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Sure, keep blurring the line between civilian and troop, keep giving more ARs to bloodthirsty volunteer death squads, surely these randos won’t get eaten up by resistance fighters or die to friendly fire https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-says-10000-assault-rifles-purchased-for-civilian-security-teams

A MSNBC talking head just described Gazans fleeing Gaza City as "refugees". I wonder if that's the go-to term that's going to be used.

The White House is considering adding more Ukraine funding in an emergency aid package for Israel, according to informed sources that spoke with multiple western outlets. Although no decision has been reached, senior US officials told the Washington Post that such a move “could make sense” because it would put a damper on the republican party, “which is firmly opposed to more Ukraine aid but strongly supportive of aid to Israel.” The move would also help resolve an internal crisis between the two ruling US parties that have made signing blank checks for Kiev “harder'”

Israel is the greatest cumulative recipient of US military aid, getting more than $3 billion a year, which to date amounts to more than $146 billion. This year, Washington sent Israel $3.8 billion and an additional $100 million “in funding for other cooperative defense and non-defense programs.”

For Ukraine, the White House has approved at least $45 billion in direct military aid through 47 separate transfers since February 2022. They have also shipped a significant portion of US munitions stored in Israel, sparking concerns in Tel Aviv earlier this year.

During a background briefing on Monday, a senior US defense official told reporters that the Pentagon could “continue our support both to Ukraine, Israel, and maintain our own global readiness,” noting that the US has been able to meet “every request that our Israeli counterparts have made.”

However, EU officials have expressed the opposite sentiment, telling Foreign Policy on Monday, “We face a huge ammo shortage due to Ukraine.” This comes on the heels of a statement by the chair of the NATO Military Committee last week, in which he said “the bottom of the barrel is now visible” about the west's ammo stockpile.

Are they running out of weapons or not?

Did Hezbollah just troll everyone?

https://streamable.com/tq7wsd

Pretty decent video debunking the current big lies about beheading babies, mass rapes and the festival.

I wonder how Blake from Brooklyn is handling this

"Watch this. Dramatic rescues from a residential building."

Gee, MSNBC - why did the building fall down in Gaza and nearly kill that little girl? Was there an earthquake? What happened exactly?

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Now MSNBC is doing a segment of munitions that were brought into Gaza. I know it's entirely expected for the US media to avoid mention who is causing the destruction and death in Gaza and I know they'll never show/explain Israeli munitions but it's still maddening.

fascists in NY interviewed by the grayzone

Eygptian humanitarian aid for Gaza arrives in Sinai

Egyptian charities on Saturday sent over 100 trucks carrying 1,000 tons of humanitarian aid including food and other supplies to the Palestinian people in Gaza, local media reported. The aid will wait in Sinai until a deal is secured with Israel to allow the delivery of aid into the besieged territory.

https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-war-live-updates#0000018b-2df6-d1d9-a3cb-efff741a0000

Crowd of thousands protesting in London right now. Haven't seen a turnout like this since the summer of 2020

Jordanian security forces are preventing people from attacking the American embassy.

Loyal American dogs

archive.today • Israeli military says its troops killed gunmen who infiltrated from Lebanon

Israeli soldiers backed by helicopters killed at least two gunmen who crossed the border from Lebanon on Monday, the military said, in a sign of a possible new front opening as Israel's forces battled Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza...

on the computer

So the Freedom Socialist Party had said nothing about the ongoing genocide, but was so quick to support Ukraine. So that means I’m allowed unlimited sectarianism on trots right?

I'm calling it; we're living through Cold War 2 right now, this very second, and we have been since 2021 or even 2014. Historians will see Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan the way we look back at Korea, Viet Nam, etc. Iran, Russia, and China are going to fucking win.

Prediction time:

The US has talked itself up too much and after the whole middle east has united over this they are now crapping their pants.

They don't want this. They're stalling to walk it back. All the talk about how they'll do anything to defend Israel but now it's a problem.

The 10k troop invasion? I think it's real. They're going to do a limited invasion that is absolutely destined to fail to save face. This is so that nobody has to look like they lied, nobody has to look like they said they were doing a ground op but chickened out. They know it will fail but the point is they don't want a full scale war.

Blinken's touring the middle east is to tell them all they aren't doing a full attack, so that doing so doesn't cause everything to get out of hand anyway.

Hamas will walk out of this stronger than ever.

My country's hegemonic media is 100% fash and has been 100% in on the "Israel are the real victims" and equating every Palestinian with Hamas. Until today. Now it's all about them going way too far on Gaza and how much suffering Israel is causing to civilians. Specifically, they're talking about the displacement and the relentless bombing

Out of morbid curiosity, I checked NAFO Twitter, and it's a combination of people shilling for the Zionist entity, people trying to find any tenuous link between Hamas and Russia, and people malding that nobody is paying attention to Ukraine anymore.

