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.

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.

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.

  • emizeko [they/them]
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    11 months ago

    BREAKING: Over 400 Palestinians—Christians and Muslims—were taking shelter in the Greek Orthodox Church when the IOF bombed it moments ago on top of the heads of the martyrs, wounded, and missing.

    "We have nowhere left to go. My house was bombed. Where do I go now?"

    Another survivor said, "The entire building collapsed into the ground. No one can come out, and we can't remove anyone. It's impossible that anyone is alive. This is the goal of the occupation."

    He is interrupted, "The Church of Saint Porphyrius was bombed! The gathering place of Christians! For 2,000 years it has stood, and today, the Jews demolished it! It doesn't have weapons or anything, just children! Over 500 people are missing! All of the Christians of Gaza are gone." Notably, the church is the third oldest church in the world.

    The IOF continues to target Gazans—in their homes or displaced seeking shelter in hospitals, mosques, or churches—indiscriminately and without warning.

    from https://t.me/PalestineResist/15803?single

    • Awoo [she/her]
      ·
      11 months ago

      Third oldest church in the world

      Incredible what this church has been through before getting hit by zionists

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]M
        ·
        11 months ago

        Disgusting. At least we're already getting condemnations:

        The head of the UN cultural agency described the destruction as a “new war crime and an immense loss [...] for humanity”.

        “This new blow against cultural heritage … shows that cultural cleansing led by violent extremists is seeking to destroy both human lives and historical monuments in order to deprive [...] people of its past and its future,” Unesco’s director general, Irina Bokova, said.

        Oh, sorry, sorry! That was an article from when ISIS destroyed historical monuments in Palmyra in Syria! Got them mixed up! Whoops! But don't worry, I'm sure the UN will put out the most milquetoast statement possible that doesn't even mention Israel.

      • star_wraith [he/him]
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        11 months ago

        Not even an exaggeration. Most American evangelicals do not consider followers of Orthodox or other versions of eastern Christianity to be “real” Christians.

          • star_wraith [he/him]
            ·
            11 months ago

            Correct. That’s how I was raised. While I think it’s a bit less prevalent of a belief in 2023, my gut says it’s still a position held by the majority of American evangelicals.

        • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          A sizable portion probably don't even know they exist

        • FLAMING_AUBURN_LOCKS [she/her]
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          11 months ago

          even more crucial to this matter, they don’t see arabs as humans. Israel could have bombed a texas style evangelical megachurch, and so long as the victims are brown US christians would not give a shit

          • star_wraith [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            If you wanna get really dark… there’s a sizeable chunk of white evangelicals who don’t consider most black evangelicals to be “real” Christians either. They may not outright say it even to each other, but I heard comments like “well, black churches are more like community centers, it’s not about having the right beliefs” growing up.

        • 420stalin69
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          11 months ago

          On the flip side, most American Christian’s will also identify more with orthodox Christian’s than Muslims or Jewish people.

          It’s like a hierarchy of sorts: how much does this person resemble me.

          So it’s the fact Israelis live a western lifestyle vs. these are “fellow people of the book and Greek is more western then Israeli” and I can the “they’re Greek Christian’s” being a winning hand over the others in the game of race hierarchy.

          It doesn’t necessarily beat Israeli conservative in that game for all but it will for some, especially those who want to oppose this because Biden is standing behind it.

          Bombing Christian’s in the “oldest church in the world” will cost you at least some evangelicals.

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      Alex Christ for you is gonna be pissssssed. He’s Greek Orthodox and has been somewhat borderline on this conflict just wanting a ceasefire, but this is going to push him full over the edge and his podcast has millions of conservative followers

    • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      I'm seeing some people feel like this basically is the end of Christianity in Gaza

    • fever [he/him]
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      11 months ago

      A theory just came to my mind...

      Maybe Israel is trying to end the war by making "international community" force it to stop. Then blame all failures on Bibi and put him in jail, by doing so they have rug swept the whole ordeal and get away. Add some resignations and reforms on top of it and done. The new leadership can go after the resistance leaders, assassinate them and declare that they got revenge.

      • Kaplya
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        11 months ago

        Ok that’s not going to happen. The fascists have indoctrinated themselves and dehumanized the Palestinians to the point that they see weeding them out as integral to their ethnostate project.

        The days of Israel exercising its military power unrestrained are numbered - Iran is a few years away from having their own nukes and advanced air defense systems, because Russia doesn’t give a fuck anymore and sees Iran as vital to its regional interests. Israel has to do its genocide now or lose this opportunity forever.

        • fever [he/him]
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          11 months ago

          Iran doesn't seek nuclear weapons tho. Back in Iran/Iraq war when Saddam used chemical weapons Khomeini forbid making and using them against the enemy. Same goes for nuclear weapons... making, storing or using them is declared Haram by the Iranian leadership.

          • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
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            11 months ago

            That will change when Israel starts whipping their nuke dick out and slapping everyone with it

          • Kaplya
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            11 months ago

            I’m sure their views have changed given how bloodthirsty the American empire has revealed itself when it comes to Iran, and what happened to Gaddafi in Libya.

            • fever [he/him]
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              11 months ago

              Saddam did massive massacres using chems to the point where a biolab in Iran was about to make chemical weapons and they were called off.