Bulletins and News Discussion from November 6th to November 12th, 2023 - Apartheid Antony's Asinine Adventure

Houthi official to Germans:

"The reason that led your country's government to persecute Jews in the past is the same reason that has led your current government to persecute Palestinians, namely your lack of sufficient moral values ​​to stop it."

waking up in the morning and determining whether WW3 has started yet by checking how many new comments the news megathread has

I can't wait for ghoul libs to try to spin this.

It's official: Israel has now killed more civilians in Gaza in 30 days than Russia has in its entire war in Ukraine, which began over 600 days ago.

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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHA!!!!!!!! HA!

reminder of that thing a month ago where the entire west went to bat defending an SS officer

#ZionismIsNazism is trending on twitter

Radicalism has broken containment, I repeat radicalism has broken containment

My partner and I were talking about the brutality of airstrikes vs other forms of killing people (knives, guns etc) and how airstrikes are depicted as less brutal and personal. I made the point that there is literally no American cultural memory of being bombed under virtually any circumstances.

One movie that I thought did a great job of depicting the terror of airstrikes was the battle of lake changjin, the 2021 Chinese blockbuster about the PLA's counterattack against American invaders in Korea. American bombers were terrifying in that film.

I'm really proud of my 12 year old. They asked if we could get a Sodastream and when I said we couldn't because it is an "Israeli" company, they immediately lost interest in getting one and went on to talk about how "everyone supports Palestine" execpt "weird people" like politicians.

I know that you would want to add "And then everybody clapped and that kid's name? Albert Einstein." but this actually happened. The kids are alright.

Just got back from a local protest, good size crowd but I showed up a few minutes late

Probably shouldn't have responded to the counterprotesters but their genocidal bullshit was pissing me off and I may have gotten a little hot

Long story short, if tomorrow's local paper has a big picture of me with the headline/quote "Hamas is protecting them!" then I'm either the dumbest motherfucker here or one of the coolest, maybe both

Brandeis University dissolves Palestinian student organization for holding vigil

We’re starting to see direct action take place, not only is the boat getting blocked in the US (and they even managed to get one of the workers on it to leave!!!), im seeing that dock workers in barcelona are refusing to load ships suspected of carrying military supplies, really hope this continues escalating

: You're claiming that Palestinian troops, who are organized under a military command, follow military discipline, wear distinguishing marks, and openly bear arms are legal combatants and not terrorists according to the laws of armed conflict and international norms and customs?

I am and I'm tired of pretending I'm not

Why is it that, in the West, WW2 is remembered almost solely for the genocide of Jewish people?

Why does the Nazi genocide of Roma, the Nazi genocide of Russians and Poles, and the Japanese genocide of Chinese not get the same attention?

Edit: as pointed out by others, the Nazis also targeted communists, anarchists, LGBT people, and disabled people.

most important election in human history but dems can't be bothered to run with a candidate that doesn't cum in their pants over the thought of commiting genocide. can't wait to be blamed for biden's defeat

The Soviet Union's greatest achievement has to be setting up the DDR. Even if it failed, it was the closest Germany has ever been to achieving sapience.

The smug IDF Merkava driver shitposter from twitter has not been active for 10 days since bragging about entering Gaza. Tons of banger replies on his last posts.

If you believe this you need to be locked in a cage and studied

taking a minute to appreciate how easy the whole 🔻thing has made responding to zionists

I realised last night that I might have disappointed the news mega community by not making any Lebanon effortposting for the COTW event despite being the semi-official Lebanese guy of this thread. I'm not really in the mood for effortposting, but let's do a little Lebanon AMA in the replies here.

Just for context, I'm half-Lebanese and half-Syrian. Wife is Iraqi and I've spent a good amount of time in all three countries. Throw any random question related to Lebanon and I'll do my best to answer. Questions related to Iraq and Syria are okay as well of course. Let's go

Hamas strikes back against IDF thirst trap posting

How do PIJ anti-hospital rockets keep ending up in Iron Dome launchers? What is going on?

Hate to say it but Hamas are gamers

300k pro-Palestine protesters in DC

They came to Washington from all around the country — 300,000-strong — in the largest demonstration for Palestinian freedom ever held in the United States. The Nov. 4 national action stood for the complete liberation of Palestine and demanded a ceasefire, an end to U.S. funding of apartheid Israel, and an end to the occupation.

