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Image is of legal adviser to Israel's foreign ministry Tal Becker and British jurist Malcolm Shaw at the ICJ hearing.


The ICJ case against Israel might not achieve much for the Palestinian cause directly, given that Israeli politicians have explicitly stated that the Hague will not stop them - and I believe them. The Resistance will be what stops them, and they are doing quite well for themselves. Hezbollah has hit highly sensitive and important Israeli military sites over the last couple weeks, and in general persist in several border attacks every day. The battles in Iraq and Syria also continue. Hamas remains largely intact, and is successfully forcing Israeli forces in the northern Gaza Strip to retreat, and other parts of the Gazan Resistance are continuing to battle down in Khan Yunis. And, last but not least, Yemen is firmly dedicated to the blockade, warding off another ship literally minutes before I started writing this paragraph.

What the ICJ is battling over isn't Palestine and Israel - not really - but the legitimacy of international law itself, and to what degree victimized countries can rely on it to solve problems, versus needing to take more militant routes for justice. In a weird sense, it might be an L for Israel either way. If international law sides with Palestine, then when Israel refuses to stop, it will invalidate international law. If international law sides with Israel, then it will invalidate international law. There is no conceivable way for the West to come out of this looking good.

The South African portion detailing Israeli atrocities against Gaza was largely ignored by the western media. They have instead, obviously, decided to focus on the Israeli portion. Their defense appears to amount to "We didn't do it, Hamas did it. And if we did do it, it doesn't matter, because that's just urban warfare for you. Please get this whole thing thrown out on a very dubious technicality so we don't have to advance to the next stage."

From Craig Murray, who has been physically going to the Hague:

It is important to realise this. Israel is hoping to win on their procedural points about existence of dispute, unilateral assurances and jurisdiction. The obvious nonsense they spoke about the damage to homes and infrastructure being caused by Hamas, trucks entering Gaza and casualty figures, was not serious. They did not expect the judges to believe any of this. The procedural points were for the court. The rest was mass propaganda for the media.

...I am sure the judges want to get out of this and they may go for the procedural points. But there is a real problem with Israel’s “no dispute” argument. If accepted, it would mean that a country committing genocide can simply not reply to a challenge, and then legal action will not be possible because no reply means “no dispute”. I hope that absurdity is obvious to the judges. But they may of course wish not to notice it…

What do I think will happen? Some sort of “compromise”. The judges will issue provisional measures different to South Africa’s request, asking Israel to continue to take measures to protect the civilian population, or some such guff. Doubtless the State Department have drafted something like this for President of the court Donoghoe already.

I hope I am wrong. I would hate to give up on international law. One thing I do know for certain. These two days in the Hague were absolutely crucial for deciding if there is any meaning left in notions of international law and human rights. I still believe action by the court could cause the US and UK to back off and provide some measure of relief. For now, let us all pray or wish, each in our way, for the children of Gaza.


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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.

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Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
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Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

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.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

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 Telegram Channels:

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.


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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 91 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 97 points 9 months ago

Here we go:

https://nitter.net/revolutionaryem/status/1748873388595040545

This is amazing.

Ships in the Red Sea are going a step further by signaling to Yemen that not only are they not involved with Israel, but with the US too.

“NO ISRAEL/US INVOLVED”

The blockade on the US is in effect.

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[-] Tervell@hexbear.net 94 points 10 months ago

twitter thread

I just got back from Ukraine, where I was visiting some friends. Everything we have heard about what’s happening in Ukraine is a lie. The reality is darker, bleaker, and unequivocally hopeless. There is no such thing as Ukraine "winning" this war.

  • By their estimates, they have lost over one million of their sons, fathers and husbands; an entire generation is gone.

