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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.


Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

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Links and Stuff


The bulletins site is down.

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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[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

We had some cowboys for Palestine at the rally

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Israel is not interested in waging a war on two fronts, in particular with the Hezbollah movement, and does not intend to aggravate the situation on the Lebanese-Israeli border unless the Shiite movement itself does so, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant said on Sunday.

He noted that Israel would "respect the situation along the border" if Hezbollah "does not intervene in the conflict."

I don't think this is different to the one I already posted, just another channel reporting the same thing in different words. Has a bit more from the Israel Defence(offence) Minister though.

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[–] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

FBI notes increase in threats against Jewish and Muslim communities

FBI officials say they’ve noticed an increase in threatening rhetoric targeting both the Jewish and Muslim communities in the week since the brutal Hamas attacks in Israel.

Director Chris Wray said on a call with reporters Sunday that the FBI is moving quickly to mitigate the threats and that the FBI does not discount the possibility that Hamas and other groups could exploit the conflict in the Middle East to call for or plot attacks in the United States.

A senior FBI official who spoke on condition of anonymity under ground rules set by the bureau said the majority of the threats that the FBI has responded to were not judged to be credible. But the official said the FBI takes them all seriously nonetheless.

Besides responding to an escalating number of threats, Wray said the FBI was also working through its legal attache office in Tel Aviv to do what it can to locate and identify Americans who remain unaccounted for after last weekend’s attacks.

https://apnews.com/live/israel-hamas-war-live-updates#0000018b-349d-d98a-a18b-f6bf2fca0000

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Sources confirm to me that Israel is carrying out a probing attack on multiple fronts in the Gaza Strip.

No reports of incursion as of now.

Take with pinch of salt. It's night time. The information gathered from probing at night is gonna be shit.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

Been looking at historical statistics of how populations become socialist leaning and how life expectancy is correlated to it. By eyeballing it, I've determined a strong correlation of sustained (30+ years of it) life expectancies of 35-50 years resulting in political change or revolution towards socialism.

Obviously non-related fact: transgender people on average have a life expectancy of 35 in the USA. Black trans people have a life expectancy of 25. Many areas of the south are approaching the cool zone on average. Reservations have been there for a long time. If other countries are a signifiers of a trend, large segments of the American south will experience significant turmoil and partial revolutions within 10-40 years even in white areas.

To note: many parts of Cuba had high life expectancies, but the rural mountainous areas fell in with Castro due to sustained life expectancy issues. I would posit that as new generations are born into this life expectancy issue we will see some extreme shifts.

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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

does anyone feel like theres going to be something else that happens? Or are all the players set up already?

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

I'm a bit doomer on it. I think Hezbollah will strike more targets from Lebanon, but I think most other countries will just send "thoughts and prayers" tbh. The West Bank will protest and burn checkpoints as the Israelis do fucking pogroms and the IDF arrests more people.

Seems like it depends on if the IDF invades Gaza. Not only would that be a terrible idea to fight militants who know intricate systems of tunnels, it could be what moves other actors to officially join, whether militarily or otherwise.

[–] SexMachineStalin@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

Pissnotreal's MoD website is down:

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[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if all the McDonalds makes the IDF sluggish and tired and makes them shid and fard out their doodoo asses?

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

If we don't get to 6000 Im sending an Iranian drone to destroy the hexbear servers

[–] mkultrawide@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

As Azerbaijan demands Armenia cede 8 villages and continues to issue threats related to the Zengezur Corridor, the “Western Azerbaijan Community” held a forum in Madrid on “the return to Western Azerbaijan.”

Again, "Western Azerbaijan" is Armenia.

Twitter | Nitter

One step closer to my WW3 scenario...

EDIT:

Aliyev says Tehran and Baku have agreed on corridor to Nakhchivan via Iran

Twitter | Nitter

OK, maybe not...

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Hey all, if you want to contribute to the struggle, print and flyer the linked pdf https://hexbear.net/post/825760

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[–] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

Im still serious about the Iranian drone thing, chip chop motherfuckers

The Syrian defence ministry says Israel has launched an air strike against the international airport in Aleppo, which has put it out of service.

This is the statement it gave to Reuters:

"The Israeli enemy carried out an air attack from the direction of the Mediterranean Sea, west of Latakia, targeting Aleppo International Airport, which led to material damage to the airport and it being out of service," the ministry said.

This is not the first time the airport has been hit. Two days ago, Syria's state media reported Israeli forces had launched "simultaneous" missile strikes on two main airports in Aleppo and Damascus.

The attack damaged both runways and put both hubs out of service.

The strikes on the airports are intended to disrupt Iranian supply lines to Syria, a source told Reuters.

The Israeli military has not commented on the strikes, but earlier said that two rockets had been launched from Syria toward Israeli territory that "fell in an open area".

"No interceptors were activated according to protocol," the IDF said of that incident.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (4 children)

H3H3 Ethan Klein says supporters of Hamas "deserve to be burned alive by terrorists and their whole family murdered in front of them"

https://streamable.com/kp3h4g

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago

Former IOF Chief of Staff, Moshe Ya'alon stated, "The 'israeli' government and its president must resign and admit failure."

This comes at a time in which zionist sources publish: "Despite all the strikes on Gaza, to date we have not achieved an important result from a military standpoint."

Meanwhile, tens of thousands of settlers have abandoned their settlements outside of Gaza and in northern occupied Palestine, to the point where they are described as "ghost towns."

[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I've read that Twain quote many times, but is the book it's from, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, worth reading? It seems interesting.

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[–] Teekeeus@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Fear Grips Europe’s Gas Market Facing Winter Supply Threats

Mounting threats to gas supply are sending most fuel prices higher as fear takes hold of the market just ahead of the first signs of winter. Natural gas in Europe jumped this week, hitting the highest level in seven months, driven by the Israel-Hamas war and infrastructure vulnerabilities, including a leak in a Baltic Sea pipeline where sabotage is suspected. Power grid operators around the Baltic Sea are now beefing up protection of subsea cables and other critical infrastructure. The multiple risks highlight the vulnerability of Europe, which is starting its second winter without much of the pipeline gas flows from Russia that it once took for granted. Some forecasts suggest Europe will have a relatively warm winter, which should reduce gas needs. But the energy crisis is still far from over, and a cold snap is set to hit in the coming days.

are there any hints as to what truly happened to the pipeline?

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[–] buh@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

guy who thinks Israel will never reach Nazi levels of evil because even if they killed every single Palestinian, it would be less than the death toll of the holocaust

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://t.me/PalestineResist/15027

Report from Telegram that a group of resistance soldiers in Lebanon were able to cause some mayhem close to the Lebanon/Israel border. Sounds like they didn't make it, though.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Jerusalem Post: America asked Israel to postpone the ground attack until a humanitarian corridor is established

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