The mood in Washington was furious and strong, reflecting the mood of the Palestinian people. After rallying, they marched to the White House to tell Joe Biden, rightly referred to by many in the crowd as “genocide Joe,” that his administration’s criminal policy towards Palestinians does not speak for them.

If you ever feel useless or powerless, just remember that the UN exists.

It's massively fucking infuriating to me that the very moment Palestine stops dominating the news cycle, liberals are going to fall straight back into accusing Russia and China of committing genocides in Ukraine and Xinjiang without the slightest hint of self awareness.

There needs to be a list of every journalist who's run PR for Biden's genocide, denied death tolls, uncritically parroted blood libel about beheaded babies alongside the pieces they wrote and all publicly available information about them. I call it Project Nuremberg as a reminder that Julius Streicher was hanged at Nuremberg for doing exactly what they're doing now.

So the US brought a nuclear sub to the Middle East as a show of force, but what will they do if someone comes at them with a nuclear top?

I've noticed some liberals state: "The casualties aren't high enough to be a genocide". This is such a wild and ugly retort to the outcry against this campaign against Gaza.

Jesus fucking christ, I just saw a trans "anarchist" on refer to voting for Genocide Joe as "critical support"

Apparently the main concern of liberals rn is that the genocide might cause people to refuse to vote democrat

how deranged are you if thats your main concern?

twitter thread (nitter alt) about the deteriorating US situation in the Middle East

They all think it's still 2003, with no notion of constraints, nor any respect for or even knowledge of the US' enemies. ... The Iraqis are at the heart of this crisis, and nobody in the official US sphere is talking about it openly. Every "retaliation" for Iraqi attacks on US bases is taking place in... Syria. Now why is that? Is it because the US doesn't care about Iraq and just wants an excuse to go after Assad again? No. Blinken flew under the cover of night into Baghdad, wearing a fucking flak vest, specifically to try to convince the Iraqi government to do something to stop all these attacks!

The reason the US is attacking "Iranian" warehouses in Syria to deter attacks by Iraqis - without EVER mentioning them by name - is because the US deep state is scared shitless of an Iraqi quagmire. The Iraqis go out and officially declare war on US. The US response? Silence. There's constantly escalating attacks inside Iraq. Rockets, drones, now IEDs against US convoys. The Iraqis are totally open about this, they're saying in public "we're at war with the US! We're gonna kick them out!" and Lloyd Austin goes up and pretends these Iraqis don't exist!

... a core feature of the US army today is that it is basically close to unusable, de facto. The US Army has a couple of massive problems right now: first, it's got a HUGE manpower deficit, especially in combat arms. Second, it can't really move very easily! Moving an army corps is a lot of work: it requires a lot of airlift, or - more preferrable - sealift. But US sealift capacity has atrophied immensely since the 90s. Getting an US armor division to Iraq today is a lot more difficult than it once was, due to lowered capacity.

I don't want to dive too deeply into army-specific problems in this thread, so I'll just get to the upshot: the US doesn't have enough men to really put "boots on the ground" in a serious conflict, nor the transport capacity to do so. It's not just a lack of political will. ... the US is basically down to a small garrison presence. You can back that up with air power, but on the ground, the US posture is a few islands of hundreds or thousands of Americans... in a sea of hostile arabs. These arabs have modern small arms. Some of them have night-vision equipment. But most of all, they have heavy stand-off weaponry: Burkan ("Volcano") rockets, used to great effect in Syria, Iranian suicide drones, cruise missiles, ballistic missiles, and iranian SAMs.

To further complicate the fairly terrible ground situation, American airpower in the region is very vulnerable. Most Americans still think they have this factory-fresh, high tech air force, but that's not been the case for decades. The workhorses - F16, F15, F-18 - are ancient ... the same kinds of planes used by Saudi Arabia against Yemen. And the Houthis have shot down a lot of Saudi jets. So even the Yemenis - the second most poor country in the region - can now realistically challenge US airpower, using iranian-made SAMs. Today, America has neither the fiscal space or the productive capacity to really deal with airframe attrition ... US bases in the region can now be attacked by stand-off weaponry, and it's long been a known problem that the USAF has never seriously adapted to the idea that airfields can simply be contested by enemy stand-off weaponry from afar. F-35 stealth doesn't work on the ground. ... the entire dynamic of the US actually using airpower in the region has now potentially changed, and changed in a very ominous, depressing way. Carriers can now be hit by anti-ship cruise missiles and drones, which are becoming widely available in the region. Are they guaranteed to work? No. But they're not guaranteed to fail either. Airbases can be hit with cruise missiles and drones; just ask the Americans at Al-Harir!

