Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.
The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.
Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.
I don't know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
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 Telegram Channels:
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.
I wonder what it's like to be a Zionist. Are they happy? Is morale at an all-time high? Are they confident that the genocide will be complete and Israel's ultimate perfect victory is assured? Is Israel doing everything they want them to do and just racking up W after W, while the Resistance is too scared to respond? Have any of them died from being overloaded by constant ecstasy? Or is all of this just a matter of perspective?
My inlaws are not happy people this last year. I hate to play armchair psychologist or whatever but it's like their relationship with the place is really brittle and disordered. Amber Frost had a quote somewhat recently about "joy" vs "glee". Times like these do not evoke joy, they evoke glee. Then they'll see an article that offers token criticism of civilian losses and despair like the cattle cars are coming.
I really don't like a lot of the rhetoric about cultural or racial intergenerational trauma... I think it stretches concepts like family systems and epigenetics to the limit of believability. It also poisoned by the dominant narrative. Zionists are often forgiven for being overly reactive because of intergenerational trauma, but somehow this is not applicable to Russians, for example. And really, all of us living are descended almost entirely from slaves and peasants. Even the oligarchy.
The "intergenerational trauma" in this case stretches back further than WWII into what basically constitutes ancient mythology. It is an evolved system to reconstitute and consolidate power within that system. The cultural narrative there is intentionally traumatizing, as such that there is a particular disordered response to these matters. It parallels a lot of the defense mechanisms you see in personality disordered people. Black/white thinking, shame vs guilt, extreme measures to avoid shame.
You make a good point about intergenerational trauma. It's also obviously weaponised by zionazis
Ask a Zionist how they feel about the intergenerational trauma of black Americans and whether they deserve reparations, and you will quickly find out how cynically they use the idea of intergenerational trauma.
Amber.
Did your inlaws move back to wherever they're actually from (I'm not going to assume they're American or Canadian) when the genocide/ war started?
If they haven't already left the project, convince them to. You never know when you can no longer leave.
They live in the US. They're more CNN brained than anything but they follow shit a lot that way and get really emotional about it
Yeah try to keep them in the states then. Sucks that they feel this way but that's what happens to settler states in the end.
Have you tried getting them to focus on something else? Maybe a little mental distraction?
Seems like they’re mostly running to bomb shelters, even if the government is frothing at the mouth to bomb Lebanon, I don’t think the everyday citizen is enjoying it. With nasrallah, there may be some momentary glee, as the other poster said, but it will be washed away
Secular zionists or religious zionists? That makes alot of difference, the religious zionists are one huge provocation away from trying to build the third temple. (Which ironically is actually herod's temple I think but whatever)
Both would be unhappy I assume? Regardless of their faith, or lack thereof, the whole situation has gone to shit with no end in sight.
Constantly rushing to bomb shelters, the threat of the draft, ass-economy among a plethora of other things is going to make anyone unhappy.
The real question is: is there a demographic divide between those that want to continue the "war" and those that just want a return to the status quo.
I think the younger population wants the war to continue while the older population would like a return to the status quo. I'm basing this off of the fact that years prior, netanyahu was more popular among younger Zionists living in the entity than older ones.
I could be wrong tho
https://m.jpost.com/israel-news/article-820185
As I suspected, the main increase is from France and this is before Le Pen winning and instigating race riots
But overall people coming in fell.
Plus this doesn't actually look at who supports the war.