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“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world that is safe,” Biden says at the White House Hanukkah party as he reaffirms support for Israel against its war against Hamas.

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absolutely incredible thing to say as the President of a country not named Israel

3 days into the presidency of anarcho capitalist Javier Milei, he has announced that he's re-introducing income tax for normal workers.

The tax had been abolished just months ago by the previous centre left government.

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libertarians are so cool

if ever there was a time for the word """progressive""" to be buried in a nondescript ditch

Real comrades hold hands

🇨🇳 🇻🇳

lol lmao

Being in Taiwan has made me just stop using Reddit altogether. Hard to use that site and see Sinophobic bullshit on anything featuring Asian people. The amount of salivating over a war with China over Taiwan is disturbing too. The people posting that garbage disgust me with how they're willing to sacrifice millions of Taiwanese trying to live a life like they do.

This megathread gives me better updates on global events from a leftist perspective than anywhere else I've looked with conversations surrounding those events being more informative than anywhere else on Reddit.

It seems like the China Vietnam meeting went well.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/china-vietnam-agree-build-shared-future-37-deals-3983801

Anyone have the edit of them holding hands, I forgot to save it.

Oops. Joe Biden mixes up Chinese leaders, refers to Deng Xiaoping instead of Xi Jinping

“I’ve said this to Deng Xiaoping in the Himalayas, and I’ve said this to every world leader: It’s never, never, never been a good bet to bet against the American people,” Biden said.

Also corrected in the White House transcript was a mistaken reference to former South Korean president Moon Jae-in instead of his successor Yoon Suk-yeol.

Joe Bideng

Your average German antifascist Magazine:

Dear readers,
One wall, two posters: In Hamburg, unknown people at Rote Flora changed the clear statement against Hamas into a statement of solidarity with Palestinians. It should no longer be written on the wall that the killing of Jewish people in Israel and around the world is not a liberation struggle. Anti-imperialist movements have been criticized for years for uncritical solidarity. The occupied cultural center in the Schanzenviertel has not changed its position. “Free the world from Hamas” is now hanging there. This demand reflects that Hamas is an Islamist terrorist organization. On October 7th of this year, the Islamists, who have controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007, confirmed that they were, above all, carrying out terrorism by targeting civilians, murdering the defenseless, executing babies and children, raping women and displaying the dead. That day, Hamas hoped to murder as many Jewish people as possible. They killed people true to their fundamentalist Islamism. On that one On that day, Hamas didn't just take over 250 people hostage by kidnapping them from Israel. They also took hostage the approximately two million people in Gaza, who serve as human shields alive and as propaganda material when dead. Propaganda and contempt also seems to come from parts of the Israeli government post October 7th that articulated scenarios, such as the relocation of all Gazans to the Sinai or the use of nuclear weapons.

With all justified compassion for the civilians in Gaza: If you are a leftist, you do not demonstrate with reactionaries, if you are a feminist, you do not show solidarity with the rapists and murderers of Hamas who are close to the Iranian regime. If you are an anti-fascist, you stand with the Jews and against anti-Semitism, especially in Germany. Any secret joy for the organization driven by religious fanaticism is no less an anti-Semitic reaction. The criticism of parts of the migrant communities and the left-wing solidarity spectrum because of anti-Israel positions and/or anti-Semitic sentiments is not new. It has been expressed for years and often comes from the respective milieu. In the current discourse, some politicians and journalists are now taking a harsh tone against migrants and “the” left. And they suggest that the entire migrant left and all migrants living here stand in unison against Israel. A generalization that also applies to other leftists. The fact that the German section of Fridays for Future is quickly drowned out when it spoke out clearly against one-sided “Free Gaza” solidarity. It is even more quickly drowned out that anti-Semitism is not just virulent in majority society, but omnipresent. But let's not talk about the Aiwangers and Walsers of this society. Let us also not remind you that the German fraternity decided to exclude Jews at the Würzburg Burschentag in 1822. Let's better forget that "Death (...) is a master from Germany". Anti-Semites are always the others - especially the strangers, the immigrants.

Your editorial team
MAGAZINE #derrechterand 205/2023 3

Just got this in the mail and immediately cancelled my subscription.
Like literally reproducing every Israeli propaganda talking point that has been debunked already and calling yourself leftists, all the while scolding every actual leftist that is not a Israeli lapdog. Infuriating.

German original

The cover - it translates to "Against all antisemitism - without question!"

“Stop murdering thousands of children,” said the evil, crazy Nazi.