All of this means that Lloyd Austin at the Pentagon and Tony Blinken at State are in a very, very shitty position right now, to say the least. The openly declared war against the US in Iraq is basically being shoved under the rug, because the US can't afford to admit it exists! To uninformed Americans, the US is still a completely dominant, invincible force. America only loses because it gives up; its planes are invincible, its technology supreme, its forces, untouchable. But this fantasy is a product of the US military's isolation from civilian life. For people inside the military, the view is very different ... Thus, if Lloyd Austin goes up there and says "okay, the Iraqis are attacking us now", he is going to be inundated with calls from moronic GOP politicians and uninformed US civilians to "unleash the American magic!!!" or "teach the arabs why we don't have healthcare lol!!!".

But in reality, that moment in time has passed, and it's not coming back. If Austin goes up there and admits that, admits that the US is now severely limited in what it can do and how much it can fight, he'll lose his job. What's worse, the US will lose imperial prestige! That prestige is fantastically important, for many reasons. Partly, it serves as deterrence against people picking further fights with the US. Partly, it makes the current - completely unsustainable - budget deficits somewhat manageable in the short term. I could go on, but I hope I've made my point by now. The Iraqis are, as the American saying goes, pissing all over the American pant-leg right now. The Iraqis themselves are saying "we're pissing on you, America!", but America is forced to say "No no no, it's just raining!"

It's perhaps somewhat exaggerating how bad things really are, but there's still a lot of interesting points, especially the stuff about air power. Back in the olden days, you did need to actually fly your own planes over the enemy airbases to disable them, but this is no longer the case thanks to advances in missile technology, and the proliferation of cheap missiles among even militia groups means that forces which normally couldn't maintain their own airforce can now still manage to strike at far-away targets, and do so with munitions significantly cheaper than what they'll be destroying. And of course, there's the important logistical reality that Western commentators systematically ignore - how capable is the US, really, at deploying a large ground force, and doing so quickly? Not supplying another military, not flying around and bombing the occasional target, not sending in some special forces team to do a raid, but a proper army corps, of several divisions, the way they were once able to do in Iraq? Even back then, there was still a lot of preparation involved, the invading force didn't just materialize in Kuwait one day, so how capable of repeating that would they be now?

Chris Hedges on the attacks on Al-Shifa Hospital.

Ask yourself, if you were a Palestinian in Gaza and had access to a weapon what would you do? If Israel killed your family, how would you react? Why would you care about international or humanitarian law when you know it only applies to the oppressed, not the oppressors? If terror is the only language Israel uses to communicate, the only language it apparently understands, wouldn’t you speak back with terror?

Israel’s orgy of death will not crush Hamas. Hamas is an idea. This idea is fed on the blood of martyrs. Israel is giving Hamas an abundant supply.

Macron, Macron, the guy who banned burqas and pro-Palestine protests, is calling for a ceasefire now.

Bernie still isn’t.

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https://queersinpalestine.noblogs.org/

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Wonder if the “Jewish people feel unsafe from the very real and very existent Hamas operatives in the west” people have anything to say about this

Sending in so many tanks with no infantry support really was such a collossal L for Israel. Not just because of military tactics, I don't know anything about that and am kinda just parroting that part from others, but from a PR perspective.

In all the military footage that Hamas releases, Israel effectively dehumanizes itself by only being present inside these huge, bulky war machines while the Hamas fighters are small and more importantly, humans. When you see a group of actual people fighting a tank, you'll instinctively root for the humans. Seeing a human killed by a tank is shocking and disturbing, seeing a tank blown up does not have nearly the same emotional effect, even if you know there's a person in there.

Since Hamas released the footage of the guy running up to the tank, I've seen a noticeable shift from people going from just pro-Palestine to outright cheering for Hamas. The fact that it was always "Tanks vs Humans" made it much easier to root for Hamas as the brave underdogs going up agains the cold, overwhelming, unfeeling war machines. Had there been actual Israeli foot soldiers getting killed in those videos, it would've felt much more symmetrical and visceral, much less black and white. Like I said, Israel effectively dehumanized itself in the eyes of onlookers.

