The further this escalates the more you're gonna see a lot of crazy shit from american christians. As someone who grew up in a very christian family I remember hearing a lot about end times prophecy and as a kid I got into the left behind series and I myself was convinced the rapture was gonna happen. What's happening now pushes a lot of these peoples buttons the fundies are already going ape shit over this convinced it means jesus is coming because a conflict involving Israel is supposedly when the tribulation begins.

I have to object to this item in the sidebar:

Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the death of Kissinger while he is still unfortunately alive, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society.

Raid is an Israeli game and should not be played by anyone

For years, elite colleges—and other influential institutions—have lent their prestige to once-radical concepts like decolonization, seeming to imagine that they could be kept separate from the gruesome histories out of which they emerged. Fanon, the intellectual godfather of “decolonial” thought, wasn’t so naïve. As the world becomes more dangerous again, the luxury of metaphorical radicalism may prove too costly to sustain.

"The violence which governed the ordering of the colonial world ... this same violence will be vindicated and appropriated when, taking history into their own hands, the colonized swarm into the forbidden cities..."

• Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.

"Middle class" radicals meet real world politics with actual consequences on the the ground = the complete collapse of their radicalism. Scratch a liberal and all that.

https://streamable.com/31plao

⚡️🇵🇸 the Israeli settler that Hamas resistance members released with her 2 kids saying she did not get harmed by them and saying that they took her to the borders and one of them gave her a sign with his hands in meaning that she and her kids can go and that’s when she understood that they were released,and then the resistances members walked back to Gaza,she also said that they gave her clothes to cover herself,then she kept walking her way on the borders and that’s when she saw another group of resistance members,she got scared and tried to hide but they saw her and her 2 kids and she was surprised that they kept walking their way to Gaza and didn’t do anything to her and then she kept walking until she arrived occupied cities.

Another video proves Israeli propaganda about the resistance hurting, killing ,r*pes women and children wrong .

Holy fucking shit - the homepage of the New York Times is in chef's kiss mode today. And I still have a couple articles to have a look at.

Don't miss the punchline at the very bottom.

archive.today • Opinion | I'm Going to War for Israel. Palestinians Are Not My Enemy. - The New York Times

In his first public statement since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, Russian President Vladimir Putin harshly criticized US foreign policy and blamed Washington for the crisis in Israel. “I think many will agree with me that this is a clear example of the failure of US policy in [West Asia],” Putin said during a Kremlin meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.

“[Washington] tried to monopolize regulating [the conflict] but was unfortunately unconcerned with finding compromises acceptable for both sides … It put forward ideas on how it should be done and pressured both sides. Each time, however, without taking into account the fundamental interests of the Palestinian people," he added.

Putin's words echo those of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who earlier this week met with Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit. "Apart from ending the fighting and solving the problem of numerous civilian casualties that are being recorded, there is also a need to pay special attention to the reasons why it has been impossible to resolve the Palestinian issue for decades," Lavrov said on Monday.

SEND 👏 THEM 👏 KINZHALS 👏 COWARD 👏

Regarding the Egyptian border crossing.

The Israeli occupation destroys the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian and Gaza borders, and all relief trucks return to Egypt as a result of the intensity of the Israeli bombing. “Two Egyptian workers were injured by shrapnel. “The only crossing linking Gaza in the world.”

The Gaza Ministry of Internal Affairs reported attacks on the Rafah checkpoint on the border with Egypt, and also stated that the Egyptian side asked to evacuate people from there. An Egyptian security source told German news agency DPA that the crossing point was closed until further notice.

The Rafah crossing opened in 2005 following the Palestinian-Israeli agreement. This is the only checkpoint between the Gaza Strip and the outside world, besides those on the border with Israel that are not operational.

Since Day 1 of the war, over dozens of Egyptian ambulances, filled with medical aid, doctors, and medics, have went to Gaza to provide emergency medical services to the Palestinian people, the intiative, by all accounts, is humanitarian and oriented towards the civilian population, obviously.

Israel threatening to bomb the trucks carrying nothing more than bandages, blood packets, antibiotics, and doctors, is a through and through war crime and this is taking place in front of the world.

