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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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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, this was entirely unexpected.

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I left the stream going muted in a tab. I just checked. It's still going on and it's ~24 minute after the hour. I wonder if it's been ad free. Did they give the fucker the entire hour?

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[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

A U.S. Navy Boeing P-8A “Poseidon” Anti-Submarine and Surveillance Platform is currently Airborne over the Eastern Mediterranean to the Southwest of Cyprus, suspecting a submarine, most likely Russian to be in the area.

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[-] fever@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

American Troops Do Not Want to Sacrifice Their Lives for Israel- Exclusive [Tasnim]

Take it with a grain of salt, its Iranian State media with history of made up nonsense.

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[-] pillow@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

pretty ugly clip of an israeli cop threatening a reporter and then turning to the camera in a rage boasting that they'll turn gaza to dust

https://files.catbox.moe/1dni6l.mp4

(translation by the independent)

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Maduro says that he spoke with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Abbas, about the situation in Gaza and says that he will send 30 tons of humanitarian aid.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

At least 2 incidents today of IDF shooting settlers in friendly fire incidents where they mistook settlers for palestinians today.

Censored video:

https://streamable.com/5fbhvc

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

5900!

C'mon Prigo do something funny. Rise from your grave. I've got money on the line here

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

The Hour of Awakening is near, The Moon has turned Red. The Frenzy has begun, there is little time left.

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[-] Leper_Messiah@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Goddamn what is this feeling? Is it... hope?

palestine-strong

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

11th Oct - End of day 5 Rybar sitrep:

spoiler❗️🇮🇱🇵🇸 Aggravation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone what is known by the end of October 11, 2023

The fifth day of the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation has come to an end. Today, the number of direct clashes between the IDF and Palestinian militants has decreased, but a few skirmishes still occurred in the Zikim and Sderot area.

Both sides continue to attack each other. In Gaza, the Israeli Air Force razes entire neighborhoods in Gaza, Khan Yunis, Al-Breij and Rafah. Palestinians fire back at central Israel: Ashkelon, Sderot and Tel Aviv airport are again under attack.

In the afternoon, the network was flooded with messages about a landing in northern Israel from southern Lebanon. Both Israeli and Palestinian sources wrote about 20 paragliders that flew under the cover of a swarm of UAVs. Later, the IDF denied the information and said that the alarm was caused by some kind of internal failure.

The Israeli government has reached agreements with the opposition to create an expanded cabinet that will manage the military effort. The former head of the Ministry of Defense Benny Gantz agreed to enter there, the possible accession of Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett is being discussed. Such a structure would allow the incumbent far-right authorities to assert the legitimacy of their actions against the Palestinians, especially in a large-scale ground operation.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

In Israel they say that negotiations are underway to allow Americans and Palestinian civilians to leave Gaza for Egypt before the start of the ground operation - CNN citing a source

The United States has not yet decided to deploy a second aircraft carrier off the coast of Israel, but it is moving in that direction - White House

The United States is actively working with Israel and Egypt on the idea of evacuating the civilian population of the Gaza Strip - White House

[-] TheLastHero@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

this will be used as an excuse to label anyone who stays behind as a terrorist

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[-] GayTuckerCarlson@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

DPRK is an imperialist state. They colonized the USS Pueblo

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Ukraine vs Israel: can the west arm both?

While Ukraine faces a severe manpower shortage, western powers find themselves faced with a dearth of available weaponry to send to Kiev. Admiral Rob Bauer, NATO's highest-ranking military official, candidly admitted on 3 October, "The bottom of the barrel is now visible" concerning the west's ammunition stockpile. In a sign of the mounting strain, the US began transferring to Ukraine 300,000 155-millimeter shells it had stored in Israel as part of the War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSAI) program. According to one Israeli officer, “Officially, all of this equipment belongs to the US military …. If, however, there is a conflict, the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] can ask for permission to use some of the equipment.”

Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder claimed the US would replenish these stocks of artillery shells stored in Israel. But the US does not have the ability to do so, as Ukraine has been using between 3,000 and 6,000 rounds per day, a quarter of what Russia has used on the battlefield. CNN reported at the time that “The strain on weapons stockpiles – and the ability of the US industrial base to keep up with demand – is one of the key challenges facing the Biden administration.”