Brazilian diplomats are warning that if anything happens to the 34 Palestinian Brazilians who are in Gaza and are not allowed to leave, the relation with Israel will become "unsustainable".

Break relations already

Jewish Man Dies After Altercation at Dueling Protests in California

A 69-year-old Jewish man died on Monday from injuries he sustained during a weekend altercation in Southern California over the Israel-Hamas war, and the authorities said they were investigating the incident as a homicide and a possible hate crime.

The dispute occurred Sunday afternoon amid dueling demonstrations at an intersection in Thousand Oaks, Calif., a suburb about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles, the authorities said. Deputies from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call about a physical altercation at the protest site, where pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian factions were present, according to the agency.

There, they found the man, Paul Kessler, with a head injury he had sustained when he fell backward and hit his head on the ground. Mr. Kessler, a Thousand Oaks resident, was taken to a hospital, where he died Monday. The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that Mr. Kessler had died of blunt force head injury, the sheriff’s office said.

Witnesses told investigators that Mr. Kessler had a physical altercation with at least one counterprotester, the authorities said.

CNN had a big press conference on for this pro-zionist who died. I don't remember the police holding a presser and a crying doctor for the Muslim boy and his mom that got stabbed by their landlord for being Arab.

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Very important piece of military cringe I just learned. What are members of the Space Force called, like soldiers for the Army or sailors for the Navy?

Guardians. Actually Halo LARP shit.

There is less water being supplied to entire cities in Gaza than, by comparison, even into one to a few apartment towers in the working-class areas of Johannesburg. Ponte City, a skycraper with 3,500 residents gets 100,000L more water per day than Khan Younis, a city of 205,000. The comparison gets even worse if the amount of clean water is factored in.

A SINGLE APARTMENT TOWER has more clean water than the entire Gaza Strip.

And the depravity is of people genuinely over the moon beyond their wildest dreams.

Armed settlers (protected by israeli occupation police) attempted to seize a portion of the Armenian Quarter of Jerusalem. Locals have staged a sit-in on the property and refuse to be intimidated by fascists.

https://twitter.com/syriahay/status/1721246182515917027

https://nitter.net/syriahay/status/1721246182515917027

Zionism is Fascism

Just got off the phone with my Trump voting father, who called the Israelis incredibly racist and compared the situation in the West Bank to his neighbors slowly stealing his backyard, and said he has asked other people what else the Palestinians were supposed to do. I had a talk with him early on where I made a lot of these points but had avoided talking about the war with him over the past couple weeks since I was afraid of what I might have to listen to. So, you know, enjoy the small victories on occasion.

The IDF have released a report finding that Hamas bases are located in and around the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon

a fourth location yet to be released is also mentioned

The Nyan Cat YouTube channel has posted a pro-Palestine video. Those two videos are the only ones on the channel.

TL note: This used to be the channel for MeansTV, so not super surprising but still

this Yemen shit is amazing , the fucking Zionist have no idea how to play it .. since they can close the aden straight and threaten all the US assets there (Dschibutie , Somalia) ,

Chad Yemen just shot down a US drone in international airspace , while virgin russia lets them stil fly alonge the Crimea coast. And it seems like the US just took it..

still find it weird that people dk that Joe Biden is older than the state of Israel

Dude from gaza predicted the latest propaganda over 2 weeks ago lmao

As soon as the colonized begin to strain at the leash and to pose a threat to the colonist, they are assigned a series of good souls who in the “Symposiums on Culture” spell out the specificity and richness of Western values. But every time the issue of Western values crops up, the colonized grow tense and their muscles seize up. During the period of decolonization the colonized are called upon to be reasonable. They are offered rocksolid values, they are told in great detail that decolonization should not mean regression, and that they must rely on values which have proved to be reliable and worthwhile. Now it so happens that when the colonized hear a speech on Western culture they draw their machetes or at least check to see they are close to hand. The supremacy of white values is stated with such violence, the victorious confrontation of these values with the lifestyle and beliefs of the colonized is so impregnated with aggressiveness, that as a counter measure the colonized rightly make a mockery of them whenever they are mentioned. In the colonial context the colonist only quits undermining the colonized once the latter have proclaimed loud and clear that white values reign supreme. In the period of decolonization the colonized masses thumb their noses at these very values, shower them with insults and vomit them up.

