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Israel trying to pass the hospital bombing off as Palestine doing it is utterly disgusting and guarantees Netanyahu a spot in the deepest pit of Hell for all eternity, obviously, but do not forget that

a) the only reason why Westerners will believe it is because they want to believe it - they are not being brainwashed and this is not some masterful propaganda being weaved around us to turn kind-hearted people into monsters,

b) no Westerner opinions matter at all. In most Western countries there is no real anti-Israel option to vote for even if they did realize that Israel was a giant factory for crimes against humanity, and Westerners protesting against things in general almost never achieves anything (tens of millions protested for BLM in 2020 and not only did the situation not change, it got worse), and

c) the people whose opinions do matter (both the people in the region, and the leaders who aren't already Zionist compradors) already know that Israel is full of shit and that they just murdered nearly a thousand civilians in a single bomb attack.

It is despair-inducing to think that the genocidal Zionist entity is so brazenly, so smugly getting away with bullshitting this away into a cloud of confusion, as they release their metaphorical squid ink just like they did with the stupid babies story, but the propaganda and the media narrative that they are creating isn't what matters. It cannot address the fundamental contradictions ripping the country, the region, and the world apart any more than masterfully-applied makeup can fix a stab wound. It can merely obfuscate.


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:

UNRWA daily-ish 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 (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 still Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants.


Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

The weekly update isn't coming because I'm sick and too focussed on the collapse of the Zionist entity.

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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[-] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

can there be a bloomer subsection of the news mega? I want to be a News Enjoyer but I also don't want to suffer psychic damage from reading The News

Death to America

[-] Sandinband@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

I feel like it'd be better to post good news on the bloomer comm so more people see it

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[-] jackmarxist@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago
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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

About 1 million Algerians died in their war for independence. Millions of civilians were killed in the Korean War. The worst is still ahead of us.

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[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Imagine being a professional athlete and standing for the national anthem today, with the knowledge that the country you’re representing is supporting genocide

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[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 54 points 1 year ago

was waiting for the new thread to post this, great bit of analysis and hopeposting from Lenin of Nazareth (Palestinian Marxist Leninist)

The liberation and unification of the Arab people at large will be a cataclysmic event that will catapult world revolution forward more than anything else.

Once the Arabs are free, Africa and Asia will follow. Arabia is the gordian knot of colonialism, it ties the whole colonial system together, and can only be untied by the sword.

More to the point, Israel is the gordian knot of the enslavement of the Arabs. The divided-and-conquered states of the Arab world—and their petty tyrants—only exist to protect Israel. This is why the Palestinian struggle over what seems to be a tiny sliver of land is crucial.

Colonialism has feverishly fought any semblance of progress in the Arab world for this exact reason. Nasser, the quintessential Arab progressive leader, was the obsession of the West in his day. He was extremely dangerous to them.

The backward reactionary Islamists of Saudi Arabia were unleashed upon the Arabs in the 1970s—with American money and support—to obliterate any remnant of the late Nasser. The results are well-known.

https://twitter.com/LeninOfNazareth/status/1713555192267087963
https://nitter.net/LeninOfNazareth/status/1713555192267087963

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Putin you two-faced socialist butcher coordinate with the Saudis and Iranians to get the embargo off the ground

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Biden is giving a press conference right now and he just said "You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist."

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He looked really fucking old and really fucking tired. And I mean even more than usual.

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[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

🚨 The Palestinian Ministry of Health stated that the number of martyrs has reached more than 3,200 and 11,000 were injured since the beginning of Al-Aqsa Flood operation. Most of them are children and women, as a result of the continuous aggression carried out by the occupation on Gaza.

Glory to the martyrs.

[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

"The truth might not get its pants on before the lies travel across the world."

A State Department hack just said that on MSNBC.

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Head of the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs’ Commission, Qadura Fares: — Developments in the scene inside the occupation prisons compel us to expose the injustices committed against the prisoners.

Many prisoners have had their limbs, legs, and hands broken, and after the beatings, their comrades could no longer recognize them.

The Naqab prison has become like Abu Ghraib prison, a center of brutality and savage treatment towards the heroic prisoners.

"Israel" is making the Palestinian prisoners pay the price for its failures, acting solely with a spirit of revenge.

We call upon all the countries of the world to raise your voices in support of the principles you claim to uphold, or have you returned to your history as colonial powers?

The number of Palestinian prisoners in occupation prisons was 5,300, but it has increased to over 10,000 since October 7th.

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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Via Resistance News Network

🚨 Iranian Foreign Minister Abdollahian: — The possibility of preemptive action by the Axis of Resistance is expected in the coming hours.

If we do not defend Gaza today, we will have to defend our cities [later].

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Breaking

Other candidates reportedly in the running for speaker:

  • Gus Oil (R-TX)
  • Greg Thomas (R-AL)
  • Drew Gunn (R-AZ)
  • Rick McSmith (R-OH)
  • Carlos Batista (R-FL)
  • Jim Jefferson (R-LA)
  • Jeff Jimerson (R-NJ)
  • Leslie Davidson (R-CA)
  • Mike Michaels (R-NC)
  • Shep Shoop (R-PA)
  • "Coach" Vern Hitler (R-SC)

 

I edited the tweet a little - Nitter

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

"We will consider any attempt to displace Palestinians from the West Bank as a declaration of war" - Jordanian Foreign Ministry.

