Biden promises continued military assistance to Israel and he says "I am a Zionist," at a Hanukkah event. Then they sing "Hava Nagilah", lift him on a chair, and dance him around the middle of the circle like a groom at a Jewish wedding.

Demand today for PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s resignation stands at 81% in the Gaza Strip and 92% in the West Bank.

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Press Release: Public Opinion Poll No (90) | PCPSR

92% of Palestinians in West Bank want Abbas to resign: Poll

The survey also found that demand today for PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s resignation stands at 81 percent in the Gaza Strip. We reported earlier about a survey by prominent pollster Khalil Shikaki, who found that support for the Palestinian Authority was waning.

- Al Jazeera

a bottle was thrown at Milei during a parade. unfortunately it just missed

Russia has lost 87% of troops it had prior to start of Ukraine war, according to US intelligence assessment

a source familiar with a declassified US intelligence assessment provided to Congress told CNN ... Of the 360,000 troops that entered Ukraine, including contract and conscript personnel, Russia has lost 315,000 on the battlefield

A completely separate reality.

Edit: also, weren't most credible estimates of initial Russian troop strength on the order of ~200,000? Subtle way of playing down Ukraine's initial failures in the south.

Let me be clear: I think the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades are GOOD.

As the resident combat footage poster, new Hamas vid just dropped. Hope that guy who flipped down the hill is ok (cw:corpses, no gore)

https://streamable.com/sfo5sf

Haaretz Reporting 13 Israeli soldiers killed, mistakenly identified as Khamas.

My fiancee's parents yesterday told me that we shouldn't relocate to the US (we weren't planning to) because black people will try to kill her for being Asian. I find it a little funny that they think Guatemala is safer than the US for her. We've been to the US as well to visit my family and the worst that happened were dudes relentlessly hitting on her every time I wasn't around.

After ships sailing for European companies (yet somehow the ships are registered in Liberia - curious, huh?) were attacked by Yemen, German fash-libs start clamoring for sending German navy ships to the Red sea. The faction is increasingly called "Strazi" in German, after their Nazi-liberal Führer-Woman Strach-Zimmerman (think a dumber, even more aggressive anti-Russian von der Leyen)

Please make it happen

I mainly wish for the lathe here because these German navy frigates are utter crap. Rather large ships without a clear doctrine, and bewildering weapons assortment. You've got 5000-ton air-defense "destroyers" equipped for anti-pirate stuff, with the odd harpoon missile launcher thrown in for good measure. I wouldn't be surprised if the Houthis manage to launch like 3 ballistic missiles at them without the ships even noticing, because the European radar systems had a software "issue" at the time or something so their claimed 350-mile range was impaired. And of course those crap frigates cost like 50% more than comparable French ships.

Please Mr. Houthi your mission is clear here! You may launch the Al-Farrah when ready.

The EU ended it's policy of needing unanimous decisions by asking Orban to leave the room so that the remaining PM's could vote yes on moving ahead with negotiations for ukraine accession into the EU.

I was under the impression that nobody really wants Ukraine, and that it won't be easy to integrate or even beneficial for the EU to do so, so I guess those negotiations sure will be something I guess

IOF having Mickey Mouse ranks and promotions will never not be funny to me. How the fuck you losing 5 officers in an ambush? Zero privates or NCO's in this army.

Israel has announced its worst combat losses in more than a month after an ambush in the ruins of Gaza.

Israel said on Wednesday that 10 of its soldiers had been killed over the past 24 hours, including a colonel commanding a forward base and a lieutenant colonel commanding a regiment, Reuters reports.

The toll was an increase of one on the military’s earlier figure and is the worst one-day loss since 15 soldiers were killed on 31 October.

Most of the deaths came in the Shejaia district of Gaza City in the north, where troops were ambushed trying to rescue another group of soldiers who had attacked Hamas fighters in a building, the military said.

Hamas said the episode showed that Israeli forces could never subdue Gaza.

In a televised address, Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh said any future arrangement in Gaza without Hamas was a “delusion”.

