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https://twitter.com/AlexThomp/status/1721220295300694036

A generic, unnamed Democrat fares 13 points better than Biden against Trump in swing states, per new NYT poll.
Kamala Harris does better than Biden too.

Bahrain summons envoy to Israel, suspends economic relations

Bahrain says it has recalled its ambassador to Israel and halted all economic ties with it.

In a statement, the parliament of the Gulf state said the moves were part of measures taken in support “for the Palestinian cause and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people”.

Bahrain, which established diplomatic ties with Israel in 2020, said the Israeli ambassador to Manama had already left.

The announcement came a day after Jordan said it had also recalled its ambassador to Israel to protest against the “catastrophe” amid Israel’s attacks.

Bolivia this week cut official ties with Israel over the war in Gaza while Chile and Colombia also recalled their ambassadors to Tel Aviv for consultations.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/2/israel-hamas-war-live-195-killed-120-missing-in-jabalia-strikes

accusing palestinians of killing babies is anti-semitic blood libel, actually

I guess the theory some people had here that Hezbollah/ect wanted to wait for the IOF ground troops to get sufficiently bogged down inside Gaza before launching a real offensive was correct.

Iranians demand a ceasefire in Gaza

Thousands of Iranians gathered on the streets to mark the anniversary of the 1979 takeover of the US embassy in Tehran chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel”.

They condemned Washington’s support of Israel as it strikes the Gaza Strip. People assembled outside the former US embassy in Tehran with some burning American and Israeli flags.

Protesters stomped on images of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Joe Biden. Others carried banners calling the US “Great Satan”.

Parliamentary speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf addressed the crowds while criticising US support of Israel.

“We consider the criminal US a principal culprit in all these crimes” in Gaza and against Palestinians, he said.

incredibly based, I want to move back to Iran now lmao. I will never forgive my parents for not teaching me Persian.

Taste the fury of our men. We are out for revenge. The Youth of Revenge and Liberation are writing the most amazing epics of confrontation now in storming the camp.

glory to the martyrs as they draw the map of Palestine with their blood

Netanyahu may not last, Biden and aides increasingly believe - POLITICO

At one point during the trip, Biden advised Netanyahu to consider the scenario he was leaving for his successor — an implicit suggestion that Netanyahu might not be in power for the duration of what will likely be a lengthy conflict.

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A current U.S. official and a former U.S. official both confirmed that the administration believes Netanyahu has limited time left in office. The current official said the expectation internally was that the Israeli PM would likely last a matter of months, or at least until the early fighting phase of Israel's military campaign in the Gaza Strip was over, though all four officials noted the sheer unpredictability of Israeli politics.

"There's going to have to be a reckoning within Israeli society about what happened," said the official who, like others, was granted anonymity to detail private conversations. "Ultimately, the buck stops on the prime minister's desk."

I really liked this article.

archive.today • The Israel-Hamas War Has Created a Divide Among American Chefs - The New York Times

A recent petition signed by nearly 900 food professionals calling for a cease-fire raises, once again, questions of contested cuisines.

But at times it's like The Onion. The unintended punchline is perfect.

“We have this romantic idea that if we eat the same food and break the same bread somehow we can come together, but that doesn’t seem to be the case here,” said Dr. Ariel, who is currently researching the origins of falafel.

Boeing (who makes jdams) employs 120k people, so each employee is responsible for around 0.03 dead gazan child, and round 3 yemenis (but raytheon also guilty there).

Al Jazeera said the Israeli strike in Jabaliya killed 19 family members of one of its video engineers, Mohamed Abu Al-Qumsan. Al-Qumsan’s father, two sisters, brother, two sisters-in-law, uncle and 12 nieces and nephews were killed in what the media outlet condemned as “heinous and indiscriminate Israeli bombing.”

Last week, the wife, son, daughter and infant grandson of Al Jazeera’s Gaza bureau chief were slain in an Israeli strike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, where they had been sheltering.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/31/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/df6d63d1-afa3-5bc1-9851-032e8c55195d?smid=url-share

https://streamable.com/af9936 ~~(untranslated)~~

BREAKING: Spokesperson of the Yemeni Armed Forces: Armed forces of our country, with the help of Almighty God, fired a large number of ballistic missiles and drones at the targets of the enemy in occupied Palestine. This is our third operation.

