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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.


If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.


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.


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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pentagon officials told CNN they are concerned about the need to continue to supply ammunition to Ukraine and Israel over time, and also express concern about the state of the US weapons stockpile.

At the moment, the needs of Israel and Ukraine are different, and if Kiev mainly requires artillery ammunition, then in Jerusalem they are mainly interested in missiles for the Iron Dome complex and high-precision weapons.

Despite this, Washington has expressed concern that if Israel launches a ground operation in the Gaza Strip, it will begin to demand huge quantities of artillery ammunition.

National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tonight: "We are starting to run out of room to support Ukraine and Israel with existing means."

Slavyangrad

Relevant CNN article

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Eygptian humanitarian aid for Gaza arrives in Sinai

Egyptian charities on Saturday sent over 100 trucks carrying 1,000 tons of humanitarian aid including food and other supplies to the Palestinian people in Gaza, local media reported. The aid will wait in Sinai until a deal is secured with Israel to allow the delivery of aid into the besieged territory.

https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-war-live-updates#0000018b-2df6-d1d9-a3cb-efff741a0000

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[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Things are slowly escalating on the lebanese border, they’re firing missiles at each other back and forth rn more than any other day

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Fighting is ongoing in Ashkelon again after a new successful amphibious landing by a Palestinian resistance force on Gute Beach.

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago
[-] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://www.politicsweb.co.za/documents/sa-govt-must-act-to-end-apartheid-israels-ethnic-c

The equivalent of Nelson Mandela Bay is, as of now flattened. Isnotreal more-or-less also has South Africa in it's sights, leaving the trapped citizens to the bombs and not allowing them to leave, let alone contact any authorities, especially Palestinians who hold South African citizenship.

Also at the time of posting, this article was published literally less than half an hour ago.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Most of the American media makes a heroic effort to avoid providing appropriate context or even any context at all. Imagine if they actually explained stuff.

"Israel is dropping in less than a week what the U.S. was dropping in Afghanistan in a year, in a much smaller, much more densely populated area, where mistakes are going to be magnified," said Marc Garlasco…a former UN war crimes investigator.

Nitter

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rybar update on ground preparations

https://streamable.com/e1ux3w

🇮🇱🇵🇸 About the “armored fist” of the IDF

New evidence of preparations for an IDF ground operation in the Gaza Strip is appearing online. Footage of a large concentration of tanks near Kibbutz Mavkiyim was published by the Al-Jarmak agency.

Coordinates: 31.584891, 34.571782

The footage shows several dozen Merkava Mk.4 tanks and other armored vehicles. It is noteworthy that the site is within the range of Hamas missiles, and if the footage was taken today, the IDF could learn a lesson about why it is not worth placing equipment and personnel so closely in close proximity to enemy positions.

[it's interesting to me that Rybar geolocated this and published the coordinates, they did that knowing people are watching that might use that information]

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[-] ZapataCadabra@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

It's 2am in Palestine, Friday is here. News off stuff popping off could be coming in the next couple of hours.

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[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LOL, NBC has gotten documents that the IDF supposedly took off of Hamas fighters and are claiming that they were going to target schools during the Flood. Yeah, ok. I believe the side that has indiscriminately bombarded the open air prison that they created.

Article

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Security incident in Dimona, where Israel's main nuclear center is located.

The incident occurred at the nuclear center in the Israeli Dimona, there are no details of the incident yet - Jerusalem Post

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Evidence of WP use spreading on Telegram. Link is to the aftermath https://t.me/mangopress/16045

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

From an article about water in Gaza.

If fuel and water don't arrive soon, the agency's commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini said, "people will start dying of severe dehydration."

[...]

Its other water sources include desalination plants in the Mediterranean Sea and a subterranean aquifer, drained and damaged from years of overuse. When Israel severed electricity to Gaza, the desalination plants all shut down. So did the wastewater treatment stations.

That has left the entire territory without running water. People buy dwindling jugs from municipal sanitation stations, scour for bottles in supermarkets or drink whatever fetid liquid may dribble out of their pipes.

[...]

Drinking dirty water and poor sanitation due to lack of water can lead to terrible diseases, experts say, including cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio. For the past week, the water along Gaza's coast tastes like salt, residents say.

Drinking salt water can lead to even more dehydration.

There's a lot more awfulness in the article.

