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We live in interesting times.

South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff says that "North Korea is preparing for the possibility of launching a surprise attack on South Korea using the same tactics as Hamas' attack on Israel"

I still haven't seen a consistent message about what happened yet. I've seen rumors that:

• it was a false alarm
• it was an accidental alert
• somebody hacked the system and triggered the alert
• it was a flock of birds
• it was a flock of pelicans with lights attached to their feet

Iranian Foreign Minister, Amir Abdollahian: If the siege and warcrimes against Gaza do not stop, the opening of other fronts is definitely a possibility

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.

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.

Liberal skywalker be like

This is a great week for learning which of your friends and family would've been genocide collaborators.

I do not recognize Israel as a legitimate state.

Im worried that if I leave to eat a sandwhich I'll come back to find out I missed Nasserists coup Egypt and declare a united arab war against israel or some shit

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.

Western journalism is dead. I mean, reporting on the Ukraine war was just flat out bad propaganda, which they're walking back now Russia is gaining ground again. But when it comes to palestine, they never manage to condemn Israel for far worse things they condemn Russia for! Even IF they manage to publish an anti-zionist voice, they have to juxtapose it with Bret 'Paris infestor' Stephens blaming the anti zionist left. Fuck em, hope they fuckin implode.

There's not at all confirmed reports on Twitter that Hezbollah attached lights to a bunch of pelicans then released them near the Israeli border, and that was the "drone swarm". i want to believe.

so, it's very unclear
is the beheaded babies thing real?
it seems like all the news is coming from a single source and there's also one contradicting source
and, tbh
while babies shot dead I can believe, the whole beheaded thing seems a bit
over the top? I won't say unbelievable, because they definitely could have, but
I guess if they did it was purely for the shock value

breathtaking. westerners have no fucking clue how racist they are and they will never ever in a million years do self crit to solve it, we're fucking doomed.

~(~~this~ ~is~ ~from~ ~a~ ~"leftist"~ ~server~ ~btw~~)~

The United States will not send troops to participate in the conflict in Gaza, but does not rule out the possibility of using them to free the hostages - White House

They're gonna lose a Black Hawk and a spec ops team.

soon

People on Twitter are really running with "The Zionists didn't know about the assault because of Huawei". We basically have zero evidence of the militants adopting Huawei on a completely organizational level. However, it might not be true now, but it'll soon be true, especially if "the Zionists can't spy on you if you use Huawei" escapes Twitter. Plus, I think it would be really really funny if MSM broadcasts this out in order to tenuously link China with Hamas.

NYT article on disinformation about the Hamas attacks, , does not include the beheaded baby lie.

Also it opens with "In the days since Hamas attacked Israel, killing more than 1,200 people in sweeping assaults on kibbutzim, a music festival, towns and other places . . ."

Military targets = other places

I feel like it is only a matter of days until a high ranking US or Israeli official slips up and uses the phrase "final solution"

blinken went on TV tonight and said he saw the babies. y'all got a newer debunk because my family is apparently too shitlib to work out that lying about it yesterday means they're probably still lying today.

At this point I don't even give a shit about any people Hamas might have killed. Fuck them for partying next to a concentration camp in an apartheid genocidal state and fuck every cracker who supports Israel. They deserve nothing but the worst.

In , there's a political party that doesn't actually suck: the NPA, the New Anticapitalist Party. They do present a candidate to national elections but acknowledge fully they don't intend to be elected / capitalism can't be rid of through ballots; they do it to take advantage of the equal airwave time every candidate has in order to have public speaking time.

Anyway, recently they published a communiqué about the events in Palestine; saying they "fully support Palestinians" as well as "support the means they chose to resist".

Today it has been announced that they are now under an official inquiry by the state for "terrorism apologia".

Reminder:

I got banned from worldnews on one of my accounts for using "Genocide Joe" so they really don't want that one getting popular it seems.

https://t.me/PalestineResist/14573

The contrast between Hamas propaganda and Israeli/Same-Map.jpg propaganda is funny

Hamas: "We explicitly ordered our guys not to harm civilians and obey all laws of war. Our troops are forbidden from harming civilians or prisoners.

Israel "HOW DARE YOU ASK US NOT TO UNLEASH THE ORPHAN GRINDER ON PALESTINE? FOUR HUYNDRED BABIES!

Abdul Malik al-Houthi, leader of Yemen's Ansarallah resistance:

"Our people are ready to move in the hundreds of thousands and join the Palestinian people to confront the enemy, and we will not hesitate to do everything possible."

I'm getting the impression the US is stalling and genuinely trying to prevent escalation right now. They don't want to commit to this conflict, they didn't want this conflict at all, huge distraction from both Ukraine and China, it fucks up just about every single one of their plans. The winner of this conflict would be China who sits out on the sidelines and watches as the west and every power in the middle east gets dragged into it.

Pretty sure they will be forced to commit. But I don't think they want to.

Also the dead German woman isn't actually dead and is being treated at a hospital in Gaza.

lmao "48-72 hours" my ass

Turns out genocide can be a little tough when the victims fight back

Interesting analysis: One of the reasons the base attacks were so successful was the combination of rocket fire and ground assault. After years of drills and habit forming on the bases the Israeli troops always go to the same area of the base for rocket fire. Palestinian troops simply showed up at the same time as rocket fire and then mowed down the congregating troops while they were predictably sheltering from the barrage at the usual place, which was well known to Palestinian observers.

