Al Jazeera statement on cyberattacks targeting website, broadcasting

Al Jazeera Media Network has been subjected to an unprecedented surge of cyberattacks aimed at crippling its website and broadcasting capabilities, while covering the war on Gaza.

These attacks are some of the most severe and intense that the network has encountered.

The teams at Al Jazeera working to mitigate these attacks have uncovered that a significant portion of them are originating from IP addresses connected to entities actively engaged in the ongoing conflict.

Additionally, certain IP addresses have been found to be employing tactics to conceal their true origins.

The nature of these cyberattacks is persistent and well-coordinated, evidently with the intention to cause substantial disruption.

They demonstrate a systematic and methodical approach, coupled with the use of sophisticated techniques.

Al Jazeera Media Network maintains its legal right to seek out and hold accountable those responsible for these deliberate and targeted cyber-attacks.

Hezbollah is yet to form a Juggalo division, so I will be remaining in the US until further notice.

When Korea was liberated, hundreds of thousands of Japanese colonizers left of their own accord for Japan. There wasn’t any process to expel Japanese settlers because they voluntarily left after the privileges of colonial authority were taken from them.

— 🇷🇺/🇱🇧 Wall Street Journal: 'According to U.S. intelligence, the Wagner group may try to transfer advanced air defense systems to Hezbollah'

Brazil's Workers Party (Lula's Party) slams Israel for holding Brazilians in Gaza

BRASILIA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Brazil's ruling Workers Party criticized the Israeli government on Friday for not allowing 34 Brazilians to leave Gaza, saying Israel is playing favorites when deciding who should be allowed to evacuate the besieged Palestinian territory.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told his Brazilian counterpart Brazil's nationals would leave Gaza by Wednesday, a Brazilian foreign ministry spokesman said late on Friday.

In three days since the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt opened to allow nationals of other countries to leave Gaza, Brazilians waiting to leave were not on the list approved by Israel, despite diplomatic efforts to include them.

"For the third time, the Israeli government denied the departure of Brazilian citizens threatened by the massacre against the civilian population in the Gaza strip," Workers Party president Gleisi Hoffmann said in a social media post.

She said the Israeli government has not provided any explanation for what she said was discrimination. Brazil tried to find a negotiated solution to the conflict when it presided over the U.N. Security Council in October, Hoffmann said.

"Unfortunately, the Israeli government signals that it has established a political hierarchy for the release of civilians, favoring some countries over others," Hoffmann said.

"We cannot allow that Brazilian civilians remain threatened in a region under military massacre," she added.

Hundreds of foreign passport holders and gravely injured Palestinians have been evacuated from Gaza via the Rafah crossing to Egypt since Wednesday in a deal brokered by Qatar between Egypt, Israel and Hamas, in coordination with the U.S.

Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas, which rules Gaza, after the militant group killed 1,400 people and took more than 240 hostages in an Oct. 7 assault in southern Israel. Gaza health officials said on Saturday that more than 9,488 Palestinians have been killed so far in the Israeli assault.

A diplomatic source briefed on Egyptian plans said some 7,500 foreign passport holders would be evacuated over two weeks.

Brazilian officials said they have no explanation for the failure to let their citizens out of Gaza. Some local media have speculated it is due to positions taken by Brazil at the United Nations and comments by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Lula has criticized the "terrorism" of Hamas that started the war, but he has also criticized Israel for its "insane" bombardment of Gaza that has killed hundreds of children.

Professional opnionhavers have the worst fuckin opinions. Look at Friedman, the dumb fuck. I have way better opinions than the entire editorial board of the NYT and spread them for free in a bar at three in the morning to anyone who will listen

So this is from almost a year ago, but youtube suggested it to me and I think it's a good reminder that there are a lot of Israelis who are really opposed to the oppression of palestinians. These are truly brave people to stand up against the zionist regime, I have extreme respect for them.

Ghassan Abu Sitta is a doctor in Gaza...

Israelis increasingly using phosphorus bombs. Treated a 13 year old yesturday with distinctive phosphorus burns to both legs and thighs.

Nitter

Can't stop watching the video of the guy running up to that tank. Legit one of the most insane things I've ever seen.

Military spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaida:

• Our fighters continue to confront the Israeli occupation forces on various fronts of Zionist incursion.
• We have destroyed a total of equal to a tank battalion [~40 tanks] along the advancement routes, in less than 48h
• We successfully maneuvered behind enemy lines and launched an attack from point-blank.
• We executed a counteroffensive this evening in the northwest of Gaza City, where we destroyed 6 tanks and 2 military vehicles, in just 1 hour.
• The number of casualties is significantly higher than what the enemy's leadership has announced.

He also mentioned that the enemy is lying and that the resistance can fight for many years and hold its positions.

⚡️Israeli media: “Israel” is very concerned ahead of Nasrallah’s speech next Friday

It's afraid

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Protracted otter's war against Amerikkka SSurfers

My Mom told me she completely gets why Hamas did what they did, but she can't help but think the hostage taking backfired because it seems Israel is willing to kill them.

https://streamable.com/o4weo5

Hamas released video of some Israeli captives with a message for Netanyahu

Looks like Israel has realized that having blonde light skinned bimbofied idf girls be their poster child is a bad look on social media

Been seeing an up tik is more middle Eastern looking idf girls pushing propaganda the past day or two.