Such an occurrence normally goes unseen because, during decolonization, certain colonized intellectuals have established a dialogue with the bourgeoisie of the colonizing country. During this period the indigenous population is seen as a blurred mass. The few “native” personalities whom the colonialist bourgeois have chanced to encounter have had insufficient impact to alter their current perception and nuance their thinking. During the period of liberation, however, the colonialist bourgeoisie frantically seeks contact with the colonized “elite.” It is with this elite that the famous dialogue on values is established. When the colonialist bourgeoisie realizes it is impossible to maintain its domination over the colonies it decides to wage a rearguard campaign in the fields of culture, values, and technology, etc. But what we should never forget is that the immense majority of colonized peoples are impervious to such issues. For a colonized people, the most essential value, because it is the most meaningful, is first and foremost the land: the land, which must provide bread and, naturally, dignity. But this dignity has nothing to do with “human” dignity. The colonized subject has never heard of such an ideal. All he has ever seen on his land is that he can be arrested, beaten, and starved with impunity; and no sermonizer on morals, no priest has ever stepped in to bear the blows in his place or share his bread. For the colonized, to be a moralist quite plainly means silencing the arrogance of the colonist, breaking his spiral of violence, in a word ejecting him outright from the picture. The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist. Taking it a step further, he is determined to fight to be more than the colonist. In fact, he has already decided to take his place. As we have seen, it is the collapse of an entire moral and material universe. The intellectual who, for his part, has adopted the abstract, universal values of the colonizer is prepared to fight so that colonist and colonized can live in peace in a new world. But what he does not see, because precisely colonialism and all its modes of thought have seeped into him, is that the colonist is no longer interested in staying on and coexisting once the colonial context has disappeared.

Norm back with a dunk on

https://twitter.com/normfinkelstein/status/1723721210981237115

https://nitter.net/normfinkelstein/status/1723721210981237115

Zelensky’s Visit to Israel May Be Canceled over News Leak (Palestine Chronicles / RT, 6th of November 2023)

A planned trip to Israel by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky later this month may be canceled after Israel’s Channel 12 news was tipped off about the visit, an unnamed Ukrainian diplomat told the Times of Israel on Sunday.

“He wanted the trip to be public when he stepped on Israeli soil,” the official told the news outlet, adding that Zelensky was “very disappointed.”

The Ukrainian leader was expected to visit Israel as soon as next week, Channel 12 reported on Friday, claiming the plans were already at an “advanced stage.”

The visit was supposed to represent “something of a united front of Israel, Ukraine, Europe, and the US against the Russia-Iran axis.”

This would culminate in a photo Zelensky would take with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Isaac Herzog to “send a message of the enlightened world under attack, standing against the less-enlightened world, attacking,” according to the network.

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love to have mfs who think Abbas is the CEO of Hamas tell me that I only support Palestine because I'm uneducated

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1723707586380214373

https://nitter.net/DavidKlion/status/1723707586380214373

Simply astonishing, watching this dude insult and condescend to Israel’s critics as he slowly discovers basic facts about the conflict and reaches the same conclusions those critics reached years ago

Can't believe the smartest neoliberals in the room are actually a bunch of dumbasses with no understanding of reality.

The unbreakable spirit of Palestine's heroic collective resistance shines in this video from the clashes in #Jenin earlier today.

All embody resistance: A resistance fighter, wounded while engaging in an armed clash with the IOF, fell to the ground. A medic rushed to save him, carrying the fighter's rifle to safeguard it. An IOF sniper shoots the heroic medic, who also fell.

At this moment, a bystander came from afar to uplift the cause, took the inherited rifle from the medic, and continued to shoot at the zionist forces with the rifle and the united determination of a people who will never kneel

https://t.me/PalestineResist/18778

god damn dude

Blinken denounces civilian toll in Gaza, says ‘far too many Palestinians have been killed’

And the "No Shit Sherlock" award of 2023 goes to:

@IDF just spotted Hamas tunnels under White House and Pentangon

https://twitter.com/RobinBrooksIIF/status/1721942219442028817

It seems Biden has once again said he doubts the Gaza death numbers, despite WaPo, Reuters and the UN saying they are accurate. Heck the US has used the Gaza Health Ministry's number in at least 20 reports in the past since it knows they are accurate.