The entire article

Lack of water worsens misery in besieged Gaza as Israeli airstrikes continue | AP News

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — As Israel pounds the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, Laila Abu Samhadaneh, 65, is anxious about water.

The besieged Gaza Strip's 2.3 million people don't have access to clean, running water after Israel cut off water and electricity to the enclave as it intensifies its air attacks in response to a bloody Hamas attack last week.

The chokehold has seen taps run dry across the territory. When water does trickle from pipes, the meager flow lasts no more than 30 minutes each day and is so contaminated with sewage and seawater that it's undrinkable, residents said.

"I don't know what we're going to do tomorrow," Abu Samhadaneh said from her three-room home in the southern town of Rafah, which turned into a de facto shelter after Israel demanded everyone in Gaza evacuate south. She said she rations just a few liters among dozens of friends and relatives each day. "We're going crazy."

The deprivation has plunged Gaza's population deeper into misery as Israel's bombardment intensifies one week after Hamas fighters surged across Israel's separation fence, killing 1,300 Israelis and abducting dozens. Israel's retaliatory strikes have crushed hundreds of buildings in Gaza and killed more than 2,200 Palestinians.

Even as terrified families flee their homes — squeezing into United Nations shelters or the bloody and chaotic halls of Gaza's biggest hospital in fear for their safety — the desperate search for water remains a constant.

U.N. agencies and aid groups are beseeching Israel to permit emergency deliveries of fuel and other supplies into the Gaza Strip.

"There really can't be a justification for this kind of targeting of civilians," said Miriam Marmur, a spokesperson for Gisha, an Israeli human rights group.

The U.N. Palestinian refugee agency called the water crisis a "matter of life or death."

If fuel and water don't arrive soon, the agency's commissioner general Philippe Lazzarini said, "people will start dying of severe dehydration."

In normal times, the coastal enclave — which has struggled under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade since Hamas seized control of Gaza in 2007 — relies on Israel for one-third of all available drinking water, the territory's water authority says.

Its other water sources include desalination plants in the Mediterranean Sea and a subterranean aquifer, drained and damaged from years of overuse. When Israel severed electricity to Gaza, the desalination plants all shut down. So did the wastewater treatment stations.

That has left the entire territory without running water. People buy dwindling jugs from municipal sanitation stations, scour for bottles in supermarkets or drink whatever fetid liquid may dribble out of their pipes.

Quenching thirst has become more difficult in the past day, even for those with means to shell out for bottled water. It took 35-year-old Noor Swirki two hours on Saturday to find a box of six bottles she will try to stretch throughout the coming days. She took her first shower in a week Saturday, using a cup of polluted tap water and splashing it over her husband and two children before rubbing the remaining moisture on her skin.

"We are here without anything, even the most basic thing," she said, shouting over the persistent noise of crying children in the U.N. shelter in southern Khan Younis, where she sought refuge after an airstrike demolished her Gaza City apartment. "We're worried about our safety in the bombing and now there's this other issue of survival."

She and six other Palestinians interviewed across Gaza said they drink no more than half a liter of water a day. They said they urinate once a day or every other day.

The World Health Organization says that 50 to 100 liters per day per person are needed to ensure proper hydration and sanitation. The U.S. National Academies of Science and Medicine say men need to drink about 3.7 liters (125 ounces) and women need about 2.7 liters (91 ounces) per day to be adequately hydrated.

"It's like we're in the stone ages," said 28-year-old Khalil Abu Yahia in the central town of Deir al-Balah.

Drinking dirty water and poor sanitation due to lack of water can lead to terrible diseases, experts say, including cholera, dysentery, typhoid and polio. For the past week, the water along Gaza's coast tastes like salt, residents say.

Drinking salt water can lead to even more dehydration.

"It tastes bad, it smells bad," said 25-year-old Mohammed Bashir about the tap water in western Gaza City, which is mixed with untreated wastewater and seawater. "But we have no choice. My kids are crying because they're thirsty."

Among the dozens of Palestinians with shrapnel wounds in their legs and arms from airstrikes that Dr. Husom Safiyah treated Saturday in northern Gaza, there were 15 children, including infants, with bacterial dysentery caused by the water shortage, he said.

"The situation is disastrous, and it will become even more so after two or three days," said Safiyah, a physician with MedGlobal, an organization that sends medical teams to disaster regions. He spoke as explosions thundered outside and medics around him rushed to handle the latest influx of victims.

