Mahmoud Abbas is 87 years old, even older than Biden

Long form Interview with Palestinian Activist Khaled Barakat: "No one in Gaza demands 'ceasefire'"

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

once the news mega hits posts lemmy will fall

Video of desperate Zelensky: "If you can't give us some financial support, okay please give us credit and we will give you back money."

You can "nuance" the matter all you want but at the end of the day i cant shed many tears for those acting like comprador dogs in the face of genocide, fighting with the ones facilitating it no less. When you not only make a deal with the devil but actively help him and fight for him in such situations, you are one of his demons. No matter the "libertarian socialist" or whatever coating (that so many people still buy into)

Clashes are taking place between the American forces and the SDF from areas they occupy east of the Euphrates, and between the Syrian army and its allies in the axis of resistance from their points of control west of the Euphrates.

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.

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

Jim Acosta on CNN tonight to some other bozo clown: "Do we know who's firing on the people trying to leave the hospitals?"

Gee pal I dunno, it's probably evil Hamas shooting their own people to make perfect heaven baby angel soldiers the IDF look bad.

The latest episode of chapo with Derek davison is good. Derek has the laugh of someone who has a sense of humor himself but spends all his time on grim and serious subjects with grim and serious people. on the show you can hear the joy in his voice when he actually gets to do jokes

Who knew that so much raw crankery could be so boring

Is ukraine now doing the dirty work for the US as filthy mossad did before? I'm talking about their official military operation in Sudan. Both of them just tools of the US Emipre.

Someone cracked Call of Duty Cold War so I figured it's a good day to get high and play it. I really hate how game journalists tried to claim this game was somehow a deep satire. Like you can't fathom the people that make Call of Duty don't share your politics and made some jingoistic schlock. At least you get to side with the good guys in the end.

Ursula von der Leyen

09 November 1938

#NieWiederIstJetzt

#NeverAgainIsNow

vomit inducing pic

If I speak I may get banned so I will leave you all with

Danish government-controlled broadcaster DR brought an article about an increasing number of "antisemitic incidents" worldwide due to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. They provide the following tally:

Austria: According the time Jewish community in Vienna there were 79 antisemitic incidents from October 7th to October 19th which is a 300 percent increase compared to last year.

Brazil: According to CONIB who tracks antisemitism in Brazil there has been 467 antisemitic incidents since October 7th, an increase of 961 percent compared to last year.

France: According to the French minister of the interiors Gerald Darmanin there were 1040 antisemitic incidents and 486 arrests since October 7th.

Germany: According to RIAS, an NGO who registers antisemitic incidents in Germany - from October 7th to October 15th there was an increase in antisemitic incidents of 240 percent since October 7th compared to the same period last year. 91 percent of these are anti-"Israel" related antisemitism.

South Africa: According to the South African Jewish Board of Deputies there were 41 antisemitic incidents in October which is a significant increase compared to previous years.

Great Britain: According to the Jewish community's security organisation, CST, from October 7th to 31st there has been 893 antisemitic incidents, an increase of 609 percent compared to the same 25 day period in 2022. The highest amount measured since the organisation was founded in 1984.

USA: Since October 7th ADL has registered a total of 312 antisemitic incidents between October 7th and 23rd of which 190 were directly connected to the war in "Israel" and Gaza

Reports like these are very nebulous about what constitutes an "antisemitic incident" but the numbers highlighted above suggests that most of what western propaganda calls antisemitism is in fact anti-zionism. It suggests that the term "antisemitic incident" can be anything from a swastika-waving Nazi riot to the guy in my city who has put up a "Palestinian children have the right to live" sign on his house.

Zionist propaganda has been crying wolf for decades, working hard to conflate racism against Jews with support for anticolonial struggle in Palestine. It is entirely within the realm of possibility that some idiots blames "the Jews" for the genocide, led along by zionist propaganda who conflates Judaism and Zionism, and turns to antisemitic reactions but in all likelihood the vast majority of "antisemitic incidents" is just zionist crybullies pissing and moaning about being called out for their genocidal ideas.

Ezra Klein "the importance of discourse"d the Gaza War.

0/10 as commentary
8.5/10 as comedy

Before there can be any kind of stable coexistence of people in Israel and Palestine, there will have to be a stable coexistence of narratives.

So I guess Ukraine really is an artillery war now? Seems like the primary force for attrition is drones, for offence is artillery, and for defence is trenches.

Who would have thought that WW1 doctrine would reign supreme in the 21st century?

So that lady from Big bang theory is doing some real cringe posting on tiktok. Of course comments turned off

It's always especially irritating when a Vaushite smugly argues, "The US isn't a rogue state because the US is the one who dictates the terms. We have the power to stop all the Gulf states without even trying. Remember Iraq during the Gulf War?"

Someone said that recently. I look at his profile and he posts in "noncrediblediplomacy" saying, "You can always write papers pushing against the 'colonialism' narrative. That's how I passed most of my courses in college."

