To add to my earlier point of 17,000 South Africans in the IDF - Isnotreal isn't allowing the Irish to leave the Gaza Strip (and probably anyone with South African citizenship either).

Just like in literally , the pro-Apartheid militants are massacring other South Africans with impunity.

Uncritical support to extradite the 17,000 and feed them to the big cats in the Johannesburg Zoo. I get free admission and snacks then.

new Moon of Alabama

A Few Notes On The War On Palestine

Having been lightly prodded by the Biden administration the Netanyahoo regime in Palestine agreed to split its days into a 20 hours block dedicated to genociding Palestinians and a 4 hours block for ethnic cleansing.

continues at https://www.moonofalabama.org/2023/11/notes-on-the-war-on-palestine.html

#BREAKING| According to testimonies by Palestinians displaced from Al Naser neighborhood in western #Gaza, American soldiers were on the ground participating in #Israel's offensive on #Gaza.

https://twitter.com/qudsnen/status/1723791891311792484
https://nitter.net/qudsnen/status/1723791891311792484

https://archive.ph/90ukk

Middle East Monitor: Spain ‘neo Nazi’ mercenary among others helping Israel in Gaza

Long story short, per the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, this guy Pedro Diaz Flores who fought with other neo nazis in Ukraine last year, said that he's being paid by Israel now. Flores says that mercenaries are only being used for security support and not directly participating in the fighting. He, personally, is stationed in the Golan Heights. An additional note of context about the history of mercenaries working with the IDF follows:

“We are in charge of the security of the checkpoints and access control on the borders of Gaza and Jordan. There are many PMCs [private military companies] here and they share the work. Traditionally they have guarded border terminals between Eliat and Aqaba,” [Flores] added.

I noticed something I hadn't seen since the war started. An American correspondent in Israel streaming live wearing business clothes. Is this meant to mean that - bad pun intended - it's business as usual in Tel Aviv?

Also an MNSBC anchor just called the four hour pause a "window of hope". And then she asked a go-to military guy (an ex-supreme commander of NATO) what he thought of it. In unsurprising news - he's a MIC mouthpiece.

Lmao, learning about the Genocide Convention and surprise surprise…the US ratified it on condition that they have immunity from prosecution unless the US Government agrees

U.S. diplomats slam Israel policy in leaked memo - POLITICO

The document offers a window into internal fury at the State Department over President Joe Biden’s Middle East policies.

State Department staffers offered a blistering critique of the Biden administration’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in a dissent memo obtained by POLITICO, arguing that, among other things, the U.S. should be willing to publicly criticize the Israelis.

Slams? Fury? Blistering? I'm certain they didn't even use the word "must". Anyway - there's this...

The memo has two key requests: that the U.S. support a ceasefire, and that it balance its private and public messaging toward Israel, including airing criticisms of Israeli military tactics and treatment of Palestinians that the U.S. generally prefers to keep private.

Maybe it’s because I just had my covid booster but it just feels so overwhelming and depressing like. It’s mask off genocide and the democrats apparently can’t even be driven by self interest, totally willing to tank their own numbers and maybe throw an election just to prop up fascism Make it make sense

Continue to wish israeli soldiers to find compassion, guillotine bibi, tear down the wall and implement communism

the IDF seems to give out ranks like how strip mall tae kwon do schools give everyone a black belt. if you show up more than two weeks in a row, you’re made a lieutenant colonel. they have maybe 20 corporals in the entire army

In the past 24 hours, the Al-Qassam Brigades managed to completely/partially destroy 15 military vehicles on the outskirts of the Beach Camp and in Beit Hanoun. They also targeted invading forces with dozens of mortar shells and engaged in clashes with them.

I am nationalizing the lathe and putting it under communist control, effective immediately

Ukrainian military officer coordinated Nord Stream pipeline attack

Huh.

By slammer on twitter

I have a blueskkky code if anyone wants it

Keir Starmer is battling to reassert his authority within the Labour party over the conflict in Gaza, with four shadow ministers prepared to quit in the coming days and up to 10 others on “resignation watch”.

The Labour leader is facing a rebellion by as many as a dozen shadow ministers, who sources say are ready to resign rather than vote against calling for a ceasefire in the Middle East, which Starmer has refused to back.

Several Labour MPs say they are under huge pressure from party members and constituents to take a firmer stance against the Israeli invasion of Gaza, as tens of thousands of people are expected to take part in pro-Palestinian protests in London this weekend.

A Labour official said party leaders were closely watching as many as 15 shadow ministers who have high numbers of Muslim constituents for signs they are about to quit, after the resignation of Imran Hussain on Tuesday night. None are understood to be in the shadow cabinet.

One Labour frontbencher told the Guardian:

My position has always been [that] the only way forward is a ceasefire. The pause [as advocated by Starmer] will not solve the problem. Someone needs to say enough is enough.

Another said:

I have over 600 emails on this which is more than any other subject ever, including Brexit and Covid I don’t know a Labour MP who isn’t under pressure at the moment.

- The Guardian

Does anybody want to add some context and make some predictions? I'm American so this is all Greek to me.

[Edit - I made a small one.]

No Palestinian Authority in post-war Gaza: Netanyahu

Israel’s leader has ruled out a role for the current Palestinian Authority government in Gaza once the war between Israel and Hamas is over.