The US military-industrial complex is heavily geared to produce high-cost weapons systems and hardware, like the $412 billion F-35 warplane. While these programs undoubtedly benefit weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, they fall short in delivering the essential artillery required in vast quantities for a war of attrition against a formidable military. Now that war has broken out between Israel and the Palestinian resistance, Kiev faces a competitor not only in Moscow, but in Tel Aviv.

That Israel is begging for US weapons just days into a conflict with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is alarming for the occupation state’s supporters, considering that none of the remaining Axis of Resistance members, including Hezbollah, Syria, Ansarallah, Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and Iran, have yet formally entered the conflict.

Should Hezbollah fully join the fight, Israeli planners expect the Lebanese resistance movement to fire 4,000 missiles a day from northern Lebanon and send thousands of elite troops into Israel to take over towns or military bases.

Israel and Hezbollah fought a major battle in 2006, which forced the Israeli military to wage war against a more “conventional” military opponent, in contrast to the Palestinians it confronts daily in the West Bank and Gaza. According to Matt Mathews of the US Army’s Combat Studies Institute, Israel was woefully unprepared to fight a “real war” in that conflict. ... The 2006 war also exposed Israel’s reliance on US weapons, which nevertheless proved insufficient to defeat Hezbollah. During the war, Israel requested to access the WRSAI stockpile and that the US expedite the delivery of precision-guided munitions to Israel. Within just 10 days of fighting, Israel used most of its ammunition stock.

Years later, in July 2014, during Israeli military operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel was again forced to rely on the WRSAI stockpile to replenish 120-mm tank rounds and 40-mm illumination rounds fired from grenade launchers. The problems Israel faced in 2006 and 2014 will be compounded if the Axis of Resistance now takes the step of initiating its “unification of the fronts” campaign.

David Wurmer, Middle East adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney, told the Wall Street Journal on 10 October that “The nightmare scenario for the Israelis is that they go a week or two shooting down 6,000 to 10,000 Hamas missiles, and then they have nothing left to stop the Hezbollah missiles.”

The situation for Israel becomes even more challenging if Iran joins the conflict, as the Islamic Republic possesses substantial stocks of short-range and medium-range missiles capable of reaching both Israel and US bases in the region. The US and Israel often warn of the alleged threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program, despite its civilian orientation, but seldom mention the threat posed by Iran’s burgeoning conventional missile program.

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But now, more than 40 years later, the Palestinians are not alone. They are part of a region-wide Resistance Axis that has defeated US and Israeli agendas in a number of West Asian states, gaining invaluable fighting, organizational, and planning experience alongside reliable allies.

Meanwhile, the pile of recent US-side failures keeps mounting: Russia's global clout spiked during the US proxy war in Ukraine; US adversaries China and Russia forged a multipolar world when Washington came at them; economic sanctions designed to cripple Russia and Iran only strengthened both states and sparked military collaborations. Crucially, Russia and Iran today possess the industrial capabilities to produce the military firepower the US and NATO cannot provide to allies in either Tel Aviv or Kiev.

Israel has already started the fight it may not be able to finish by declaring total war on Gaza’s civilian population, killing over 1,000, including hundreds of women and children, and flattening large swathes of the Gaza Strip in airstrikes. For Tel Aviv, Gaza has always been low-hanging fruit - the punching bag it seeks when it needs to look tough. But today, one misstep, one badly aimed missile, or one step too far, and Israel will face a regional war it cannot withstand for any significant period of time.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Serious fighting including white phosphorous use occurred on the border with Lebanon this morning.

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

still not totally clear whether this was another part of Hamas sending the drone swarm or if Hezbollah is now actually in, media is very confused. if it's the former - holy shit, Hamas continues to astound me and exceed my expectations.

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

Drones Blackout the Sun.

Azincourt!

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 43 points 1 year ago

"According to N12 in Israel, the IDF was instructed to double their strikes tomorrow.

Possibly the preliminary heavier strike phase prior to the ground operation starting

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