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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

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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.


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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Guy who tags the FBI on twitter

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says police investigating a pro-Palestinian rally in Sydney earlier this week should be able to do so without interference from politicians.

Anti-semitic slogans were heard at the rally outside the Sydney Opera House, actions broadly condemned by state and federal leaders.

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has been demanding the government cancel the visas of anyone involved who are not permanent residents or citizens.

Aaa

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

BREAKING: Poll commissioned by statistician Professor Camil Fuchs of Tel Aviv University finds that among Israeli Jews, 94% believe the government is responsible for the intelligence failure, while 59% have little faith in the government leading the war and 56% believe Netanyahu should resign immediately after the war is done.

there’s just no fucking way they can afford to do a ground invasion if their morale is already this low before the fighting even starts wtf…

https://nitter.net/spectatorindex/status/1712380675180110035

Edit: surely the solution at this point is just try to starve them out with the same bombs and not actually try to invade right and make sure no aid gets in? But then they risk extreme regional escalation…

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

The party leader for the Swedish left party is doing genocide denial, in her latest tweet on the matter she describes Gaza as "facing" a humanitarian catastrophe, and that "innocent Palestinians are at risk of dying." Furthermore she finishes off her tweet by claiming that the situation is playing into "the terror group Hamas' hands."

https://twitter.com/dadgostarnooshi/status/1711808952868946319

Right before this tweet she retweeted former center right prime minister Carl Bildt, when he says that the solution to stopping terrorism in Gaza is to fund new businesses through loans and guarantees.

https://twitter.com/CBildt/status/1711089713765863725

Disgusting opportunist.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

On a more serious note my mom asked if I was ok yesterday based on pure vibes, then suggested that it was “anxiety over Israel” creeping into her everyday life

Ok yeah sure be anxious over the wholesome 100 CIA fiefdom fucking up, and not over the impending death of thousands of Palestinian civilians in IDF bombings (though trust us the Air Force is doing surgical strikes, the civilians were just human shields bateman-ontological)

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

"Now, Israel will act like any other country would if it was invaded by a bloodthirsty neighbor and its citizens murdered, tortured, kidnapped and mutilated. And when the world inevitably protests the Jewish use of force, we won’t care."

Who said it?

An Israeli general on CNN or an American rabbi in the NYT?

SpoilerAn American rabbi

archive.today • Opinion | Seeking a Moral Compass in Gaza’s War - The New York Times

By Nicholas Kristof

Rabbi Jonathan Jaffe in Chappaqua, N.Y., issued an open letter noting that Jews have been traumatized by the terror attacks. “Now, Israel will act like any other country would if it was invaded by a bloodthirsty neighbor and its citizens murdered, tortured, kidnapped and mutilated,” he wrote. “And when the world inevitably protests the Jewish use of force, we won’t care.”

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I bet antisemites are running wild rn over Israel lying about the beheaded babies, using the logic that if they're lying about that then they lied about the holocaust.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

it is october 12 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Dr. As'ad Abu Sharia, Secretary-General of the Mujahideen Movement:

If the zionist enemy threatens Gaza with a ground invasion, we remind you of what happened in 2014, the defeat and humiliation of your army and soldiers. Imagine what will happen to you now in 2023.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is a world war "diagnosed" post facto? Did people call it WW2 in 1940?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Notes from Rybar on Putin's commentary about Israel earlier today:

spoilerSpeech by Russian President Vladimir Putin on the escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone

🔻Main points:

▪️The Palestinian problem is in the heart of every Muslim, and is perceived by them as a manifestation of injustice raised to an incredible degree.

▪️ The United States neglected the mechanisms in the Arab-Israeli conflict zone and relied on the material needs of the people in the Palestinian territory.

▪️ During the creation of Israel there was talk of creating a sovereign Palestine at once, but this was never done.

▪️ What is happening is terrible. The bitterness in Israel and Palestine is very great, but we must strive to minimize civilian casualties, children and women must be left alone.

▪️ If men have decided to fight among themselves, then let them fight among themselves.

▪️ It is unknown whether the situation between Israel and Palestine will be calmed in the near future, but this could lead to big problems.

▪️ Russia's position on Palestine and Israel is well known to the parties; we are for the implementation of UN decisions and the creation of a Palestinian state.

▪️ In both the USA and Israel there are many supporters of the creation of a Palestinian state, but the forces advocating a military solution are gaining the upper hand.

▪️ Accusations against Iran of involvement in the aggravation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict are unsubstantiated.

▪️ I don’t understand why the United States is pulling aircraft carrier groups towards Israel, this is aggravating the situation. Decided to scare someone? There are people there who are no longer afraid of anything

▪️ The escalation in Israel will not affect oil production, but may affect logistics, insurance, and freight.

