Israel trying to pass the hospital bombing off as Palestine doing it is utterly disgusting and guarantees Netanyahu a spot in the deepest pit of Hell for all eternity, obviously, but do not forget that
a) the only reason why Westerners will believe it is because they want to believe it - they are not being brainwashed and this is not some masterful propaganda being weaved around us to turn kind-hearted people into monsters,
b) no Westerner opinions matter at all. In most Western countries there is no real anti-Israel option to vote for even if they did realize that Israel was a giant factory for crimes against humanity, and Westerners protesting against things in general almost never achieves anything (tens of millions protested for BLM in 2020 and not only did the situation not change, it got worse), and
c) the people whose opinions do matter (both the people in the region, and the leaders who aren't already Zionist compradors) already know that Israel is full of shit and that they just murdered nearly a thousand civilians in a single bomb attack.
It is despair-inducing to think that the genocidal Zionist entity is so brazenly, so smugly getting away with bullshitting this away into a cloud of confusion, as they release their metaphorical squid ink just like they did with the stupid babies story, but the propaganda and the media narrative that they are creating isn't what matters. It cannot address the fundamental contradictions ripping the country, the region, and the world apart any more than masterfully-applied makeup can fix a stab wound. It can merely obfuscate.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
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 still Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update isn't coming because I'm sick and too focussed on the collapse of the Zionist entity.
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.
I'll make this my summary of this 600 word update at the NYT from ~25 minutes ago.
Aid workers in southern Gaza say people ‘are just trying to survive.’
In Khan Younis, the city in southern Gaza where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have fled from the north for safety, people are sleeping in the streets.
There are long lines in front of water tanks, bakeries and market stalls, with fights erupting over the last remaining bread loaves and tomatoes. Some people are building ovens from sand and soil to bake bread in the traditional way, hoping to save their families from hunger.
Everyone is “just trying to survive,” Yousef Hammash, an advocacy officer for the Norwegian Refugee Council, an aid group, said on Tuesday in a voice message from Khan Younis. Mr. Hammash is among those who have left their homes in the northern part of Gaza in recent days, after Israel warned residents to head south as its military prepares a possible ground invasion of the blockaded enclave.
Some newly displaced people are staying in schools operated by the United Nations that are being used as shelters. More are staying with relatives in overcrowded homes. Others are sleeping rough.
And despite Israel’s declarations, the south is not safe either, Mr. Hammash said, as Israeli forces continue to fire airstrikes that hit residential buildings. Dozens of people were killed in strikes overnight and Tuesday morning, the Gazan authorities said, and more were wounded. But there are not enough beds in the hospital to treat those who were injured, Mr. Hammash said, and not enough morgue space to store the bodies.
The conditions were so bad that some people were considering going back to their homes in the north, he said.
Israel pledged to open a water line in southern Gaza, but there is no electricity or fuel to pump it, said Shaina Low from the Norwegian organization’s Jerusalem office. Trucks carrying relief supplies have not been allowed to enter southern Gaza from either Israel or Egypt amid the ongoing blockade, she said. And after Israeli strikes on telecommunications towers, it has been increasingly difficult to get in touch with people in southern Gaza, she added.
The World Health Organization, which also has staff members in southern Gaza, said Tuesday that hospitals there were facing “an acute shortage of medical supplies and equipment,” and “an imminent water and sanitation crisis.” The limited water supply is putting the lives of more than 3,500 patients in 35 hospitals across the strip at immediate risk, the agency added.
On Monday, the United Nations agency for Palestinian affairs warned that many of Gaza’s two million people had begun drinking water from contaminated sources, raising fears of an explosion of waterborne diseases. It also said that it was “no longer able to provide humanitarian assistance” to the people of Gaza.
“It’s really a catastrophe what’s going on now in Gaza,” said Adnan Abu Hasna, one of 13,000 U.N. aid workers in Gaza who have been displaced from their homes since Oct. 7.
Mr. Abu Hasna, 61, left his home in Gaza City, in the north of the territory, and is living with some 40 relatives at his brother’s home in southern Gaza.
“We have 400,000 displaced people and we don’t have the resources to help them,” he said on Monday from the southern city of Rafah. “We don’t have the resources.”
Philippe Lazzarini, the commissioner general of the U.N. agency for Palestinians, warned that if fuel and water were not allowed into Gaza, “people will start dying.” He added: “Gaza is running out of water, and Gaza is running out of life.”
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/17/world/israel-hamas-war-biden-gaza/aid-workers-in-southern-gaza-say-people-are-just-trying-to-survive?smid=url-share