The final two sentences

Central Gaza hospital says it saw over 100 fatalities in one day

On a day of heavy Israeli bombardment, workers at central Gaza's Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital saw more than 100 fatalities in a single day, according to the institution's media office.

Separately, journalist Hassan Eslayeh saw dozens of casualties brought into the hospital Monday. Most came in private cars since people have not been able to call for emergency service due to the disruption in communications in Gaza.

Ambulances were seen following cars back to bombing sites and returning with more casualties.

CNN video shows more than 20 body bags lined up in front of the hospital during the day for funeral prayer. People then carried the bags into trucks and ambulances for burial.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-06-23/h_ce295adb4f293e819db6fff39e3c73d5

The United Arab Emirates has announced it will establish a fully equipped field hospital in the Gaza Strip to treat wounded Palestinians, according to state media.

The state news agency reported that five aircraft carrying the equipment and requirements necessary for the establishment and operation of the field hospital departed from Abu Dhabi on Monday, heading to al-Arish airport in Egypt.

The agency said the hospital would have a capacity of 150 beds. There was no mention of whether the UAE had reached an agreement on the initiative with Israel.

- The Guardian

:officer-down::officer-down::officer-down::officer-down:

🚨 Al-Mayadeen reports that a number of American soldiers were killed during the recent bombing with 15 missiles of the Conoco gas field in eastern Syria by the resistance.

from https://t.me/PalestineResist/19211

In some good news, elections on constitutional amendments for recreational marijuana and abortion rights up to fetal viability (22-24 weeks) both passed in GOP-controlled Ohio.

NATO allies condemn Russia's withdrawal from CFE treaty, will suspend its operation

So turns out NATO is still plenty scared of Russia's conventional army, huh?

Um, uh guys

in today's MoA about Ukraine I learned there is a Dutch politican named Tiny Kox

Noah Kulwin is about to go live on Hasan's stream.

YOU LAUGHED AT ME BECAUSE I DID COKE AND PLAYED WITH A GRENADE ON A PLANE (). WELL THE NEWSMEGA IS UNDER 4K, SO WHO IS LAUGHING NOW?!

At Anti-"Israel" March in D.C., Explicit Expressions of Support for Terror and Antisemitism

The ADL has been to an anti-genocide march in Washington DC to look for expressions of antisemitism. And while they managed to find some actually problematic stuff like a placard talking about someone "pulling the strings" of genocide Joe, they also managed to find lots of other stuff, including:

Lamis Deek, a leader with the anti-Zionist group Al-Awda, called Israelis a “cult of torturers” who enjoy inflicting pain on children [...] She also venerated terror; called to “dismantle every institution of Zionist violence in the world;”

One poster replaced the Jewish Star of David in the Israeli flag with an emoji of feces, suggesting Israel be thrown in the garbage.

Raja Abdulhaq, a New York City-based political organizer and anti-Israel activist, said that an aim of Israel’s “war on Gaza” is to stifle political movements that oppose capitalism, playing into historic themes about Jews and money.

An attendee carried a poster calling Zionism “a cancer to this planet.” An overwhelming majority of Jews consider Zionism to be an integral part of their Jewish identities (regardless of their views about specific Israeli policies).

An attendee carried a sign that read, “Down with Zionism” and an Arabic phrase that translates to “Death to Zionism.”

Marte White from the Atlanta chapter of Community Movement Builders emphasized the Palestinians’ right to resist “by any means necessary:”

“…one of our principles is to stand in solidarity with other oppressed people fighting for self-determination, especially Palestinians. The first thing I want to get into here is that Palestinians are showing us what decolonization really looks like. This shit is real. Palestinians have a right to rebel. But that means that they have a right to right to free their land from the river to the sea by any means necessary. And I do mean any means necessary.”

An attendee held a poster suggesting support for all forms of action against Israel, including terrorism.

A participant carried a poster with the words “Resistance is Justice” and the likeness of PFLP leader and terrorist Leila Khaled.

Do we have a "What is Zionism?" one-page document I can throw at someone? They're "very offended" that I said Hamas changed it's charter to distinguish between fighting Zionism and fighting all Jewish people because they ahve "family ties in Israel" and I just don't want to write a whole fucking thing right now, especially because I'm half-convinced anything I say will blow up the discord. Dude's already pulled out the "Your opinion is invalid because I have family on the ground" thing. : p

Raisi in SA

https://www.rt.com/news/584220-israel-gaza-hamas-attack/

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has called on Islamic governments to designate Israel as a “terrorist organization” due to its ongoing military operations in Gaza.

“Islamic governments should designate the army of the occupying and aggressor regime as a terrorist organization,” Raisi said at the Joint Arab Islamic Extraordinary Summit in Riyadh as Middle Eastern leaders convened to discuss the Israel-Hamas conflict.

Raisi also called on Islamic countries to cut “any sort of political or economic relations” with Israel, as well as the introduction of a trade boycott “especially in the energy field.”

Raisi’s arrival in Riyadh on Saturday was the first time an Iranian head of state had visited Saudi Arabia since diplomatic ties between the two countries were normalized in a Beijing-brokered deal in March.