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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.


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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.


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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Honestly I wonder if the resistance is trying to collapse isn’treal’s economy, the telegram rushed out to report a collapse of the shekel and it looks like they’re targeting infrastructure, at least in retaliation for bombing of Gazan civilians

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago

Death to America

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Current Rybar sitrep:

spoiler

Near the Gaza Strip, clashes continue between the Palestinian militants still remaining on Israeli territory and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

The Israeli military-political leadership has announced plans to completely destroy Hamas and is talks with the opposition to create a single emergency government to legitimize its actions in the fight against the groups.

🔻North direction:

▪️ In recent hours, sporadic fighting took place in Zikim and Sderot, and paratroopers from the Tsankhanim brigade arrived in the area. In Shaar HaNegev, there were exchanges of fire with scattered groups of militants, who managed to kill at least four Israeli soldiers.

▪️ IDF fighters intercepted the militants near Kibbutz Kfar Az, preventing them from entering the village.

🔻Eastern direction:

▪️There are shootouts in the villages of Alumim and Nirim. Information about local battles is confirmed from time to time by IDF reports of the liquidation of one or two militants.

▪️ Small groups of Palestinian militia members on motorcycles move between small settlements and try to create the effect of a wide presence along the front line.

Yet the massive presence of Palestinians in Israel's border towns appears to be waning.

🔻 Massive shelling:

▪️From yesterday evening until now, the Israeli Air Force has been carrying out mass strikes on targets in the Gaza Strip.

And this is partly true - given the density of the population in Gaza, it is quite difficult not to hit civilians.

▪️ In response, Hamas fired a volley into Ashkelon and other cities. Several strikes hit Jerusalem, Rishon Lezion and Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv.

▪️Israeli air defense has certain difficulties in intercepting missiles. After the third day of salvoes , the Iron Dome system misses more and more missiles, and more and more hits are recorded, leading to casualties.

At the same time, rumors are spreading about an impending shortage of air defense missiles in Israel, the basis for which just yesterday was given by the statement of a request (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/10/08/israel-gaza-strikes-hamas-netanyahu/#link-PK4KJJAFDBDTJCC6ID56HHD2CE) to the United States to provide anti-aircraft missiles.

🔻 West Bank:

In the West Bank, after large-scale protests and clashes, the situation calmed down somewhat as the day wore on. However, operations by Israeli security forces and attacks by Palestinians continue there as well.

▪️ In Dotan and Harmish there was a shootout in the morning, and in Nablus there were rallies and clashes, including with the use of weapons. In the north, in the Tulkarm and Netzani Oz region, protests and clashes continue, although full-fledged street battles have not yet reached.

Against the backdrop of the events of the past day, it can be assumed that with the onset of darkness, Arab youth will again take to the streets of the cities of the West Bank.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't like RFK Jr but I hope he gets a SHIT ton of votes just to fuck with the Democrats and Republicans and cause absolute chaos in American politics. Hope he makes the three letter agencies panic, too, including the FDA who (although I'm not anti-vax and got my three COVID vaccinations) are way too close to the pharmaceutical industry and directly caused the opioid epidemic (by enabling Purdue to use their insane product labelling) and the baby formula crisis (by banning imported formula from Europe).

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Al-Akhbar Lebanese newspaper:

The #Gaza resistance informed the resistance groups outside Palestine that its missile force is capable of dealing with the enemy for a long period of time and that the readiness for ground war is also excellent.

Hamas announced that it has sent only 2,000 fighters to war and still has 40,000 more fighters in the Gaza Strip.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Drone swarm released from Lebanon hitting all over northern Israel.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (9 children)

This is tangential and maybe a bit crass, but I do think that this war dooms Biden's re-election chances, regardless of the outcome.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hamas is still firing missiles at Asqalan, Ashdod and Tel Aviv

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

its on!!! hundred of suicide drones enter from the North INSHALLAH

Edit: or i was overhyped and its a psychological fog of War thing or the Warning system got hacked and caused mass panic.. , because no reports of impacts.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (25 children)

How do yall think things will actually pan out for all Palestinians if Hamas turns out victorious? I imagine things can't go anywhere but up from the horrific position they are in now, but what will life look like for non-Muslim Palestinians/Palestinian jews? Are there any good sources I can look at that might relate to these thoughts

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago

I watched Hearts and Minds for the first time last night. Brutal stuff. I didn't realize that this film is where Westmoreland said "Life is cheap in the Orient." Another lowlight - the former POW who came home to New Jersey to tell schoolchildren that Vietnam would be beautiful, if it weren't for all the people. (He's still alive.)

Read contemporary reviews of the film, and you'll see that even more nothing has changed - it's criticized for having too black-and-white of a take on a "convoluted" issue (something preemptively debunked by Daniel Ellsberg in the film, when he says, "The question used to be: might it be possible that we were on the wrong side in the Vietnamese War? But, we weren't on the wrong side. We are the wrong side.").

A great Palestinian documentary, 5 Broken Cameras, received the exact same reviews: "An NPR review of the film noted that it 'is unabashedly pro-Palestinian, an indictment of Israel's settlement policy that never examines either the settlers' claims or the security forces' point of view'." (It's a film from the perspective of a Palestinian farmer, you shitheel.)

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Im gonna be a fucking stupid optimist this time: I really think that this can be pulled off.

Its just been more and more paper tigers from Israel. Arabia is mobilizing against aggression so blatant that even the bourgeoisie of those countries see it as a threat. While any real response will have Israel fleeing to the sea. Settlers will never be able to pull off resistance like those who actually live there. The nukes are a problem though, but if things collapse quickly enough, I don't believe they will be able to use them. Even if Israel wins initially, the settler project has been dealt a blow that is impossible to heal from. Millions flee the colonialist state. The army has been made a laughing stock! The crimes are so vile that even the US focused nations in the regions will respond.

Israel is dead, and it is just the beginning.

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