He said he had to go and help them. An airstrike near the Jabaliya refugee camp had just killed at least 27 people, mostly women and children, according to Hamas authorities, and dozens were wounded. When asked how he would clean their wounds, he said that he would use what little tap water they had, even if it was mixed with sewage.

"We have no alternative," he said.

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

I was wondering how long it would take until the Canadians turned their sights to Radhika:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/radhika-desai-valdai-russia-ukraine-1.6995250

Desai then made international headlines when she asked Putin for his opinion on the scandal involving the Ukrainian veteran of a notorious Nazi unit, who was honoured in the House of Commons during a Sept. 22 visit by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The exchange played into Putin's oft-repeated but unsupported claim that Russia is trying to "de-Nazify" Ukraine.

"Her actions are morally reprehensible," said Andres Kasekamp, chair of Estonian studies at the University of Toronto and the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy.

"She gave [Putin] the big gift," of being able to say Canada has further justified the invasion, he said. "Which is pretty horrendous."

lol lmao, remind me again, who gave two standing ovations to a Nazi?

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

AUDIO ONLY EXTREMELY GRAPHIC THOUGH: A team of Al-Jazeera and Reuters journalists were hit by an Israeli artillery strike in South Lebanon

The bad part, content warning death

spoiler

"What happened?! What happened?! What happened?! I can't feel my legs! Fck, fck!"

The woman heard screaming died minutes after. These were her last moments alive.

https://streamable.com/g2ekmg

Might be slightly untrue and the woman here might be the woman in my previous post, who survived. Uncertainty about this. A cameraman did die though.

[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

This is what the liberals consider to be "humane surgical strikes" on Gaza.

https://streamable.com/6a2ith

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://streamable.com/tq7wsd

Pretty decent video debunking the current big lies about beheading babies, mass rapes and the festival.

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Palestinian fighters infiltrated Ashdod. That's fucking halfway to Tel Aviv.

edit: perhaps not? either way there's definitely shooting happening

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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago
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[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Holy fuck. I have no way of verifying whether this is real (the Instagram account is set to private now) but:

A famous pastry chef from Tel Aviv expressed his attitude to Zelensky with an original cake. He baked a cake in the shape of a gallows on which Vladimir Zelensky is hanged. According to Avi Melamedzon, the high level of corruption of the Zelensky government led to the fact that Ukrainian weapons were transferred to Hamas. And so the pastry chef expressed his anger.

(CW: Cake of a hanged Zelensky)

https://old.reddit.com/r/RussianWarFootage/comments/1764sp7/the_jerusalem_post_avi_melamedson_the_most_famous/

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[-] VHS@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago
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[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago

Zionist media reports that an IOF heavy-lift cargo helicopter was shot down by the resistance, being destroyed completely and killing dozens inside.

It is unclear whether the event is from this morning, when reports of a downed IOF aircraft were made, or the same as the four helicopters that were hit by resistance fighters on the same day of Al-Aqsa Flood. Notably, soon after that news, Al-Qassam Brigades revealed its Mutabbir-1 and Mutabbir-3 anti-aircraft systems.

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Watch this. Dramatic rescues from a residential building."

Gee, MSNBC - why did the building fall down in Gaza and nearly kill that little girl? Was there an earthquake? What happened exactly?

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Now MSNBC is doing a segment of munitions that were brought into Gaza. I know it's entirely expected for the US media to avoid mention who is causing the destruction and death in Gaza and I know they'll never show/explain Israeli munitions but it's still maddening.

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[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

🚨 BREAKING: As promised by Al-Qassam Brigades spokesman Abu Obeida, massive barrages of missiles are being fired towards occupied Asqalan at these moments.

What makes this one so different? Why give a warning for this one? Demoralization tactic?

Edit: they’re threatening to keep up this bombardment until the city is destroyed if Israel doesn’t stop the terror bombing, and will do it other cities too. I’m surprised they have enough misiles for this kind of thing tbh.

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[-] gregheffley@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Will we ever get a paraglider emoji?

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[-] plinky@hexbear.net 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For our more nerd inclined, poland has election tomorrow. They are choosing between anti-abortion "pope john the second death was the worst day in history of poland" pisfreaks, libertarian "south silesia will rise again" confederates , brussels "tusk the plan" footsoldiers, third way "clinton is still president right" party and lefties "do we split before or after the election".

All party characteristics are the work of fiction and shouldn't be taken seriously

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