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There was an earthquake in Afghanistan on sunday and taliban are reporting 2,445 dead so far. Didn't even show up in my news feed until today. This is turning out to be one of those weeks where years happen.

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."

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

I guess it's spoooooky season.

Can we talk about the propaganda surrounding Shani Louk? From what I can make of the video:

1. She's not naked. She's clearly wearing some sort of safety shorts and her top appears to still be there (cross-referencing to the dancing video, she appears to be wearing the same top, shorts, and boots). She lost her skirt at some point in the fighting and the back strap on her top looks like it got tugged around, but there's clearly still fabric on the front (which might also be why she's face-down, other than to avoid putting pressure on the head injury on the back of her head).

2. Her legs don't seem broken. Her right left is in an outwards V (you can see this from where her foot is pointing) and her left leg is obviously fine. It's a perfectly achievable position to be in, even if I wouldn't want to stay in it for hours.

3. Her family says she's not dead and that she's actually being treated at a Gazan hospital for head injuries.

4. From first-hand experience, the head can bleed a lot without you noticing any pain or dizziness or anything. In fact, the head can bleed a lot and have no lasting effects... If you want to try this, walk headfirst into the pointed bottom edge of a staircase (but also, please don't). There is a lot of blood flowing through the head, so even superficial wounds bleed like crazy.

Who the fuck is responsible for Western journalism?

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.

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..."

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.

How much damage does Israel have to do to Lebanon before this becomes a new front? Artillery strikes, white phosphorus, and killing journalists. Wtf

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

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.

"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".

The Flood from Gaza - Israel's elites and public have been dealt the biggest blow to their morale in 50 years.

Now we know why Mohammad Deif, the leader of Hamas' military wing in the Gaza Strip, disappeared from public view after the 'Sword of Jerusalem' campaign nearly two years ago. He was making plans and preparations for a counterstrike against Israel. On Saturday, he emerged, alongside Hamas spokesman 'Abu-Obaida,' to announce it.

They declared the start of 'Operation al-Aqsa Flood,' describing it as a battle to end the longest occupation on the planet. Thousands of rockets were launched within a matter of minutes, confounding Israel's much-hyped air defense systems, while Palestinian resistance fighters broke out of the besieged territory to storm Israeli settlements in the Gaza Envelope.

The images of the operation posted on social media were astonishing: Merkava tanks on fire; their Israeli occupation soldiers being dragged out and pleading for mercy; Israeli settlers fleeing in panic, their appeals for help going unheeded. At this writing, more than 100 Israelis (now well over 700) had been reported killed, thousands injured, and scores captured to be used as bargaining chips for the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Tel Aviv.

The impact on the morale of Israel's elites and public has been enormous. The country's political, security, and military establishments have been dealt their biggest blow in 50 years, since the October 1973 war. When an army ranked as the world's fourth most powerful cannot prevent or react to the targeting of supposedly secure settlers in Israel 'proper,' that is a sign of serious decline.

Regardless of how events unfold in the days and weeks to come, the resistance has achieved a huge victory. This is a long war. Israel may unleash death and destruction on a gigantic scale, but it will not emerge unscathed itself. And if it escalates into a regional war on multiple fronts, the writing will be clearly on the wall.

The thought, planning, and management that went into this operation match anything taught at the world's top military academies. When videos of fighters training for it were posted on social media, they were ridiculed by Israel and its ‘normalized’ Arab allies. So much for all those Sandhurst and West Point graduates. Mohammad Deif never claimed any military title, but he deserves the rank of 'general' far more than any of the heavily medalled and overweight commanders of Arab armies who do little more than stage parades and earn corrupt commissions on arms deals.

Remember the date — 7 October. It may mark a historic turning point in the Arab world, from a period of submission, surrender, normalization, and delusions about the enemy as protector, to one of dignity and liberation: in this case, the total liberation of Palestine.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared a state of war, threatened a devastating response, and called up his army's reservists. But what can he do that he has not already done? Kill hundreds more innocent civilians in Gaza? It would not be the first time. But this time, it could trigger a devastating reaction that reaches as far as Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem.

Palestinian Islamic Jihad joined Hamas in this battle, as did all the armed resistance wings of the major Palestinian factions. The resistance brigades in the West Bank - in Jenin, Nablus, Tulkarem, and potentially Hebron - have been inspired and, with their solid base of popular support, have begun to join the fight. And it cannot be ruled out that components of the axis of resistance in Lebanon and Syria, and even Yemen and Iraq, will do so too in the foreseeable future, if not sooner.