▪️ “I hope common sense will prevail.”

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You folks tired of witnessing the progression of history yet? cool-dad

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (3 children)

45 Palestinians killed in airstrike on house, Gaza ministry says | AP News

The Israeli military bombarded a residential building in the densely populated Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza on Thursday, killing at least 45 people and injuring dozens more, Gaza's interior ministry said.

A late-afternoon airstrike hit the al-Shihab family house at the center of the Jabaliya camp, interior ministry spokesperson Eyad Bozum told The Associated Press. The al-Shihab house was packed with dozens of relatives at the time of the airstrike, Bozum said. Some family members had fled heavy bombing from other parts of the Gaza Strip and taken refuge there

Bozum said the death toll was likely to rise from that airstrike as civil defense workers were still pulling bodies from the rubble and counting the dead.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

DPRK is an imperialist state. They colonized the USS Pueblo

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Hour of Awakening is near, The Moon has turned Red. The Frenzy has begun, there is little time left.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Ukraine vs Israel: can the west arm both?

While Ukraine faces a severe manpower shortage, western powers find themselves faced with a dearth of available weaponry to send to Kiev. Admiral Rob Bauer, NATO's highest-ranking military official, candidly admitted on 3 October, "The bottom of the barrel is now visible" concerning the west's ammunition stockpile. In a sign of the mounting strain, the US began transferring to Ukraine 300,000 155-millimeter shells it had stored in Israel as part of the War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSAI) program. According to one Israeli officer, “Officially, all of this equipment belongs to the US military …. If, however, there is a conflict, the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] can ask for permission to use some of the equipment.”

Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder claimed the US would replenish these stocks of artillery shells stored in Israel. But the US does not have the ability to do so, as Ukraine has been using between 3,000 and 6,000 rounds per day, a quarter of what Russia has used on the battlefield. CNN reported at the time that “The strain on weapons stockpiles – and the ability of the US industrial base to keep up with demand – is one of the key challenges facing the Biden administration.”

The US military-industrial complex is heavily geared to produce high-cost weapons systems and hardware, like the $412 billion F-35 warplane. While these programs undoubtedly benefit weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, they fall short in delivering the essential artillery required in vast quantities for a war of attrition against a formidable military. Now that war has broken out between Israel and the Palestinian resistance, Kiev faces a competitor not only in Moscow, but in Tel Aviv.

That Israel is begging for US weapons just days into a conflict with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is alarming for the occupation state’s supporters, considering that none of the remaining Axis of Resistance members, including Hezbollah, Syria, Ansarallah, Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and Iran, have yet formally entered the conflict.

Should Hezbollah fully join the fight, Israeli planners expect the Lebanese resistance movement to fire 4,000 missiles a day from northern Lebanon and send thousands of elite troops into Israel to take over towns or military bases.

Israel and Hezbollah fought a major battle in 2006, which forced the Israeli military to wage war against a more “conventional” military opponent, in contrast to the Palestinians it confronts daily in the West Bank and Gaza. According to Matt Mathews of the US Army’s Combat Studies Institute, Israel was woefully unprepared to fight a “real war” in that conflict. ... The 2006 war also exposed Israel’s reliance on US weapons, which nevertheless proved insufficient to defeat Hezbollah. During the war, Israel requested to access the WRSAI stockpile and that the US expedite the delivery of precision-guided munitions to Israel. Within just 10 days of fighting, Israel used most of its ammunition stock.

Years later, in July 2014, during Israeli military operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel was again forced to rely on the WRSAI stockpile to replenish 120-mm tank rounds and 40-mm illumination rounds fired from grenade launchers. The problems Israel faced in 2006 and 2014 will be compounded if the Axis of Resistance now takes the step of initiating its “unification of the fronts” campaign.

David Wurmer, Middle East adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney, told the Wall Street Journal on 10 October that “The nightmare scenario for the Israelis is that they go a week or two shooting down 6,000 to 10,000 Hamas missiles, and then they have nothing left to stop the Hezbollah missiles.”

The situation for Israel becomes even more challenging if Iran joins the conflict, as the Islamic Republic possesses substantial stocks of short-range and medium-range missiles capable of reaching both Israel and US bases in the region. The US and Israel often warn of the alleged threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program, despite its civilian orientation, but seldom mention the threat posed by Iran’s burgeoning conventional missile program.

...

But now, more than 40 years later, the Palestinians are not alone. They are part of a region-wide Resistance Axis that has defeated US and Israeli agendas in a number of West Asian states, gaining invaluable fighting, organizational, and planning experience alongside reliable allies.

