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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.


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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

My company's internal meme page is absolutely filled to the brim with Israel support posts

Sorted by top of today

#1. Some tech shit idk - 1900 upvotes

#2. Hug to all Israeli employees - 1600 upvotes

#4. To all employees and loved ones in Israel - 1100 upvotes

#7. Support Israel - 800 upvotes

#9. Israel flag in heart shape - 600 upvotes

I count a total of 8 fucking Israel flags on the front page. People are making memes to tell people to DONATE to Israel

Not a single post supporting Palestine or even the THOUSANDS of Palestinians civilians who were bombed. All comments voicing support for Palestine were all from Muslims and they've since been removed by HR/deleted by the creator

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Libs love the phrase "When somebody tells you who they are - believe them." Well...

"Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents... There will be no buildings," an Israeli security official tells Israel's Channel 13.

Nitter

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (5 children)

HEZBOLLAH

“Palestine is not Ukraine. If America intervenes directly, all American locations in the region will become legitimate targets of the resistance axis and will face our attacks. And on this day there will be no red line left."

(source is extremly bad tho, the_real_fly )

flashback

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neo-cons and liberals are Holden Bloodfeast rn

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Guy on Aljazeera saying Biden's speech sounded like he'd been manipulated by Netanyahu, as though America is not just as insatiably bloodthirsty and racist in its own right. That shit was straight out of the Bush playbook. Netanyahu didn't have to manipulate a damn thing.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago

First bullet point of the Hamas international English communiqué about the operation:

First, Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was a supremely defensive act.

Hell yeah it was. Straight and to the point.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Re Israel turning on water in southern Gaza:

I am from Gaza and I am telling you this is a JOKE.

Israel destroyed many water pipes.

Also, without electricity we can NOT turn on the water pumps.

Water in Gaza does not simply run into the taps. We have to fill water tanks about twice a week.

https://twitter.com/itranslate123/status/1713573465620656451

Really sounds like this "kind gesture" is a cheap pr trick and will effectively amount to nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (10 children)

German newspaper today had a frontpage article about pro-Palestinian protests happening in major cities in the country. You'll never guess the headline.

"Hamas' influence extends even into our own borders."

The sheer audacity is staggering. This conflict and the media coverage have left me in utter disbelief. When every frontpage article was "Slava Ukraini" I noticed the propaganda and the clearly biased reporting, but I was mostly willing to led that slide because I can sympathize with Ukraine supporters in that it's a smaller country being invaded by a larger one and Putin does indeed suck ass. I understand siding with Ukraine against Russia.

But there is no excuse for siding with Israel, a substantially more powerful force holding literally all of the cards. They are unmistakeably the bad guys here. They are the oppressors, the occupiers, the invaders. The almost unilateral support for Israel has been an intensely jokerfying experience.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Someone on here mentioned the number, and I went to check as it seemed such a wild and disgusting fact.

In a grim piece of scorekeeping, Israel has stated that they have dropped over 6000 bombs on Gaza in 6 days, which means they are on track to exceed the number dropped on Afghanistan by the coalition in 2002. On an area smaller than Portland Oregon.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At least half a hundred infants in Gaza have been killed by now but there’ll be no mourning for them

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This conflict has gotten Saudi Arabia and Iran to talk on the phone for the first time ever:

"For the first time, a telephone conversation between the President of Iran, Raisi, and the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Bin Salman. The war in Gaza is on the agenda" - Kann News correspondent, Roi Kais

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Unconfirmed rumors that Hamas militants have been dressing up as sexy ladies with flowing hair and makeup, getting IOF soldiers immeasurably horny, before running around a corner and extending a frying pan behind them. So far at least 5 occupiers have fallen victim to this cruel attack, I seek condemnation at an international level.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Comrades, we are in the weeks where decades happen

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

Biden comparing Hamas to ISIS in his latest speech, this seems to be the new propaganda line. I saw the Israeli defence minister make the same comparison just an hour or two ago.

This has been carefully picked to foster right wing support and also decrease left wing support. Proving it untrue will be very important to making sure leftists don't drop off.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my current goal is to get featured in one of those "why we're defederating from hexbear" posts

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Why tf would hamas behead babies, like even idf soldiers arent beheaded, hasbara just throwing shit and see if it sticks or not.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Hasan's stream has been invaded by angry Turks lol. Tuned in and he was talking in Turkish to chatters. I guess he said something about the treatment of Kurds in Turkey and the Armenian genocide.

EDIT: He just banned the Turkish language from the chat lmao

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (6 children)

US Senator Lindsey Graham -

“Iran if you escalate this war we are coming for you. You will be knocked out of the oil business.”

Honestly not sure there's much point even posting this loser anymore. Biggest cuck of them all. Literally just an annoying yappy dog yapyapyapyap

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Iranian media says approximately 2.4 million Iranians have signed up as volunteers to fight for the liberation of Palestine, after an SMS service was set up for the cause

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Day 3: Xi pls open third front in Taiwan

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Israel really wants this "terrorism" narrative, should push back.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry, I just did a lib-thing but oh boy it felt good! Apparently, the EU Commission is not allowed to represent the EU on any foreign policy stuff according to its charters (Title 2, Article 17, Code of Conduct for the Members of the European Commission). But we have all seen Ursula von der Leyen hug mass murdering Israel as if it was Santa and do all kind of foreign policy stuff.

Latest ex: https://twitter.com/vonderleyen/status/1712851530057961862

So I dug up the charter and emailed the Commission with my most lib lawyer voice I could muster and told them that they need to cease and desist their constitutional overstep. Pointed out that in my country, it carries a 2 years prison sentence for not following the expected constraints of a public office.