Zionist stormtroopers attack and lob flashbang grenades in an anti-zionist synagogue in Jerusalem: Twitter / Nitter

Turns out that you don't have to make excuses for the terror if the terror didn't actually happen

EITHER YOU'RE WITH US, OR YOU'RE WITH THE TERRORISTS (THE STATE OF ISRAEL)

Keep an eye out for AI generated images entering the propaganda war. They're doing it with the babies story.

By attacking Israeli settlements and forcing mass evacuations (something like 90% of evacuees aren't returning) Hamas probably wiped billions of dollars of value off the real estate market and untold billions more in tech by embarrassing Israel's occupation technologies.

2nd most commented thread on Hexbear. once we get to 4,000 then we will have set the record

Human Rights Watch publicly calls out Israeli Defence Minister for his public calls to commit war crimes

"Anti Civilian Casualties" mfs on their way to tell me why Israel needs to kill everyone in Gaza.

From a chud channel but it's kinda true

Consent manufacturing machine is going fucking wild

Ya Allah, it looks like Hezbollah and by extension Lebanon have officially joined the war. My cousin who works in Tyre/Sour sent us a pic in the family group chat of a massive Hezbollah convoy outside of the city and some dudes from Hezbollah started sending messages on WhatsApp telling people to leave to Beirut if possible. Genuinely shaking and tearing up as I'm writing this, may Allah keep the resistance safe and grant them victory.

CNN's website has this ~1 hour old article: Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack | CNN

A minute ago a CNN anchor clued me into the new hasbara spin: "Hamas was willing to kill babies so..." At that point I paused and googled for two reasons. I needed to confirm there was no proof of the beheadings or or rest of the lies. It was still beheaded baby vibes. And I needed to stop myself from taking my desktop screen, lifting it over my head, and bringing it down repeatedly until I passed out from injury and pain.

So if this is true it’s about to pop off big time right?

Hezbollah has released a statement/speech to the effect of: we are in communications with Palestinian resistance groups, various threats and warnings are being made to us from international actors and we do not care, American warships do not scare us, we will intervene when the time is right, there is a plan that we are involved in.

Im away for three goddamn days

The fetishization of freedom of speech has destroyed the Western ability to think critically.

The assumption is that the "accurate" views will trickle down and thus there's no need for you to think critically on your own.

Love how my local news framed pro-Palestine protests as "occurring at a time when Hamas is massacring Jews at a level not seen since the Holocaust".

Anyway, so we've seen the propaganda, bloodlust, and hysteria over Ukraine. We're seeing the propaganda, bloodlust, and hysteria over Pissrael.

Now imagine how bad it's gonna be when the war with China begins.

Massive rocket barrage towards Tel Aviv in the last half-hour. Several impacts reported; Iron Dome is becoming an Iron Sieve.

Twitter discourse has reached "Marx was an antisemite, and that's why the leftists won't support apartheid"

https://twitter.com/sleepy_devo/status/1711380327447380073

Scottish First Minister states Israel is going too far.

His mother in law is trapped in Gaza. I fully expect MI5 to intervene in his political career because of this.

Someone please explain how the settlers holding a music festival on stolen land right next to the giant ghetto their government routinely attempts to liquidate are "innocent civilians".

Swap "Israeli-Palestinian" with "European-Native American" and it suddenly becomes incredibly obvious to many more people what's wrong in this situation. It's convenient to only pay lip service to opposing colonialism in situations where the colonisation is functionally complete and your control will never be threatened.

The Democrat politicians publicly issuing statements of support for the Israeli state are the same people who put thousands of troops in my city the day the verdict in the Derek Chauvin trial was announced. If the murderer of George Floyd had been allowed to go free they would have set the US military on us had we dared to object. It's not far away at all.

The police that suppressed the uprisings in the US in 2020 used tactics developed in coordination with Israeli security forces, using equipment that was tested against Palestinians. US and Israeli security and intelligence services have long had a close relationship, sharing tactics, developing new weapons and equipment, and providing training for each others forces.

All the experts on the Ukraine conflict have now become Middle East experts.

Influencers. They go with whatever's the hottest "content".

Israel tells UN to evacuate the northern Gaza Strip within 24 hours

Today, just before midnight local time, team leaders of the UN Office of the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the Department of Safety and Security in Gaza were informed by their liaison officers in the Israeli military that the entire population of Gaza north of Wadi Gaza should relocate to southern Gaza within the next 24 hours," Dujarric told Axios.

"This amounts to approximately 1.1 million people. The same order applied to all UN staff and those sheltered in UN facilities – including schools, health centers and clinics," Dujarric said.

The United Nations considers it impossible for such a movement to take place without devastating humanitarian consequences," Dujarric added. "The United Nations strongly appeals for any such order, if confirmed, to be rescinded avoiding what could transform what is already a tragedy into a calamitous situation."