It's important to note that some of these doctors are directly Army doctors from the Medical Corps and the Egyptian Red Crescent, alongside some volunteers, and they're all Egyptian citizens.

Whoever made that statement didn't think twice, they may have had a legal loophole when they bombed the Palestinian side of the crossing and the roads, but targeting the trucks will not do you any good.

The United States does not plan to send troops to Israel, White House spokesman John Kirby said. The first military aid has already been sent.

This news deserves posting separately to my catchup

https://t.me/kataebabuali/10407

Via its channel, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the paramilitary wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP, Palestinian Marxist-Leninists), confirmed that a Member of the General Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, official of the Prisoners’ Department, Awad Al-Sultan, and a number of his family members, were Killed by Israel Defense Forces

Boutta say "lenin go on hexbear" but I realized admins would have him banned immediately for sectarianism

A talking head - a former Obama guy - just said something like "Iran would love to bleed Israel dry in Northern Israel and in Gaza." Yeah, just like the US loves to do right now to Russia in Ukraine.

The news has a fucking scoreboard for casualties on their reporting, like it's the fuckin Superbowl or some shit. Disgustingly depraved country

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Palestinians flee from northern Gaza to the south after the Israeli army issued an unprecedented evacuation warning to a population of over 1 million people in northern Gaza and Gaza City to seek refuge in the south ahead of a possible Israeli ground invasion, Friday, Oct. 13, 2023.

Scenes of grief and desperation on war's 7th day | AP News

So far - the only American site I know covering Gaza that doesn't make me want to rend my garments and gouge out my eyes with a grapefruit spoon is AP News

Swear to god interacting with my fellow white South Africans on social media is going to turn me into some kind of John Brown figure, these people are so fucking racist man. Supporting Israeli apartheid. Just vile.

They're way too cowardly to state their opinions in real life too, because they know that supporting apartheid in South Africa is obviously an extremely unpopular position.

IOF says it launched Patriot anti-air missile by mistake

lmao do it again

We are gonna need a bigger Chad column this week

https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-war-live-updates#0000018b-2b02-d2c3-a9ff-7b1a816b0000

President Joe Biden said Friday that it’s a priority of his administration to address the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking at an event in Philadelphia to promote a $7 billion program to kickstart development and production of hydrogen fuel in the U.S., Biden paused to note the deteriorating situation for Palestinians as Israel continues to bombard the strip in retaliation for last weekend’s attacks on Israel.

Biden said he’s directed his team to work with the governments in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab nations and the United Nations to surge humanitarian relief to those impacted by the war.

“We can’t lose sight of the fact that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians had nothing to do Hamas,” Biden said. “And they’re suffering as a result as well.”

Biden again lashed out at Hamas, saying the militant group in control of Gaza makes the terrorist group Al-Qaida “look pure.”

r/worldnews thread about Israel's bullshit evacuation warning has mostly decent comments

I think Israel is going too far for the propaganda apparatus to whitewash for much longer. The Hamas attack was an easy win for Western media, but we're in a week where decades happen, they can only talk about this one incident for so many days before people have heard enough, and then all that's left will be Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing. If this is still going on a week from now, let alone two weeks, you won't be able to get as many people with "but muh terrorism" anymore, especially as the death toll grows ever more out of proportion. Reddit libs are already calling it "ethnic cleansing", Western media won't be able to keep this down much longer.

🚨 Gaza Government Media Office:

A new massacre committed by the occupation against three convoys of citizens in different locations on Salah Al-Din and Al-Rashid streets, who tried to reach the south of the Gaza valley as per the request of the occupation army.

This massacre has so far, in a preliminary toll, left 70 martyrs, most of them children and women, and more than 200 injured.

https://streamable.com/u8z1eg

One of the members of the attacked settlements made a plea for peace, not revenge. They lay the blame on Bibi. Good example of how the political situation is pretty mixed in Israel right now.

-Citizens of Israel, politicians, residents of Israel and abroad, I don't care who hears this, listen to me carefully. Those speaking of revenge, should be ashamed. Don't offer up 'soldiers' or 'protection'. Talk to me about a political solution.