EDIT: This attack was on Eilat

Based on our sense of religious, moral, humanitarian, and national responsibility and in response to the demands of our Yemeni people and the demands of the free nations, and in aid to our oppressed people in Gaza, it was imperative for the Yemeni Armed Forces to act with reliance on God in support of the historic plight of our dear Palestinian people.

Our armed forces have launched a large batch of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and a significant number of drones targeting various "israeli" enemy positions in the occupied lands.

The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm that this operation is the third one in support of our oppressed brothers in Palestine.

The Yemeni Armed Forces confirm that they will continue to execute more qualitative strikes with missiles and drones until the "israeli" aggression stops.

We affirm that the stance of our Yemeni people towards the Palestinian cause is firm and principled, and that the Palestinian people have the full right to defend themselves and attain their complete legitimate rights.

What destabilizes the region and expands the scope of the conflict is the continued existence of the zionist enemy committing crimes and massacres against the people of the Gaza Strip and all of occupied Palestine.

It becomes increasingly frustrating to read any Western press on the topic of China. They always create imaginary internal fighting like they did with Hu Jintao and now Li Keqiang, obsess over China's economy struggling because of real estate, and hype up the number of Chinese migrants illegally crossing into the US. It's all tied up nicely with a quote from places like Freedom House.

I'm not against criticism of China. I just wish I could actually see it without obvious Western fabrications.

Al Shifa hospital has run out of power

https://nitter.net/Hind_Gaza/status/1720519641481572695#m

"Wasseem Hassen Ayash from Rafat was found after 2 days of being lost, He is special needs, the occupation army has gave him up a while ago and was delivered to Alqalilya hospital, signs of torture were found on his body"

I, news mega poster, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with blood.

Anyone post this yet? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/us/politics/us-israel-hostages.html

American boots on the ground.

Death to America.

🇾🇪 Member of the Supreme Political Council in Yemen, Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi to RT:
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::: spoiler The entire Yemeni people are engaged in the confrontation against the usurping entity, not just Ansarallah. The operations of the Yemeni armed forces against the usurping entity will continue if it persists in killing the people of Gaza and besieging them.

We are directing all our weapons to confront this arrogant aggression that believes in no one, accepts no one, and cannot give anyone anything.

Our armed forces have a complete preparation specifically for Palestine and confronting the Jews, and the weapons we use can reach the usurping enemy entity, whether they are ballistic missiles or drones.

We are in complete and ongoing coordination within the framework of the Axis of Jihad and Resistance, and there is an ongoing room for coordination and setting targets.

We call on Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, and all Arab regimes to mobilize their armies as they are not less efficient or capable than us, and there is no excuse for them not to participate in the defense of the people of Palestine.

We call on Russian President Putin to play a contributing role, as the battle is one and the same, and he said that he is fighting in Ukraine against those who stand with the usurping entity in Gaza.

We cannot reveal all our cards, but all options are on the table and are subject to assessment by the operational side of the Ministry of Defense.

We have no concern about the arrival of American aircraft carriers in the Red Sea, as they are within the range of our missiles, and they do not offer more than what is already present with the countries of the aggression coalition against our country.

We salute the fighting brothers in Gaza and say to them continue, and we are with you, and the Arab peoples and everyone are with you.

America has spent its entire history, nearly 280 years, launching and waging continuous wars with the exception of 18 years. America is the one seeking to expand the war, not us, for it is the one that incites wars and continuously works on killing and exterminating peoples and uses the killing of civilians as a weapon for victory.

The Americans are the terrorists, whereas we have the right to defend our homelands, to free ourselves from the American grip, and to exercise full independence over all our territories.

We as Arabs, must constantly move as the Africans did this year, who rose up against the French and the colonizers.

Gaza has demolished what remained of American claims about preserving human rights. They cannot be guardians of international law as they are its violators.

We call on the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to direct its weapons, planes, armies, and mercenaries to defend Palestine and the sons of Gaza. We say to the Saudi regime: If you head to those areas in occupied Palestine to fight the entity, you will not need to repeat the cycle in Yemen, and we are ready to hand over Sanaa to you to live with us there, as there will be no harm between us when the compass points in the right direction of enmity towards the occupying entity. Let King Salman bin Abdulaziz, his Crown Prince, and the Minister of Defense come forward to wage war in Palestine against the entity, for it would be an honor for them that removes the disgrace they incurred from their aggression against Yemen

Dope-ass poster dropped

Imagining a scenario where as a half measure Israel is forced out of the West Bank and suddenly 600,000 fanatic settlers have to move into Israel proper. They'll instantly become hostile to the Israeli state and we'll get news about the IDF doing another crazy Waco incident every 5 days until the state collapses or the settlers nuke Iran.

