The 2023 Argentine general election is today: October 22nd.

Wolf Bitzer just asked his guest about the "suffering of the Palestinian people". The guy's first name is Mohammad. I was surprised. Could this actually be a good segment?

Nope. It turned out the guy is an advisor to the IDF who lives in Tel Aviv and he went directly into "Hamas uses Palestinians as human shields..."

Ninja edit: He's said said the phrase "human shields" at least three times now.

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archive.today • 92NY Pulls Event With Viet Thanh Nguyen Over Criticism of Israel - The New York Times

92NY, one of New York City’s premier cultural venues, decided on Friday to abruptly pull an event that evening featuring the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen after he signed an open letter critical of Israel, drawing criticism that the organization was stifling dissenting voices.

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At the relocated event, Nguyen described the Y’s decision, which he said he was informed of around 2 p.m. that afternoon, as a “cancellation.” [...] No explanation had been given, he said. But he said he assumed it was a response to the fact that he was among the more than 750 writers and artists who signed an open letter published in The London Review of Books on Wednesday that was highly critical of Israel.

Comments are off - the cowards.

Israel's Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced that after the end of the conflict between Israel and the Hamas movement, Tel Aviv intends to create a "new security reality" by cutting off all supplies to the Gaza Strip.

Idk how reliable ME Observer is

⚡️Enemy information: 4 soldiers in the occupation army committed suicide after suffering a psychological crisis as a result of what they were exposed to in front of #Palestinian resistance fighters in the #Gaza Strip

so what do you guys think of mutually assured destruction? with how escalating things are i'm getting more and more convinced the US is just going to go for it against a nuclear power, but what if that doesn't mean an immediate ICBM exchange? what if everyone figures if nobody uses it first nobody will, and we actually just have WW3 (extra farce edition). and then at the end of that some bloodthirsty sore loser does the ICBMs, because of course they will

NEW: According to reports, the IDF took a large number of casualties in the most recent ATGM attack on Branit barracks

As a response to this, the IDF is violently shelling South Lebanon and direct clashes on the border are also reported.

@SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net can we add a section to the sticky that includes the UN RWA reports? It might be easier for people to find them and they're a pretty excellent resource of on the ground information that people can use even with liberals. Since they're releasing these daily right now due to how bad things are it's an easy thing to update.

https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports

another anti-tank warhead dropped via drone on a Merkava 4 yesterday

How long until Biden says that Israel did it in a slip up and everyone just ignores it

"At the end of this war, not only will Hamas no longer be in Gaza, the territory of Gaza will also decrease"

Yes, I support the two-state solution.

Liquefaction and gasification of every genocide perpetrator, then scoop that up in a beaker

It's one thing to be a dejected western leftist ranting impotently about capitalism or whatever, but it's another to be fucking Iran or Hezbollah and just keep making vague empty threats. I feel seen and heard and represented in the worst possible way.

Current Israeli line (taken from /r/worldnews) on the hospital is the bomb was a jihadi rocket misfire, but it also didn't destroy the hospital and kill 500+ people. Instead it just landed in a parking lot and blew up a bunch of cars.

Decades? But those could take weeks to happen, I can't wait that long!

Supporting Israel Is. An. Investment. In. Democracy.

C-SPAN callers are amazing.

I don't care if they elect Satan, Jeffries is a communist.

A letter sent on Tuesday to the US Treasury Department and the White House from 105 lawmakers, led by Senators Elizabeth Warren, Roger Marshall and Representative Sean Casten, expressed "grave concern" that Hamas and an affiliated group called Palestinian Islamic Jihad were using digital assets to fund their operations and evade US sanctions.

"Congress and this administration must take strong action to thoroughly address crypto illicit finance risks before it can be used to finance another tragedy," the letter says.

The Biden administration issued sanctions on Wednesday, which were aimed at disrupting Hamas' funding, singling out what it says is "a secret Hamas investment portfolio," a financial facilitator tied to Iran and a Gaza-based cryptocurrency exchange.

