the Study of War. Conservative estimates suggest Ukrainian forces have destroyed at least 36 Russian armoured vehicles, including tanks, armoured personnel carriers, and transport vehicles.

Avdiivka remains one of the most heavily fortified frontline areas in Donetsk Oblast. A successful encirclement of the city will likely require more forces than Russia is currently deploying. The Russian military command is seeking to draw attention to its ability to conduct combat operations, pin down Ukrainian forces and stop reserves from moving to key areas of the Ukrainian counteroffensive in the Zaporizhzhya region.

So far, the Avdiivka offensive showed that the real challenge for both armies is in trying to switch from defence to offence, which is especially tough in this tech-driven war. Encircling Avdiivka is Russia’s best shot at gaining at least one small victory before the first snow. But soldiers are struggling to break through the enemy line head-on. Whether Russia does make progress or not, Avdiivka, once home to 32,000 people, lies in ruin. More than 1,600 residents remain in what is left of their homes – they are trapped, due to heavy shelling.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Gaza continues to strike Tel Aviv, the airport, and various other towns in Israel with missiles. They must have had tens of thousands of the things built up.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Man of the people and human rights lawyer Sir Keith Rodney Starmer KCB KC is back at it again with his vaunted “decade of renewal”:

Labour leaders tell MPs and council leaders not to attend Palestine protests

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It seems like the Israeli propaganda mask has completely sloughed off. Their official propaganda has the charisma of like Turkmenistan now, I remember them being somewhat savvier before.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Gustavo Petro engages in a dispute with the Israeli ambassador in Colombia over the conflict with Palestine.

Through the social network X, colombian president Gustavo Petro reacted to statements by the Israeli Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, who ordered a total siege on Gaza, leaving Palestinians without electricity, water, food, and fuel, alleging that they were fighting "human animals."

🗣 "This is what the Nazis used to say about the Jews. Democratic nations cannot allow Nazism to reestablish itself in international politics. Israelis and Palestinians are human beings subject to international law. This hate speech, if it continues, will only bring a Holocaust," Petro said.

The Colombian president posted a series of statements on social media downplaying the conflict in the Gaza Strip region. Without mentioning the Hamas terrorist group, the former guerrilla fighter stated that "neonazi groups want the destruction of the Palestinian people."

I know people are pretty critical of Petro but he's the world leader making the most based comments about this conflict.

https://twitter.com/petrogustavo/status/1711382918877032732

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (5 children)

After 6 days of Military secrecy, the Israel Defense Forces today admits the killing of IDF General Leon Bar, 54 years old, a senior officer in the West Bank Division in the Israeli army, during clashes in the Kibbutzs and other settlements surrounding the Gaza Strip.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"There are decades where weeks happen and weeks where decades happen but boy fucking howdy this is like 3 centuries in the last 4 fuckin days"

-Vladmir Lenin

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (12 children)

A couple minutes ago Jake Tapper was talking about the US desire to create a "humanitarian corridor" for "innocent Palestinians". It was the first time I heard an American network news anchor or reporter use the word "innocent" in terms of Gazans even though they've surely used that word 1,000s of times for Israelis.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

US charter flight takes 150 people to Israel, including army reservists going to war

In this very short live update this "stop the madness" quote jumped out at me.

Among those waiting in the LAX terminal to board the flight was 37-year-old David Frankel, an Israeli citizen who fled with his wife and two children to Southern California following the Hamas attacks a week ago. Frankel is an Israeli army reservist and said he was called up to serve while in California.

“It’s heartbreaking, but I’m doing it because it’s necessary,” Frankel told CNN. “It’s sadly the reason I’m leaving my boys behind. I had to say goodbye to them in their sleep just a few hours ago. I'm obviously nervous … I want to see my boys grow up. But you have to put that aside and stop the madness that’s happening.”

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

NEW pictures showing Egyptian 🇪🇬 Military Assets being transferred to Rafah,

The convoy was spotted in Al-Arish, which is 75km away from Gaza.

I suspect these are most likely to be keeping the Palestinians inside Gaza rather than helping. They will be deployed to the Rafah crossing which is the only way in and out of Gaza to Egypt.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (5 children)

A 5 hours ceasefire starts at 9 am today.

This is most likely to allow dual nationals to leave Gaza and aid trucks to safely enter.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

breaking news: Hamas have destroyed an IDF convoy by painting a wall to look like a road, causing everything to run into it. When will this terror end?

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (5 children)

American companies are whack #2.

Dana Walden, co-chairman of Disney Entertainment, sent a staff-wide memo this morning on Hamas' attack on Israel.

"Tomorrow marks one week since the world changed forever with the worst attack on the Jewish people since the Holocaust,"

Nitter

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

Israel really doesn't want any Gazan to get out. They aren't even trying to hide it. Fuck me.

Spoiler: the situation at the border with Egypt is fluid.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I feel like the lines of the current/upcoming global conflict have solidified even more in the last week. USA/EU/JP/SK/ISR on one side, PRC/RUS/IRN/DPRK/RSA on the other side. Then you have the current collection of Latin American leaders firmly on the anti-colonial side, but that usually swings back and forth. The Islamic World is pretty much entirely on the Chinese/Russian side if we're talking about the people, but you have too many US vassal states like Qatar, UAE and Jordan who will commit to the US side when shit is real. Africa is 50/50, but that's quickly changing too. The real remaining wildcards are Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan and Egypt. Saudi Arabia are quickly drifting away from the US and I feel like they are now more independent than ever in their decisions. The other three are just confusing countries, way too much instability internally and you never know when the army's genocidal instincts kills a bunch of people.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (6 children)

⚡️🇵🇸 The CEO of an Israeli weapons systems company was allegedly arrested by the Israeli government for being in suspicion of stealing and embezzling aid meant for Israeli soldiers, according to Channel 12, allegedly.

NOTE - Confirmed, the suspected amount is 180 million Shekels, the company in question is CAA, apparently, civilian donors were donating to the company so they can buy and then send vests to the IDF soldiers, which never materialized.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (12 children)

Let's say Hezbollah does get involved relatively soon (and that draws Syria into the war). Given the US's threats, it feels like the US might get involved too, and then the whole region lights up as various groups start battling. What does:

  • Russia, who has obvious links to Syria, Egypt, Iran, and OPEC+, do?
  • China, who has increasing links to Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Iran, do?
  • Iran do?
  • Saudi Arabia do?
  • Turkey do?
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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

Israel is shelling southern Lebanon again

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has long harbored plans to annex the Gaza Strip and move Palestinians to the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, Iraqi TV channel Al Sumariao reports, citing an audio recording of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in which he spoke about a conversation with Netanyahu.

“Netanyahu once said... that there is a map showing the Gaza Strip and the territory near our borders, and began to consult if the population of the Gaza Strip moved to the Sinai Peninsula,” the TV channel quotes Mubarak as saying. It is reported that the ex-president of Egypt refused Netanyahu’s offer. "Forget it. Neither I nor the one who comes after me will be able to give up our territory," Mubarak said.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

False alarm on the drone swarm from Lebanon thing.

Just shows how on edge everyone is.

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