Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.
The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.
Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.
I don't know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.
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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 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.
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.
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
There has been, for lack of a better term, some doomer vs resistance bloomer discourse as of late when it comes to "Israel" vs. the wider rrsidtance formation, particularly Hezbollah.
Bad taste "owns" on either side ar, wu h as they are, not particularly productive, though I understand the catharsis they bring when horrors are visited by our enemies. But I am curious about how individuals and external formations (like your own organizations) arrive at conclusions and what analytical frameworks they bring. I am personally curious about having more correct views but would also like to self-crit my own biases and make my own orgs better.
How do you all find and digest information about Gaza, Lebanon, and the wider movement to oppose "Israeli" settlers and their American backers? Of course I personally ally absorb a mix of mainstream and primary sources, comparing e.g. Reuters to direct Hezbollah and PFLP statements. But how do you personally synthesize this information? Do you do it alone or as a group in your org?
And more importan, how do you concretely assist the resistance? I underst6 I'd this is not safely communicable, but I appreciate any help in providing direction.
Personally, I feel impotent as my audience, via my orgs, are liberal laymen and I try to get them to be less genocidal and to join orgs that are pro-Palestinian. This has direct results by I feel like it is less than, for example, just funnelimg funds to the PFLP. I would prefer to do the latter but I also assume it I'd already highly illegal and would be shut off immedia if I tried it.
I also assume that anyone helping the resistance cannot tell me how to directly assist. Buy I appreciate any hints or direction.
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Ha, I can vibe with the wizard thing. My friends think I am a prophet for the same reasons. Basically just rejecting liberal propaganda.
It's not that dissimilar to here if I'm honest about it. People consuming a stream of information, learning to filter out the noise, discussing, and then gradually coalescing around certain thoughts. This tends to happen openly in the org spaces that cater to it and then also have an official group within the org that functions in a steering way. This might be a media section or a theory section, usually as a form of committee with people that have a degree of experience. One of the main things I've seen org members focusing on is trying to hone the ability to recognise what is bullshit and what isn't. This has varying degrees of success tbh. I can't speak for how exactly these groups synthesise the information and make decisions on steering because I've not actually been on one
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For the second question. Mostly unanswerable, but it's not illegal for money to go to Palestinians as long as people doing the donating are unaware of it going to a proscribed organisation like PFLP. The nuts and bolts of how you reach and convince an audience to donate money to [insert thing or person here] is not something I can elaborate on but anyone with a creative mind, friends in Palestine, and the willingness to bend the truth can probably come up with some ideas.
Ah, that is a good idea. I should leverage personal Palestinian contacts more. I swear there is something broken in my brain because the answer to 90% of my strategy questions is "do the organizing thing and talk to people" yet my brain always says, "of course the first thing to do is to think about it a lot and forget to do any second thing".
Re: nerd committees I've been and am on those ha. I just always feel like there are both IRL and online people that are on another level re: Palestine and I don't know how they get there. Like commies that know more about Palestine than entire local Palestinian orgs. I assume it is like anything else, doing a lot of reading until you can navigate and synthesize from many sources, but I would also guess they may have better sources or analytical frameworks that I don't.