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Image is of Gazans breaking their fast with the Iftar meal during the ongoing Ramadan.

Due to a request by @miz@hexbear.net, this thread's COTW is Qatar.


The ceasefire deal broke down early last week after Israel unilaterally changed the terms of the agreement and then blamed Hamas for not meeting them. Violence against civilians has rapidly accelerated to pre-ceasefire levels, with many hundreds dead already, aid once again cut off, and Israeli soldiers once again entering and occupying the attritional labyrinth that is Gaza.

I'm not yet in a position to make any solid predictions or analysis, as the geopolitical situation in and around Israel has changed fairly substantially over the last 6 months; in some ways benefiting Israel, and in other ways not. We know for sure how Hamas and Ansarallah are reacting (thankfully, with open hostility to both Israel and the United States), but the state of Hezbollah has been a giant question mark for months now, and precisely what Iran plans to do (beyond the usual level of supplying weaponry and intelligence to all the allies it can) is unknown. Syria will be almost certainly be a big wildcard, and we'll have to see if the compradors in Damascus can weather the storm.


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Israel-Palestine Conflict

If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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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[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago
[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I am once again slamming the "strike the refineries" button.

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[-] companero@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-trump-letter-c0afbeda50cd19d42fcc68732e60b4a4

Iran reportedly sent a response to Trump's ultimatum. No details on the content.

I'm guessing it's conciliatory, since otherwise it would probably be better not to respond at all.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Myanmar has updated the number of victims of this morning's earthquake to at least 144 dead and 732 injured, as well as missing. The military junta ruling the country has opened the doors of its diplomatic service to ask for international help. "Any country, any organization," pleaded Min Aung Hlaing, a Burmese general and the current President of Myanmar's State Administrative Council.

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[-] LargePenis@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Let's talk Qatar.

I have been always fascinated by Qatar. Their weird contradictory political position, together with their ruthless ambition makes them a genuinely interesting country to observe. I spent a few weeks touring the Middle East before covid and getting married and settling down. Of all the Gulf states, Qatar was the country that gave me the biggest feeling of "living here wouldn't be bad you know". The UAE is of course the posterchild of Gulf states, but everything about it felt artificial, but Qatar is authentic in a way that I can't describe. The Friday sermon in the Doha mosque that I went to talked in detail about a Muslim's duty to defend other Muslims, while the UAE mosque talked about a Muslim's duty to honor his leaders. Qatar is in some way committed to what I can only describe as Islamic populism, which doesn't put the country as a natural enemy to Iran's Islamic republicanism.

Their projects are also more successful than expected. They were the only committed Arab nation to toppling Assad by 2024, and succeeded in that. They managed to stabilise Tripoli in Libya and their areas are way more successful and stable than the UAE-backed warlord government in Benghazi. They weathered the storm from Western media and hosted a successful FIFA World Cup. They built a good metro system that doesn't just serve the Disney Land style straight line developments like the Dubai Metro. They integrated the sons of immigrants to Qatar in a way that the UAE completely failed in doing, which is why the Qatari football team is now filled with Yemenis, Egyptians and Iraqis fighting for the team and winning cups while the UAE plays Brazilian boomers and gets embarrassed. They overcame the dumbass siege that the UAE and Saudi Arabia put on them in 2017 with an incredible resilience that strengthened their national identity. Their media investments has made Al Jazeera the undisputed number one news channel in the Arab World, BeIN Sports the number one sports network in the world, and almost every good Arab journalist has spent some time in Qatar. Their only big L is perhaps losing the battle with the UAE in Egypt when they failed to protect the MB against the military coup in 2013.

I have some strange admiration for them that is completely illogical and contradictory compared to my political beliefs. They're in tune with the Arab public in a way that the UAE and Saudi could never achieve. They've leveraged their relations with Hamas, Israel, the Taliban, Iran and Hezbollah into something that generated some kind of material benefit unlike the UAE's disgusting endless cucking for American Republican and Israeli interests. In the end, yeah, they're an American client state with a massive military base in Al Udaid, but their million sins can perhaps be slightly washed away by the fact that a random Sudanese civilian can wear a Sinwar hoodie on their way to a Friday sermon about the slaughter of civilians in Gaza, while watching Al Jazeera's coverage of Israel's bombing of South Lebanon.

I'm just rambling here, so I hope it's at least semi-coherent.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Renowned Japanese video game designer Hideki Kamiya has reflected on the recent Assassin's Creed Shadows controversies by asserting that "normal people" don't care about them. His remarks were offered alongside some high praise for the Assassin's Creed Shadows development team.