Western leaders using "Never Again" Holocaust messaging to justify a ongoing genocide, becoming the equivalent of the Nazi-appeasers before/during WW2 upon who we look back on with such disgust (ignoring that leaders like Churchill were relatively pro-Nazi before it all kicked off, of course) would have shattered my previous liberal brain into a trillion pieces. The whiplash we've experienced in such a relatively short time (over the last 3-4 years or so) between:

1. the coronavirus pandemic telling us that we're all ultimately disposable and that over a million people can and should die, shoveled like coal chunks into the furnace of the economy, then

2. the war in Ukraine telling us that actually, people are worth things again, human life is precious and Russia is bad for destroying it, and we must arm Nazis, then

3. the Canada Hunka incident telling us that murderers who freely volunteered to commit atrocities against Jews and Roma and other groups is actually complicated and those anti-semitic genocidal atrocities could even be justified because of how bad the USSR was, so human life isn't actually precious anymore, then

4. the Gaza genocide telling us that, actually, any Jewish person being killed even if they're the equivalent of concentration camp guards is an unspeakable atrocity and resistance is unjustifiable if there's any violence involved, "they go low, we go high" but also we love Israel anyway so we don't even really think they're going low

From a non-racist liberal point of view (as in, they're still racist but don't think saying slurs is good, etc), this all must seem totally bonkers at least on a subconscious level. All liberal values seem to be currently in this violent political vortex, where sometimes a statement like "killing ethnic minorities is complicated" is not only true in one case (Ukrainian Nazis killing civilians in WW2, killing Palestinians in Gaza, etc) and false in another (Jewish settlers in Israel, who obviously aren't a minority in Israel but are on a global scale; the "Ughyur genocide", etc), but true and false for the exact same conflict. The only way to come out of this chaos with even a vaguely coherent political ideology is to either become a socialist or become an all-out racist and apologist/supporter of imperialism - and we're watching many people become the latter. Otherwise, you're just watching the news on the TV or your phone or your computer with a slack-jawed face while the words enter your brain without the slighest post-processing and then go about your day not ever thinking about how like, Russia killing 500 children in ~2 years is intentional, planned genocide but Israel killing over 4000 in a month is just an unfortunate Thing That Happened.

I don't think that people who do genuinely believe in the rules-based international order ("Yeah, the United States should try and maintain justice and order around the world, we can't let evil forces try and disrupt how great things are for everybody, sucks about the bad side effects but it's better than if Russia or China were in charge, can you imagine?") are like, having mental breakdowns or crises of faith about their ideology or anything, at least partially because they don't even think they have an ideology in which to have a crisis about, but it does express itself in a general kind of malaise or alienation about the world and general events or even everyday life. "There's a sense in which things kinda suck, but maybe it's just because I didn't meditate this morning or take my multivitamin or that my co-worker was being annoying or something, IDK." At least, this is what I observe in my friends and family.

The contradictions have accelerated so rapidly in just a short amount of time that I literally cannot imagine where we'll be in, say, 2030.

Here's some comparisons from the historical record to previous anti-colonial wars. The level of Zionist brutality is about on par with the fallen European empires of ~75+ years ago.

Key features:

1. The imperialist violence is completely disproportionate to the initial inciting act
2. Concentration camps are usually involved in some form
3. Elderly, women, and children are not spared any of the violence
4. Resistance is in the form of protracted guerrilla war despite the fighters being usually woefully outgunned
5. Even failure eventually results in independence as the weakness of the imperialists is exposed
6. None of the empires that committed these acts still exist

Truthfully, though, there are also significant differences to Palestine. Israel is getting its ass handed to it on the battlefield as their bombing raids don't seem to be impacting the Resistance very much and they possess the ability to go toe-to-toe with armored vehicles; there exists several strong external forces that are helping Palestine resist; the nature of modern warfare is just very different in many ways from how things were in the early 20th century; and the nuclear threat obviously changes the calculus of action significantly. Nonetheless, it's always useful to see what broadly similar movements have gone through. Have you done your daily condemnation of the Mau Mau?

CW for atrocities of many kinds, including involving sexual violence.