I'm almost completely sure that nothing happens but let se if "rule based order" also include the rules that they have made for themselves :) (yeah, it won't but I'll take any number that is greater than 0%)

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Highlight from Al-Qassam Brigades military spokesman Abu Obeida's speech yesterday:

We heard today that the senile old man Yoav Gallant called us "human animals." Perhaps they meant the lions that trampled over their pig soldiers' necks inside their military bases, tanks, and fortresses.

lol owned

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Beheaded babies were a dud. Now for something Americans can really relate to

maybe-later-kiddo "This time Israel and the US are being truthful!!!"

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This situation is so bad that Vaush has good takes about it.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says it confirmed by verifying videos that Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza and Lebanon

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Rules-based internacional genocide

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Russia proposes to the UN Security Council to vote on Monday, regarding a draft resolution calling for an immediate humanitarian truce between Israel and Palestine.

This will give us a US veto. Which obviously isn't a good thing but exposes the US to the rest of the world for what they are.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago

Haaretz Hebrew has “As many bombs were dropped on Gaza in 6 days as the U.S. dropped in a year in Afghanistan.”

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Slava ukraina guy who hates israel for taking away US dollars that could be used for ukraine

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 year ago (9 children)

https://twitter.com/qudsnen/status/1712458867446305139 https://nitter.net/qudsnen/status/1712458867446305139

Israeli settlers share videos teasing Palestinians inside #Gaza, who have been denied access to water, electricity, and internet by Israel.

Vile, evil fucking pig disgusting freak, absolute scum of the earth, I hope he gets burned alive in his fucking car

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Official DPRK media (kcna) published this article shitting all over Canada and calling them the 51st state, insinuating their sovereignty is just like the "ROK".

Also early on suggests that they're on the eve of nuclear war.

Fun read when you ignore the harrowing nuclear part.

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Pyongyang, October 10 (KCNA) -- Ra Jong Min, a commentator on international affairs of the DPRK, issued an article titled "Only fools can jump into fire with removed on their backs" on Tuesday.

The full text of the article is:

Shortly ago, the Ministry of Defense of Canada announced that it would stage an "Operation NEON" around the Korean peninsula from early October to early November, adding this shows that Canada attaches great importance to the Indo-Pacific region and the international security.

As well known to the international community, the acute situation, the eve of the outbreak of a nuclear war, is prevailing over the Korean peninsula and Northeast Asia owing to the U.S. reckless arms buildup and joint military exercises for aggression.

It is easy to judge that the introduction of fighter planes and warships into such a hotspot is a dangerous act like adding fuel to the flames.

However, it seems that Canada, engrossed in kowtowing to the U.S. without elementary thinking ability, has not properly understood the gravity of the present situation in the Korean peninsula.

Canada's behavior is not only an anti-peace act of wrecking peace and security in the Korean peninsula and stability in the Asia-Pacific region but also a foolish option of destroying its security by itself.

Whenever an opportunity presents itself, Canada is making an impression that it contributes to the issue of peace and security in the Korean peninsula. But what the country has done so far in the Korean peninsula and the Asia-Pacific region is to disturb peace and stability and aggravate confrontation and conflict.

Canada, which dispatched mercenaries to the Korean War ignited by the U.S. in the 1950s, has played a leading role in carrying out the U.S. hostile policy toward the DPRK in the new century, too.

It has enforced the law on "special economic measures" to totally block trade, financial services and technology transfer with the DPRK and ban the navigation and mooring of our ships and planes in its territory, under the pretext of implementing the UNSC sanctions resolution, since 2011.

In January 2018, it called a "Vancouver meeting on security and stability of the Korean peninsula" with the attendance of 20 countries, including Korean War participants and Japan, to create an atmosphere for provoking the second Korean war.

This year, too, the prime minister and the foreign minister of Canada remained silent about the fact that the U.S.-led joint military exercises are driving the situation in the Korean peninsula to the redline and, instead, slandered the DPRK's exercise of the legitimate right to self-defence, revealing their distrust and hostility towards it.

At a time when the certainty of military conflict in the Korean peninsula is increasing more remarkably than ever before due to the war drills of the U.S. and "Republic of Korea", Canada is committing such rash act of jumping into fire with brushwood on its back, not content with having added fuel to the flames owing to the anachronistic daydream and its blind belief in its American master. We wonder if Canada's thinking is normal.

As the country has such a way of thinking, it courteously asked even a Nazi to attend its recent parliament session to create an atmosphere of welcoming someone, only to be condemned by the international community and apologize for its act.

It is a natural result for Canada which has become inveterate in finding boundless satisfaction and relief in following its master blindly without any clear view.

It is by no means fortuitous that the international community unanimously has branded "Canada's positive effort for peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region" as an attempt to prove its loyalty to the U.S.

If Canada continues acting as a servant of the U.S. as now, it will be called the "51st state" of the U.S. like the "Republic of Korea".

Canada should stop such a reckless act of doing harm to its own interests, clearly understanding that the Asia-Pacific countries are closely following its reckless behavior.

Also noticed that only 4 days ago the "president of Palestine" Mahmoud Abbas sent Kim a floral basket "on the occasion of the 78th founding anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea."

Very pretty.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

goku-halal I do not recognize Israel as a legitimate state.

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Israeli Settlers Take Advantage of Gaza Chaos to Attack Palestinians in West Bank; Settlers and soldiers have killed 51 Palestinians in the West Bank since Saturday. At least two Palestinian villages

this current conflict is looking to me as a now or never for palestinian liberation, i think Fatah and the PLO are going to be forced to either join the war or slowly get eliminated in the west bank.

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