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.
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.
spoiler
Germany will ban all Hamas-linked activities, Scholz says
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that anyone who glorifies the crimes of Palestinian militant group Hamas, uses its symbols, condones murder, calls for criminal acts or burns Israeli flags could be prosecuted in Germany.
Speaking in the Bundestag, the German parliament, Scholz vowed “zero tolerance” on antisemitism and called on German law enforcement agencies to hold anyone who does such things accountable “with all the means that our defensible constitutional state offers.”
On Iran’s influence over Hamas, the German chancellor said, “so far, we have no solid evidence that Iran has provided concrete and operational support for this cowardly attack by Hamas,” but added “it is clear to all of us that without Iranian support over the past several years, Hamas would not have been capable of these unprecedented attacks on Israeli territory”
Israel claims isis flags were found on hamas soldiers
https://insiderpaper.com/israel-prepares-ground-manoeuvre-against-hamas-but-no-decision-yet-army/
This morning the IDF said no decision has yet been made regarding any ground incursion into Gaza, “but we are preparing for it.”
Possibly being walked back? Hesitating?
Around the middle of the day:
[Might be untrue, needs verification]
BREAKING: There are currently no plans to send American soldiers to Israel for hostage rescue operations, Jon Finer, deputy national security adviser, told MSNBC. "We are not contemplating U.S. boots on the ground," Finer said
https://fxtwitter.com/SkyNewsArabia_B/status/1712360241516384537
Walla News: Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi spoke with Syrian President Bashar Assad, telling him that the Arab and Muslim world must agree on a united position in support of the Palestinians.
https://streamable.com/u0sorn
On October 12, 2023, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) published a footage showing the moving and accumulation of troops and equipment at the Israeli-Lebanese border.
On the video, APCs and Merkava MBTs are seen being deployed at the border zone, specially on the hills
According to the IDF, "As part of the promotion of the readiness of the IDF forces in the Northern Command sector, reserve forces have been deployed in recent days" in the settlements near the border fence in the north.
The IDF says that "Its forces carry out various defense tasks in the settlements, which include patrols, ambushes and the deployment of roadblocks, in order to ensure the safety of the residents"
The statement ends with IDF Northern Commando will be reinforced this week with many additional forces in order to strengthen the command and control response and its readiness in the region
Seems like the number of attendees at the music festival has changed. There were 3000 attendees and 285 deaths.
At this point I absolutely believe these deaths were casualties caused by fighting with the IDF, not by intent to massacre civilians.
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: Our current battle began where Operation Sword of Jerusalem (2021 Israel–Palestine crisis), which united all the Palestinian arenas, ended
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: We emphasized that the battle should be headed by the holiness of Al-Aqsa Mosque and Jerusalem, and we included the prisoners’ file in it
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: The pace of coordination with the axis of resistance has increased and there have been developments regarding the future of the conflict with the Zionist enemy
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: The Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood began based on an analysis of the area of operations, such as the land and weather and their impact
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: Operation Al-Aqsa Flood included the firing of 3,500 rockets and artillery shells targeting the Gaza Division of the Zionist Army
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: We were keen to hide the intentions, training and movements before the Al-Aqsa flood was carried out
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: We have made extensive plans to train the forces to be able to carry out tasks efficiently
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: We have drawn up a precise plan to summon 3,000 fighters for the battle and 1,500 for support and support operations.
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: We began Operation Al-Aqsa Flood to destroy the Gaza division, which we attacked in 15 different points.
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: We attacked the Zikim Military base of Zionist Army and several other settlements outside the Gaza Division headquarters
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: In addition to our attack on the Gaza Division, we attacked 10 additional military intervention points of the Zionist Army.
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: The Al-Qassam Brigades practiced strategic deception against the enemy that began in early 2022.
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: Despite the Zionist air incursions, we chose to partially pass some of the battles between the Zionist enemy and the resistance factions to gain time to prepare for the final battle.
Al-Qassam Brigades Spokesman: The Zionist enemy is committing the most heinous crimes against innocent civilians, and it is better to hold its leadership accountable for that.
Sky News reporter speak with former Israeli PM.
Calls Palestinians nazis.