The latest entry in Ubisoft's long-running series has been mired in controversy since its May 2024 reveal, which confirmed that the game would have a black protagonist, based on a real historical figure known as Yasuke. This fueled a lot of online vitriol, including cases of people vandalizing Yasuke's Wikipedia page and Elon Musk declaring "DEI kills art" while referencing Assassin's Creed Shadows.

Famous Japanese game designer Hideki Kamiya has recently reflected on this state of affairs by stating that "a few super-intense people" made "a big fuss" about Assassin's Creed Shadows. At the same time, the creator of Okami and Bayonetta believes that these detractors are simply a loud minority, having said as much in a March 24 tweet. Elaborating on this notion, Kamiya asserted that most "normal people" adopt an "it's fine" stance when it comes to things like video game-related drama, noting that this phenomenon isn't exclusive to the Assassin's Creed Shadows controversies.

[-] vertexarray@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Kamiya wading into the culture war melee doing flips and combos and shit

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[-] ThomasMuentzner@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

London without Ninjas will not be the same..

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[-] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago
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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

New: Rubio confirmed he revoked the visa of the Tufts student and said he likely has revoked the visas of hundreds more. “We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take way their visas." The total # of revoked visas “might be more than 300 at this point." The student had co-authored an opinion column on Gaza in the student newspaper. Rubio was asked what she did to merit her visa being revoked, but did not offer specifics to her case, only suggesting that his criteria goes beyond writing columns.

https://x.com/John_Hudson/status/1905315517642281226

https://xcancel.com/John_Hudson/status/1905315517642281226

Asked if they have any intelligence to suggest foreign backing for pro-Palestinian college protests, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tells Congress, "there are some assessments that reflect that and we can talk about that in the closed session."

https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1905111743711289707

https://xcancel.com/kenklippenstein/status/1905111743711289707

There is a clear moment here to cast Zionism as a direct threat to "American liberties" (I know a lot of people here won't phrase like that but it is what it is) but I highly doubt any Democrats have the spine to push it.

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Asked if they have any intelligence to suggest foreign backing for pro-Palestinian college protests, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard tells Congress, "there are some assessments that reflect that and we can talk about that in the closed session."

A golden rule is that if they have so called concrete evidence, they would of blasted to everyone by now. The fact that it`s closed session, you know what you are dealing with.

This is if they are courteous, Israel and the US are not even justifying blasting a hospital in Gaza this week.

[-] Z_Poster365@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah it was the same with Russiagate crap. Constant closed door hearings and when any “proof” leaked it was laughably stupid shit like Russia buying a Buff Bernie ad and spending $8,231 dollars or whatever

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[-] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Surprised no one else posted it yet, but the video of the Tufts University PhD student being arrested by Israel Criticism Enforcement officers is just absolutely enraging.

https://x.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1904933137328570859

https://xcancel.com/DRBoguslaw/status/1904933137328570859

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[-] Awoo@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

In my extremely local local news. The person I ran campaign for to get elected as local councillor is now being offered the role of mayor after just 4 months in the role.

If the Labour party weren't doing everything they can to ruin their chances in the next election I sincerely believe I would be able to turn this person into an MP.

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

"A temporary administration could be introduced in Ukraine, under the supervision of the UN, the US, European countries and our partners. This would serve to hold democratic elections and bring to power a capable government that enjoys the trust of the people. And then start negotiations with them on a peace treaty." Putin on Zelensky and the end of the Ukrainian war.

“Putin will die soon, that's a fact, and it will come to an end” Zelesnky on Putin and the end of the war.

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[-] Jabril@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

"A huge oil spill in Ecuador turned rivers black, leaving 80,000+ families and 400,000+ people without water. Extracting oil in tropical forests ensures more disasters—no 'net zero' policy can offset this."

https://x.com/PGDynes/status/1904650079450886532

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Sudanese Army Declares Victory in Khartoum - Telesur English

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The RSF dismissed claims of defeat, framing their withdrawal from Khartoum as a tactical decision. Sudan’s army chief, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, announced the “liberation” of Khartoum after expelling the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) from the capital.

In a televised address from the presidential palace, he proclaimed, “Khartoum is free,” marking a turning point in the nearly two-year conflict. The army regained control of strategic sites, including the airport and key neighborhoods, for the first time since April 2023.

