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I feel compelled to give the Danish mainstream television news a small begruding tip of the hat for not being complete garbage tonight. They had the usual zionist propaganda with grinning stormtroopers outside of the Gaza ghetto boasting about how ready they were for an invasion. But after that they actually spent quite some time letting Palestinians inside the ghetto tell about the terror and desperation the zionist siege and terror bombings put them under.

Of course the existence of Palestinian suffering in the news cycle will not move the satanic racists governing us from supporting the occupation and crying performative crocodile tears for dead settlers but at least it is not as totally one-sided as the Ukraine stuff.

13 hostages killed in Israel’s attacks on Gaza Strip, Hamas says. No confirmation from Israel | AP News

Hamas said Israel’s bombardment has killed 13 of the hostages, including foreigners.

It did not give the nationality of the foreigners, saying they were killed over the last 24 hours. There was no immediate Israeli comment.

This morning the Turkish army bombed the Maxmûr Refugee camp in Southern Kurdistan.

Targeting the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK)

Ap News. Havent seen this before.

:i-can-never-find-the-emoji-i-want-with-these-naming-conventions---use-your-imagination:

https://archive.ph/ZlgeB

“Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join!” Ariel Kallner, a member of parliament from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud, wrote on social media after the Hamas attack.

Anyone have a link to the direct tweet?

Hirbawi will now let you pre-order their keffiyeh. So if you wanted the Palestine flag one but where disappointed they were sold out you can pre-order one.

Iranian Foreign Minister Amirabdollahian said he met Hezbollah leader Nasrallah in Lebanon and that "all scenarios" were considered; says Iran cannot remain a spectator; adds if scope of war expands, US "will suffer heavy losses as well” - Al Jazeera

"they're celebrating babies' deaths" about to murder the old ladies at the supermarket brb

In 4 months it will be the Ukraine war second anniversary

feel old yet

Hamas published yesterday an 18-minute long pre-recorded press conference in English about their side of the story.

Im gonna be a fucking stupid optimist this time: I really think that this can be pulled off.

Its just been more and more paper tigers from Israel. Arabia is mobilizing against aggression so blatant that even the bourgeoisie of those countries see it as a threat. While any real response will have Israel fleeing to the sea. Settlers will never be able to pull off resistance like those who actually live there. The nukes are a problem though, but if things collapse quickly enough, I don't believe they will be able to use them. Even if Israel wins initially, the settler project has been dealt a blow that is impossible to heal from. Millions flee the colonialist state. The army has been made a laughing stock! The crimes are so vile that even the US focused nations in the regions will respond.

Israel is dead, and it is just the beginning.

Looking at weather charts for Gaza and can't see fuck all that could be particularly problematic.

It's either bullshit to misdirect Hamas or it's the US stalling Israel because they want to find a way to calm the situation so they aren't dragged into a war. The US doesn't want this distraction in my honest opinion there is nothing they gain from it.

For the sake of my sanity I should stop googling guests that are on CNN and MSNBC. The following tweet is by recent guest on MSNBC who is a "man with a deep history in the Middle East". He was on a few minutes ago. I said "should" but I can't stop myself from googling for monsters because I keep finding them and doing so is typically a cakewalk. I only need find a recent ghoulish tweet.

The only solution is to "de-Nazifi" any & all terror leaders in Gaza & @qatar. This requires Israel to decapitate the entire structure & end the ability of Hamas leaders in Doha to operate by any means necessary.

Nitter

Marc C. Ginsberg

Marc Charles Ginsberg (born October 18, 1950) is a U.S. lawyer and former diplomat who currently leads The Coalition for a Safer Web, a non-profit dedicated to combating cyber terrorism and extremist incitement.

[...]

Under President Jimmy Carter, from 1979 to 1981, Ginsberg was the Deputy Senior Advisor to the President for Middle East Policy and served on the post-Camp David Palestinian Autonomy Negotiations.

what the fuck is hezbollahs problem , are they a MLM thingy..

A minister resigns!

Bjarni Benediktsson, so called finance minister, has resigned after selling a bank wrong. He is often called Teflon Bjarni by politically conscious Icelanders, this is like his 5th or 6th "get out of politics in shame" worthy scandal.

here is a whole news ticker full of slop for you

Ukraine vs Israel: can the west arm both?

While Ukraine faces a severe manpower shortage, western powers find themselves faced with a dearth of available weaponry to send to Kiev. Admiral Rob Bauer, NATO's highest-ranking military official, candidly admitted on 3 October, "The bottom of the barrel is now visible" concerning the west's ammunition stockpile. In a sign of the mounting strain, the US began transferring to Ukraine 300,000 155-millimeter shells it had stored in Israel as part of the War Reserves Stock Allies-Israel (WRSAI) program. According to one Israeli officer, “Officially, all of this equipment belongs to the US military …. If, however, there is a conflict, the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] can ask for permission to use some of the equipment.”

Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder claimed the US would replenish these stocks of artillery shells stored in Israel. But the US does not have the ability to do so, as Ukraine has been using between 3,000 and 6,000 rounds per day, a quarter of what Russia has used on the battlefield. CNN reported at the time that “The strain on weapons stockpiles – and the ability of the US industrial base to keep up with demand – is one of the key challenges facing the Biden administration.”

The US military-industrial complex is heavily geared to produce high-cost weapons systems and hardware, like the $412 billion F-35 warplane. While these programs undoubtedly benefit weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, they fall short in delivering the essential artillery required in vast quantities for a war of attrition against a formidable military. Now that war has broken out between Israel and the Palestinian resistance, Kiev faces a competitor not only in Moscow, but in Tel Aviv.