Nazis and destroying the demographics of their own people, name a better duo

  • Even in the Southwest, where the anti-Russian sentiment is long-standing, citizens are reluctant or straight-up scared to publicly criticize Zelensky; they will go to jail.
  • In every village and town, the streets, shops, and restaurants are mostly absent of men.
  • The few men who remain are terrified of leaving their homes for fear of being kidnapped into conscription. Some have resorted to begging friends to break their legs to avoid service.
  • Army search parties take place early in the morning, when men leave their homes to go to work. They ambush and kidnap them off the streets and within 3-4 hours they get listed in the army and taken away straight to the front lines with minimal or no training at all; it is "a death sentence."
  • It's getting worse every day. Where I was staying, a dentist had just been taken by security forces on his way to work, leaving behind two small children. Every day, 3-5 dead bodies keep arriving from the front lines.
  • Mothers and wives fight tooth and nail with the armed forces, beg and plead not to have their men taken away. They try bribing, which sometimes works, but most of the time they are met with physical violence and death threats.
  • The territory celebrated as having been "won back" from Russia has been reduced to rubble and is uninhabitable. Regardless, there is no one left to live there and displaced families will likely never return.
  • They see the way the war has been reported, at home and abroad. It's a "joke" and "propaganda." They say: “Look around: is this winning?”.
  • Worse, some have been hoaxed into believing that once Ukrainians forces are exhausted, American soldiers will come in to replace them and “win the war”.

There is no ambiguity in these people. The war was for nothing - a travesty. The outcome always was, and is, clear. The people are hopeless, utterly destroyed, and living in an unending nightmare. They are pleading for an end, any end - most likely the same "peace" that could have been achieved two years ago. In their minds, they have already lost, for their sons, fathers and husbands are gone, and their country has been destroyed. There is no "victory" that can change that.

Except the peace offer then (see under the The Objectives and Strategy of Russia section) was incredibly favorable for Ukraine (and naive on Russia's part), basically just security guarantees and no NATO membership, without any territorial changes. That ain't happening anymore.

Make no mistake, they are angry with Putin. But they are also angry with Zelensky and the West. They have lost everything, worst of all, hope and faith, and cannot comprehend why Zelenky wishes to continue the current trajectory, the one of human devastation. I didn't witness the war; but what I saw was absolutely heart-breaking. Shame on the people, regardless of their intentions, who have supported this war. And shame on the media for continuing to lie about it.

agony-deep

also lmao at the fucking community note

nerd um actually the US says that only a few Ukrainians have died (based on propaganda fed to them by the Ukrainians)

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 89 points 10 months ago

South Africa to Sue US and UK as Complicit in Gaza Genocide

The U.S. should at least receive sanctions as happened with Germany, a country that is still paying compensation for the Holocaust.

On Monday, South African lawyers handling the Genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that they are preparing a separate lawsuit against the United States and the United Kingdom for complicity in Zionist war crimes.

The new legal action would aim to bring those complicit in the genocide before civil courts, said Wikus Van Rensburg, who said that the team of South African lawyers has maintained contact with American and British lawyers to finalize the new judicial action.

Even if the U.S. does not accept the ICJ ruling, it should at least receive sanctions as happened with Germany, a country that is still paying compensation for the Holocaust.

The United States must now be held accountable for the crimes it committed,' says Van Rensburg, who is leading the 47-lawyers team.

“We intend to bring legal proceedings against the U.S. Government based on overwhelming evidence that the U.S. Government has, and is, aiding, abetting and supporting, encouraging or providing material assistance and means to Israel and the Israeli Defense Forces. This conduct by the U.S. Government has enabled and continues to enable Israel to engage in international crimes against the Palestinian people,” the South African lawyers said in a letter sent to US President Joe Biden on January 2.

“These crimes resulted in, among others, the displacement of the Palestinian people from their homes and property, destruction of Palestinian property, theft of Palestinian land and which facilitate and assist Israel in committing the ongoing and current war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide , and intentional killing of innocent civilians, including men, women, children and babies as well as the elderly and disabled.”

“The U.S. Government has recently used purported emergency authority provisions to provide 14,000 tank shells, among others, to Israel without Congressional review. In particular, the U.S. Government has indicated that it supposedly used the Arms Export Control Act (presumably P.L. 90-629 as amended through P.L. 117-263, Enacted December 23, 2022, as amended through P.L. 117-263) emergency declaration for the tank rounds worth approximately US$106.5 million for delivery to Israel early in December 2023," they added.