“There will have to be something else there,” he said when asked whether the PA, which has partial administrative control in the occupied West Bank, may govern Gaza after the war.

“There won’t be a civilian authority that educates their children to hate Israel, to kill Israelis, to wipe out the state of Israel,” Netanyahu said.

- Al Jazeera

"We found a Mein Kampf book that is in pristine condition in a war zone totally not staged!!!!!"

The real reason the Zapistanis are dissolving their municipalities is because they will soon announce the organization of the Lower Mexican Soviet Republic, and aim to liberate all of Mexico from capitalism

Leftist subs need to stop going private because of Vaushite/Destiny brigaders. It's only fueling them more.

https://colombiareports.com/colombia-to-press-war-crime-charges-against-netanyahu/

U.S. Weapons Transfers to Israel Shrouded in Secrecy

The Biden administration released a three-page itemized list of weapons provided to Ukraine, down to the exact number of rounds, the information released about weapons sent to Israel could fit in a single sentence.

Mahmoud Abbas is 87 years old, even older than Biden

once the news mega hits posts lemmy will fall

Cornel West gets a lot of shit and rightfully so, but I just saw him essentially say that NATO aggression caused the Ukraine war on CNN. I'll have to find the clip, but shit was wild

Here's the edited version his campaign put out on his twitter. He couched it in lib statements but also included the hashtag #AbolishNATO

I'm interested if this signals any shift in the discourse at all wrt NATO, etc in the general lib populace or if this will be dismissed as wack and fanatic

We've entered that part of the war where all the uncertainties feel mostly settled and now it's just grind and I hate it.

All avenues for aid feel like they're closed. All pressures for a ceasefire feel closed. Best we can do is getting unions to strike against support.

North Gaza will eventually be defeated, it's a matter of time and grind on the current trajectory with no other forces doing anything worthwhile (fuck you hezbollah). Israel will hand it over to their puppets at the PA and will regularly intervene in any attempts to dislodge the PA's control there. This will cost Israel a lot but it won't matter as every other power in the region has made it clear that they're cucked.

Either a huge surprise happens and one of the players actually does something (unlikely now) or this is the path things are on.

for funsies i looked into an organization this lib linked as a qualified source for translation https://web.archive.org/web/20170906180510/http://www.internationallawbureau.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Ten-Great-Principles-of-the-Establishment-of-the-Unitary-ideology.pdf

while its just a pdf, and seems very normal on the surface, i just got this nagging feeling

uh so guess who funds the group

guess whos given awards to the group

now uh but its the uh

its uh

https://www.ned.org/2018-democracy-award/2018-democracy-award-honoree-citizens-alliance-for-north-korean-human-rights-nkhr/

its the National Endowment for Democracy

The fucking NED

the most well known and transparent CIA front org thats been around since the cold war

Why do I take these people seriously again?

this reminds me of when another lib linked an ' independent, anti-DPRK Korean news outlet' and it took a single google search to find it was based in WASHINGTON DC

oh my god it gets even better, guess what organization made that fake case against north korea to justify more sanctions? this very org, represented by

Sungju Lee

• A traitorous liar, so just but I don't know too much about this rube specifically. He does have a book on 'escaping north korea' with the usual bull.
• book was co-authored by an Amnesty international stooge named Susan Elizabeth McClelland, who seems completely out of the limelight usually but then appears to make shit like this and shill for Obama. She's a liberal feminist, but I think just a tool of a lib and not a fed stooge

Bum-Jin Park

• previously a member of the Korean National Assembly, also doesn't appear at all except in the org website and mentions by the NED
• Very little info despite being one of the heads of the org

and Youngja Kim

• Also founding member of Human Asia, the creator of the "The Asia Business and Human Rights Center" (ABHRC) who's mission statement is:

"The Asia Business and Human Rights Center (ABHRC) is a non-governmental organization focusing policy change via academic research and consultations. The Center is housed at Human Asia, founded in 2006, a non-profit human rights organization aiming to protect human rights via the establishment of a regional human rights mechanism, which is currently lacking only in Asia. In following with the goal, ABHRC aims to defend and integrate human rights in all business activities across the Asian region. ABHRC connects various stakeholders around the globe, including companies, civil society, governments, academics and international organizations, to discuss and identify the most pressing issues regarding human rights and business."

the Human Asia do not list their sponsors, that or i couldn't find them.

In Gaza, ‘even children think of death’, says resident

Yousri al-Ghoul, a Palestinian political writer, said Israel is committing “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza.

Al-Ghoul left al-Shati refugee camp for Jabalia in northern Gaza.

“We didn’t know where to go,” he told Al Jazeera. Al-Ghoul said he and his family did not make the trip to the south due to safety concerns.

He said people who made it south have told him that Israeli troops set up multiple checkpoints, “killed many and took many as prisoners stole their money, stole their jewellery, everything they have”.

“No place in Gaza is safe,” he said. “We don’t have fuel, we don’t have bakeries, we don’t have bread, we don’t have water.

“Everyone here, even children, think of death.”

-Al Jazeera

Awful. And that's the first I've heard of checkpoints in Gaza.

Israel revises Hamas attack death toll to 'around 12 9/11s'

And then along came a very powerful leader, you know who that is, and he said, 'no more.'

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