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.
Israel is shelling southern Lebanon again
Hezbollah needs to be demoted to virgin cuck status on the tier list if they just let Israel bomb them and Syria without a comprehensive response.
Shit is really bad in Lebanon and has been for years. The country has, afaik, no liquidity at all. You can't run tanks on righteousness.
I didn’t mention it supposedly there might be a few fighters crossing the border and this is in response to that but we got hyped over nothing last time
Lebanon has no money. There have been armed standoffs at banks when people try to withdraw funds and the banks refuse.
Palestinians had no money and they fucked up Israel’s shit. Do something Hezbollah or you have no purpose
Hezbollah is probably doing a Sein Fein -ish transition into the mainstream politics. I doubt that they want to destroy their years of effort by tanking Lebanon's current situation.
Again, Palestinians are just an uncomfortable legacy of the cold war that everyone wants to get rid of but everyone feels shitty when it is not done in a clean way and preferably behind the curtain.
Hey many in some years, people around the world would cry about the Palestinian cause when it is over and printed in a history books (you know, like with the Native Americans). The Liberals of the Knesset can do land acknowledgement in the united Israel territory because at the end of the day it is hard to support the victims in the current situation but easy to write an anthropology paper on them (maybe you can find some living subjects of the study in some camps in the Sinai)
Since the Lebanon war of 2006, the Hezbollah won a lot of political points by taking over as a competent political entity that runs social programs, infrastructure and defense (this is largely due to the fact that the Lebanon's mainstream governmental body collapsed). It is also the fact why they kind of start tilting more and more into nationalistic rhetorics instead of the islamic rhetorics. I remember during the israeli-lebanese war, some article in a newspaper mentionned that there are even Christian elements (adjacent nor part of) that works with Hezbollah in the resistance.
There is a book that explains it (in french) Le Hezbollah Mobilisation et pouvoir-Aurélie Daher.
the TLDR is that Hezbollah is not just paramilitary. it basically explains how the guerrilla approach of the organizations makes them blend into the social life of Lebanese people even when they don't have a seat in the parliament (they do but it is a proxy). The author even made parallels to the fact that some of the mobilization and organizational tactics resembles Maoist organizations (ofc not the ideological part)
If Hezbollah lets Israel complete their genocide they will never be a “legitimate power” they will be a disgrace and will lose all legitimacy. You don’t understand how the Arab world works