“The tank shells so supplied by the U.S. government to Israel is part of a bigger sale for which Congressional approval will be sought for the larger arms package worth more than US$500 million and comprises of, amongst others, 45,000 shells for Israel's Merkava tanks, which tanks are regularly deployed in Israel's offensive in Gaza, which offensive has killed thousands of civilians' and which continues to kill civilians on a daily basis,” the lawyers pointed out.

South African Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana stressed that lawyers are complying with the “rule of law” by going to an institution established by the United Nations.

“Of course, Israel's supporters, including the UK, will say our request is nonsense. However, there is global support for our view that our case was substantial,” he stated.

Acting precisely in that sense, British Foreign Secretary David Cameron expressed that the accusations are “nonsense.” Meanwhile, White House Homeland Security spokesman John Kirby said the lawsuit is “counterproductive and completely baseless.”

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[-] context@hexbear.net 89 points 10 months ago

people keep calling me alarmist for suggesting that world war 3 has already started. "but context," they say, "countries don't declare wars anymore, so it can't be world war 3. it's merely an expanding series of interrelated special military operations with a global scope."

or "fam, this is an arby's," they say.

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[-] Dolores@hexbear.net 85 points 10 months ago

it's always the weirdest things that stick in your craw, right? like i've always been fairly, perhaps obnoxiously critical of the anti-US countries, and extremely disapproving of religious policies therein

but the way motherfucking reddit MFs talk about yemen & the houthis, on god the fury in my heart is unreal. were these motherfuckers alive for the past 10 years???? my entire conscious existence has been a parade of headlines about crises in yemen punctuated by US support for blockading and bombing them to kingdom come. HOW could you possibly think the US did not provoke them? HOW could you think the only people putting their fucking lives on the line to oppose the GENOCIDE in Gaza are in the wrong? these dumbasses would declare an attack on a US base in Iraq (illegally invaded, illegally occupied, illegally retained bases in) a fucking war crime because the US soldiers there haven't killed an Iraqi in the last year (and that probably isn't even true)

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[-] companero@hexbear.net 84 points 10 months ago

How are redditors so fucking dumb? They are saying "heh, Iranian missiles are so bad that they can't even sink the ships" smuglord

My dude, if they wanted to destroy the ships they absolutely could. Maybe their goal isn't to put civilian lives at risk?

Why is the Westoid brain always so focused on killing and hurting as many people as possible?

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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 84 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I suddenly remembered that time when the US "mistakenly" bombed Syrian Arab Army positions in Deir ez-Zor, which was being besieged by ISIS. Moments after the bombing ISIS launched an attack that was barely repelled.

Sus

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[-] ImOnADiet@hexbear.net 84 points 10 months ago

Fukuda Tatsuo, son of former Prime Minister Fukuda Yasuo & grandson of Seiwakai founder Fukuda Takeo, indicated that he will seek the dissolution of the Abe faction created by his grandfather.

Total yamagami Victory

~nitter~ ~|~ ~twitter~

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 83 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And if airstrikes working in Yemen, Biden on South Lawn said: “Well, when you say 'working' -- are they stopping the Houthis? No. Are they going to continue? Yes.”

Source is the Twitter account of the White House Bloomberg correspondent

Update: video of him saying it, it's an exact quote

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 82 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

CW NSFW blood everywhere - dead summary executed bodies shot in the back.

“To Western governments: it is so disturbing to see you not condemning the horrendous, unspeakable crimes that ISR occupation commits in Gaza daily, IN THE SAME WAY as you did for the crimes on #Oct7,” Albanese said in a social media post on Saturday.

“The West’s double standards is what got us here. Time to end it.”

hamas-base raided an apartment building, lined up all the men, made all the women strip, separated them and mowed down all the men execution style.

