Iraqi parliament urges activation of Arab Defense Treaty against Israel

🔶️ During a Saturday session on the Israeli aggression against Gaza, Iraqi lawmakers condemned the “brutal practices and crimes committed by the Zionist occupation forces against the Palestinian people,” according to a statement released after the session.

🔶️ The Iraqi legislators also called for efforts to “activate the League’s Charter considering that any attack on a member is an attack on the Arab countries, activate the Joint Arab Defense Treaty, and address the free world to stand by the Palestinian people, in addition to calling on the United Nations to prevent the killing and deportation of the Palestinian people.”

https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/10/15/712767/Iraq-Palestine-Israel-Gaza

A lot of people here wanted to know how troops would get from Iran past Iraq. Here's your answer.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/arabjoin.asp

Article 2

The Contracting States consider any [act of] armed aggression made against any one or more of them or their armed forces, to be directed against them all. Therefore, in accordance with the right of self-defense, individually and collectively, they undertake to go without delay to the aid of the State or States against which such an act of aggression is made, and immediately to take, individually and collectively, all steps available, including the use of armed force, to repel the aggression and restore security and peace. In conformity with Article 6 of the Arab League Pact and Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, the Arab League Council and U. N. Security Council shall be notified of such act of aggression and the means and procedure taken to check it.

Jordan: The forceful displacement of Palestinians from Gaza by Israel is a red line for us, and we will not let this happen

Also: https://fxtwitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1713605270172000327

King of of Jordan Abdullah II: Any attempt to forcibly displace Palestinians is a violation of international law and threatens disastrous effects on the countries of the region.

http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/4064760de4a6f2a19390c74c1d09caeb.kcmsf

Pyongyang accused Japan of preparing to invade DPRK.

Military expenditures that break records every year, armament with offensive, state-of-the-art military equipment, including an aircraft carrier and the latest stealth fighters, and the completion of military operational training in the fields of space, cyberspace, electromagnetic waves are all aimed at preparing for the conduct of aggressive war,

I'm not even sure how I ended up here. One minute I was disproving some factually incorrect lib takes about China on Reddit (and got banned from r/worldnews for citing actual data, I guess), then I started following the Ukraine conflict and wondering why the news stories went from "OORAH we're pushing to the sea by the winter" to "oh look at me we took another tree line but the Russians are definitely still losing more men despite being in a defensive position against, at best, an equal attacker," then somehow I ended up on Lemmy where people were posting more demonstrably and factually incorrect comments, and now this Palestine conflict just has American media lying through their teeth.

Were things just better in Canadian media because Canadians don't care as much about foreign affairs (we have no influence anyway and propagandizing us is sort of uselesss)? Has American media always been this bad? Is it just conflict-driven propaganda? Chinese online communities aren't this one-sided, either. Is something just wrong with America?

Was looking at Felix's twitter, and saw this pro-Palestine march in Jordan demanding the border with the West Bank be opened.

https://nitter.net/ToryFibs/status/1711807480991224009#m

According to the Finnish government an "external actor" has sabotaged a gas pipeline and a communications cable between Finland and Estonia.

💬 Statement by 🟢 #Hamas regarding the allegations of targetting children:

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

The Palestinian resistance does not target children, and Western media outlets must ensure accuracy and not blindly side with the zionist narrative filled with lies and slanders.

We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, firmly deny the fabricated allegations promoted by some Western media outlets, which unprofessionally adopt the zionist narrative full of lies and slanders against our Palestinian people and their resistance. The latest of these was the claim of killing children, beheading them, and targeting civilians. We consider this adoption and bias towards the zionist narrative without verification as nothing but a media downfall in an attempt to cover up the crimes of the occupation and its massacres committed day and night in Gaza.

These actions amount to war crimes and genocide by targeting civilians, cutting off electricity, water, food, and medical supplies.

The Palestinian resistance and Al-Qassam Brigades targeted the zionist military and security system in the Al-Aqsa Storm battle, which are legitimate targets. At the same time, they aimed to avoid civilians. Many field video clips witnessed this, and many settlers spoke about it with documented testimoniesthrough the media.