"We will continue to take all steps necessary to deny Hamas terrorists the ability to raise and use funds to carry out atrocities and terrorise the people of Israel," says Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen in a statement.

jerking-off motion

US Vetoes United Nations Security Council Resolution on Gaza

"Once again, the UNSC failed to fulfill its responsibility," Erdogan said, adding that mainstream media "whitewashes" human carnage with biased and hypocritical publications.

On Wednesday, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) held a vote for a Brazilian-drafted resolution that calls for humanitarian pauses in Gaza at the UN headquarters in New York.

The Brazilian-drafted resolution won the support of 12 of the 15 members of the Security Council. The United States, which has veto power, was the only council member that voted against it. Britain and Russia abstained.

Before voting on the Brazilian draft, the UNSC voted separately on two amendments to the Brazilian draft submitted by Russia. Wednesday's failure by the Security Council was the second in a row to adopt a resolution on Gaza.

On Monday, the UNSC failed to adopt a Russian-drafted resolution that would have called for a humanitarian cease-fire. The draft resolution failed to win enough votes in favor for adoption.

The Russian amendments - on a call for an end to indiscriminate attacks on civilians and a call for a durable humanitarian cease-fire, instead of humanitarian pauses contained in the Brazilian text - were unable to pass as there was not enough support by UNSC members. The U.S. was the only council member that voted against the Russian amendments.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the United Nations, Western countries, and the media for the Gazan crisis, which "risks spreading to our entire region."

He mentioned that efforts to resolve the problems have been hampered by measures such as the United States sending an aircraft carrier to the region, cutting off humanitarian aid to the Palestinian people, and collective punishment of the people of Gaza.

"The UNSC, increasingly ineffective, once again failed to fulfill its responsibility. Western countries, so passionate about human rights and freedoms, only added fuel to the fire," denounced Erdogan, who highlighted that mainstream media "whitewashes human carnage with biased and hypocritical publications.

Israeli Foreign Ministry advises Israelis to avoid traveling to the Maldives

At this point, the IDF and Biden probably have a better track record of you just negate everything they say.

But but but of course this time they have to be correct. Of course.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/least-500-victims-israeli-air-strike-hospital-gaza-health-ministry-2023-10-17/

Israeli Military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told reporters rockets fired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group passed by the hospital at the time of the strike, which he said hit the facility's parking lot... He said the [IDF] military did have an Israeli air force operation in the area around the time of the hospital blast, "but it was with a different kind of ammunition that does not ... fit the footage that we have (of) the hospital."

I really want to hear Kissinger's opinion on current events.

Fucking weird to say that but I want to know what that monster thinks of the US trying to put out every fire on the planet well beyond its means while China sits back and chills.

Biden promised to ask the US Congress this week for an unprecedented aid package for Israel

The Egyptian President states that evicting the Gazans out of Gaza into Sinai amounts to a declaration of war against Egypt.

Al-Arabiya: Jordanian Foreign Minister to Al Arabiya: Any attempt by Israel to forcefully displace Palestinians means war for Jordan

Day 12: Xi pls open third front in Taiwan

I will release the audio logs proving Hamas pissed my pants

From Al Jazeera's timeline of the hospital bombing narrative shifts.

The Israeli army also released a video showing spokesperson Daniel Hagari translating a recording of a conversation between purported Hamas officials, where they appear to talk about the misfired rocket that had caused the hospital blast.

To some, it seemed too neat. As one journalist later asked Hagari: “I’d like you to address the question of credibility, because … the [Israeli army] has a less than perfect track record with the issue of credibility”.

In his response, Hagari admitted that the military had lied before, but that now was different.

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Shortly after the blast, Netanyahu deleted a message from his X feed that repeated a line from his address on October 16 to the Knesset. It said: “This is a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle”. The message appeared to echo the tone used earlier by Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant, who had described Palestinians as “beastly people”.

Hezbollah's attrition warfare on the Lebanese/Palestinian borders, information according to Nasser Kandil :

Hezbollah destroyed Al Abad and Ruaisat Al Alam Israeli bases on the Lebanese borders. These are the biggest electronic warfare bases in the Middle East. At Al Alam, between 200 to 300 workers and engineers go there everyday. Estimated damage of sophisticated equipment on the borders amounts to 20 billion $, which was built over a 30+ years period.