The true president has spoken

“People who are calling for a ceasefire now do not understand Hamas. That is not possible.”

She also said Israel has a “right to defend itself” against the terrorist militant group Hamas and that they have an “obligation to limit civilian deaths and casualties of all kinds.”

If I see another Zionist mention babies one more time, I might just lose my shit.

Turkish President Recep Erdogan on Saturday announced his refusal to further communicate with the head of the Israeli government, Benjamin Netanyahu.

“We will no longer be able to talk with Netanyahu. We have crossed him out,” the inter-Arab TV channel al-Arabiya quotes Erdogan as saying. Turkey will no longer have any confidence in the global system unless Israel ends and is held accountable for what Erdogan called "war crimes and human rights violations," he said.

if you told me a few years ago that i'd be setting alarms for a hezbollah speech...

Fuck the US media.

A rando military guy was on CNN and I didn't know who he was so I scanned his Wikipedia for about 60 seconds.

Mark Kimmitt

Controversy

In the aftermath of the Mukaradeeb wedding party massacre [in 2004], Kimmitt claimed, "There was no evidence of a wedding: no decorations, no musical instruments found, no large quantities of food or leftover servings one would expect from a wedding celebration. There may have been some kind of celebration. Bad people have celebrations, too."

However video footage obtained by the Associated Press seems to contradict this view. The video shows a series of scenes of a wedding celebration, and footage from the following day showing fragments of musical instruments, pots and pans and brightly colored beddings used for celebrations, scattered around a destroyed tent.

[...]

Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt (born 21 June 1954) is the former Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs, serving under George W. Bush from August 2008 to January 2009; he was the 16th person to hold the post. Prior to joining the State Department, he was a brigadier general in the United States Army, and served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Middle East.

Kimmitt has also served as deputy director for strategy and plans for the United States Central Command, and deputy director for operations/chief military spokesman for coalition forces in Iraq, and served at NATO's SHAPE headquarters in Belgium.

Remember message force multipliers? I don't know if he was one officially but I assume he was.

Pentagon military analyst program

The Pentagon military analyst program was a propaganda campaign of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) that was launched in early 2002 by then-Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Victoria Clarke. The goal of the operation is "to spread the administration's talking points on Iraq by briefing retired commanders for network and cable television appearances," where they have been presented as independent analysts.

A Pentagon spokesman said the Pentagon's intent is to keep the American people informed about the so-called War on Terrorism by providing prominent military analysts with factual information and frequent, direct access to key military officials. The Times article suggests that the analysts had undisclosed financial conflicts of interest and were given special access as a reward for promoting the administration's point of view. On 28 April 2008, the Pentagon ended the operation. A DoD Inspector General investigation found no wrongdoing on the part of the DoD.

[...]

Details of the operation were first revealed in a lengthy New York Times exposé written by David Barstow and published in April 2008. Within the documents the analysts were referred to as message force multipliers (q.v. force multiplication).

I like Björk. When I hear her album Vespertine, I think “yes”. When she posts, I also think “yes”.

i took trigonometry in high school but it was during covid so i didn’t learn shit but i’m taking it again in college and it’s blowing my mind how connected math is to everything, specifically music with how the graph of something like y=cos(theta) is a sine wave. and that’s something i can hear! i’ve listened to songs today with sine wave synths in them! and all that shit comes from shapes and triangles!!!!

British establishment strongly condemns calls for armistice on Armistice Day

The US special envoy David Satterfield said on Saturday that between 800,000 and 1 million people have moved to the south of the Gaza Strip, while 350,000-400,000 remain in the north of the enclave.

- Guardian

It's amazing that some people look at the reality and they don't see it as ethnic cleansing.

So is the USA doing the Toy Story "I don't want to play with you anymore" meme to Ukraine or we still in that?

doing that thing I do where I drink and watch hamas videos, then when I'm pretty drunk start watching videos about how to say the shahada because hamas videos are so hype

I’ve been going on Reddit and arguing with people today … Somebody help me. Make me stop

Central street of Kiryat Shemona, Israeli settlement on the Lebanese border.

https://nitter.cz/ytirawi/status/1720147647846109493

Hamas member walks slowly, places a mine on a tank, blows it up, then goes back to safety

Hazbullah sends a "Burkan" (Vulcan) rocket against the IDF tower

video: https://streamable.com/ifo3ns

US Secretary of State returns to Israel on Friday

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Israel on Friday, the US State Department says. He will be meeting members of the Israeli government and will also make other stops in the region. It is unclear if Blinken will meet with any Palestinian officials on the trip. This will be Blinken's second trip to the Middle East in the past three weeks.

- BBC

This shuttle diplomacy is a kind of pantomime of action. Biden's administration PR is going to amp up their messaging that they "pressing" the Israelis to protect the lives of civilians. But Israel will keep killing anyway.

Google is now even more censored

white people MLK speech

Hamas out there 360 no-scoping

I found this ideo pretty interesting. A soldier talks in detail about the Kurdish tunnels he saw and used in during his deployment, and how difficult they are to infiltrate and destroy, as well as how comfortable some of them are. Given what Hamas has shown so far, he expects their setup is at LEAST as nice.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mMaQn6eBroY