Image is of Iranian missiles flying over the Knesset, the Israeli parliament building in Jerusalem.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
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. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
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.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
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.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
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 Telegram Channels:
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.
General Hajizadeh, who led the strikes on Israel, says that we will 100% strike Israel again if it responds.
"100% we will, don't worry"
Is it bad that I want israel to try a "symbolic" strike and then get smashed for it?
I really hope that if an Israeli attack does occur that Iran sticks to its word. Not that I think that they wouldn't because of cowardice or anything, I think if an Israeli missile strike hit Iranian territory or officials then it's a 100% chance that Israel gets smacked, but I do wonder if Israel is trying to find a way of striking Iran so indirectly or so covertly that Iran would hesitate to strike back.
Like, if they poisoned an Iranian general or something - could Iran reasonably prove that it was Israel that did it so that the response strike could be justified to the world? What about if "ISIS" does a terrorist attack like they did in Moscow, where it definitely, absolutely, 100% was DEFINITELY NOT THE WEST, I swear to you Russia, it was, uh, ISIS-K or whatever group we've just invented? What about retaliating with a bunch of sanctions instead of militarily? There's a lot of ways that Israel could strike back that would obviously be them, but cannot be immediately directly linked to Israel, and as Iran explicitly said that Israel would not have weeks of preparation, every day - or indeed, every hour - that Iran hesitates, the Western state propaganda apparatuses would be doing that Parenti-esque consent manufacturing, simultaneously piling up their accusations of Iran being a paper tiger spewing empty threats and how their influence in the Middle East is collapsing, while also saying that, no, of course that terrorist attack by ISIS couldn't possibly be related to Israel, and so if Iran does strike then they're warmongering bloodthirsty imperialists breaking the rules-based international order.
I think this is missing the point a bit - zionazis are baying for blood right now, they want an explicit “Israel bombs orphanage, kills 300 Iranian children” headline. a secret attack doesn’t satisfy them, they want to feel strong and feared again.
I'm not a betting man but I wouldn't be surprised if something like this happened
wouldn't be the first time
let's not forget (cw: natopedia) the Kerman bombings either
No.