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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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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 69 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I just had to end a phone call with my dear old father. His sick lead-poisoned brain believes that the zionist entity is justified in everything it does because Hamas decapitated these babies, because the zionist entity is "western" (ie. us-foreign-policy) and because Hamas is actually carrying out a second Holocaust.

The man has two PhD's and speaks six languages yet he is the most maliciously idiotic person I have ever met.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1714854721540821300

@SeanBlackmon9 from the Party for Socialism and Liberation said that the narratives about Palestinians are dishonest, because no matter what they do, they're attacked as terrorists or anti-Semitic.

He compares the plight of Palestinians to if a person were being lynched and fought back with a noose around their neck, and then got accused of violence.

"If we want to bring down Apartheid Israel, not only will we have to defeat imperialism, we will have to overturn the capitalist system out of which the imperialist system grows," he said.

"We need a socialist reconstruction of the United States of America."

[-] CyborgMarx@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, no its totally plausible Hamas has air burst munitions capable of killing a 1000 people in one swoop, and they decided a week into the conflict after horrific casualties to finally use it, and the one time they do it just happens to malfunction and land directly on top of a hospital that was previously bombed by Israel and was slated for another attack by the IDF, yeah this is believable lenin-sure

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[-] FortifiedAttack@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

At this point I'm genuinely not sure what would be more damaging to the USA in the long term:

  • Trump, the bumbling 78-82 year old cheetoh man?
  • Or the 82-86 year old shambling corpse, Genocide Joe?
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[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

turning a big dial taht says "genocide" on it and constantly looking back at america for approval like a contestant on the price is right

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[-] Shymain@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

BTW, if anyone here is an active Wikipedian, feel free to contribute to the ongoing edit war over this line in the new article: "Hamas has been known to store munitions inside hospitals, mosques, and schools in the past.[12]" This is the easiest WP:SYNTH of all time since the source is not referring to the current events and thus including it is clearly attempting to make connections rather than neutrally collect reports on what is happening and what claims have been made.

e: success! As of a minute or two ago, consensus was reached to remove this line. Anticipating that the admin will unilaterally decide that it's valuable background and add it back in (since they're shoveling IDF propo into the article rn) but it's worth celebrating the small victories, I guess. Gotta keep track of the stars that exist in the overwhelming darkness of the night sky.

[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One on hand, I feel genuinely surprised over how much support Palestine has with the public versus my expectations in the first couple days of all this.

On the other hand, the only opinions I’ve seen from “leftists” outside of this website has been to qualify any support for Palestine with “but of course Hamas are terrorists and the bad guys and need to be dealt with”. Like this idea that all Palestinian violence against Israel is self-defense is completely foreign to people who superficially support a free Palestine (in the west at least).

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[-] princeofsin@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

HEY! Did you condom hummus?!?!?

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[-] Hohsia@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

Love it how no one trusts the media, unless they say something pro Israel or anti-China

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

Trudeau not ready to accept US finding that Palestinian outfit was behind Gaza hospital blast

Little potato's position was already under threat from US right-wing backers financially supporting PP. This refusal to follow the US line is probably going to ratchet that up.

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[-] nat_turner_overdrive@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

punished-bernie I am once again asking the DPRK to give Palestine a nuke

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 68 points 1 year ago

The soviets had 9012.01602136 9/11s in ww2 but you don't seem to care about that, liberal

owned

[-] Zrc@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

BREAKING: Statement released by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades and Saraya al-Quds

Not availabe

This channel can't be displayed because it violated local laws.

What do they mean by that?

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[-] thirtymilliondeadfish@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

The United States has proposed a draft UN Security Council resolution that says Israel has a right to defend itself.

It also calls for Iran stop exporting arms to "militias and terrorist groups threatening peace and security across the region".

The draft text calls for the protection of civilians — including those who are trying to get to safety — notes that states must comply with international law when responding to "terrorist attacks", and urges the "continuous, sufficient and unhindered" delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip.

The move by the US comes after it vetoed a Brazilian-drafted text on Wednesday that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants, to allow aid access to Gaza.