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago
[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Hezbollah's Twitter account changed its profile picture to a red flag meaning "Revenge."

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[-] Babs@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

The west is completely controlled by genocidal fascists and it's hard to hold on to hope that it will ever change. Even our "lesser evils" are complete monsters.

May america suffer a thousand more 9/11s. We deserve worse.

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[-] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Two young Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces near the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry has said. Qais Shalash, 18, and Khalil Shalash, 16, were killed in the village of Shuqba, west of Ramallah.

A witness told Al Jazeera that Israeli forces prevented paramedics from evacuating the two men to hospital for at least 20 minutes. The two men were shot in the chest, said Raed al-Khatib, who is in charge of emergency services in the villages west of Ramallah.

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[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Was the Obama era the peak of US power? As much as chuds obsessively hate him, Obama projected a strong soft power around the world. You had people being bombed by the US in places like Pakistan and Yemen saying that they loved the US and Obama himself being a big reason why. His election to them was living proof that the American dream was real. Obama's ability to also interweave with Hollywood helped even more. I've seen people in countries like Vietnam praising the man and wishing their country could have leaders like him back when he was president.

It seems that the US isn't able to get away with as much. Having a charismatic leader with a big presence in the entertainment industry did wonders for the rest of the world to forgive the US.

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[-] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 1 year ago
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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Putin: "They just moved 2 aviation (strike) groups into the Mediterranean Sea. I want to say-- this is not a threat, what I'm going to say now and what I will inform you about, but on my behalf, the Russian Air Force, Russian Space Forces are starting, on an ongoing basis, patrols in the neutral zone of the airspace of the Black Sea. And our planes, Mig-31 armed with Kinzhal missiles, they are known to have a range of 1000 kilometers at Mach 9 speed." Thus within range of the carrier groups.

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[-] elgonzalors@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The BBC posted this yesterday, today Israel bombed a hospital killing approximately 300 people.

Update: Almost 500 people https://nitter.net/ShehabAgency/status/1714330839717212472

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[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Two US bases in Iraq have been attacked by drones today

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

"Just now Biden stated that he was born in Israel. So he could not be elected president of the United States" - Maria Zakharova on Biden's words in Israel.

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[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Visiting family over the weekend and shout out to my boomer ass parents for shutting the hell up when I hit them with a "I support Palestinian right to self determination and I stand with them in their struggle for liberation from an apartheid occupation"

I think i got to them before they heard the official Bill Maher Leftist Party Line

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

MSNBC just said "Residents in Gaza have been drinking salty tap water." They are fucking evil. They know that's hasbara-level bullshit. If there's water at all - it's contaminated.

I posted the following yesterday,

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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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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Ione Pellara: Diplomatic relations between Spain and Israel should be suspended

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

The yuan has overtaken the euro in international payments, according to SWIFT data.

Europe's economic role in the world continues to decline. Actually, this is one of the goals of the war launched by the United States. Eliminate Europe's chances of economic competition with the United States and increase the political, military and economic enslavement of Europe. At the same time, the European establishment is well aware of the detrimental nature of the current course for the European economy, but is forced to submit to Washington’s policies, even to the detriment of its own economy. A clear example of what the lack of military-political subjectivity leads to.

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Hexbear goes doomer way too fast. Israel is too scared to even start a ground invasion and Hezbollah isn't even fully committed. The colonizer will be forced out, as they always are.

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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago
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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

"IDF Northern Command has reportedly notified Israeli Forces along the Lebanese Border that they should prepare for a “Sudden and Powerful” Attack from Southern Lebanon."

[-] MolotovHalfEmpty@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Finkelstein approaches the lathe with some recent analysis lathe-of-heaven

The Truth behind Biden's Visit, the Hospital Massacre, and Biden's Lie:

  1. Hezbollah and Iran stated that unless Israeli attacks on civilians ceased, they would intervene;
  1. Israel panicked. It can carry out massacres of defenseless populations but it can't fight ground wars. It has dreaded a ground war in Gaza, let alone fighting the Party of God;
  1. Israel begged Biden to visit to protect it from a second-front war;
  1. When Israel carried out the hospital massacre, Biden agreed to lie about the attack only if Israel agreed to cease its genocidal plan in Gaza and allow in humanitarian aid;
  1. Biden lied exactly as Lyndon Baines Johnson lied in June 1967 when Israel attacked the U.S.S. Liberty, killing 34 American crewmen. Both LBJ and Biden lied to protect a key ally (and, not incidentally, a domestic electoral asset).
  1. Biden will now be praised for his statesmanship in standing by Israel and enabling humanitarian aid to enter Gaza.
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[-] VILenin@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

BREAKING: Israeli intelligence releases leaked Hamas assault plans:

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago
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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

https://streamable.com/67zyrv

Israeli security forces have entered Bethlehem, where they were greeted with stones. Several arrests are reported.

Also Hebron. Multiple shots fired in raids of the West Bank too

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[-] kleeon@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago

I can't fucking believe what just happened...

I don't usually get emotional but this one is really getting to me...

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