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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:

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.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

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, though we will switch next week to a new country.


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

The weekly (biweekly?) 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.


  • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
    hexagon
    ·
    1 year ago

    If Israel wins:

    The movie will be titled just "Gaza" in capitals with the traditional movie-poster-with-a-bunch-of-faces-looking-in-different-directions. At the beginning of the film will be the usual montage of Islamic life with an orange filter on the screen. The events of October 7th will be displayed graphically - Hamas militants storming out of the fence and shooting unarmed civilians at a festival with peace signs and slogans, with not an IDF tank or gun in sight. The only deaths displayed will be civilians, especially mothers with their babies cradled in their hands, in villages who are woken up by gunfire and huddle in places; some are found by Hamas terrorists and killed mercilessly. The implication will be that Israel never actually had an entire military apparatus surrounding Gaza for miles, the only settlements in the envelope are peaceful villages where Israelis have been living for hundreds of years, and the army is completely absent. All the traditional Islamic terrorist tropes played up to eleven. Kristen Stewart and her co-workers react horrified to the scenes going on from what footage they can see, and start yelling at a heavily armed Hamas official who works in the health ministry who knocks her to the ground and threatens her to remain silent, at gunpoint. The leaders of Hamas are depicted doing the regular evil chuckles.

    Eventually the Israeli army arrives. Attempts are given to treat Palestinians with tenderness and love, but are rebuffed by Hamas terrorists secretly in the midst of civilians. This confirms to the IDF that there is no choice; the Netanyahu actor sighs heavily and gives a monologue or public speech about how every other method has been abandoned and that the only option available will be to bomb the Gaza Strip. At the end he starts crying because of the things that Hamas has forced him to do.

    The bombing starts and is generally underrepresented in scale, though suffering is depicted. There's a dramatic scene where Kristen Stewart is on a balcony watching the Israeli planes drop bombs against the night sky, the flashes of light twinkling in her glasses, and she mutters "This didn't need to happen..." The Hamas leadership decides to launch a specially designed missile that they've spent years perfecting at the hospital, before Hamas propagandists blame it on Israel. Kristen Stewart has been filming this, however, and gives the footage to the Israelis to show that it was Hamas all along, proving her journalistic integrity.

    Israeli raids into the Gaza Strip start - a few vehicles are blown up by Hamas but the overall picture is that of utter victory, real American war movie hours. Kristen Stewart by this point has moved down to the southern Gaza Strip according to the Israeli command. There is obviously no bombing of civilian convoys moving south depicted. Most everybody moves there, and those that don't are depicted as terrorist sympathizers who are at odds with the rest of the Palestinians. There are arguments where sentences like "You're not a real Palestinian if you won't move south with us!" etc. After a dicey period where supplies almost run out, the Israeli government can bear it no longer (Biden or similar: "It doesn't matter how bad Hamas is - we can't let innocent Palestinians die of thirst!") and decides to let humanitarian aid through the border.

    The final act of the movie shows the Palestinian tunnels being destroyed, the leadership being captured by Israel, and Kristen Stewart and most of her team (she loses one member to a Hamas militant, no journalist deaths are caused by Israel) escape via a helicopter. The Palestinians leave flowers at the feet of the Israeli columns that march through as thanks for liberating them from Hamas, and they smile in return.

    • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]
      ·
      edit-2
      1 year ago

      The bombing starts and is generally underrepresented in scale, though suffering is depicted.

      You forgot that at least one of those bombings will clearly interrupt a scene in which Hamas is torturing and/or killing people in Gaza, and the bomb will go off just in time and somehow kill and/or incapacitate the Hamas characters while minimizing the harm done to Hamas' victims.