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[-] HarryLime@hexbear.net 82 points 10 months ago
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[-] SupFBI@hexbear.net 82 points 10 months ago

Biden can bomb Yemen without any approval from Congress. But smol bean Biden can't do anything but threaten Texas with a lawsuit to stop Operation Lone Star.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 80 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Love the new "Houthis are slavers" talking point liberals are trying to grasp at. Yemen has the second lowest prevalence of slavery among Arab states. KSA, Turkey, Kuwait, and UAE are in the global top 10 for slavery prevalence, and Jordan is in the top 25. Will we be cutting off our relations with these slave states?

https://www.walkfree.org/global-slavery-index/map/

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[-] TheCaconym@hexbear.net 80 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Macron is managing to exceed his previous levels of fascism to a point that is remarkable. In speeches recently:

  • He said that France needed a "demographics rearmament" - meaning "make babies, you fucks".
  • He said that "order goes along with progress, authority with emancipation, they're inseparable, it's always been true".
  • He wants all schoolchildren to wear uniforms.

Also he recently said in Davos that France would make it much harder to obtain unemployment benefits - that's after a battery of similar measures those past few years that already made it incredibly harder. They also opened a denunciation online platform where employers can signal when someone unemployed refused a new job, in order to eventually remove their unemployment benefits.

yea

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[-] UmbraVivi@hexbear.net 79 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Back in the day, the US would at least make up some grand lies about whatever Arabs they designated as enemies. Weapons of mass destruction, throwing babies out of incubators, whatever.

With the Yemenis they're literally just like "yeah they're making number go down so kill them for us, peasants" and Americans are like "Ok!"

Have some self respect, come on.

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[-] Torenico@hexbear.net 78 points 10 months ago

milei at Davos:

"We can see how from year zero to the year 1800 the GDP of the world has maintained stable levels.."

This is unbearable.

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[-] companero@hexbear.net 78 points 10 months ago

https://nitter.cz/LucasFoxNews/status/1748759058163659130#m

BREAKING: Over 15 U.S. Patriot surface-to-air missiles fired from al-Asad air base in Iraq to intercept incoming Iranian missiles - source

$30,000,000 gone and the base was still hit.

There is disagreement about what weapons were used against the base, and it could have been dumb rockets costing only a few thousand dollars each.

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[-] Huldra@hexbear.net 77 points 10 months ago

Libs currently insisting on twitter that the yemen humanitarian crisis and charlie hebdo getting shot up are completely equivalent in terms of inspiring bigotry as a reaction.

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[-] GnastyGnuts@hexbear.net 75 points 10 months ago

Yemen is sending some of their handsomest and best dressed warriors: https://nitter.cz/comrademika/status/1746958702207259042#m

[-] JuryNullification@hexbear.net 69 points 10 months ago

Timhouthi Chalamet

kelly

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 74 points 10 months ago

Hasan Piker makes the worst internet neocons / fascists mad. Yes the Highway of Death was a war crime.

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[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Khash%E2%80%93Zahedan_suicide_bombing

Iran seems to retaliating for years of terror attacks against them. They stated yesterdays attacks on ISIS, US, Iraqi Kurds and Mossad was in revenge for Kerman bombings. Now they just struck Pakistan and hit the Balochistan Separatist group connected with this attack from 2019, this group has ties to Al Qaeda and Iran states it is US backed.

The upcoming war in the Middle East will clearly reveal that the Americans and Israelis are allied with ISIS and Al Qaeda to anyone paying attention, just as Syria pointed at the same

[-] Al_Sham@hexbear.net 74 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Confirmation from Brigadier General Yahya Saree that Ansarallah did strike a US warship today and achieved "direct casualties" (Al-Mayadeen Arabic)

Additionally, in an interview today, member of the Political Bureau of the Ansarallah movement, Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, claimed credit for the elimination of two US SEAL operatives in the Red Sea that CENTCOM admitted to earlier this week but had said they "drowned" on accident lol; Al-Mayadeen Arabic (Headline)

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 73 points 10 months ago

Ukraine having a normal one

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[-] wombat@hexbear.net 73 points 10 months ago

it is january 16 and stalin saved the world from fascism

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[-] Parzivus@hexbear.net 72 points 9 months ago

XI JINPING: "Western modernization was fraught with sanguineous crimes such as war, slave trade, colonization, and plunder, which inflicted untold misery on developing countries. Having suffered from aggression, bullying, and humiliation by Western powers, we Chinese are keenly aware of the value of peace and will never follow the beaten path of the West."
"The biggest problems with Western modernization are that it is capital-centered rather than people-centered and that it seeks to maximize capital gains rather than serve the interests of the vast majority of the people."