Meanwhile, the pile of recent US-side failures keeps mounting: Russia's global clout spiked during the US proxy war in Ukraine; US adversaries China and Russia forged a multipolar world when Washington came at them; economic sanctions designed to cripple Russia and Iran only strengthened both states and sparked military collaborations. Crucially, Russia and Iran today possess the industrial capabilities to produce the military firepower the US and NATO cannot provide to allies in either Tel Aviv or Kiev.

Israel has already started the fight it may not be able to finish by declaring total war on Gaza’s civilian population, killing over 1,000, including hundreds of women and children, and flattening large swathes of the Gaza Strip in airstrikes. For Tel Aviv, Gaza has always been low-hanging fruit - the punching bag it seeks when it needs to look tough. But today, one misstep, one badly aimed missile, or one step too far, and Israel will face a regional war it cannot withstand for any significant period of time.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (6 children)

In Israel they say that negotiations are underway to allow Americans and Palestinian civilians to leave Gaza for Egypt before the start of the ground operation - CNN citing a source

The United States has not yet decided to deploy a second aircraft carrier off the coast of Israel, but it is moving in that direction - White House

The United States is actively working with Israel and Egypt on the idea of evacuating the civilian population of the Gaza Strip - White House

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

this will be used as an excuse to label anyone who stays behind as a terrorist

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

still not totally clear whether this was another part of Hamas sending the drone swarm or if Hezbollah is now actually in, media is very confused. if it's the former - holy shit, Hamas continues to astound me and exceed my expectations.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Acting Commissioner Hudson said on Friday if the powers were used, police would be able to search attendees without reasonable cause and request identification, where failure to provide relevant documents would be deemed an offence.

He said he expected to know by Saturday whether there were enough grounds to authorise the powers, which are outlined in the Law Enforcement Act.

"Sunday's protest is being organised by the same group that organised the violent protest last Monday," he said.

"The admitted inability of the organisers of the event to control the membership of who might assemble on Sunday, the threat to public safety, and the extent of the violent behaviour we saw last Monday, we believe that we are able to meet this threshold."

The wider powers, which can be used to "lock the city down", were introduced after the 2005 Cronulla riots and have been used "intermittently" since, the acting commissioner said.

the 2005 cronulla race riots "were triggered by an event the previous Sunday, when an altercation turned physical between a group of youths of Middle-Eastern appearance (referred to as "Lebanese" or "Lebs" by their opponents) and White Australian lifeguards on the beach. Following the reporting of this event by the tabloid media and "shock jocks" on local radio, a racially motivated gathering was organised via chain texting for the following weekend."

Hmm yes we must crack down on muslims again :s

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago

11th Oct - End of day 5 Rybar sitrep:

spoiler❗️🇮🇱🇵🇸 Aggravation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone what is known by the end of October 11, 2023

The fifth day of the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation has come to an end. Today, the number of direct clashes between the IDF and Palestinian militants has decreased, but a few skirmishes still occurred in the Zikim and Sderot area.

Both sides continue to attack each other. In Gaza, the Israeli Air Force razes entire neighborhoods in Gaza, Khan Yunis, Al-Breij and Rafah. Palestinians fire back at central Israel: Ashkelon, Sderot and Tel Aviv airport are again under attack.

In the afternoon, the network was flooded with messages about a landing in northern Israel from southern Lebanon. Both Israeli and Palestinian sources wrote about 20 paragliders that flew under the cover of a swarm of UAVs. Later, the IDF denied the information and said that the alarm was caused by some kind of internal failure.

The Israeli government has reached agreements with the opposition to create an expanded cabinet that will manage the military effort. The former head of the Ministry of Defense Benny Gantz agreed to enter there, the possible accession of Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett is being discussed. Such a structure would allow the incumbent far-right authorities to assert the legitimacy of their actions against the Palestinians, especially in a large-scale ground operation.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago

"According to N12 in Israel, the IDF was instructed to double their strikes tomorrow.

Possibly the preliminary heavier strike phase prior to the ground operation starting

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (4 children)

/r/trueanon has retreated to the hills (gone private) to wage a protracted peoples war (the mods probably got tired of nuking genocidaire accounts)

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Went to bed hoping that there would be something that had changed meaningfully: military intervention, major Palestinian operations in the West Bank, government shaking protest, declaration of embargo, or at least a successful delivery of humanitarian supplies.

I guess it's still Friday...

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hearing reports on nextdoor of an Arab man spotted on Clark Avenue, the intersection with Forest Street walking a dog. omg pls stay safe people!

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