US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield justified Wednesday's veto by telling the council more time was needed for diplomacy on the ground as US President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the region.

Ms Thomas-Greenfield said the US was also disappointed Wednesday's draft did not mention Israel's right to self-defence.

USA eat my shit and hair

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[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

⚡️Iran: President Ebrahim Raisi, during his meeting with the South African Foreign Minister: There is no longer hope for the Security Council to play a role in maintaining international peace

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[-] Melina@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

What happened to The Ukraine lmao

[-] PaulSmackage@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

nerd um, ackshually, referring to Ukraine as "The Ukraine" is a derogatory term inferring that it is actually an extension of Russia and therefore imperialistic and fuck it i can't do this bit anymore

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[-] Kereru@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

jfc I'm losing my mind, I should not have gone on reddit-logo Not only denying Israel's bombing, but claiming that not that many people died. The absolute bloodlust of these psychopaths. I need to log off.

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

The most massive and diverse protests in the Arab World were in Iraq today. Shows that having some degree of freedom of expression in the Arab World makes the population way more confident and cool. Could never be Saudi or the UAE.

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[-] NoLeftLeftWhereILive@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We had a few very small pro-Palestine protests in Finland a few days ago. What I noticed was the people taking part in these were nearly 100% immigrants who by taking part in anything like this are taking huge personal risks regarding the right to stay and safety in general. There was also no information anywhere about these protest because this country has effectively kept all etcnic minorities outside of society and there really is no area where we cross paths.

The local rabbi has now announced that they will be raising charges againts these protesters for ethnic agitation and defamation.

This will likely lead to these people being deported or can be used againts them in other ways. It will surely stop all protests because even on protesting againts austerity policy or raising voices about issues within this country immigrants often have to stay out in fear of retaliation, I was told this by an international student who felt unsafe voicing their issues during the student protests here.

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[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

Its funny to me imagining hardline Marxist Leninist guerillas sitting across from Islamic extremist miltiamen inside an armored transport. Literally the 'this is what the establishment fears the most' meme.

the awkward silence would be hilarious. Weird things occur in National Liberation Front coalitions.

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[-] iByteABit@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

> Opens Twitter to see how the pro Palestinian demonstrations are going

> Sees one person calling them all brainless neonazis

> Sees some bourgeois bitch complain about the Gaza bombing because it will cause immigration to our country

> Closes Twitter

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Al-Jazeera: Ministry of the Interior in Gaza: A building belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church in downtown Gaza City collapsed as a result of Israeli raids!

Al-Jazeera: Ministry of Interior in Gaza: Injuries among displaced people who were taking shelter in the Greek Orthodox Church as a result of Israeli raids

These reports have been confirmed by the Orthodox Archdiocese of Jordan’s official FB page… ☦️🇯🇴Israel has destroyed one of the oldest Christian Churches in the world…

Lord have Mercy!

Israel bombed the Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza, where people were taking shelter

A week ago, it was reported that the Church was targeted, which turned out to be false. Sadly, they targeted it now. It was one of the oldest churches in the world.

third oldest church in the world

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

Genocide Joe clearly thinks Palestine isn't in Israel because he said only 1300 people were "slaughtered in Israel"

And yet...

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[-] kristina@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

i like how lemmy.world just says 'go back to hexbear' to anyone with left wing views so then we get more users. free advertising shrug-outta-hecks

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

Israel-which won't allow any independent reporters on the ground whatsoever-has now escalated their stance of "we didn't bomb the hospital we said we were bombing an hour earlier" to "500 people didn't actually die." I choose to believe this because Chapo Trap House annoys me.

Nitter

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 67 points 1 year ago

Genocide Joe supports Apartheid Israel in the mass murder of Palestinian civilians.

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Wall Street Journal:

"The bomb that was thrown at Baptist Hospital was an American MK-84."

Could be incorrect. Needs verifying.

