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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.

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Links and Stuff


The bulletins site is down.

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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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] 49 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Israel now using white phosphorous on the Lebanon border battles.

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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* (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 (3 children)

Spokesman of the Israeli army Admiral Daniel Hagari: The Israeli Defense Forces will operate everywhere in the Middle East in order to achieve their security goals, we are fully prepared on all fronts.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Hezbollah says it sucessfully targeted and disabled Zionist cameras and technical equipment in the settlement of Metula

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[–] [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 (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)

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] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

I'm not serving if I get drafted.

EDIT: amending my comment to avoid using the word I was actually called by someone in college in a derogatory manner.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (4 children)

https://streamable.com/qzwesg

Ukrainian POW talks about Azov and various other "police" battalions being posted behind the front lines as blocker groups with orders to shoot anyone attempting to surrender.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (6 children)

lmfao we banned someone on the GCJ discord and before they did their last words were "Slava IDF" lmao im dead

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

Israel is done for i think, they are too weak to fullfill the desires of their Hate on Gaza. But to fucking mental and done for to not try , or ragingly demand it from the IDF . Pretty sure the Moral really is rock bottom in the IDF , because most of them also understood that "they are the baddies" and also that they most probably gonna die when they enter Gaza. Taking Gaza might something that the "great Regional Power Israel" considered and planned , but its something that "small regional power Israel" can not afford to do or risk.

Edit: arnt the most fanatic jews / settlers spared from conscription or something ?

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

Israel has only given two hours to evacuate Al Awda Hospital in Gaza, Doctors Without Borders says

“Our staff are still treating patients.

"We unequivocally condemn this action, the continued indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks on health care in Gaza.“

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Our legend Gunther Fehlinger dropped his most confusing tweet yet

"I call all law abiding Palestinians to come to European Union 🇪🇺

We can make entry declaration

Who signs a EU sentry, anti Hamas declaration & rejects terrorism can come to EU to get asylum & live with us in safety forever ♾

Rest I guess will be crashed by Israel 🇮🇱 #ExGaza"

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh hey a Wikipedia page that has yet to be rewritten with Zionist propaganda!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

For folks out there who are concerned about using massive surveillance platforms and military contractors like Google to perform machine translation of sensitive and potentially "illegal" statements, consider LibreTranslate. It is a free software machine translation system you can run on your own machine. It does not require an Nvidia GPU like many other AI systems, nor does it send your requests to the internet for remote processing.

You can try it here, but if you want the benefit of privacy, you must install it on your own computer.

edit: fixed link

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The mega is going to be so hype when Israel uses a tac nuke against Iran in 2025

party-cat Posting party agony-shivering

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

Locations of IDF air strike raids in the northern Gaza Strip, according to satellite images.

First time we've been able to see what they're focused on.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (6 children)

https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1713157927882674283

That old fascist fuck is back with some more fascism. When your war heros are advocating for genocide, you are clearly the baddies.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago

Former Israeli defense official says bombardment of Gaza should continue until Hamas is 'ashes' | AP News

A former Israeli defense official told the Associated Press Thursday that Israel should continue bombarding Gaza for as long as militants remain in the territory, even if it incurs massive casualties to Israeli soldiers.

Yaakov Amidror, a retired General and senior fellow at JINSA, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, said that Israel would "bomb any attempt to build military capability in the in the Gaza Strip for the next hundred years," raising the specter of an unending military engagement in Gaza.

"We need to crush Hamas to ashes, no matter how many casualties," Amidror said. "Of course, we will give all means to our soldiers to defend themselves. but I don't think casualties are the main element in decision-making."

At least the people at the openly pro-war think tanks don't try to appear human. I'm just as creeped out when Joe Shmuck of the Yada Yada Institute for Peace uses euphemisms but is much of a monster when he says "The IDF will likely need to be aggressive in Gaza to neutralize the Hamas terrorist threats. It is an unfortunate necessity." He makes it seem like the IDF is a basketball team that uses sharp elbows.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (4 children)

October 7th was not the first time that resistance fighters utilized gliders to fly over our occupied lands.

Today, we remember the Night of the Gliders operation carried out by the Syrian Arab martyr Khaled Aker and the Tunisian Arab martyr Milood bin Al-Najjah on behalf of the PFLP-GC on November 25th 1987.

Our heroes flew into an IOF base in occupied Palestine on hang gliders all the way from Syrian-controlled South Lebanon armed with AK-47s, silenced pistols, and hand grenades. Aker was captured and martyred. Al-Najjah swept in, killing six IOF soldiers and injuring eight more as he fired his AK at the usurpers without mercy and hurled grenades into IOF tents.