Sky News presenter learns in realtime what bad faith engagement feels like.
https://streamable.com/zh3int
Pro Palestine demonstrations go ahead in France despite authorities
https://twitter.com/romainjeanticou/status/1712503575560011883
🇮🇱❌🇵🇸❗️ — 📰 Al-Jazeera: The Israeli Prime Minister Benjmain Netanyahu delivers a statement declaring war on Gaza in the Knesset (Israeli parliament)
https://fxtwitter.com/AJABreaking/status/1712507154463113413
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: We all stand united in this battle
Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: We stand in this battle together with mutual guarantees and embrace from our hearts the families who lost their loved ones
Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: We receive assistance from outside the country to identify the bodies and identify the missing
Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: This is a war on the House and it must end with one thing: Victory and the Total Destruction liquidation of Hamas, once and for all
Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: We want to prove to the outside world that there is no rift between us. On the contrary, we are motivated by one thing, which is the total liquidation of Hamas.
Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Hamas carried out nefarious and horrifying crimes in our homes and the world now understands why it must be eliminated by any means necessary
Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: All countries must ban Hamas or impose sanctions on every country that hosts its leaders
Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: I will meet with the US Secretary of Defense tomorrow and we received great American support and an airlift of equipment and weapons
Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: October 7 will remain a black day in the history of peoples and the most horrific day for the Jewish people since the Nazi Germany's Holocaust.
Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Now, we have no choice but life or death. This is a matter of survival for Israel and the Jewish people.
Israeli Prime-Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: We will restore the Gaza envelope and rebuild the towns
Stopping here. I fucked up one of my edits and lost several things I posted. Oops. I'll probably just make separate posts next time. Will continue to make separate posts from here.
indiscriminately bombing a place so much you run out of fucking bombs
USA
Israel
I'm starting to wonder whether governments will actively be trying to take down this site.
I doubt we are only anyone's radar and we don't have the reach. The old sub could get to the front page of All when the mods turned that option on. That would have been banned this week if it hadn't been banned by now.
I disagree. We have already been the subject of at least two law enforcement-affiliated studies. Extremely shoddy, laughable studies, but we are under surveillance none the less. Especially now that the focus of discussion here has lingered on the activities of a group the US designates as terrorists.
The US has been making continuous moves towards internet censorship, collaborating closely with the major social media platforms, installing "former" state officials and/or state-affiliated thinktankers in positions of power. We have seen them use these powers throughout the George Floyd uprising, the Russia-Ukraine war, and now the conflict in Palestine. We should only expect their ability to manipulate social media to expand. We should also expect them to expand these operations beyond the established mega-platforms after the well of useful sources there is extinguished.
With the introduction of the Fediverse, we have seen an alternate model emerge. A model where small communities can establish themselves on "their own" infrastructure with trusted leadership. Truth of the matter is though, that the vast majority of this network is hosted on virtual machines in centralized locations. Some intermediate-sized websites might be located in a CoLo instead, but still centralized physically. A small handful might be served from under a mattress. I expect new legislation to pass in the coming years to enable systems like this to either be back-doored quietly, or shut down on grounds of national security, sedition, or terrorism. We probably have a good few more years left, but the more the empire loses their grip, the harder they will clamp down. If shit starts popping off in the US like it did in 2020 in the midst of an ever-accelerating "cold" war and we maintain our abolitionist position, they absolutely will cut the cord.
The focus right now may be on occupied Palestine, but with all the liberals and even the socdems braying for blood, the state will be pushing the limits of their "counterterrorism" powers to renewed heights. The way they've been handling the StopCopCity protesters is only a taste.
Links?
one is that word-count midwit who thinks counting the number of "violent" words on a social media site is useful, so if we quote some nazi's screed to laugh at it or criticize it, it counts towards us. Just absolute dogbrained "research"
The first was titled "Network-Enabled Anarchy" and was conducted by the "Network Contagion Research Institute." This was when we were still on r/ChapoTrapHouse They have revised the report since, but I still have the original copy: https://matapacos.dog/stuff/NCRI-White-Paper-Network-Enabled-Anarchy-14-Sept-1049am.pdf
I posted some highlights on mastodon: https://toots.matapacos.dog/@porkroll/110697764162748015
There is another more recent one. There are a couple threads on here I can try to dig for.
I'm a soft line Stalinist, personally
If it does, where do we go? Seriously, though...I'm not sure I'd know which online spaces y'all went to
I applaud IOF psyops for ironing out the creases out of that ISIS flag before taking the picture.
Who would add a gold fringe to an ISIS flag?
Someone who can't thank ISIS enough for massacring Arabs.
First France, now Germany.
Amazigh flag lol
Wait ISIS flags? no one told me the US trained Hamas