- The Guardian

Outcry as Brazil Congress overrides president to revive anti-Indigenous law

• Brazil’s Congress has pushed through a new law that includes several anti-Indigenous measures that strip back land rights and open traditional territories to mining and agribusiness.
• It includes the controversial time frame thesis, requiring Indigenous populations to prove they physically occupied their land on Oct. 5 1988, the day of the promulgation of the Federal Constitution; failure to provide such evidence will nullify demarcated land. The decision provoked outrage among activists, who say the new law is the biggest setback for Indigenous rights in Brazil in decades.
• Both President Lula and the Supreme Court have previously called the measures in the bill unconstitutional and against public interests, and Indigenous organizations announced they will challenge the law.
• Brazil’s Congress has pushed through a new law containing a series of anti-Indigenous and anti-environmental clauses, overruling President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s previous veto of some of the bill’s most harmful passages. Activists have lambasted the decision, saying it drastically strips back Indigenous rights and poses a threat to the future of the Amazon Rainforest and other Brazilian biomes.

Indigenous advocates reject Chile’s new draft constitution ahead of vote :chile-cool:

Sunday’s referendum will be the second time in as many years that Chileans have voted for a revised constitution.

For more than a decade, architect Julio Ñanco Antilef has campaigned to rewrite Chile’s constitution, a relic from when General Augusto Pinochet ruled the country as a military dictator.

But now, as Chile prepares to vote on a new draft, Ñanco Antilef finds himself in a paradoxical position: hoping to keep the old version in place. “It’s not that we are defending Pinochet’s constitution. It’s just that this proposal is worse,” he told Al Jazeera in a recent interview.

A member of the Democratic Revolution party, Ñanco Antilef was one of the few left-wing representatives to participate in the Constitutional Council that drafted the new version, which is set to go before voters on Sunday. Rather, it was Chile’s far-right Republican Party that led the drafting process, holding 22 of the council’s 50 seats.

The result, critics say, is a draft that favours right-wing priorities at the expense of historically marginalised groups, including Chile’s Indigenous peoples. “It is tied to a business model and favours individual interests rather than collective ones,” said Ñanco Antilef, himself of Indigenous Mapuche descent.

Now, he and other Indigenous Chileans are pushing for voters to reject the draft constitution, even if that means the country will be stuck with the Pinochet-era version for the foreseeable future.

“We are 13 percent of the population,” said Alihuén Antileo Navarrete, a Mapuche lawyer elected to represent Chile’s Indigenous peoples on the council. He argues the draft constitution deliberately “excludes” Indigenous voices from government.

milei gives up after two days and sends a letter to Xi asking him to intervene directly in the currency swap that was signed mere months ago. The same milei who said that "he won't deal with Communists".

In an attempt to quickly rebuild ties with the Asian giant and obtain the US$5 billion renewal of the current currency swap with China, President Javier Milei sent a letter hours ago to Chinese President Xi Jinping, in which he requests his support to accelerate the process and obtain the funds to face urgent expirations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Before and after that meeting, in which Foreign Minister Diana Mondino participated, the short circuits that still separate China from the Milei government became clear, whose statements regarding “not having ties with communist countries” made during the electoral campaign, upset the Chinese government.

Milei's urgency to rebuild ties with China was reflected during the meeting, in which, as LA NACION learned, the President showed himself willing to have a phone call with the Chinese president. Previous loans, such as those obtained by President Alberto Fernández with Sergio Massa as Minister of Economy, were unblocked after direct communication with the Chinese president. The delegation of that country left the President an invitation to visit the Asian giant as soon as possible.

Among the demands that the Chinese delegation brought to Buenos Aires is to replace, or at least announce, the successor of Sabino Vaca Narvaja at the head of the embassy, ​​taking into account that other destinations have already been announced or confirmed, such as the United States (Gerardo Werthein), Brazil (Daniel Scioli will continue) and Israel (they will appoint Milei's rabbi and spiritual guide, Axel Wahnish). Currently, and after the resignation of Vaca Narvaja, Marcela Barone, a diplomat with the rank of secretary, was in charge of the embassy, ​​in one of her first diplomatic assignments. Mondino's announcements to “transparent” the agreements with China also caused discomfort, in reference to the currency swap and other economic agreements for current public and private works.