Algeria:

Ethiopia:

Libya:

Kenya:

Despite the defeat of the Mau Mau, the uprising had put Kenya on an inevitable path to independence from colonial rule. There were several reasons for this. The first was that it was made clear to the Kenyan population that the Europeans were far from invincible, and that their rule was more tenuous than previously realised. Consequently, the effective resistance to colonial rule shown by the Mau Mau accelerated the pace of nationalism in Kenya and throughout East Africa. The actions of the white settler community had demonstrated how fearful they were of indigenous opposition to their land seizures, and divisions emerged between extremists and moderates, weakening the political domination the community previously enjoyed. In addition, the brutality shown by the government had been effective in driving a fresh wave of anti-colonialist sentiment in the country.

Wake up babe, new Israeli bullshit story just dropped

Apparently you’re embedded with Hamas if you take photos of them. I didn’t know everyone with a camera on 9/11 was secretly embedded with George Bush Al Qaeda.

Just fyi, beware of a video floating around of the IOF bombing a journalists’ camp next to a hospital. Absolutely terrible images/sounds

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Has anyone else noticed that Zionists and Israel apologists have quickly pivoted back to homophobia and transphobia as soon as they realized pinkwashing wasn't working?

The Israeli president holds up a copy of Mein Kampf containing post-it notes, claiming it was found on a body 'in a children's living room' in northern Gaza.

HEARTWARMING: This gay Palestinian teen was being bullied by his peers and adults in his life, so Israel put him out of his misery by bombing him and his family!

Israel went from saying they were better than Palestine for supporting lgbt to mocking it in their latest propaganda video. The right-wing is obsessed with Queers for Palestine.

When the children have to hold press conferences on behalf of themselves to beg for their lives. What a stain on humanity.

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Ukraine is so cooked

a big chemical explosion/fire in texas, reminiscent of east palestine, ohio back in feb of this year

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/08/chemical-plant-explosion-shepherd-texas/71502887007/

also, as someone with a chemistry background, this is the most asinine thing I've read in a while:

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is setting up an air quality monitoring unit to get more information about any hazards, according to Polk County officials.

Wednesday afternoon, Eldridge said air quality monitoring near Livingston had found no chemicals in the air so far.

see that giant plume of black smoke indicating incomplete combustion of carcinogenic solvents? there's no chemicals there actually

It just dawned on me that this year a non-neglible number of people are using the Kristallnacht vigils to defend an ongoing genocide.

Biden administration privately warned by American diplomats of growing fury against US in Arab world | CNN Politics

The first paragraph

The Biden administration has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by CNN.

My first thought as I woke up in the morning was "Why would I condemn Hamas when they're fighting back against "israeli" genocide? They're doing more to prevent it than pretty much rest of the world"

1h ago

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant has warned Hezbollah on Saturday not to escalate fighting along the border.

“Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into a war that might happen,” Gallant told troops in a video aired by Israeli television channels, Reuters reports.

“It is making mistakes and ... those who will pay the price are first and foremost Lebanon’s citizens. What we are doing in Gaza, we can do in Beirut,” he added.

- The Guardian

Redditors are whining about (very few) Palestinian militants not wearing uniforms... HOLY FUCK DUDE I AM GOING TO LOSE IT

Sure, the Nazis were evil, but have you considered that some resistance fighters DIDN'T WEAR UNIFORMS

These are the same people who were cheering it on when Ukraine was handing out assault rifles to civilians on the street.

"They are cowards. Despite their great weapons they still hide behind their tanks."

Football players wanted to go on the pitch with message about Gaza - stopped by guards

"Stop the massacre in Gaza", that was the message written on t-shirts worn by the players of Ishøj IF, a club playin in Denmark's third division, when they were going to enter the field at a cup tournament game against super league club AGF. They didn't get that far though as guards stopped them and required that they remove the t-shirts before entering the field. The team was allowed to play after removing the shirt.

A spokesman from the national football association has defended the decision and claimed that they don't "take sides", referring to the international Laws of the Game that prohibits players from displaying any kind of political message on the field.

However, countless teams has displayed Ukrainian flags and imagery on t-shirts, jerseys and banners without facing any averse reactions. A senior referee quoted by the media explains the discrepancy with "back then all of the west was united", "it's FIFA who makes the rules and they allowed it" and "sometimes the rules are very inflexible".

Ishøj IF is based in a Copenhagen suburb with a sizable immigrant and refugee population.