These martyrs were hailed as heroes, and the slogan "six to one" or "6:1" became popular among Palestinians mocking settlers in Gaza. Just two weeks later, the first intifada was declared from Gaza, and this heroic operation undoubtedly sparked it.

Victory to our resistance!
Glory to our falcons!
Glory to our martyrs!

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Israel cutting off vital infrastructure to Palestine is literally worse than Russia doing the same to Ukraine because they literally stated they were going to do it. I don't think Putin ever issued a statement that they were going to starve and terrorize Ukrainian civilians

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

11/10 I've been off for half the day. Gonna use this comment for a surge of updates. Will edit as I go.

Egypt and Iran agree to work together to provide medical and humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza

Palestinian drone strikes today: [sirens, not strikes, cause of sirens unknown]

Missiles from Lebanon today:

It seems that Hezbollah launched a massive wave of UAVs at Northern Israel

Israeli Channel 12: Manned paragliders were observed entering from Lebanon!

Asking all residents to shut down and hide into shelters and not leave

Armed fighters blow up the Lebanese border fence and enter Israel from the north

Israeli red alert system, Red Alerts across the entirety of Northern Israel.

The American embassy in Lebanon is being evacuated.

American citizens are advised to leave Lebanon as soon as possible.

Alleged weapons cache captured by IDF:

An F-7 HE-Frag rocket (made by #NorthKorea/#DPRK 🇰🇵), TBG-7V thermobaric rocket (made by #Iran 🇮🇷), PG-7M rockets, PG-7V rocket Chinese Type 69 RPG Launchers, Type 56-1 rifle and HAMAS-made M26A2 pattern grenades can be seen.

https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1712132427408183713

Flares fired border with Lebanon (notice how these are nothing like the white phosphorous munitions, keep the difference in mind) - https://streamable.com/4oy62x


Ok so pretty much all of the above has now turned into "there are no strikes from Lebanon, we made it up, we made a mistake" from Israel????????????? wut


https://streamable.com/h4j70f

John Kirby confirms the USS Dwight D Eisenhower carrier strike group will be headed to the Mediterranean but says it will not join the USS Gerald R. Ford strike group as a second strike group, but will be available in the area if needed.

(called it, this is going to go to iran imo)

John Kirby: We're refurbishing some Iron Dome interceptors from our inventory in Israel‌‌

John Kirby: Civilians in Gaza are not responsible for what Hamas did‌‌"


Turkish army is attacking Rojava


[needs verification] Pakistan says it will provide missile support to Hamas if Israel invades Gaza


Fuck, removed some things because I was scrolled back in one of my feeds and not posting up to date stuff.


American Delta Force and SEAL Team Six said to assist the IDF in finding and extracting American hostages in upcoming Gaza incursion. - Levant Kemal

Channel 12 says Israel considering either seizing Gaza or not doing it but invading anyway just to look strong and then withdraw.

Hezbollah Statement:— We were not surprised at all by the political positions and field actions (https://t.me/PalestineResist/14375) taken by the American administration, especially the recent statements of the US President in openly supporting the zionist killing machine and aggression against the Palestinian people. This is the true essence of the complete American policy in its continuous support for aggression and terrorism since the establishment of this usurping occupying entity.

We consider the United States to be a full partner in zionist aggression, and we hold it fully responsible for the killings, crimes, siege, destruction of homes and houses, and horrifying massacres against innocent civilians, including children, women, and the elderly.

We call on the masses of our Arab and Islamic nation, which knows the ugly truth of America and its aggression against the peoples of our nation in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, to condemn the American intervention along with its international and regional partners and to expose this intervention at all political, popular, media and legal levels and in various regional and international forums and gatherings.

Sending aircraft carriers to the region with the aim of raising the morale of the enemy and its frustrated soldiers reveals the weakness of the zionist military machine despite the crimes and massacres it commits, and thus its need for continuous external support to provide this temporary usurping entity with the means of life. Therefore, we affirm that this step will not frighten the peoples of our nation or the factions.

The resistance is ready for confrontation until final victory and complete liberation is achieved.

https://streamable.com/sbl1sf

Palestinian ambassador for the United Nations addressed the international community and asked them to take responsibility and step into the picture to put and end to the slaughter of the Palestian people and send urgent humanitarian aid to avid a looming catastrophe, the Palestian National Authority is working for a cease fire and the reopening of the Egyptian border to allow humanitarian aid in the Gaza strip.


Ok I think that catches up on half the day, or at least close to it. Gonna go back to normal posting.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Israeli airstrike leaves Palestinian refugee camp in ruins | AP News

Israeli warplanes pounded the Shati refugee camp in Gaza City early Thursday, reducing entire swaths of the crowded camp to ruins.

There's video at the link. It's eerie because there's no sound.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do the towns that Hamas has captured have access to water? Could Hamas be occupying the towns to retain a water supply?

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