God, they're just fucking pounding Gaza tonight...

They've dropped thousands of bombs on Gaza at this point. 6000 according to the IDF. (https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/12/israel-says-6000-bombs-dropped-on-gaza-as-war-with-hamas-nears-a-week)

Just let that sink in, 6000 fucking bombs on what is effectively a concentration camp while blocking (and bombing) any route out.

CNN...

In Gaza vital fuel and food supplies are running out.

Gee whiz fuck, CNN - you're a news source maybe you could explain why. I'll help out "In Gaza vital fuel and food supplies are running out because..."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/09/09/anc-chief-says-violence-against-whites-to-grow/731407e0-8b13-4ee2-89df-e23ba979b187/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1985/09/06/s-african-violence-hits-white-areas/9c1867cd-8b20-4d69-a86f-a9409f95a415/

Very interesting articles to contrast the attitudes in the media towards South Africa in 1985 and Palestine now. And what O.R Tambo was saying. Well worth reading.

Tambo said that the ANC will not criticize or try to restrain the kind of violence that occurred last week in the Cape Town area, in which nonwhites attacked the homes of white civilians. "We wouldn't be in a hurry to condemn people who have suffered something like 600 to 700 dead shot down by police at the insistence of a government elected by whites. We couldn't," Tambo said.

In Washington, the State Department said South African police have used "excessive force" to maintain order and also criticized the recent call by the African National Congress for greater violence as "irresponsible."

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Hezbollah message to Israel: https://streamable.com/69ew1k

"Your temporary entity is weaker than spider's web. You will disappear, and Palestine will remain Arab and proud of her people. The resistance throughout the battle lurks where you do not notice."

Don't talk to me about your fake beliefs in "freedom" if you don't support international freedom fighters.

"CNN is the communist news network" I say to myself as I watch Jake Tapper interview an IDF general who calls all Palestinian people "animals".

German libs are the most pathetically obnoxious commenters on social media. Hindu and Turkish nationalists are pretty bad, but Germans are such America worshippers that I often mistake them for being US citizens before checking their profiles. They've taken a break defending Ukraine to frothing over Israel and claiming anyone supporting Palestine wants genocide. At least the Hindu and Turkish nationalists are annoying af over their own countries.

The citizen app sent a notification this afternoon warning about mass protests under the directive of Hamas.

I guess it's spoooooky season.

Three pro-settler views I've heard recently:

"Israel" is a democracy

1. No it isn't. First of all the zionist entity suffers from the same structural factors as any other capitalist society that renders any real kind of popular rule virtually impossible. But on top of that Israel claims sovereignty and exercises de facto control over the Palestinian areas. The people there has no representation in settler politics and no way of legally exercising popular power. All they have is the Palestinian authority, a bantustan government that is conveniently considered sovereign when it gives Zionists a fig-leaf for disenfranchising and starving Palestinians and non-sovereign when it comes to the occupation regime controlling every aspect of their lives.
2. Why does that even matter? Is murder and oppression justified if you do it to somebody whose government you don't consider "democratic"? Democracy, or more correctly bourgeois parliamentarism, does not equal moral righteousness, Hitler gained power through a nominally democratic process. This argument is nothing but a modern rephrasing of the white man's burden, a contemptible excuse for evil.

Jews are indigenous to Palestine

1. This argument literally tries to use iron age demographics as a justification for modern settler colonialism.
2. So are Palestinians, but somehow their connection to Palestine is considered infinitely less important.

A Jewish homeland is a historical necessity to prevent another Holocaust

1. Extraordinary claims required extraordinary evidence, yet literally no argument is ever given in favour of this claim.
2. Jews flourish and live in peace as citizens of nations all over the world. Although antisemitism exists in the world, most governments has long since abandoned it and are doing a lot more to keep Jews safe against discrimination (as they should) than for most other etnic and religious minorities.
3. Jews living in Russia or Britain or America are a lot safer than those living in the war zone that is the zionist entity where they are constantly at risk of facing righteous Palestinian resistance.
4. If the people making this claim were serious, and not just making up bullshit emotional blackmail, they would also consider homelands for other historically oppressed people to be "historical necessities" yet I have never in my entire life heard any zionist demand the creation of an ethnostate for the Roma people.

Given Iran's support of Palestine along with Syria, DPRK and others. I think now is a very good moment to speak to any soft-left friends that are still supporting Palestine and explain to them that this is exactly why our "critical support" has always been a thing.

They can't ignore that the people working to give real material support to something that they support are all the places that they've criticised us in the past for having "critical support" for. What would they do without all of these places we critically support? The palestinian people would be alone and there would be absolutely no pressures that make their complete and total genocide harder.

Like, this is a very serious moment that demonstrates exactly who the anti-imperialists are and who aren't.

Lebanese WhatsApp and Telegram groups telling people to chill now, saying that it was a media drill from Hezbollah and that only 2-3 smaller drones were actually sent, the other news was fake to incite a response from the Israelis