“It’s bad to murder children,” the monster added. “Children should not be slaughtered at mass scale with powerful military explosives, they should be allowed to remain alive and happy and healthy.”

What would lead someone to say something so hateful and depraved? What disgusting conspiratorial anti-semitic online rabbit holes must this freak have slithered down in his path toward radicalization to say something so profoundly evil? One can only guess.

“We should not incinerate children and blow their guts out of their bodies with bombs,” the world’s worst person continued. “Zero children should die by incineration, and their guts belong on the inside of their bodies.”

I’m just as shocked and dismayed as you are. I thought we were beyond this. I thought we as a civilization had left this kind of genocidal rhetoric behind us with the end of Nazi Germany. But, apparently, Adolf Hitler still lives on.

This fiendish enemy of all things good and righteous went on to say that all Palestinians are human beings just like everyone else, and they should accordingly be given human rights instead of exterminated like insects with some of the most sophisticated weaponry ever devised.

“I just don’t think someone having a certain ethnicity makes it acceptable to butcher them in massive numbers with modern war machinery and drive them off the land they wish to live on,” said the ghoul, adding, “I kind of think we ought to treat others how we ourselves would wish to be treated.”

Now, I’m as liberal as the next person and I absolutely support free speech, but this kind of repugnant blood libel is exactly why we need to be having some serious conversations about how far the right to free speech ought to go. We can’t have deranged fascists running around our society fomenting genocidal violence by spouting extremist rhetoric like “Don’t drop bombs on babies” and “It’s wrong to intentionally assassinate journalists.”

It makes me feel unsafe when people say such things, because I do not agree with the things they are saying. And, as we all know, the universe revolves around me and how my feelings feel. I therefore fear we have reached an unfortunate juncture in our society where we’ve no choice but to censor the internet, prohibit pro-Palestine demonstrations, ban TikTok, and make it illegal to be a Zoomer. The only alternative is to allow horrifying radicalization like what we just witnessed here to continue.

Caitlin Johnstone on twitter

JUST IN - Shipping giant Maersk pauses all voyages through the Red Sea despite two American aircraft carrier groups in the region.

MORE - Attacks from Houthi-controlled Yemen struck two ships in the Bab al-Mandab Strait today.

UPDATE - Hapag-Lloyd pauses all Red Sea transits.

Eilat port director said that Yemen's threat of Israeli-bound ships had "disrupted 80-85% of the port’s profits"

Channel 13: "Changing the sea navigation route will raise prices of imported products by an est. 3%, which would increase cost on Israelis by about 3 billion dollars”

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this isn't something that's very visible, but it's huge. slowly suffocating the Zionist entity the longer this goes on.

This kid, Jad Abu Hamda, was expelled from his school because of his Mom's posts on social media about Palestine. What the hell are we doing here.

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Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza :

"If not for Iran’s support, we would not have our missile capabilities. Arab countries have deserted us in our difficult moments, while Iran has supported us with weapons, equipment and expertise."

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Austerity is coming to your 🇪🇺 country in 2024:

This is the beginning of the end of EU and eurozone.

woah, who could've done this?

babies were killed “execution-style” by Israeli forces while sheltering in an UNWRA school

blurred video at https://nitter.net/bookdellector/status/1734887088976207948

Do you think the NYT writers ever think about whether they're the good guys?

It is a good time for reminder that the Revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran has been consistently the most principled supporter of Palestinians and has always rejected normalization with the zionist entity and has always held the correct principled position that the United States is the source of all imperialist violence today and must be forcibly removed from hegemonic power.

The Iranians have paid dearly for this correct and uncompromising position, including the millions who died as a consequence of Saddam Hussein's aggression in the 1980's. Saddam's Baathist government was backed by both the USSR and the US in this endeavor to destroy the revolution remember. They have lost many lives due to crushing sanctions. And yet they have not wavered. Aid to the resistance in Palestine is part of their annual national budget and written into the constitution.

Many many people from Talal Naji the Secretary General of PFLP-GC to Palestinian martyr Nizar Banat to Secretary General of Kataib Hezbollah in Iraq Seyyed Hashim al Haidari have emphasized this point that to be an enemy of Iran is to be an enemy of Palestine.

Those rockets and UAV killing American occupiers in Iraq? Iran helped design and manufacture those.

The drones striking the cancerous entity from Yemen? Iran helped design those and transferred manufacturing technologies.

The tunnels in Gaza that the Resistance is using to deliver "new flavors of death" to the occupiers? Hajj Qassem Soleimani helped design those.

