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News Brief: US Media, Washington Rush Head First into 9/11 2.0

hamas is like dumbledores army and israel is like death eaters. thank you for coming to my ted talk

Highlight from Al-Qassam Brigades military spokesman Abu Obeida's speech yesterday:

We heard today that the senile old man Yoav Gallant called us "human animals." Perhaps they meant the lions that trampled over their pig soldiers' necks inside their military bases, tanks, and fortresses.

I hate to do vibes based posting but shit feels extremely weird rn. Not in the normal everyone is frothing at the mouth and normal media insanity but weird ethereal feeling of "holy shit is everything really at the brink right now?" Kind of feeling.

Shit just dont feel good, like something extremely fucked up is in the air. Like the big one is about to happen. Maybe im just falling for the media panic or something idk.

Copying my comment from another thread.

"you can't tell me terrorism is good because it's never good"

Liberals are so obsessed with something being "good" or "bad" (meaning things that make them feel good or bad) that they miss the point. They can literally acknowledge how slaves killing their masters is effectively self-inflicted by the masters, and the only reason they don't always immediately turn around and say "but killing is bad" is because it was long ago and they're fully aware of how racist they would sound if they did.

"Terrorism is never good" is childish, because "terrorism" is before anything else an insult pointed at non-white people who defend their rights and tactics that many consider "terrorism" (guerilla tactics, surprise attacks, etc.) can be a means to a good end - in this case halting the settlement of Palestinian land.

Adult settlers who voluntarily live in illegal Israeli settlements have participated in a genocide of the Palestinian people, the same way German settlers during WW2 were participants in the genocide of the people of Eastern European nations, and those who took the property of Jews were direct participants in the Shoah. They're not unaware of what happened to give them that land. Often they personally committed the violence. They were comfortable with this because they believed that the IDF would protect them. It's absolutely ridiculous to see people all around the world, who have stood by and done nothing about this for generations as the Palestinians were repeatedly murdered for attempting peaceful resistance, suddenly start crying "terrorism" when Hamas (a group which would likely not exist and hold power without having been funded by Israel) has inflicted violence on the settlers in turn.

While the U.S. has granted a blank check to Tel Aviv, Russia and China have both called for a ceasefire to protect civilian lives.

Beyond being the moral thing to do, given the situational dynamics, it’s also just sound strategy. The Islamic World is rightly aflame in anger at the treatment of Palestinians and now has found a coalition partner which can advance its interests.

has the UK press blamed Jeremy Corbyn for all this yet?

GOP freaks have been telling each other that Hamas terrorists have already infiltrated America via the open Mexican border and are ready to attack major cities for the next 12 months in revenge against America for supporting Israel. Sanity has restored 10 points though because at least I'm not on the same side of the line as MAGA chuds anymore like on Ukraine, now all Americans are equally contemptible and wrong instead of merely 60% of them

Interesting article in naked capitalism that contains an info I had not seen before:

Palestinian forces made substantial inroads, advancing into Israeli camps and targeting the 8200th Intelligence Unit among other 11 military barracks. This unit, a linchpin of the Israeli intelligence apparatus, is directly linked to the Gaza Division Command and oversees drones that gather intelligence for Israeli targeting.

The successful attack on this unit, resulting in its destruction and the reported capture or elimination or escape of its personnel, has severely affected the Israeli military’s intelligence capabilities. This setback is evident in the Israeli army’s lack of actionable intelligence.

The unit mentioned has apparently been described as "Israel's NSA". Yet another element showing this was brilliantly planned.

lemmy.world turning into a nazi bar faster than germany rn

This just in: Hexbear dying as the news mega's stalinium balls weigh down the site

The news has a fucking scoreboard for casualties on their reporting, like it's the fuckin Superbowl or some shit. Disgustingly depraved country

If these past few days have taught me anything, it’s that the US populace will always side with the powerful over the powerless.

My folks used to tell me to never believe I read online but never applied that same logic to the TV, which was always the beacon of truth.

Human Rights Watch: "The statements of the Israeli Defense Minister are disgusting, and depriving residents of occupied territories of food and electricity is collective punishment."

https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-war-live-updates#0000018b-2b02-d2c3-a9ff-7b1a816b0000

President Joe Biden said Friday that it’s a priority of his administration to address the unfolding humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip.

Speaking at an event in Philadelphia to promote a $7 billion program to kickstart development and production of hydrogen fuel in the U.S., Biden paused to note the deteriorating situation for Palestinians as Israel continues to bombard the strip in retaliation for last weekend’s attacks on Israel.

