America is so fucked. They really think the term jihad rocket is going to stick and reverberate throughout the zietgiest. It's not 2004 guys

Saudi Arabia urges citizens to depart Lebanon 'immediately'

Seems bad

Relatively calm day, probably caused by the opening of the Rafah crossing. Hamas have likely given orders for calm as a result of the aid being priority. IDF have not stopped bombing though.

Lebanon border on the other hand has had constant fighting.

UK police (CPS) say supporting Hamas is an offence (due to being a proscribed group) but supporting "Palestinian Resistance" is likely to not be.

The IDF has released "proof" that this was by the PIJ

https://nitter.cz/IDF/status/1714403025136017784#m

Detroit synagogue president Samantha Woll found dead outside her home

Police have not yet identified a motive, they said.

so it wasn’t the fact that Fetterman pulled a shotgun on an innocent Black person that made people hate him but him acting like a typical centrist

BlackRedGuard got the deep lore on Fetterman, never even heard of this

AFP:

#BREAKING US activates deployment of defense systems 'throughout' Mideast: Pentagon

#BREAKING US places additional forces on 'prepare to deploy orders': Pentagon

#UPDATE The Pentagon moved to step up its military readiness in the Middle East, ordering activation of air defense systems "throughout" the region and alerting additional US forces that they may be deployed soon

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said in a statement that the moves were in response to "recent escalations by Iran and its proxy forces across the Middle East."

Austin did not say how many additional US troops would be deployed to the region

Twitter / Nitter

Busiest day of the war so far up on the Lebanon front, lots of hits and incidents. Hamas continues to strike settlements with missiles and such, causing mostly minor damage (though with an occasional fiery video when a missile hits a car or something). Also another strike on a US base in Iraq.

I’m reading through Hamas’ 2017 document that outlines their general principles. There’s one item I’m not clear on:

However, without compromising its rejection of the Zionist entity and without relinquishing any Palestinian rights, Hamas considers the establishment of a fully sovereign and independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital along the lines of the 4th of June 1967, with the return of the refugees and the displaced to their homes from which they were expelled, to be a formula of national consensus.

Does this mean that, maybe as a matter of practicality, that Hamas would accept a 2 state solution? And if so, when they are talking about the right of return, does that mean the right of return only to that part of Palestine? Or does that mean right of return to Israel proper? I assume it’s the later but if so I don’t see Israel agreeing to that any more likely than they would accept a one-state solution.

It took a month for WW1 to break out after the assassination of the Austrian Archduke. Keep that in mind the next time you see someone acting like Iran is just bluffing when it talks about entering the war.

You don't enter a war on a whim.

Fair point to all of us (including me) who keep shitting on them, although it’s different in that we are watching 2 million people being genocided live on our phones so there should be more urgency here…

https://nitter.net/redprecariat/status/1714441382142562583

Reports now say that the USS Carney intercepted 4 cruise missiles and 15 drones from Yemen during a total period of 9 hours yesterday - CNN

At this point any government not trying to intervene is complicit in the crimes of israel. If the international rules based order means anything, 800 murdered in a hospital attack should erase any right for the state of israel to exist.

There are 113,000 9/11 alive today in usa, feels scary tbh

Ansrahalla just fired on a US destroyer in the Aden Strait..

Source

US occupation base in Conoco energy field in Syria’s Deir Ez Zor was targeted with a number of rockets

Now Al-Tanf US occupation base in northeast Syria is under drone attacks

Realistically how much more time do the Palestinians have before they starve to death without this aid?

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Culture of Deceit: Israel, which always seeks to blame Palestinians for the atrocities it carries out, is the least trustworthy source about the bombing of the hospital in Gaza.

Relatedly, his interview with Norman Finkelstein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0aemeCbRTk

This is the most compelling analysis of the hospital bombing I've come across so far.

https://streamable.com/9hqn6w

https://streamable.com/hchxwx

A different angle of the hospital explosions appears to capture a flares being fired, possibly from a jet.

no see we were targeting under the mosque. We had to blow it up see

Norm ain’t holding back lol

Everyone ready for the pro war libs and anti war anti imperial right?

JUST IN | Hundreds of vehicles are heading to the Kürecik Radar Base in Malatya-Turkey, where US soldiers are stationed

Im worried about this "humanitarian aid package" to be offered by the US. It's gonna be a poison pill. Biden said theyll bring aid as long as "Hamas doesn't interfere." Some scenariosntht have been rolling around in my head:

1. False flag. Something happens to the convoy and Hamas is blamed. They use this to galvanize wavering western resolve against Hamas and persuade regular citizens into a war to "Save Palestine."

2. The aid makes it ashore but carries a poison pill. That could look like: a. Intelligence agents used to spy. This seems like a certainty. They'll get agents onbthe ground and try to set up snitches and informants . b. The camp will become the only safe space in Palestine. Israel won't bomb a US humanitrian camp -- They're in on this, after all. This will make the people there into hostages, and reduce potential ground resistance forces. c. Material and force can be brought ashore to "protect" palestinians from Hamas "aggression." This would set marines up in a backline to attack rear flanks for the ground invasion.

Any outside attack on the "aid" convoy can be taken as a cassus belli for war.

I suspect all of these will be in play. They'll get spies and informants, set up control over a population, get boots on the ground, and any attempt to stop this will provoke agression under the guise of benevolence for protecting palestinians.

And I'm not sure whatnthe counterplay to this would be.

Thoughts?

https://streamable.com/scw2cy

3. While the Palestinian Youth Movement offered chants that would be much stronger than other demonstrations on this issue, one was cut off before hearing the response: "They've got tanks, we've got hang gliders-" was cut off and turned to "Free, free Palestine!"

One of the funniest things I've seen recently. This is a protest group in Washington DC. "No that's too much not here" and quickly changing the chant. PSL were also present.

From this thread: https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1714847599616737474

october 13th 2023

October 15th 2023

Israel says the next stage of the war might not be what everyone is expecting, and that a ground offensive into Gaza was never explicitly mentioned

No fucking idea where this is being sourced from.

EDIT: Another version --

"We are preparing for the next stages of war. We haven't said what they will be. Everybody's talking about the ground offensive. It might be something different," - IDF Spox

If accurate this is the first clear sign of the IDF walking back on the idea of a ground offensive.

In yet another installment of "Western leftists sucks ass" the Danish Red-Greens, a demsoc nominally revolutionary party that makes up the furthest left segment of the Overton window there, has ceased cooperation with the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine over their participation in the Al-Aqsa Flood which the Red-Greens call "a terror action", parroting zionist propaganda. In the period 2013-2021 the Red-Greens worked with the DFLP and two other Palestinian organisations on a project funded by the Danish government's Institute for Parties and Democracy to "educate young Palestinians in humans rights and strengthen gender equality".

This is not the first time the Red-Greens are a bunch of radlib cowards when it comes to antiimperialism. Following the start of the Ukraine war they ditched their opposition to NATO cutting the lack of an alternative to the American military organisation. In 2011 they fell for western propaganda and voted to bomb Libya.

i think a fun bit would be to convince the middle class libs who mindlessly repeated “Slava Ukraini” that the cool new phrase to show your support of the Good Guy is “Marg Bar Israel”. just tell em its hebrew for I Stand With Israel

— BREAKING: The Israeli cabinet will meet tonight to approve the final decision regarding a ground offensive into Gaza

— BREAKING: It is expected that the Israeli cabinet will approve the ground offensive - Security Sources

Putin orders fighter jets armed with hypersonic missiles to begin round-the-clock patrols over the Black Sea.

https://streamable.com/ld5u5y