The guns in the West Bank wielded by Palestinian heroes in defense of their homeland? Iran paid for those.

The 100,000 precision missiles in Hezbollah arsenal that has the occupiers and the Americans shitting themselves in fear? You already know...

Palestine is not alone, it has never been alone, and the only people saying that it is alone are irrelevant defeatists and anti-Iran and anti-Resistance.

Most honorable battle in history !

Congress approves bill barring any president from unilaterally withdrawing from NATO

lol

Erdogan seeing Ukraine and fucking Moldova getting into the EU before Turkey while being in a worse position than Turkey economically and diplomatically.

Yemeni media outlets:

In the Red Sea: one ship was forced to change its course toward the Yemeni coast, and another one that did not abide to warnings was targeted

The captured vessel is an oil tanker and it was led to the Yemeni coast

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I would simply have not tried to go through an area where I was explicitly told I'd be targeted. that's just me though.

IOF soldier steals makeup from Gaza and gives it to his wife on Facebook. Commenter tells her to delete the post to not tarnish the IOF reputation (lol).

(I have to mention but WHO steals fucking makeup that is probably used. Insanity.)

A sitting Ukranian MP threw three grenades killing one and injuring 26 at a village hall because they wouldn't give him the floor.

https://en.apa.az/media/one-killed-another-26-injured-as-mp-detonates-a-grenade-at-a-meeting-in-ukraine-video-419601

RED ALERT: Buried in the House intelligence committee’s Section 702 “reform” bill, which is schedule for a floor vote as soon as tomorrow, is the biggest expansion of surveillance inside the United States since the Patriot Act.

This thread is about the forced conscription of a Gazan civilian to act as a suicide bomber on behalf of the IDF. I edited it to improve the layout.

Thread by @MouinRabbani on Thread Reader App

THREAD: The following translation of a witness statement from the Gaza Strip was produced by a volunteer with the Palestinian Journalist Syndicate. It is provided here because it is an account that according to the translator "we find to be highly credible". I am not in a position to verify it, but would suggest that doing so is an urgent task for those who claim to oppose human shields and suicide bombings, and demonstrate they are acting in support of a principle rather than of a state.

Translation [Brackets indicate the translator's clarifications, I have made no corrections]

Prior to our apprehension within Majda Wasila School, located near Palestine Mosque in the western sector of Gaza City. [When this incident occurred, the civilian was in Majda Wasila School along with his family members and others, near Palestine Mosque in the western part of Gaza City.] I was approached by an [Israeli] officer who asked my name, occupation, and age.

He also sought information regarding my relatives and family. He then directed me to accompany him. When I asked about our destination, he said: "I am going to present you to your Lord akin to a bride." Clarifying if he meant a groom, he elucidated, "a bride adorned in white attire and makeup."

[In this dialogue, the Israeli soldier is making light of the possibility of killing the civilian.] I was escorted to a location next to a tunnel that belongs to the resistance. There, the Israeli officer outfitted me with a belt containing explosives and a GoPro camera affixed to my head. He secured a rope around my waist, with the directive, "When I tug the rope, you are to return to me." I was held at gunpoint near the tunnel entrance and threatened with harm against my family.

While I was resisting compliance with his commands, he suddenly thrust me into the tunnel opening, where I landed and remained for approximately 3 minutes. Then he started yelling [at me to move] and fired shots to force me to move forward in the tunnel. I walked a distance of about 40 meters. He then pulled me from the tunnel using the rope, and said: "your Lord still does not desire your presence."

I was handed over to the soldiers, who received instructions to find another individual of younger age. When I got back outside the tunnel, I discovered my family members still near the tunnel, and a child (15 years old) was taken from the group. Fortunately, he returned unharmed, and I saw him upon my release from detention.

The [Israeli military's] objective underlying these actions is to avoid entering the tunnel. If the camera affixed to my head had detected the presence of resistance fighters within the tunnel, [the Israeli officer] would have detonated [the explosives on my belt], killing me and others. Further details will come out in the coming days.

End of Translation.

An Israeli acquaintance adds: What is described here is not "use of human shields", but rather a much more severe crime: forced conscription of a civilian to act as a suicide bomber on behalf of the IDF.

That being said, there is ample evidence that the IDF is also using human shields in recent weeks, both in Gaza and in the West Bank (including one instance in which after using a Palestinian as a human shield the IDF apparently attempted to execute him: at the time reports indicated he survived the shooting).