Imagine how much more stretched thin the US empire would be if Afghanistan was still occupied

Hamas asks Israeli settler if they can have a banana

Kneel before the man who helped Hezbullah win the 33 day war against Israel, led the Axis of Resistance to abolish ISIL/ISIS and secured pathes to transfer weaponry to Palestinian resistance. Behold:

General Ghassem Soleimani

From Resistance News Network Telegram channel:

In Kuwait, a speech was given yesterday celebrating Palestine and her people's legitimate right to resist. The speaker, after calling the zionist entity a cancer in the region, said:

"Long live Palestine. Long live the resistance. Long live the Arab nation. In conclusion, I hope—I just hope that the Palestinian Authority dissolves the PA Security Forces and advances hand-in-hand with the resistance and Palestinian people. Take a real stance. Long live Hamas, long live PIJ, long live the Palestinian factions."

It was at this point that the "Palestinian" Authority ambassador stormed out of the room. Notably, traitor-in-chief Abbas gave orders to PA and Fatah members not to discuss the resistance of #Gaza. Yet, the resistance advances despite the efforts of the PA, including their abduction of resistance fighters and students.

Dismantle it and let them fall.

https://t.me/PalestineResist/14860

I wonder what the chances of Abbas getting 'd is.

if Hezbollah and others don't intervene sooner or later and they just let Israel raze Gaza to the ground then it honestly does prompt the question of what these organizations are even, like, doing. "Oh, my militant group that I basically explicitly formed to fight Israel isn't going to get involved because Israel didn't spin three times in a circle, clap their hands, and say "Abracadra" as we warned them would be our condition for entry, so now, instead of hitting Israel when it is at its weakest in the last 50 years, we'll just wait for them to demolish every Palestinian settlement and then hope that something comes around in 2035 I guess. Maybe the US will lose all its aircraft carriers in a hurricane or something."

Like, I'm not saying that Hezbollah and Iran and whatever should be fervently marching into a potential nuclear scenario if that isn't what the "pragmatic, realist, sensible" analysis of the situation dictates. Like, as utterly callous as it might be, if Iran and friends had decided in like 2010 that "It sucks, but we just can't do anything because the threat that Israel will nuke Tehran and Beirut and other places is too high, and would lead to more suffering than if we tried to help Palestine, so we're disbanding our groups," then I would at least be like "Well, Gaza and the West Bank are on their own, then, and they can't really rely on outsiders to march in to save them." No, Iran and Hezbollah still exist and are still pretty fervently anti-Israel and want its destruction one way or another, and want to help the Palestinian people, and have massive arsenals of weaponry and rockets and drones and thousands and thousands of trained men and so on, seemingly despite the potential nuclear (or indeed conventional) threat from Israel and the West. So if they don't help now then I can't see what exactly would be the impetus for anti-Israel actions in the future once Gaza is a depopulated pile of rubble, even if a substantial amount of the Israeli army was destroyed in the process. Once the Palestinians are gone, whether all killed or forcibly moved elsewhere - and I don't see why Israel's government would allow Gaza and the West Bank to exist as Palestinian settlements any further from this point on if there's a possibility that October 7th could happen again in a few years - then like... that's basically it, surely? Not much point if there's nothing and nobody left to save?

Really hoping that they're just saying that they'll only hit Israel if they invade Gaza, but are actually buying time to get everything in position and hoping that they can scare Israel into not rampaging in, and will just start blasting out of nowhere one day. I understand that it takes time to rev everything up for war, get supply chains set up, get units in position, get intelligence, etc, and Hezbollah didn't know anything in advance so couldn't really prepare in advance.

And in Palestine they don't even have strip clubs to see naked big boobies and call of duty is banned

Somehow these threads have remained a lib-free zone. You have have to do one of those basic questions to post?

Fill in the blank: _________ saved the world from fascism

Scott Ritter (former UN Weapons Inspector) speculates that Hamas was able to outsmart Israeli intelligence by feeding bad data into their AI collection tools. Interesting article sorry if it has been shared already:

https://consortiumnews.com/2023/10/08/scott-ritter-israels-massive-intelligence-failure/

US Navy reconnaissance plane passes through Taiwan Strait, closely watched by Chinese jets

US charter flight takes 150 people to Israel, including army reservists going to war

In this very short live update this "stop the madness" quote jumped out at me.

Among those waiting in the LAX terminal to board the flight was 37-year-old David Frankel, an Israeli citizen who fled with his wife and two children to Southern California following the Hamas attacks a week ago. Frankel is an Israeli army reservist and said he was called up to serve while in California.

“It’s heartbreaking, but I’m doing it because it’s necessary,” Frankel told CNN. “It’s sadly the reason I’m leaving my boys behind. I had to say goodbye to them in their sleep just a few hours ago. I'm obviously nervous … I want to see my boys grow up. But you have to put that aside and stop the madness that’s happening.”