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[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

How long till we get another post 'concerned about hexbear antisemitism' that provides no evidence and just turns out to be someone going "but killing settlers is genocide".

its happened twice so far

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[-] TheGamingLuddite@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

Made the mistake of reading a reddit thread and this is what I found

Majority opinion is that mainstream media is rabidly pro-Hamas.

the average reddit politics sub user is either an anglophone ordoliberal euro-pervert (most diseased demographic on earth) or an American Xennial that got sucked into an astroturfed DNC disinfo network in 2019 and hasn't spoken to another human outside of a comment section since.

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[-] Parsani@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

Israel today: "We would never strike civilians"

Israel also today: "We demolished a mosque with civilians inside"

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has called Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to offer condolences and voice support for Palestinians’ “legitimate aspirations,” the State Department has said.

Fuck you

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[-] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

Their savage and barbaric terrorism

Our modern and high tech Shock and Awe doctrine

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[-] SpookyVanguard64@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Idk if anyone's posted it here yet, but Josh Paul, a senior US State Department official who was in change of arms transfers, just resigned in protest over what's going been going on in Gaza. He put up a letter on his LinkedIn page, which you can read here. It's obviously coming from a lib perspective, but it is still pretty remarkable that the top gun runner for the the US empire is taking more issue with the situation than the vast majority of mainstream media or "progressive" politicians.

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[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

It was good going to the Free Palestine protest yesterday, way bigger crowd than the one I went to last week

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[-] vertexarray@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

Biden says Gaza hospital blast ‘appears as though it was done by the other team’ and not Israel

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — President Joe Biden vowed to show the world that the U.S. stands in solidarity with Israelis during his visit there Wednesday, and offered an assessment that the deadly explosion at a Gaza Strip hospital apparently was not carried out by the Israeli military.

“Based on what I’ve seen, it appears as though it was done by the other team, not you,” Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting. But Biden said there were “a lot of people out there” who weren’t sure what caused the blast.

Biden didn’t offer details on why he believed the blast was not caused by the Israelis.

Genocide Joe Rides Again

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[-] iheartmold@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMjVPFWU8/ Israeli woman making fun of the Palestinian bombing genocide by making a "get ready with me" video. This I why I have zero sympathy for Israelis. desolate

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

About the hospital bombing...

IDF has this degree of penetration of Hamas's communications in Gaza, but missed a broad based attack involving thousands of participants that was two years in the planning.

Nitter

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago
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[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

Its fun watching the empire crumble, but I die inside seeing whats happening to the citizens in between. Russians, Ukrainians, and Palestinians are getting killed every second for their battles resisting fascism and imperialism. Any of them are braver than I will be.

Ukraine and Russia used to be one. Arabs and Jews had worked in harmony for centuries before radicalized nationalism ruined it all. These are wars of sisters having to kill their siblings.

Death to the US

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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Former police officer and current Defence Minister Bill Blair claims Canada "has high degree of confidence" that Israel did not strike ah-Ahli hospital.

In what I'm sure is completely unrelated news, people are booing Trudeau at mosques. Completely unrelated, I'm sure.

So... I guess Hamas invented literally the most powerful weapon in their arsenal? A weapon that, even if intercepted by the Iron Dome, can cause hundreds of casualties? 🤔

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago
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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago

I'm seeing a lot of people feel that the tide is gradually turning for Palestine. I think I agree. I was disheartened by the pro Israel statements initially, however once Israel fully began it's response, I've seen how many people have begun to turn against Israel and have even felt horror about Biden's response. I think this is a turning point. Only thing we have to teach is that Palestinians have the right to go on the offense.

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[-] star_wraith@hexbear.net 66 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Biden is now backing up Israeli lies about their strike on the hospital (per CNN):

Speaking alongside Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, Biden said it appeared Tuesday's deadly blast at a Gaza hospital was "done by the other team, not you," echoing Israeli assertions that the bombing was caused by an Islamic Jihad rocket.

I really fucking hate Biden.

“But there’s a lot of people out there not sure, so we’ve got a lot, we’ve got to overcome a lot of things,” Biden added.

jfc, so to Genocide Joe, the biggest problem we face is that others think it was Israel that blew up the hospital, and they just need some convincing!?!?

amerikkka

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