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.
No fucking idea where this is being sourced from.
EDIT: Another version --
If accurate this is the first clear sign of the IDF walking back on the idea of a ground offensive.
God I hope the status quo doesn't just become Israel continuing this slow genocide by bombardment and dehydration as they exchange potshots in border skirmishes with Hezbollah while nearby Arab countries write increasingly strongly worded letters
Yeah, that’s been my fear since they pumped the brakes over the weekend. Yes, it would be a “victory” for the resistance in that they deterred Israel from exerting the full force of its genocidal will. But it would not stop the dying in Gaza, and would basically sacrifice the Palestinians for the sake of a largely intangible shift in the perceived regional power dynamics. It sounds like Bibi is probably toast either way, which is good, but I’m not sure Israel would fall to pieces internally the way some have been predicting if things go that way.
Yeah. Considering the typical alternative in Israel are even more unhinged Zionists, it's probably not going to get much better even if he does get canned.
Seen from the zionist side this is the smarter move. Dehydration and hunger will do the genocide for them while giving them a fig leaf of plausible deniability, ie. "we are not targeting civilians, this is all Hamas' fault for not surrendering. Why are you hitting yourself?", that will enable them and their supporters to derail public discourse on zionist atrocities.
If they send in their stormtroopers to do the genocide they will be bogged down in urban battle with Hamas and other resistance groups. The occupation army is made up of treat boy conscripts and is used to terrorising unarmed civilians, there going to take huge casualties against the people who are fighting for their homes and lives and who just pulled off one of the most impressive military operations in decades.
I think they thought there'd be more global pushback to the bombing campaign. they probably thought they could only keep it up for a few days, so they'll do as much damage as possible while they can. I doubt they thought the US would send an aircraft carrier, promise unlimited aid, and be enthusiastically supportive of genocide. and Europe doing their part by silencing/jailing everyone pro-Palestinian.
there's no reason not to just keep bombing forever at this point, why invade and lose troops?
i've been predicting this is going to become the new model of genocide for future climate fascism as well. i'm sure the elites are taking notes.
isolate, contain, cordon, and let """""nature"""" take it's course. no need for death squads or railcars to gas chambers.
wet bulb event in the global south? whoops a
dronebird flew into your main power plant and the local puppet military has cordoned off a million undesireables