The RSF dismissed claims of defeat, framing their withdrawal from Khartoum as a tactical decision. Adviser Basha Tabiq said the relocation to Omdurman was driven by strategic, logistical, and operational factors, asserting their combat capabilities remain intact. However, the move signals a shift in battlefield dynamics as government forces reclaim territory.

Sudan’s government, now based in Port Sudan, has intensified military operations beyond Khartoum. Recent advances include retaking control of critical regions like Al-Jazira, White Nile, North Kordofan, Sennar, and Blue Nile states. These gains highlight the army’s momentum, though the RSF retains influence in other areas.

The war between al-Burhan’s army and RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo has caused over 20,000 deaths (per the UN) and displaced 14 million people. Independent studies estimate fatalities at 130,000. The conflict has ravaged 13 of Sudan’s 18 states, with millions facing famine due to disrupted aid and food shortages. International bodies continue urging an immediate ceasefire.

UNICEF issued an urgent alert about 825,000 children trapped in Darfur’s El Fasher and Zamzam camp, calling the situation a “living hell.” Half of the 1.65 million people in these areas are minors, enduring severe malnutrition, water scarcity, and violence. Over 457,000 children suffer acute malnutrition, with 146,000 at risk of death without urgent intervention.

Despite the army’s proclaimed victories, Sudan’s humanitarian disaster shows no signs of abating. The RSF’s continued presence in strategic zones and the government’s fragmented control underscore the conflict’s complexity. With millions displaced, starving, and lacking basic services, international calls for aid and diplomacy grow louder, yet tangible progress remains elusive.

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[-] Lovely_sombrero@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Dems and Schumer are ~3x as unpopular as Elon Musk.

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[-] gingerbrat@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Fuck Israel, fuck the US, free Palestine palestine-heart

I need to ventI've been keeping up with the reporting from Palestine properly since January of last year. I'm by no means an expert on the topic, I've lost almost all my friends over my Palestine support, and those who remain almost exclusively refuse to talk about it at all, which makes me stop engaging with them.

And I'm always like "It's better this way than to have a shitton of fake friends", but fuck, do I feel alone and isolated these days. Then I watch some news or read articles about Palestine and I quickly don't care about the cowards and assholes who "used to be my friends" anymore. I'm glad hexbear exists, I think I would've given up already without it.

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[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

Prosecutor accidentally plays porn clip at trial of far-right former president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe.

The criminal trial of former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was bizarrely derailed by a prosecutor who mistakenly played a porn video of a woman stripping naked and a dwarf dancing with a bottle of booze. Marlene Orjuela, the lead prosecutor for Attorney General's Office, was searching through an archive of folders to present evidence submitted by Uribe's lawyer, Dr. Diego Cadena, during the March 7 virtual court hearing.

In the first video, a man could be seen dancing in front of a parked vehicle and drinking out of a can before the 35-second clip was cut off by Marlene, who laughed and apologized to Judge Sandra Heredia. Uribe stared at the camera and kept a straight face while a member of his legal team giggled. 'What a pity, your honor, we wanted to show everything that Dr. Cadena ordered and there was no foresight that one issue was that,' Orjuela said.

Orjuela proceeded to click on one of the other 57 files that she had on her screen when she brought up a video of a woman posing in swimming attire. The video quickly shifted to the woman removing her one-piece swimsuit. 'What a shame, Madam Judge,' Orjuela said as she immediately cut off the video.

Uribe is the first former president in the history of Colombia to be put under trial as he is facing bribery and witness tampering charges. The government alleges that Uribe attempted to influence witnesses after leftist senator Iván Cepeda accused him being tied to a paramilitary group founded by ranchers in the 1990s to fight rebel groups.

The case dates back to 2012, when Uribe filed a libel suit against Cepeda with the Supreme Court, the entity charged with investigating elected officials. However, the court dropped charges against Cepeda and began to investigated Uribe in 2018. Uribe, who governed from 2002 to 2010, was formally charged in May 2024 and could face up to 12 years in prison if he is convicted.

[-] Big_Bob@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

This is truly the Year of The Gooner

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

So it seems like what happened is they got a bunch of files off of Uribe's computer, including his porn stash, and didn't bother renaming/reorganizing things, so they just went to "C:/Uribe/Documents/Definitely Legitimate Business Documents/Seriously These are for BUSINESS ONLY" and started clicking around?

[-] D61@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago
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[-] john_browns_beard@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If I was in the courtroom when this happened, I would start looking around for hidden cameras lmao

I know it was in Spanish, but this sounds like it would be a skit on a British comedy show. "What a shame, Madam Judge"

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I think this was an online meeting/courtroom

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