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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.

The weekly update is here.

Links and Stuff


The bulletins site is down.

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

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

Add to the above list if you can.


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.


Last week's discussion post.


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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

Is there any large scale picture of what kind of ground combat is happening in Israeli held areas right now? Most of the Palestinian media I'm seeing on Twitter is flattened areas in Gaza. Most of the Israeli media is slick propaganda or people in their homes who certainly do not look like they are at war. I'm not seeing any video from ongoing fighting. I have no idea if that's representative, I'm bad at navigating post-melon-musk twitter.

[–] PointAndClique@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I did a big fart in celebration of 6k posts well dome hexbears

[–] zephyreks@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

https://cupe.ca/cupe-statement-violence-palestine-and-israel

For anyone interested, the Canadian Union of Public Employees' statement.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

BREAKING: Zionists Wage Psychological War: In recent hours, Reuters and the UN made the alarming claim that 1.1 million Gazans in the northern Strip must locate south, tripling the number that have been displaced already.

This is deceptive zionist and imperialist misinformation. Gaza's government media office confirmed moments ago: "Warning Gazans to move is false propaganda and we urge our citizens not to be drawn by it. These attempts are part of psychological warfare."

This is also being matched with fear mongering spurred by zionist organizations in the US. The enemy thrives where there is fear and chaos.

We remind our subscribers that in 2021 in the midst of the historic Saif Al-Quds battle, the IOF tricked the entire Western mainstream media (including Associated Press, New York Times, and others) into believing that it was beginning a ground invasion.

It was a failed attempt to lure fighters out of tunnels so that they could be targeted. Dozens of IOF aircraft were on standby, but the resistance did not fall for it, despite the seemingly consensus opinion of the mainstream news.

I hope they're right. Otherwise it's going to be hell.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

https://streamable.com/1hioj2

Fighting in Beit Ummar which is 50km away from Gaza by the crow or like 80km minimum by roads.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Foreign minister of Norway to Al-Jazeera:

The extent of the destruction in Gaza is enormous, and I fear that the civilian population will face greater difficulties in the coming days

Imposing a complete blockade on the Gaza Strip, including water, electricity and food, is unacceptable

Israel must allow humanitarian aid to enter and ensure its access to the civilian population in Gaza

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

What happens when nato trained people do that whole lining up to do doorkickers breaching a door thing and someone just shoots through the wall?

Like, doesn't this whole approach to clearance rely on the enemy not knowing you're coming? What happens when someone just puts 10 rounds into both walls to either side of the door during their breach routine?

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

When Homeworld came out two decades ago everyone immediately understood the enormity of the crime committed by the Taiidan. A people sent in to exile were exterminated for the crimes of their ancestors. Their planet was burned. Only a handful survived due to circumstance. I know a lot of people who start crying when they hear adagio for strings, even twenty years later. No one ever said "Oh, well, the Kushan shouldn't have built a space ship, they deserve what they got." People just understood. What was right, what was wrong, and what was to be done about it. I don't understand why they can't see what is happening right now.

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[–] Dessa@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm actually wondering if American's short term memories may be good in this case.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

https://streamable.com/xuoh41

Explosion at the Qalandiya checkpoint, West Bank.

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (4 children)

When is the 24 hours up before Israel starts flattening North Gaza? It must be really soon right?

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Interesting analysis on radar ranges, particularly the part about what altitudes they can accurately track.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

End of day Rybar sitrep October 14, 2023

spoiler❗️🇮🇱🇵🇸 Aggravation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict zone

what is known by the end of October 14, 2023

Judging by the concentrations of Israeli armored vehicles near the border with the Gaza Strip, statements by the authorities, as well as representatives of the Israel Defense Forces, preparations for a ground operation in the Palestinian enclave have come to an end and will begin in the near future. The media published reports that the Israeli military-political cabinet could not reach a consensus on the details of the planned invasion, but the chances of avoiding it are close to zero.

Today, several clashes occurred east of the Gaza Strip in the area of Kibbutzim Nahal Oz, Nirim and Sufa. The militants also continue to conduct mass shelling of Israeli territory, striking both settlements in the immediate vicinity of the enclave and central cities.

Tension remains on the Israeli-Lebanese border. Near Al-Adisa, on the demarcation line, today there was an attempt to infiltrate Israeli territory, to which the IDF responded with fire. In addition, a drone infiltrated from Lebanon, intercepted in the Shefaram area east of Haifa. Following this incident, Israeli forces again struck southern Lebanon, killing a Hezbollah fighter and two civilians.

In the Gaza Strip, which is under continuous bombing by the Israeli Air Force, more than 2 thousand people have already died, 700 of whom are children. Hospitals in the enclave are running out of medicines and there are interruptions in the Internet. In addition, the IDF again attacked a column of refugees trying to leave the north of the region.

In the evening, an incident occurred on the Syrian border with Israel. According to an IDF representative, two missile attacks were launched from Syrian territory on the occupied Golan Heights, after which the Israelis fired at the Syrian Arab Republic in response.

Seems like no map with this one. Probably because it's barely changed in several days, and they did a video one earlier in the day.

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