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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.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

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, though we will switch next week to a new country.


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

The weekly (biweekly?) 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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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

Pro-Palestine content creators are being offered thousands of dollars to change their position

https://youtu.be/Vd9orGODd7M

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[-] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 1 year ago
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[-] zephyreks@hexbear.net 53 points 1 year ago

GeoConfirmed ISR-PAL - Hospital Bombing

Based on the geolocation of new footage its highly likely that:

The missile -Al Jazeera footage- is an interceptor. (Iron Dome) The explosion in the air is too far away to be related to the hospital explosion.

https://twitter.com/GeoConfirmed/status/1716113399728218618?t=ShtdLt8NYE-Hi0BhBpS-CQ&s=19

No fucking way! This is what happens when any idiot online can become an "OSINT expert."

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

some perfectly normal trolleyology from the local watering hole

Here is a hypothetical: Person 1 wants to save lives over a 50 year period but it requires extra deaths now. Person 2 wants to avoid frontloading deaths knowing it will result in a much higher total death count over 50 years. Who is more pro genocide?

brainworms amerikkka frothingfash

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

Holy shit, the arachnids have launched a meteor. All of Buenos Ares is gone. 9 million dead. 12.5 million wounded, that’s about 500,000 9/11s. This is a tragic offensive that only bugs could plan, but also bugs can’t think. So they are both the manipulators of worlds, and scum of the universe. It’s perfect! WERE GOING TO WAR BABY WOOHOO!

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

Glory to the heroic resistance fighters of Palestine fighting for their eventual and just victory of human dignity.

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

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️Hamas-linked telegram group says that a tank was blown up east of Beit Hanoun. Unconfirmed.

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

The galaxy brains of the IDF came up with this:

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

Anthony Bourdain would be a "Israeli war crimes are cringe but Hamas does have to go" guy right now.

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

Reuters:

Israel's military said on Monday its ground forces mounted limited raids into Gaza and airstrikes targeted Palestinian militants assembling to repulse any wider Israeli invasion, as each side prepares for the next stage of the escalating war.

Palestinian group Hamas said on Sunday its fighters had engaged an armoured force infiltrating a southern area of Gaza and destroyed some Israeli military equipment before returning to base. There was no Israeli comment on such losses.

Some on Twitter are saying that both Israeli and US small groups (perhaps special forces?) entered Gaza to look for hostages and were killed/repelled. I've been curious about how our very special adult sons (of which the uncensored photo was taken, then deleted and reposted with censorship, lmfao) are even gonna attempt to find hostages in heavily defended and trapped cities and tunnel networks spanning hundreds of miles. Like, are they gonna enter a tunnel and just hope it leads somewhere important and that they don't get fucking owned by militants who know the network like the back of their hands? The assault to find and kill Osama bin Laden was a comedy of errors and that didn't involve thousands of armed soldiers defending him that the soldiers had to fight past. Are they donning their Halo Spartan armor and shit?

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

Gonna keep posting the octopus edits I find

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

I'm feeling so productive. Helped a lot of trans people this past week, apparently its that time of year? I LOVE MY PEOPLE trans-hammer-sickle

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

"If it comes down to it, you could totally take on the entire Arab world by yourself"

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

Al-Jazeera - Qatar is in the advance stages of reaching a ceasefire deal between Israel & Hamas.

A breakthrough could be achieved in the coming days.

I've seen tonnes and tonnes of rumours about this today. I think it's legit. Combined with the fact that domestically the political situation is turning against a ground operation....

I think it's a real possibility, I'm getting hopeful.

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

White House has not responded to report it asked Qatar to tone down Al Jazeera’s coverage

The report by the Axios news agency said US top diplomat Antony Blinken had, less than two weeks ago, asked his Qatari counterpart to “tone down Al Jazeera’s rhetoric” on the Israel-Gaza war.

Reporting from Washington, Al Jazeera’s White House correspondent Kimberly Halkett said the administration has not responded to the report. She added that while Qatar “funds Al Jazeera, it does not in any way editorially shape our coverage”.

“I can tell you that, in my own interactions with the Biden administration, I have had pushback where I’ve been told that our coverage is critical of US foreign policy, and I defended it saying that that is healthy and that is what our job is to do,” she said.

