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There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.


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:

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.


The Country of the Week is Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.


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Links and Stuff


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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

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Resources For Understanding The War


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.


Telegram Channels

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

Pro-Russian

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

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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[–] TheOtherwise@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

https://archive.ph/bEJNW Cnn

Damage is already done. They also finished with a defense of the IDF not having proof.

yea

But the fact that Israeli officials have not backed up their claim with photographic evidence is not surprising – sharing such graphic imagery would be regarded as deeply insensitive. “Because of the dignity of the dead, we do not speak about how they looked,” said Maj. Nir Dinar, an IDF spokesperson. “It’s a dead baby. Does it matter if it’s burning or decapitation?”

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

~~They have blown up the border fence from Lebanon into Palestine.~~

~~I repeat: The fence is blown. All settlers ordered into bunkers.~~

~~https://twitter.com/Aldanmarki/status/1712130102060831026~~

edit: Tweet deleted, what the fuck is going on? ~~AJ still reporting on paragliders in the north~~

edit 2: leaving this up as a reminder to myself to wait for confirmation. I don't have time to be glued to AJ anymore, so idk what they are saying now.

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[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Are rats just built different?? Cats literally have a parasite to brainwash rats to be friebdly towards cats and rats still survive even though cats has genocided thousands of other small animal species.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Rybar Sitrep:

spoiler

🔻North direction: ▪️ Fighting continues in the Zikim area after another Palestinian landing. An episode of friendly fire occurred between IDF fighters near Kibbutz Karmiya. ▪️ The Israelis have managed to stabilize the situation in Sderot, but sporadic clashes continue in the surrounding area. ▪️ Hamas launches rocket attacks on Ashkelon and Ashdod.

🔻Eastern direction: ▪️According to some reports, the IDF managed to regain control of Beeri. Attacks continue on populated areas east of Gaza, including Netivot. ▪️ Hamas said that they had reached the city of Rahat, 30 kilometers east of Gaza. The Israelis announced the destruction of the militants and posted confirming footage.

🔻South direction: The situation along the southern borders of Gaza is still unknown. Judging by the almost complete absence of reports from the field, there is practically no activity in this area.

🔻 West Bank: ▪️Calls are spreading across the region for young people to take to the streets and attack Israelis. Riots break out throughout the area. ▪️ There were exchanges of fire between the IDF and the Palestinians in Jalama and near the Har Gerzim settlement.

🔻Border with Lebanon: ▪️In response to shelling from Lebanese territory, Israel launched attacks on the settlements of Aita al-Shaab, Marwakhin, Az-Zalutiya, Ad-Duheira, Yarun. Hezbollah targets were hit. ▪️ According to unconfirmed reports, one of the Hezbollah field commanders , Abdul Hamid Shari, was killed. ▪️ The Lebanese Islamic Jihad faction claimed responsibility for the incursion from Lebanon.

🔻 Gaza Strip: ▪️The Israeli Air Force is launching mass attacks on Gaza, including destroying key economic and social facilities. The Rimal district, where the top Hamas was based, was destroyed. ▪️ The representative of the military wing of Hamas, Abu Ubaida, promised to execute captured Israelis for every house destroyed without warning in Gaza.

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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Drone swarm released from Lebanon hitting all over northern Israel.

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[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Is it a step too far to tell the next "harm reduction" person I see that the most harm reduction they could possibly do is fall off a bridge.

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[–] FuckyWucky@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago

Gaza power plant is about to be out of fuel in a few hours.

[–] JohnBrownsBussy2@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This is tangential and maybe a bit crass, but I do think that this war dooms Biden's re-election chances, regardless of the outcome.

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (8 children)

Gonna be interesting to see what the US does with its carrier group. I'm sure they were sent as a deterrent for any further escalation, but clearly that didn't happen. Are they just going to sit and look on or join the fray? Either way it's gonna be a bad look for the US and they only have themselves to blame for sending the carrier group in the first place.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (9 children)

https://streamable.com/8u7s00

This video is circulating online with the claims of it being the successful interception by Iron Dome.

It's either a clever fake or a video game (Arma maybe?). Lighting is weird. The palestinian missiles are never lit up like that usually, and are not all following the same neat flight line with no deviation. Sound is weird too but that's difficult to quantify other than saying it feels unlike any actual on location video shot of missiles. The camera control is also weird, with sudden jerky movements and zoom in/out at a set distance that feels like pressing right mouse click to zoom in a game.

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Map of the hospitals in Gaza: https://nitter.cz/momurad10/status/1713515232314736685

Notice how they're mostly at the north that's being bombed.

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Sharing this with the caveat that I have no idea of the veracity of the claims made or who it is who posted this (a Turkish tech bro?).

https://twitter.com/yerlikayahasim/status/1713500632768708825

Another Israeli Manipulation is collapsing.

In a nutshell;

*Israeli police killed Jewish youth at the festival site.

*Resisters treated the hostages very well.

The girl taken hostage by the resistance at the festival in the desert spoke to Israel Radio;

"During this time the terrorists did not harm us, they even gave us the opportunity to drink and calmed us down while we panicked. The situation was really scary, but we were lucky that no one hurt us. For about two hours, no security forces were with us and we had to wait for the police to arrive. In the end, we were rescued and I'm with my friends now."

A girl named Yasmine claims that Israeli police blew up houses and they barely escaped.

"When the police came, they started shooting everywhere and I went outside with a gunman who talked to me. Four people were dead outside, I think the police killed them. Then they arrested the gunman and opened heavy fire on the hostages and the gunmen inside, killing them all."

It is likely that many Jewish youth on the festival grounds were also killed by Israeli soldiers.

The radio audio recording is attached.

Broadcast please. Please show it, especially to the whiney bunch of whiners who can't take a pro-Zionist stance like a young man.

#Gazagenocide #Palestine #IsraelTerrorists

There was a dubbed version of the audio, but I can't seem to find it now and it wasn't a very clear translation.

This does seem to check out with the bits of info that have come out about the festival, like the video showing IDF(?) shooting from within a crowd of people.

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