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Anyone have the link that story of Israel telling civilians to go the city center to escape bombing and then bombing the city center?

If you can - for just a moment - think of the tragedy that his MNSBC legal pundits not being able to be on tv to talk about Trump. They've got their brands to build and their books, podcast, etc to plug.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Israeli airstrikes on Syrian territory could trigger an armed escalation across the entire region.

The ministry described the strikes as a blatant violation of Syria's sovereignty and fundamental norms of international law.

MSNBC just mentioned reports of Israeli's alleged use of white phosphorus.

Edit. It ended up to be in passing. Baby steps?

13 Oct. 2023

Press release

We adamantly reject to be expelled from our homes once again. We will resist Israel’s attempt to ethnically cleanse Gaza. Our unwavering determination is to resist Israel’s pursuit of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, firmly resolved to prevent a second Nakba from unfolding. The current developments in Gaza represent an extraordinarily audacious and brutal endeavor to forcibly remove the Palestinian indigenous people from their land.

Israel has publicly declared its plan to commit genocide against Palestinians.

The Zionist entity, supported by Western governments, has conducted a war of intense bombardment, releasing more than 6,000 bombs upon Gaza within the past week. Nearly 500 children have been tragically killed as a result of the intense bombardment, carried out by the Zionist entity. They have targeted mosques, a church, educational institutions, residences, and medical facilities with bombings, yet it is our people who are erroneously branded as terrorists.

Today, we have seen the mobilization of millions in the Arab and Muslim world, extending their support to the courageous Palestinians in Gaza. We express our heartfelt gratitude for their solidarity and implore them to continue, urging them to march to the borders and play their part in this historic juncture that promises the restoration of our freedom and the dignity of all Arabs and Muslims.

To our allies living in western countries, the free noble people of those societies. You too have a role to play, to pressure your governments to abandon their support to Netanyahu and his fascist government. To correct the lies of the media, lift this barbaric siege on our people.

Yes what the Zionists are doing is inhumane, it is unprecedented, it is barbaric and contravenes all the laws and treaties that the so-called free and democratic countries claim they believe in. But our resolve is unbreakable. We will not surrender our legitimate fight for freedom and self-determination. We will either live standing tall or we will die fighting.

Izzat Alrisheq
Member of the political bureau of Hamas

Norman Finkelstein laying out Israel's genocidal plan and the USA's support. Norm's on my shitlist for some other stuff but he's pretty solid on Israel. Looks like it's a clip from Jimmy Dore. I

is it possible hamas or other organizations in Gaza have stockpiled food or water? i know food is difficult because they were basically on borderline starvation "rations" thanks to israel but could water have been secretly diverted into underground cisterns or tanks?

Gotta say that I'm pleasantly surprised by the patsoc types like Jackson Hinkle actually being principled and openly cutting through the insane western media propaganda in recent days. It would've been very easy for them to fall back into the classic "muslim horde" mode of racism that many on the pro-Russian side in Ukraine sadly subscribe to. These people aren't exactly leftists, but their brand of politics has matured since the media insanity of Ukraine and many of them have progressed from what I saw as pure grifting. No matter how shitty some of them are, it still takes real balls to go against the dominant western narrative on not just Ukraine, but also Israel. They could've been like any "working class" Trump Republican who hates Ukraine to own the libs, but is now frothing at the mouth just wanting to kill Muslims. Guys like Hinkle were better than that, and they deserve some credit for being a little brave in this shitty world.

Xi or Putin please declare a military operation on Israel

"Europe" is such a crock of shit. A bunch of racist Saxons trying to convince everyone else that the Mediterranean is the bottom of the world instead of the center.

West Journalsit are Terroist . Genocidal Maniacs. they should be considered legitimate enemy targets. What differenciantes them from a soldier is only that a soldier can never do the harm they do. all those in here are save , the others should be seen as Intelligence Assets , same goes fucking Celebreties like Sean Penn and Mark Hamil....

The Country of the Week is Palestine!

As mentioned in the preamble, feel free to post or recommend any material related to Palestine, whether from a thousand years ago or yesterday. You can post it anywhere in the thread, but you can also reply to this comment if you wish.

If you're feeling particularly ambitious and want homework, you could take on any or all of these questions (no reward, but I'll be very proud of you):

• Who are the main political actors? Are they compradors, nationalists, international socialists, something else?
• What are the most salient domestic political issues; those issues that repeatedly shape elections over the last 10, 20 years. Every country has its quirks that complicate analysis - for example, Brexit in the UK.
• What is the country's history? You don't have to go back a thousand years if that's not relevant, and I'm counting "history" as basically anything that has happened over a year ago.
• What factions exist, historically and currently? If there is an electoral system, what are the major parties and their demographic bases? Are there any minor parties with large amounts of influence? Independence movements? Religious groups?
• How socially progressive or conservative are they? Is there equality for different ethnic groups, or are some persecuted? Do they have LGBTQIA+ rights? Have they improved over time, or gotten worse?
• What role do foreign powers play in the country’s politics and economy? Is there a particular country nearby or far away that is nearly inseparable from them, for good or bad reasons? Is their trade dominated by exports/imports to one place? Are they exploited, exploiters, or something in between?
• If applicable, what is the influence of former colonial relationships on the modern economy and politics?
• Is the country generally stable? Do you think there will be a coup at some point in the future, and if so, what faction might replace them?

Last week's country was Syria.

Discussions included:

• A discussion on the early Ba'th days, by @[email protected]
• @[email protected]'s field trip to Syria.
• An attack on a graduation ceremony in Homs, which caused Syria/Russia to start hitting Idlib.

This is our Geopolitics Reading List so far! Please chime in with suggestions!

General Theory:

• Super Imperialism, by Michael Hudson.
• Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, and Capitalism’s Final Crisis, by John Smith.
• Superexploitation and the Imperialist Drive of Capitalism: How Marini's 'Dialectics of Dependency' Goes beyond Marx's 'Capital', by Andy Higginbottom.
• Capital Volume 3 Lecture Series, 32 videos, 10-15 minutes each, by Andy Higginbottom.
• World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction, by Immanuel Wallerstein.
• Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire, by Radhika Desai.
• Capitalism, Coronavirus and War: A Geopolitical Economy, by Radhika Desai.

Canada:

• Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination, by Tyler Shipley.

Chile:

• 1000 Days of Revolution: Chilean Communists on the Lessons of Popular Unity (I cannot personally find an online version).
• Santiago Boys Podcast, analyzing Allende's government and Cybersyn.

Syria:

• Syria's Peasantry, the Descendants of Its Lesser Rural Notables, and Their Politics, by Hanna Batatu.

United States:

• Drug Cartels Do Not Exist: Narcotrafficking in US and Mexican Culture, by Oswaldo Zavala.

Venezuela:

• Objective Conditions in Venezuela: Maduro’s Defensive Strategy and Contradictions Among the People, a longform article by Steve Ellner.

More Lebanon-Israel border: https://streamable.com/k2iziw

A Hezbollah Official says they have "yet not" mounted any attack on the Jewish state.

Probably just individual groups taking their own initiative.

Really weird when a local liberal politician who hasn't been on social media for a while pops up to post videos of some guy saying "actually Jewish people can't be doing an occupation in the Levant because my schismatic sect of the religion broke with two thousand years of Jewish thought and practice in the 1880s and now manifest destiny lebensraum right of return!"