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.
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.
Last week's discussion post.
So Hamas has been planning this operation for years while Israel is totally surprised, unprepared, and reacting with predictable blind and senseless rage.
Hamas have been planning this long enough and they know Israel well enough to know how they would react.
Just like how the reaction of the US to 9/11 was exactly anticipated by bin Laden to “bring the far enemy close”, Hamas must be operating with a clear and planned concept of Israel’s genocidal reaction.
Meaning they must have some next step planned. But what?
I think they’ve got israel in some kind of zwugzwang or whatever you call that chess move cliche.
Israel choosing some genocidal collective retribution while not actually invading gaza seems to be the obvious reaction, and invading gaza seems the less likely but still plausible alternative. What happens after that and how does Hamas see it as playing into their hands?
“Delegitimization” seems unlikely since Israel doesn’t give a fuck if you think they’re legitimate so long as Uncle Sam and Germany are writing them blank checks. So Hamas must be anticipating some material change on the ground.
I don't think they expected to be so successful.
I think they intended to go out there, grab some IDF soldiers for hostages so they could negotiate. And that's that.
I don't think they expected to obliterate every single base in the whole region almost unopposed. I don't think they expected to embarrass Israel so much that this reaction is the outcome. I think they went out there expecting a significantly stronger enemy and what they ran into instead was a very weak one, poorly trained, undermanned, and not paying attention.
Now that things have gone this way the plan has changed, it's all or nothing, drag everyone in the region into a fight or the zionists win and no more contest for the land exists.
No I disagree with you, specifically about not expecting to take out bases.
They timed this very well. They waited for a moment when Bibi took away the large bulk of the troops temporarily for other duties which suggests some kind of intelligence.
They kept operational secrecy from close partners.
They stockpiled thousands, perhaps 10s of thousands of missiles.
I mean, im just some guy on this forum so obviously I don’t know but this all looks very thoroughly planned to me. The degree of operational secrecy and tactical surprise combined with exquisite timing, and it coincides with a moment of US geopolitical weakness. To me, this isn’t just some raid. I don’t think so. But I guess we see what happens next.