The biased Western media outlets, which favor the zionist narrative, failed to mention the extent of zionist criminality against our people in the Gaza Strip, which completely wiped out entire neighborhoods, bombed residential buildings over the heads of their residents, leading to the killing of 950 Palestinian civilians so far, including 260 children and 230 women, all killed without prior warning.

This zionist crime can only be described as genocide and war crimes. We, therefore, call on these Western media outlets to be objective and professional in reporting and covering the events of the zionist aggression and not to blatantly and blindly adopt the zionist narrative.

Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas

Wednesday: 26 Rabi' al-Awwal 1445 AH

Corresponding to: October 11, 2023

Just wanted to pop in and say I haven't posted for a few months due to some pretty miserable personal issues, but have been lurking the megathread just to stay sane as the rest of my society cheers on a genocide.

Keep it up comrades, it's appreciated.

Long live Palestine! 🇵🇸

Feel like I've had some kind of breakthrough on how the US propaganda system works and that most westerners have been successfully MK-ULTRAed to respond to certain triggers at like 3am while literally shitposting on the toilet.

A real moment.

To play arm-chair strategist for a sec: if Hezbollah joins the war, my guess is they'd attack after the anticipated invasion of Gaza is well underway. Idea being to ensnare (a sizable chunk of) the IDF in the south before levying the second punch from the north.

Israel is paying YouTube to place adverts like this before videos aimed at children...

Started researching origins of Israel/Palestine beginning in the Bronze Ages til present to dunk on everyone with their shitty takes. I am and never have been a big history person, but I've more or less gone through the Bronze Ages - 1940's and figured out surrounding context for myself, just need to flesh out my notes. I'd love suggestions on what to study that could be important to getting an advanced grasp on the relations over the years, from any time period. Plsthx

"Come on bro, when did I ever lied to you?"

Said the IDF, known for lying to you.

I'm glad I live in an area with a strong leftist presence that actually goes against the pro-NATO narrative. It's part of why I've spent most of my time here and not on Reddit. Some parts of the West are more open to leftism than others, but NATO countries in particular have the biggest uphill battle with how strongly tied they are to the current world order.

That doesn't mean leftists shouldn't continue to fight the good fight, but they also shouldn't expect a revolution or sudden shift in their lifetime. It will require many generations of leftists but it will pay off.

China should just attack Japan too if the US is willing to wage war over Zhonghua Taibei. Might as well take two emperor-worshipping war criminal bourgeois democracies out at once.

If youre Mossad you can gather intelligence about an uprising in Gaza or you can do coke in Dubai with Jeb Bush, Zelensky and like 9 guys from the Epstein flight logs. Capitalism does not produce people capable of resisting that temptation.

lets get the news mega to 6k comments soon, because i think its slowly killing the site right now

here's a fun fact about gaza 🥰

I'm honestly still in shock that we haven't seen Hezbollah engage with Israeli. This is the weakest it's ever been, how is this not the time to strike?

More than 30 mortar shells and 3 Kornet missiles were fired by Hezbollah towards Zionist military sites in northern occupied Palestine.

Looks like Hezbollah is turning up the heat

I really wish a F-35 get shot down or blown up before it takes off for kicks and laughs, really miss that feeling when that Global Hawk got shot down over Hormuz in 2019.

Umayyads should not have stopped at Pyrenees

Protests are spreading and the Lebanon front in heating up, the Americans are losing control of the situation

Source from the Palestinian resistance to Al-Mayadeen:

What we have used thus far does not exceed 10% of our capabilities, and we are working within a long-term strategy.

We have a solid defense plan that covers the entire area of ​​the Gaza Strip, and we will activate it at the appropriate time.

McDonald's civil war

https://twitter.com/hasanthehun/status/1713257360297545936?t=b5OnsTW9rLnkjYQKAn5CBQ&s=19

ONWARD TO 6000 COMRADES! MOSCOW IS BEHIND US!