Unlike the Milei government, Alberto Fernández received the delegation led by Wu Weihua on Saturday at 11 in the morning at the Casa Rosada in a meeting in which Vaca Narvaja participated on his last day as ambassador, the then foreign minister Santiago Cafiero and the general secretary of the outgoing Presidency, Julio Vitobello. Sources from the previous administration affirm that the sending of a “high-ranking” diplomat could help unblock the link and complement the letter sent by the President.

On the other hand, and with his now classic leather jacket and boots, President Milei arrived minutes before 8 at the Casa Rosada. On his second business day as President, the president led a cabinet meeting held for the imminent economic measures that will be announced today afternoon, and special presences. The former head of the Central Bank Federico Sturzenegger, a supporter of economic “shock” policies, participated in the meeting, along with the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, the head of the Central Bank, Santiago Bausili, and the other ministers. Caputo and Bausili, as it turned out, seek to accelerate verbal and factual reconciliation with China, and asked the Foreign Ministry for clear and forceful gestures in that regard.

The former Minister of Justice and proposed as the next Treasury Attorney, Rodolfo Barra, was also seen entering the Casa Rosada, questioned for his participation in the Tacuara philonazi group in the sixties.

Original article in spanish

Turns out being in power makes you a pragmatic eh?

Another massive win for XI JINPING THOUGHT.

so what is the deal with Israel's officers? i heard earlier like all? conscripts got to be sergeants , and there's been lots of jokes about the officers generally being young and inexperienced.

but then where are all the old ones? what's the careerist core?

But did they jerk them off?!

Genocide Justin really showing his entire ass here with the other colonial castoffs from down under. All three countries voted for the unga ceasefire motion today and then released the following joint statement

https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/statements/2023/12/12/joint-statement-prime-ministers-australia-canada-and-new-zealand

We want to see this pause resumed and support urgent international efforts towards a sustainable ceasefire. This cannot be one-sided. Hamas must release all hostages, stop using Palestinian civilians as human shields, and lay down its arms.

There is no role for Hamas in the future governance of Gaza.

The pre-requisite for a ceasefire is unconditional surrender. This is what people mean when they refer to states being agreement incapable. These are the same talking points against a ceasefire as earlier in the Russia-Ukraine war, and look at how that's gone since spring 2022.

So there's an actual dysentary outbreak in the idf? Damn.

Fascism gonna fascism i guess. : /

Idaho In-N-Out 8 hour drive-thru wait

Nearly half of the Israeli munitions dropped on Gaza are imprecise ‘dumb bombs,’

about 40-45% of the 29,000 air-to-ground munitions Israel has used have been unguided. The rest have been precision-guided munitions, the assessment says.

A US official told CNN that the US believes that the Israeli military is using the dumb bombs in conjunction with a tactic called “dive bombing,” or dropping a bomb while diving steeply in a fighter jet, which the official said makes the bombs more precise because it gets it closer to its target. The official said the US believes that an unguided munition dropped via dive-bombing is similarly precise to a guided munition.

so we now know the amount of Arab people France deems reasonable to sacrifice for the Zionists - officially about 20k, and again officially about 10k children

UK + Germany aren't quite at their limit but are approaching it

for the US it is probably limitless

Salutes to the yemeni heroes

I don't know if we had this one already, F16 this time

US fighter jet crashes over Yellow Sea
An F-16 fighter jet belonging to the US forces in South Korea crashed during a training flight over the sea between the Korean Peninsula and China. The US armed forces said on Monday that the pilot was able to escape using the ejection seat. He was rescued from the Yellow Sea by the South Korean Navy and is in stable condition. The plane took off from the US air base in Gunsan in the morning (local time) before an in-flight emergency occurred, it said. The cause of this is being investigated.

In Germany, only genocidal settlers are allowed to make hyperbolic comparisons to the Holocaust:

Berlin finds Abbas’s 2022 Holocaust remarks incited hatred, but can’t pursue charges (Times of Isn'treal)

Milei government confirms massive devaluation of peso

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Teacher goes on violent rant and gets arrested for terroristic threat

All over a flag too