“While there has been no attempt to try and in any way dispute this on the part of the White House, I can tell you from my own personal experiences that this certainly does echo what I have experienced here on the White House campus and in my interactions with the White House press office,” she said.

- Al Jazeera

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

Emphasis mine. Fucking Israel.

Without electricity, British-Palestinian surgeon warns hospital will turn into "a mass grave"

A British-Palestinian surgeon who traveled to Gaza to help in hospitals has warned that without electricity, the hospital he is in “will just be a mass grave.”

Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah said that without electricity “there’s nothing to do for these wounded" who are at Al-Shifa Hospital where he is working.

“The system is disintegrating and without a ceasefire and a humanitarian corridor — not token 14, 15, 20 trucks for two and a quarter million people, but a real humanitarian corridor that allows the evacuation of these wounded and allows humanitarian aid to come in and medical teams to come in — without that, there’s going to be an even larger catastrophe that the one that already exists here,” Abu-Sittah told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.

Abu-Sittah said the hospital has run out of burns dressings, with more than 100 patients in the hospital with burns covering more than 40% of their bodies.

There are more than 150 patients on ventilators with critical injuries in the hospital, he said, adding that they had also run out of “external fixators — the pins and rods that are required for orthopedic surgery.”

Abu-Sittah told CNN that a number of wounded and inpatients from the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital have been brought to Al-Shifa Hospital.

He said electricity is starting to cut out and there is not sufficient water pressure to run the sterilization machine that's needed for surgical instruments.

“Most importantly we’ve run out of space. The hospital that had a bed capacity between 550 and 700 beds now has 1,700 patients in mattresses in the corridors, on the floors of the emergency departments. The situation is dire, and we are just at the very end of the system as it slowly starts to crumble," he said.

The surgeon described treating a 16-year-old boy who “had burns to his face, his arms and his legs.” He said the boy told him how “he had dinner with his parents and his dad, who was sitting next to him, was killed and his mom suffocated in the fire that led to the burns that he had.”

“We have now a term in Shifa hospital called ‘wounded child with no surviving family’ to designate over 50 kids who have been pulled out of the rubble on their own and have sustained injuries and are being treated in the hospital,” Abu-Sittah said.

“For a system that had a total bed capacity of 2,500 beds before the war started, we are just waiting for the electricity to run out, the fuel, and then that will be the death… of the health system," he added.

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-23-23/h_0c17948492369ff4d34ad93876fdcb36

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The doctor's Twitter account - Ghassan Abu Sitta (@GhassanAbuSitt1)

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

Russia has introduced a new extreme range air-to-air missile that uses passive targeting during flight, Ukrainian jets are getting no warning alarms until they're hit from ~400km

26 jets downed in the last 9 days compared to an average rate of 1-3 per week

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/10/ukraines-sudden-high-air-losses-likely-caused-by-new-russian-missiles.html

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

NATO is the armed wing of the US, the UN is the diplomatic wing

shouldn't be a controversial statement really

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
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[-] Egon@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Kinda fascinating how so many of the "so much for the tolerant left" conservatives suddenly think it's completely fine to kill someone for being homophobic all of a sudden (here referring to people that argue the genocide in Gaza is okeydokey, because palestinians are about as LGBTQ-friendly as the average american)

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

"I see death 20 times a day," says 90-year-old woman after fleeing her Gaza home

Souad Al-Alem was one of the roughly 10,000 people forced to flee the Palestinian town of al-Majdal. It was 1948, she was a young woman and Israel’s troops were approaching the community during the Arab-Israeli war in what is now part of the Israeli city of Ashkelon.

Now in her 90s and living in Gaza, Al-Alem has been forced to run again — one of the hundreds of thousands of civilians caught up in the war.

“I see death 20 times every day, in the sky and on earth. Even the force of every blast affects us psychologically. It feels like it is on top of our heads when it’s next to us or nearby,” Al-Alem told CNN. Just 10 miles north of the Gaza border, not much remains of al-Majdal. Once a buzzing market place known for textile manufacturing, it was reduced to rubble after the 1948/49 war.

