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.
Finkelstein approaches the lathe with some recent analysis
that's gonna be kind of gross considering he's been egging on this whole thing since it started. even if we want to say he has no control over Israel turning off Gaza's food, electricity, water, etc. (bullshit) - he very easily could have loaded up a Navy ship with humanitarian aid and sent it to Gaza and been a huge savior. we're supposed to be grateful that they're allowing humanitarian aid from Egypt that's probably gonna get bombed anyway?
I would call Americans goldfish but that’s a little insulting to the goldfish. They will hear Biden say “I got those aid convoys rollin’ into Gaza, Jack!” and will literally just forget about everything else in the moment.
Yeah I honestly don't get why orgs like AFSC aren't doing this. They're doing some small but good work, but if they organized something bigger and more impactful even Israel is gonna shudder at the optics of bombing of bunch of lilly-white Quakers shipping in supplies by boat.
considering what happened to the Mavi Marmara, I think these orgs are just scared shitless
I don't even know what the point of being a Quaker is if you're not going to ride that metaphysical high toward dangerous activity in the service of good. They kept crashing Puritan colonies to get hanged and George Fox himself like to run his mouth off to judges and get thrown in jail.
Plus they have a history of helping revolutionaries organize in jails like in Ireland during the War of Independence which they also assisted by raising humanitarian aid knowing full well it would open the IRA to spend more on weapons and mean those prisoners they just gave ideological training to would get out and be able to be commissioned full time soldiers
this is how i view the last few days' events too, tbh. it seems like the yanks are trying to balance the dual priorities of "don't abandon israel because turning on an ally is a bad look diplomatically", and "holy shit wow they're actually trying to ethnically cleanse the gaza strip, what the fuck"
biden isn't blindly escalating, he's trying to mitigate the diplomatic fallout. he's got an election to worry about at home, and while abandoning israel annihilates US credibility, standing with it brings the risk of inciting region-wide war and global economic destabilisation (also, you know, enabling a genocide.)
not trying to defend Genocide Joe here so much as point out that he isn't acting irrationally or blindly braying for murder; he's doing exactly what you'd think an american president would do in this situation. men lose all their morals when it comes time to steer the ship of state.
I broadly agree. America's concern isn't that Israel is commiting a genocide, its that they're not doing it quietly enough.
For all of America's evils, it doesn't actually like getting its hands too dirty, in public, for the really nasty big picture stuff. It has covert agencies for that. It has US funded and intel supplied terror groups. It has puppet states and 'strategic allies'. Sanctions and financial institutions. Think tanks and NGOs. Mercenaries and 'rebel groups'. Even when it openly justified rendition and torture it did so from behind a thin legalistic veil and flew its victims all over the world to hide their sadism in Eastern European basements and air bases in US puppet monarchies.
Israel doesn't give a shit. It's proud of it. It hasn't gone mask-off. The mask was never on. It's smearing blood all over its face and screaming for more. And that inconveniences the United States.
Yeah, even the CIA prefers to contract out for assassinations and the like.