I would also note that in [Operation] Cast Lead [in 2008-2009] there was a somewhat similar case, which in Israel is dubbed the "Child Procedure" incident, in which a 9-year-old Palestinian child was forced to open bags which the IDF suspected were wired to explode. "Child Procedure" is a paraphrase of "Neighbor Procedure", the IDF-speak for using Palestinians as human shields (a practice notably used by newly popular "leftist" Yair Golan, who called it "very humane".

It is widely assumed Golan will lead the leftist-Zionist camp in the upcoming elections).

End of comment by acquaintance and END OF THREAD

Maersk has announced that it is temporarily suspending flights to Israel due to the threat of attacks from Houthi drones and anti-ship missiles. The United States and Israel cannot do anything about the fact that the Houthis are actually increasing the naval blockade of Israel from the Red Sea and causing huge losses to the Israeli economy.

My son was crying. I asked what was wrong. He told me he heard about the referendum today and he was sad because he didnt want Biden to ever stop being president. I told him the referendum is about the chilean constitution and he immediately cheered up. He just turned 38.

Shipping firm pauses Red Sea journeys over attacks - BBC

Danish shipping company Maersk has said it is pausing all journeys through the Red Sea.

The decision comes after a spate of attacks on vessels launched from a part of Yemen controlled by the Houthis - an Iran-backed rebel movement.

The group has declared their support for Hamas and say they are targeting ships travelling to Israel.

The Red Sea is one the world's most important routes for oil and fuel shipments.

"The recent attacks on commercial vessels in the area are alarming and pose a significant threat to the safety and security of seafarers," Maersk, one of the world's biggest shipping companies, said in a statement sent to the BBC.

"Following the near-miss incident involving Maersk Gibraltar yesterday and yet another attack on a container vessel today, we have instructed all Maersk vessels in the area bound to pass through the Bab al-Mandab Strait to pause their journey until further notice," it added.

Wikipedia:

In the 2022 Forbes Global 2000, Møller-Maersk was ranked as the 161st largest public company in the world. Maersk is one of the largest shipping companies in the world and is the largest by fleet capacity, with 18% of worldwide fleet capacity.

God Bless Yemen.

Follow up from the post 3 days ago

"New footage surfaced showing Israeli soldiers in Gaza using Palestinian civilians as human shields to advance into built-up areas. ◾️Several survivors stated that they were used by the Israeli army as human shields to advance into areas in Jabalia."

The monstrous zionist occupation soldiers are singing songs during it too...

~~The Houthis~~ Ansarallah is intentionally luring an international fleet of genocide supporters to the Gulf of Aden where they will be hit with a deluge of TOR🅱️EDOs.

An official Ukrainian account has once against posted a soldier with a Nazi symbol on the middle of his chest

https://nitter.net/NateB_Panic/status/1735689449978118273#m

The maternal mortality rate in the US for ages 25-34 is 30.4 deaths per 100,000 births. This is significantly higher than it was for the fucking Silent Generation, which had a MMR of 21 in that age range. For boomers and Xers it was 7.5 and 9.2 respectively.

According to the CDC the overall maternal mortality rate was 32.9 in 2022, a massive jump from 23.8 in '21. It probably, sadly, wouldn't surprise anyone here to learn that the mortality rate for Black mothers is much higher than the national average in this racist country, but the magnitude shocked and horrified me: it's 69.9, more than twice the national average.

Just another symptom of a failing country. Fucking sickening. With Dobbs, it is very hard to believe this will improve any time soon.

Casualties fell as a result of friendly fire on October 7, but the IDF believes that beyond the operational investigations of the events, it would not be morally sound to investigate these incidents due to the immense and complex quantity of them that took place in the kibbutzim and southern Israeli communities due to the challenging situations the soldiers were in at the time.

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkjqoobip

lmao

Jarring admission from mayor of Montréal suburb. At event with Israel consul yesterday, Hampstead mayor Jeremy Levi told me he would continue supporting Israel even if they killed 100 000 Palestinian children in Gaza since “good needs to prevail over evil”

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superhero movies have really done a number on the westoid brain

Hostages killed by mistake were waving white flags
An initial investigation into the incident in which three hostages were mistakenly killed by the Israeli army in Gaza were holding up a white flag, a military official said on Saturday. The incident occurred in an area of intense fighting where Hamas militants operated in civilian clothing and used deception tactics, the official said. The hostages were shot at in violation of Israeli rules of engagement, the official added.

