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.

  • the_kid
    ·
    1 year ago

    on today's Majority Report:

    • play a clip of a Saudi official saying he condemns both sides
    • continue saying stuff like "the terrorist attack in Israel" and calling Hamas terrorists
    • Sam has on his liberal boomer friend who says this is an extremely complicated, difficult thing, and just so hard to understand
    • she also says she was disappointed in Biden at first for being "bellicose", but his speech last night was great because he's "tempered his bellicosity" and he's much more "statesmanlike" and it's great that he's acknowledging Palestinians and showing sympathy for them
    • she says "I shudder to think what would be said if Donald Trump was in office right now"
    • she says boomers are more sympathetic to Israel because "there's a historical reason for that, there's a lot of experience that leads people to sympathize with Israel's situation, not just in terms of this terrorist attack, but in terms of history which may seem a lot more immediate to older people"
    • she says "it's a shame in my view why Hamas decided to do such a horrific terrorist attack because it sets the Palestinian cause back in some ways in the minds of many people who were coming around to that (sympathetic to Palestinians)"
    • she says Trump bad because he's going to reinvoke the Muslim ban and do deportations - that's why Biden "isn't ideal, but this is the reality we're dealing with in American politics"
    • kleeon [he/him, he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      it's a shame in my view why Hamas decided to do such a horrific terrorist attack because it sets the Palestinian cause back

      just... stunning naivety. Palestinian cause was actually doing really well before this happened, apparently

      • SeventyTwoTrillion [he/him]
        ·
        1 year ago

        "The Civil Rights Movement set the black American cause back"

        "Stonewall set the LGBT cause back"

        • VILenin [he/him]
          ·
          1 year ago

          The ungrateful blacks are getting uppity again, time to repeal the 13th amendment

      • the_kid
        ·
        1 year ago

        that was the most deranged part for me too. things had never looked worse for Palestine before this, the entire Arab world had turned their backs on Palestine, no one had any hope. but yeah, just cause some liberal commentators were calling Netanyahu 'far-right', Palestinians were just about to get their homeland back before Hamas messed it all up.

      • ChairmanSpongebob [he/him]
        ·
        1 year ago

        yeah totally, they should've just kept marching peacefully at the fence until 2.2 million people are in wheelchairs. cry liberal

    • zed_proclaimer [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      there's a historical reason for that, there's a lot of experience that leads people to sympathize with Israel's situation

      Correct but not for the reason she thinks. Boomers are more likely to be pro-apartheid and pro-segregation and most of them were against civil rights at the time too. They grew up in a racist and fascist society and have internalized those beliefs, so they see Israel as a fellow traveler. A lot of people this age have brains that are just built different, pickled in white supremacy from their youth yet they think they have moved beyond it (they haven’t)

    • gabaghoul [any]
      ·
      1 year ago

      He's inching closer to wearing conceal carry shoulder holsters on air and inviting Crowder on to smoke cigars.

      • the_kid
        ·
        1 year ago

        yeah he's been awful on this. I gotta stop watching these liberal shows, it's painful.

    • RonPaulyShore [none/use name]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Ya that boomer can shove off. The absolute audacity of people to "tut tut" violent resistance, as if they (the detached, morally attuned bystanders) were just about to speak up for Palestine and help, but now can't, is just so obviously disingenuous and self serving and sanctimonious. They stand for nothing other than themselves.

      I have half a mind to call in next week, but I'm sure I'd just sputter like an unarticulate asshole and embarrass myself.

      • the_kid
        ·
        1 year ago

        I have half a mind to call in next week, but I'm sure I'd just sputter like an unarticulate asshole and embarrass myself.

        I want to as well, but they just talk over and freak out at anyone who disagrees with them so there's kind of no point. I get really irritated at their insistence on using the word 'terrorists' to refer to the resistance, imagine calling yourself leftists and being to the right of the fuckin BBC on this issue.

        • VILenin [he/him]
          ·
          1 year ago

          They’ll talk over you so you can’t get a word in and post a clip titled “TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER OWNED”

    • Eldungeon2 [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      MJR is shit but that Clash cover of pressure drop (toots and maytails) is a banger

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      she says boomers are more sympathetic to Israel because "there's a historical reason for that, there's a lot of experience that leads people to sympathize with Israel's situation, not just in terms of this terrorist attack, but in terms of history which may seem a lot more immediate to older people"

      Like what the fuck is this even supposed to mean

      • ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]
        ·
        1 year ago

        She's very deliberately implying that young people don't take the Holocaust seriously, and that the Holocaust excuses anything Israel does.