Biden said he’s directed his team to work with the governments in Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and other Arab nations and the United Nations to surge humanitarian relief to those impacted by the war.

“We can’t lose sight of the fact that the overwhelming majority of Palestinians had nothing to do Hamas,” Biden said. “And they’re suffering as a result as well.”

Biden again lashed out at Hamas, saying the militant group in control of Gaza makes the terrorist group Al-Qaida “look pure.”

https://streamable.com/9fi502

Floods in Tel Aviv

IOF says it launched Patriot anti-air missile by mistake

lmao do it again

Anyone post this?

As Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, the State Department is discouraging diplomats working on Middle East issues from making public statements suggesting the U.S. wants to see less violence, according to internal emails viewed by HuffPost.

In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/state-department-internal-emails-gaza-israel_n_65296395e4b0a304ff6ff95d

what does seem to be real is that Hamas in Gaza hit Haifa, 200 kilometers away and twice the distance to Tel Aviv, with a missile

Caption

Palestinian children look at the building of the Zanon family, destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Rafah, Gaza Strip, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023.

Iran: Heavy losses will befall America and Israel because of the attack on Gaza.

Rare footage showing the inside of the Palestinian tunnel systems housing missiles.

https://streamable.com/8g1svd

Now scale it up and consider the thousands upon thousands of rockets that have been fired.

Clearing these tunnels is going to be impossible.

This is grim stuff. They’re just destroying the city.

This news deserves posting separately to my catchup

https://t.me/kataebabuali/10407

Via its channel, the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the paramilitary wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP, Palestinian Marxist-Leninists), confirmed that a Member of the General Central Committee of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, official of the Prisoners’ Department, Awad Al-Sultan, and a number of his family members, were Killed by Israel Defense Forces

Hate the handwringing about "Palestine hates Jews." If I was getting genocided by Jews in order for them to have a Jewish ethnostate, I wouldn't be a fan of Jewish people either. It's like saying the Aztecs were christianphobic for killing missionaries. Hate for the oppressors is different from hating the oppressed.

Is Israel actually using white phosphorus?

Turning off the internet to an entire country should be a war crime if it isn't already

Israel is currently lying about whats happening with real time, photograhic evidence and first hand accounts contradicting them. Imagine what shit they'll try pulling later today

seeing reports of a major russian assault north of avdeevka, if anybody still gives a shit about that

Regarding the Egyptian border crossing.

The Israeli occupation destroys the Rafah crossing on the Egyptian and Gaza borders, and all relief trucks return to Egypt as a result of the intensity of the Israeli bombing. “Two Egyptian workers were injured by shrapnel. “The only crossing linking Gaza in the world.”

The Gaza Ministry of Internal Affairs reported attacks on the Rafah checkpoint on the border with Egypt, and also stated that the Egyptian side asked to evacuate people from there. An Egyptian security source told German news agency DPA that the crossing point was closed until further notice.

The Rafah crossing opened in 2005 following the Palestinian-Israeli agreement. This is the only checkpoint between the Gaza Strip and the outside world, besides those on the border with Israel that are not operational.

Since Day 1 of the war, over dozens of Egyptian ambulances, filled with medical aid, doctors, and medics, have went to Gaza to provide emergency medical services to the Palestinian people, the intiative, by all accounts, is humanitarian and oriented towards the civilian population, obviously.

Israel threatening to bomb the trucks carrying nothing more than bandages, blood packets, antibiotics, and doctors, is a through and through war crime and this is taking place in front of the world.

It's important to note that some of these doctors are directly Army doctors from the Medical Corps and the Egyptian Red Crescent, alongside some volunteers, and they're all Egyptian citizens.

Whoever made that statement didn't think twice, they may have had a legal loophole when they bombed the Palestinian side of the crossing and the roads, but targeting the trucks will not do you any good.

The United States does not plan to send troops to Israel, White House spokesman John Kirby said. The first military aid has already been sent.

We are gonna need a bigger Chad column this week

Those are rookie numbers, gotta pump those numbers up

how many comments would there be if nobody commented about the number of comments

A talking head - a former Obama guy - just said something like "Iran would love to bleed Israel dry in Northern Israel and in Gaza." Yeah, just like the US loves to do right now to Russia in Ukraine.

🚨 Gaza Government Media Office:

A new massacre committed by the occupation against three convoys of citizens in different locations on Salah Al-Din and Al-Rashid streets, who tried to reach the south of the Gaza valley as per the request of the occupation army.

This massacre has so far, in a preliminary toll, left 70 martyrs, most of them children and women, and more than 200 injured.

optimism levels are varying wildly