Let them bomb there.

President Obama to appear on upcoming Pod Save America episode

Nitter

“Onwards, soldiers. You have nothing to fear; the Red Army is the strongest!” ----- Makoto Naegi, Doom Messiah

We need to get some sort of dramatic countdown to the Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah speech tomorrow. I promised myself to never get hyped for speeches again after Putin constantly trolling us, but now I have Al Mayadeen TV blasting on full volume in my living room ahead of tomorrow

Israel harassing West Bank residents ahead of Blinken arrival

Zein Basravi reporting from Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank.

This is a noticeably busier evening on the Israeli military front in terms of these ongoing operations in the occupied West Bank.

These sorts of constant, consistent harassing, keeping the occupied West Bank and the residents in these communities on edge.

These operations seem to be happening at a higher frequency in the lead-up to the US secretary of state’s visit which should be happening at about 11:00am local time [09:00 GMT on Sunday]. In just a matter of hours, he’ll be coming here.

Blinken is meant to be meeting with the Palestinian Authority President Abbas. No doubt the primary focus of those conversations will be trying to bring about a ceasefire to stop the violence happening in Gaza.

But in parallel, what’s been happening in the occupied West Bank, illegal occupation, settlers attacking Palestinian communities consistently, these ongoing nightly raids by the military, the problem of Israel continuing to slowly digest the occupied West Bank, these will all be issues that no doubt Mahmoud Abbas will raise with the US secretary of state.

But to what end is still an open question.

No level of diplomacy seems to be leading to any solutions or to a halt in the ongoing violence in Palestinian communities, not just in Gaza, but here in the occupied West Bank as well.

-Al Jazeera

France having a very normal one

A new bill in the French senate to outlaw anti-Zionism is absolutely unreal senat.fr/leg/ppl23-021.html

Basically the proposal is that insulting Israel in France would be punishable "by two years of imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros" and "inciting hatred or violence" against Israel would land you 5 years in prison and give rise to a fine of 100,000 euros.

Here is how the bill reads:

"Bill Proposal to Complete the Penal Framework Sanctioning Anti-Zionism

Article 25 of the law of July 29, 1881, on the freedom of the press is restated as follows: 'Art. 25. - Those who, by one of the means stated in Article 23, have denied the right of the State of Israel to exist will be punished by one year of imprisonment and a fine of 45,000 euros.

'An insult committed against the State of Israel, by one of the means stated in the same Article 23, is punishable by two years of imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

'Those who, by the same means, have directly incited hatred or violence against the State of Israel will be punished by five years of imprisonment and a fine of 100,000 euros.'"

Humanitarian Aid is a lie.

https://twitter.com/ramiaalibrahim/status/1719594986273153092?t=IS6FPm9QN1D-h_N6eZ2sSQ&s=19

Adult In The Room here.

UAW scores major victory against GM. 30% total wage increase (25% flat increase + cost-of-living adjustments). 3 years to top pay. This is significant!

Thank you President Biden, and Congratulations on your 2024 victory!

Al-Houthi: We say to the Saudi regime:

If you head to those areas in occupied #Palestine to fight the entity, you will not need to repeat the same thing in #Yemen, and we are ready to hand over Sana’a to you so that you can live with us. There will be no harm between us and you when the compass points in the right direction of hostility to the usurping entity.

Is this significant? I'm not that familiar with regional issues and conflicts between these two.

Evil lying fuckers.

In the face of detailed and urgent warnings of catastrophic conditions for civilians in Gaza, an Israeli agency said there was “currently no humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.” The statement from COGAT a part of Israel’s defense ministry, said that the agency was monitoring the supply of water, food, fuel and energy in Gaza and asserted that “the situation is far from crisis.”

The assertion stands in sharp contrast to reports from the United Nations, international aid organizations, accounts from within Gaza and photographs and video documenting dire shortages.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/31/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/d2a66ee8-35e9-549c-9645-a2cb01099f00?smid=url-share

how about we, hexbear, turn the tables and draft a strongly worded letter to Mr. Hezbollah himself?

older extremely cursed video: White South Africans Convert & Move to Israel to Continue Apartheid