-I know there is much anger towards Bibi, because I feel it. How many people must die for his ego and his personal interests? Our blood is on his hands. But it's not just him. If my words are heard by anyone, take a good look at yourselves, look deep inside, ask yourselves what your values are. Ask yourselves who it is you vote for. I know what I am demanding. I am demanding a just peace.

what does seem to be real is that Hamas in Gaza hit Haifa, 200 kilometers away and twice the distance to Tel Aviv, with a missile

NEW CITATIONS NEEDED NEWS BRIEF: GET WHILE IT'S HOT!

News Brief: US Media, Washington Rush Head First into 9/11 2.0

Hamas statement on the targeting of journalists

hamas is like dumbledores army and israel is like death eaters. thank you for coming to my ted talk

Bank of Israel to sell $30 billion to stop shekel collapse during Gaza war

Central bank says will operate in market in order to ‘moderate volatility’ in shekel exchange rate, will also provide dollar liquidity through SWAP mechanisms of up to $15 billion

Turning off the internet to an entire country should be a war crime if it isn't already

Israel is currently lying about whats happening with real time, photograhic evidence and first hand accounts contradicting them. Imagine what shit they'll try pulling later today

Thinking about the bitter irony in Israel becoming the very fascists they swore off ever being the victims of again. Is there a word for that?

Interesting article in naked capitalism that contains an info I had not seen before:

Palestinian forces made substantial inroads, advancing into Israeli camps and targeting the 8200th Intelligence Unit among other 11 military barracks. This unit, a linchpin of the Israeli intelligence apparatus, is directly linked to the Gaza Division Command and oversees drones that gather intelligence for Israeli targeting.

The successful attack on this unit, resulting in its destruction and the reported capture or elimination or escape of its personnel, has severely affected the Israeli military’s intelligence capabilities. This setback is evident in the Israeli army’s lack of actionable intelligence.

The unit mentioned has apparently been described as "Israel's NSA". Yet another element showing this was brilliantly planned.

https://streamable.com/58y22i

Israeli president Isaac Herzog says there are no innocent civilians in gaza

Even huffpo went with that headline

Editor-in-Chief of the Propaganda Wing of the Apartheid Regime (Jerusalem Post) says:

"The world's solidarity with Israel following the murder of more than 900 Israelis is heartwarming and appreciated. But the true test will be this: Who will continue to stand by Israel when we do what we must to deal Hamas a devastating, crushing, game-changing blow?"

These people are literally saying "You must not be disturbed when we do a little genocide in Gaza", because there's no other thing they "must do". Flattening the entire city of Gaza with all 2 million people inside it is what our friend Avi Mayer is implying here.

Source

Still, Avi doesn't have to ask too much. He knows his western friends will look the other way as his regime continues to kill Palestinians, that's just their default position when non-whites are massacred by the thousands just for asking for freedom.

CNN said initial US intelligence found Iran was surprised by Hamas’ attack. Then today, the Iranian president and Saudi crown prince talked on the phone for the first time since ties were restored discussing the need to de escalate and end to war crimes in Palestine.

This is something that has been lost. The US does not want Iran getting close with Saudi Arabia so they’re trying desperately to connect them to Hamas’ attacks.

Meanwhile in France earlier today where Pro-Palestine rallies are banned:

https://streamable.com/2ls4ks

Cop Mayor Adams is talking about how there aren't any actual threats to NYC, but the pigs must stay vigilant because there are people who are radicalized now. FFS, this is so irresponsible. Islamophobia had taken a back seat to sinophobia for a while, but I wouldn't be shocked if there was an increase in hate crimes against any Muslims or anyone that might look Middle Eastern soon.

Is Israel actually using white phosphorus?

Chinese foreign ministry: The Palestinian issue is the core of the Middle East problem, and the core of the issue is the failure to achieve “justice” for the Palestinians

GOP freaks have been telling each other that Hamas terrorists have already infiltrated America via the open Mexican border and are ready to attack major cities for the next 12 months in revenge against America for supporting Israel. Sanity has restored 10 points though because at least I'm not on the same side of the line as MAGA chuds anymore like on Ukraine, now all Americans are equally contemptible and wrong instead of merely 60% of them