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An Extension of Nazism: How Did Zionism Collaborate With Hitler to Establish ‘Israel’?

"Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of the relationship between Nazism and Zionism is the disconnect between Zionism and the Holocaust during World War II. Zionism was not interested in the massacres of Jews and rescuing them as much as it was in the facilitating the emigration of Jews to Palestine. And those Jews who did not emigrate to Palestine before the establishment of the “state” in 1948 were not a matter of concern for Zionism, whose conviction was limited to the fact that the solution to the Jewish question was solely related to the establishment of a state, and that anything else was irrelevant.

This is confirmed by Egon Redlich in his diaries, Memoirs of a Zionist: The Terezin Diary of Gonda Redlich in which he confirms the sacrifice of tens of thousands of Jews who were eliminated and sent to their deaths through deals that Redlich himself felt ashamed of, in exchange for false promises. He wrote: “The Zionist movement in Czechoslovakia sent thousands of Jews to Nazi extermination camps in exchange for Nazi promises to send a few dozen or hundreds of Zionist leaders and financial figures to Palestine.”

Abdul Wahab Al-Masiri, author of the eight-volume Encyclopedia of Jews, Judaism and Zionism, mentions that Adolf Eichmann succeeded in his mission thanks to the cooperation of the Hungarian Jew Rudolf Kastner, who convinced members of the Jewish community in Hungary that the Nazis would relocate them to new places where they would settle, or to vocational training camps for rehabilitation, and not to the concentration camps which were their true destination.

In exchange for this, the Nazi authorities in 1941 allowed over 1,700 Jews from a concentration camp to be sent to Palestine, “Jews of the best biological material,” according to Eichmann."

Pentagon Taps “Tiger Team” to Rush Weapons to Israel: In its effort to speed up arms sales to Israel, the Biden administration dismissed concerns about harm to civilians in Gaza.

“This shows that at all levels of government, from policy to implementation, the Biden Administration is doing all it can to rush arms to Israel despite President Biden’s recent explicit statement that Israel’s bombing of Gaza is ‘indiscriminate,’ and despite extensive reporting that the arms we are providing are causing massive civilian casualties,” said Paul, who resigned from the State Department in protest of the Biden administration’s ongoing weapons assistance to Israel. “This will not be a proud moment for the Biden Administration, the State Department – or for DSCA.”

despite all the bullshit "oh Biden is starting to turn against them", Biden is speeding up weapons shipments to Isntreal

uhh

Breaking non-surprising news - the IDF is evil and they use Gazans as human shields. But CNN doesn't want to use "human shields" so they say: "Israeli soldiers had taken cover behind the detainees."

Doctor says Gaza hospital staff and patients subject to harsh treatment by IDF

A doctor at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza told CNN on Wednesday that he and dozens of staff were taken from the premises by Israeli soldiers to a military screening center nearby.

The doctor, who declined to be named out of fear for his safety, said in a telephone interview that men at the hospital had complied with an order from the Israel military on Tuesday to form a line outside the hospital.

They were then led about 500 meters away to a what he called a "filtration military camp" in Al-Birawi area on the outskirts of Beit Lahiya.

At that location, he told CNN, they were ordered to remove their clothes and were given blue overalls. They were handcuffed and sorted into groups based on their perceived threat level, the doctor claimed.

He claimed the detainees were physically and verbally abused while handcuffed. At one point, the doctor said, when clashes broke out, Israeli soldiers had taken cover behind the detainees.

The doctor’s claims cannot be verified. CNN has asked the Israel Defense Forces for comment on how staff, patients and others at Kamal Adwan were processed after leaving the hospital.

The doctor said that after several hours, the detainees — numbering about 1,000 people —were released and instructed to head toward specific areas in southern Gaza.

Gunfire injured several of the group, he said, as they walked south.

“The IDF continues to act against Hamas strongholds in the north of Gaza, among them the area of Beit Lahia. The IDF takes all feasible precautions to mitigate harm to noncombatants, and is fighting against the Hamas terrorist organization, and not the civilians in Gaza or the medical teams operating there. This while following international law," the IDF said in a statement.

CNN received the same response from the IDF regarding several and separate instances about their operations in Gaza.

Ukraine needs new troops so badly it is taking people's passports and tried to recruit a mentally disabled man

https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-needs-troops-aggressive-military-recruiting-tactics-russia-war-2023-12

yes, that's the actual headline

Pretty insane that Biden's approval rating right now is lower than Trump's. He's almost lower than Trump was at any point during his presidency