From a speech by Xi last year, recently translated

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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 71 points 10 months ago

Lmao hasan DM'd the hot houthi pirate guy

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[-] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 71 points 10 months ago

Libs freaking out that Hasan interviewed literally some guy in Yemen

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[-] Xx_Aru_xX@hexbear.net 71 points 10 months ago

Fuck france fuck france fuck france (warning NY times)

France Rejects Genocide Accusations Against Israel in Gaza “To accuse the Jewish state of genocide is to cross a moral threshold,” France’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.

[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 67 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

"Jews aren't capable of committing genocide" is in fact anti-semitic.

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[-] CoolerOpposide@hexbear.net 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Genuinely incredible how effective western propaganda is.

You can say to somebody “maybe at least one or two things you were taught about the DPRK are not true” and that person will many times genuinely answer back that “YOU are spreading North Korean propaganda” by suggesting that.

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[-] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 71 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This got lost because of all the things happening, but there was also a car ramming attack today in Ra'anana, a little north of Tel Aviv, in which 17 Israelis were wounded and one was killed. It's being called a terror attack in the Western media, obviously. With that, plus Yemen's attack, the withdrawal of a division from Gaza, and now Iran, it's not a great day for imperialists overall.

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[-] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 70 points 10 months ago
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[-] EdelethIsBae@hexbear.net 69 points 10 months ago

today is both an anniversary of the US overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom (hawaiians are marching today, they are here and they remember)

it is also the anniversary of Patrice Lumumba's assassination by the CIA. He was the first and only true leader of the DR Congo.

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[-] IceWallowCum@hexbear.net 69 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In new attempt to destabilize the Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas, the IDF strikes their Center of Intelligence and Political Analysis, known colloquially as Hexbear

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 69 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Iran fires Ballistic Missiles On US Targets in Northern Iraq !

Edit: Cant find Poster on Nitter. And might not be a US Site but a US Proxy Site..

Edit: 🚨| 🇮🇷 CONFIRMED: IRAN attacked israeli/American sites:

The IRGC announced in a statement that it targeted and destroyed spy centers and gatherings of anti-Iranian terrorist groups in the northern-Iraqi region with ballistic missiles.

This attack is likely in response to the Kerman terrorist attack!

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[-] proletarian_girlboss@lemmygrad.ml 68 points 10 months ago
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[-] QuillcrestFalconer@hexbear.net 68 points 10 months ago

OMG just listened to a bit of the speach milei gave at WEF and it's incredibly hilarious, completely unhinged ancap ideology and culture war stuff. They should bring in more like him

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[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 68 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Belgium, welcome to the resistance.

Caroline Gennez, the country’s minister of development cooperation, says on X that if the International Court of Justice issues a ruling calling for a ceasefire in Gaza, Belgium will “fully support it”.

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[-] Cromalin@hexbear.net 68 points 10 months ago

The Department of State today is announcing the designation of Ansarallah, commonly referred to as the Houthis, as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group, effective 30 days from today.

Since November, the Houthis have launched unprecedented attacks against international maritime vessels in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, as well as military forces positioned in the area to defend the safety and security of commercial shipping.  These attacks against international shipping have endangered mariners, disrupted the free flow of commerce, and interfered with navigational rights and freedoms.  This designation seeks to promote accountability for the group’s terrorist activities.  If the Houthis cease their attacks in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, the United States will reevaluate this designation.

The Houthis must be held accountable for their actions, but it should not be at the expense of Yemeni civilians.  As the Department of State moves forward with this designation, we are taking significant steps to mitigate any adverse impacts this designation may have on the people of Yemen.  During the 30-day implementation delay, the U.S. government will conduct robust outreach to stakeholders, aid providers, and partners who are crucial to facilitating humanitarian assistance and the commercial import of critical commodities in Yemen.  The Department of the Treasury is also publishing licenses authorizing certain transactions related to the provision of food, medicine, and fuel, as well as personal remittances, telecommunications and mail, and port and airport operations on which the Yemeni people rely.

god these motherfuckers. holding ansarallah accountable for trying to do anything to work against an active genocide

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