All of its houses are long gone, replaced with modern Israeli buildings that are now part of Ashkelon. Only the old mosque remains standing. Nearby, an empty, overgrown field gives a hint of the size of the former town.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-27-23/h_f8766b69f25da7f7fd9467857f595170

The full article - She fled the Israeli army as a young woman. Now in her 90s, she is running again | CNN

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

From Gaza now: Mosques are the only means of communication through speakers. "We have no communication with the outside world. They are using their military might to harm us. We have no power but the power of God, no one but God. Please, pray for us."

vide/audio - https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1718017424791126016/vid/avc1/320x564/lT1ioFspvtCwEsmS.mp4?tag=14

I've never heard anything coming out of a minaret speaker but the call to prayer. In Gaza, they are [sending] an SOS to a silent world.

Nitter

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

China's car exports are extremely hot this year. China's automotive industry is gunning for massive investment into automation. It's actually sort of crazy how much surplus capacity Chinese factories have.

People commenting on the reduction in Chinese exports of furniture and textiles are missing the bigger picture: China's economy is moving upwards in the value chain and it's requiring fewer workers to do it. That's both an advantage (because of increased efficiency) and a disadvantage (because the profits of that increased efficiency might not be coming back to the country). China has a uniquely strong government position to address this, but it'll still be interesting to see if the Chinese government can balance this massive growth in exports with the increasing power of private industry.

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

I was just reading a little bit about white phosphorus. Sounds way worse than say mustard gas. Just one more hypocrisy to add onto the pile that someone like Assad deserves to get bombed for (being accused of) having mustard gas, yet Israel and the US can use white phosphorus with impunity and that’s a-ok.

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

Another deranged Zionist who wants to turn Gaza into Dresden: https://nitter.cz/Anna_AnninaEl/status/1717460569601475007

And the dude isn't a nobody but has a rather length Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshe_Feiglin

Let's try to search for, I don't know, "Hitler":

Hitler was an unparalleled military genius. Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status. The ragged, trashy youth body turned into a neat and orderly part of society and Germany received an exemplary regime, a proper justice system and public order. Hitler savored good music. He would paint. This was no bunch of thugs. They merely used thugs and homosexuals.

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

news mega wisdom from our largest adult son in the 25 august vlog

No blowback is actually blowback. Even if the results are unintended, they are always then turned into opportunities because of the commanding position, because of the ability to act that is monopolized by the United States at the global level. That means every situation can be turned to [its] best interests.

Which is one of the reasons that people who reason backwards about every social revolt in the world as having to be an American op because as it unfolds the United States ends up benefiting from it- is ridiculous, is childlike thinking.

America dominates because any spontaneous and sincere social resistance is going to be unorganized and probably defeated, but the pressure on the state that it creates will persist and can be exploited by the one power that can act: the United States.

Sometimes the United States orchestrates things, when it has to. But for the most part it doesn't have to. That's one of those things that super-blackpilled conspiracy people who think they're telling you deep, hard truths- are actually being incredibly naive. Because they assume that the United States has to have that level of conspiratorial interference going on in order to benefit from everything. Not that its role as imperial hegemon makes that the default state everywhere.

I think the cia probably has fingers in more pies than he gives it credit for, but the ability to maneuver in response to organic social unrest around the world is an important piece of maintaining atlantic imperialism that I don't see people talk about very much

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

they should add "supported genocide" to the list

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

ICC investigating crimes on both sides 🫠🫠

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

Hexbear is a Troskyist website. The News Mega is a Newspaper.

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

The Wafa news agency reports that today in Jerusalem Israeli police shut down access for Muslims to al-Aqsa mosque. It says: “Authorities tightened entry into the mosque since the morning, where only the elderly were allowed to enter. However, this quickly changed and all worshippers of all ages were denied entry into al-Aqsa mosque, which was an unusual move not taken for months.” It reports that Jewish residents wishing to pray within the compound were allowed entry, “in violation of the status quo”, which has been that the compound is only available for Muslim worship. x

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

https://streamable.com/mck7vn

Partial interview with one of the newly released hostages where she talks about them being treated very nicely.

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