That Israel is begging for US weapons just days into a conflict with Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) is alarming for the occupation state’s supporters, considering that none of the remaining Axis of Resistance members, including Hezbollah, Syria, Ansarallah, Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) and Iran, have yet formally entered the conflict.

Should Hezbollah fully join the fight, Israeli planners expect the Lebanese resistance movement to fire 4,000 missiles a day from northern Lebanon and send thousands of elite troops into Israel to take over towns or military bases.

Israel and Hezbollah fought a major battle in 2006, which forced the Israeli military to wage war against a more “conventional” military opponent, in contrast to the Palestinians it confronts daily in the West Bank and Gaza. According to Matt Mathews of the US Army’s Combat Studies Institute, Israel was woefully unprepared to fight a “real war” in that conflict. ... The 2006 war also exposed Israel’s reliance on US weapons, which nevertheless proved insufficient to defeat Hezbollah. During the war, Israel requested to access the WRSAI stockpile and that the US expedite the delivery of precision-guided munitions to Israel. Within just 10 days of fighting, Israel used most of its ammunition stock.

Years later, in July 2014, during Israeli military operations against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Israel was again forced to rely on the WRSAI stockpile to replenish 120-mm tank rounds and 40-mm illumination rounds fired from grenade launchers. The problems Israel faced in 2006 and 2014 will be compounded if the Axis of Resistance now takes the step of initiating its “unification of the fronts” campaign.

David Wurmer, Middle East adviser to former Vice President Dick Cheney, told the Wall Street Journal on 10 October that “The nightmare scenario for the Israelis is that they go a week or two shooting down 6,000 to 10,000 Hamas missiles, and then they have nothing left to stop the Hezbollah missiles.”

The situation for Israel becomes even more challenging if Iran joins the conflict, as the Islamic Republic possesses substantial stocks of short-range and medium-range missiles capable of reaching both Israel and US bases in the region. The US and Israel often warn of the alleged threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program, despite its civilian orientation, but seldom mention the threat posed by Iran’s burgeoning conventional missile program.

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But now, more than 40 years later, the Palestinians are not alone. They are part of a region-wide Resistance Axis that has defeated US and Israeli agendas in a number of West Asian states, gaining invaluable fighting, organizational, and planning experience alongside reliable allies.

Meanwhile, the pile of recent US-side failures keeps mounting: Russia's global clout spiked during the US proxy war in Ukraine; US adversaries China and Russia forged a multipolar world when Washington came at them; economic sanctions designed to cripple Russia and Iran only strengthened both states and sparked military collaborations. Crucially, Russia and Iran today possess the industrial capabilities to produce the military firepower the US and NATO cannot provide to allies in either Tel Aviv or Kiev.

Israel has already started the fight it may not be able to finish by declaring total war on Gaza’s civilian population, killing over 1,000, including hundreds of women and children, and flattening large swathes of the Gaza Strip in airstrikes. For Tel Aviv, Gaza has always been low-hanging fruit - the punching bag it seeks when it needs to look tough. But today, one misstep, one badly aimed missile, or one step too far, and Israel will face a regional war it cannot withstand for any significant period of time.

https://streamable.com/vmykzv

Trump complains that Israel didn’t participate in the operation against Soleimani:

— "I’ll never forget that Netanyahu let us down.. and then he tried to take credit for it"

Egyptian politics regarding Gaza have always been a bit of an enigma to me. These Al Jazeera articles1 2 shed a bit of light on the situation, but I still don't get the politics of the Gaza/Egypt border. How is the Israeli blockade so devastating when they only control one side of the border? To what extent can Palestinians cross into Egypt?

Trading my xibucks in for putin pounds to make cash off the exchange rate

I haven't seen anything about this, so might as well post it:

[GERMANY] Election Results for state elections in Bavaria and Hessen.

Bavaria:

Christian Social Union (Right Wing Opportunist) - 37,0% (-0,2%)

Free Voters Association (CSU for who doesn't like the CSU) - 15,8% (+4,2%)

Alternative for Germany (Fascists) - 14,6% (+4,2%)

Green Party/Alliance '90 (Neoliberal Warhawks) - 14,4% (-3,2%)

Social Democratic Party (As useless as the US Democrats) - 8,4% (-1,3%)

[Under the 5% clause, not represented in the state parliament]

Free Democratic Party (Libertarians) - 3,0% (-2,1%)

Ecological Democratic Party (Socially Conservative Socdems) - 1,8% (+0,2%)

Left Party (we're a mess) - 1,5% (-1,8%)

Bavarian Party (yes, separatist. They've been irrelevant since the 1950s) - 0,9% (-0,8%)

The Base (Vaccines scary, the party) - 0,9% (new)

Animal Protection Party (Hippies & sus people) - 0,5% (+0,2%)

The PARTY (radlibs mocking the political system) - 0,5% (+0,1%)

V-Partei³ ("Party for Change, Vegans and Vegetarians" says everything really) - 0,2% (-0,1%)

Party of the Humanists (Reddit, the Party) - 0,1% (+0,1%)

Newschads, what happens if the US runs out of conventional weapons between all their proxy wars? Will the US abandon some of its allies? Who gets priority?

Anyone know what the take in Rojava is on Palestine? Are they going to be massive opportunists that fuck over Palestinians by teaming up with Israel and the US if Syria gets dragged into this?

And if the suicide drones are hamas, that would be equally insane