When they fart low we fart high

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"What genocide? According to this chart their population has been increasing over the last several decades." - Redditors in 1941

So a US military aircraft fell out of the sky in the Mediterranean 🔻👁

https://sputnikglobe.com/20231111/pentagon-says-us-air-force-aircraft-crashed-in-eastern-mediterranean-1114893115.html

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reddit-ass country I swear to god

"israel" defenders be like "No, they are not doing genocide because the population in Gaza grew"

Actual "israeli" officials: "Yeah, we're doing a second Nakba."

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Al-Qassam just announced destroying a 6th tank and targeting an israeli infantry unit fortified in a building with a TGB.

Total israeli tanks destroyed today - announced - rises to 8.

An important fact to consider is that not all tanks in any military's inventory are combat ready, out of the 2,200 tanks Israel possesses they state 1,730 are combat ready, frankly I think that number is ridiculously high, we're talking a majority of tanks being decades old and held by a military already proven to be incompetent and lax

I wouldn't be surprised if only 40% of their inventory are remotely combat ready, and every day that passes the maintenance needs continue to build up and tanks that were combat ready suddenly aren't, 30% of US vehicles broke down on the three-week march to Baghdad in 2003 without any intervention by the enemy

Just something to keep in mind, one of the greatest virtues of guerrilla warfare is it places the bulk of the logistical burden on the conventional force

Dr.Finkelstein with uncut and uncensored reply to Bernie.

"I can barely say that name anymore, without being filled with contempt and disgust".

To Bernie: "If you have nothing constructive to say...SHUT UP".

"Hamas needs to be destroyed?" (quoting Bernie) and then gives us facts why Israel is far worse in every respect, stating that given Bernie's arguments, Israel should be destroyed instead. He is absolutely on fire...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9R49v3K29mM

Let's all point and laugh at this webpage on how to spread Zionist propaganda: https://israelunderfire.net/best-practices/

The world is overwhelmingly with us right now (mainly in Western countries, even including those that are usually critical of us).

lol

Who?

Non-Jews in Western democracies (other messaging is needed for Jewish audiences).

95% of messaging for a Zionist audience is "Death to Arabs" repeated in a loop.

DO NOT explain Israel’s policy

The issue here is not the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a whole. It is very difficult for us to win there. October 7 is about war crimes committed by Hamas, an organization that people abroad for some reason do not perceive as terrorists, no matter how much we try to say that they are. Now there is proof. It’s our 9/11, and that’s a relatable analogy for most Westerners.

Gee, I wonder why.

...

Last night there was a Kristallnacht vigil in Copenhagen arranged by the Jewish religious community and Danish politicians. It drew huge crowds and had the prime minister as its keynote speaker. This vigil did not have the condemnation of all forms of racism that you find at the usual more left-ish vigils. Speakers spoke solely about Jews and antisemitism, although to their credit they had a minimum of respect and refrained from zionist, islamophobic or similarly racist statements.

What drew attention was not the neonazis standing next to the vigil with a huge banner saying "Fuck Islam" and shouting "Thanks to Netanyahu for declaring war on Islam!" which caused the assembled crowd to boo the neonazis. No, what everyone was talking about was a woman from a small pro-Palestinian protest chanting "Children in Gaza has the right to live".

The protest was approached by foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen who saw an opportunity to play out performative "engagement" with the unwashed masses. As politicians are in these situations Rasmussen was arrogant and dismissive with a veneer of reasonable civility, asking the woman to "calm down" and made nonsensical about Denmark donating a token amount to humanitarian aid in Gaza. When he asked if the woman was angry about the Al-Aqsa Flood, she answered:

No, I'm really not. I'm very happy that Hamas made that decision on October 7th. We've been in fucking prison since 1948.

That statement has caused all chuds in Denmark to go and several far right politicians has attempted to pressure the police and government to throw her in prison, deport her or whatever nastiness they can come up with.

One fascist member of the parliamentary justice committee has made a formal inquiry to the ministry of justice, asking whether:

• A police report about the woman has been made
• If the police has investigated the "case"
• Whether charges has been raised
• If so to make an account on the woman's
  • Nationality
  • Legal residency status
  • Status as a welfare benefit claimant
  • Employment status
  • Whether she has acquired Danish citizenship administratively or by naturalisation either as a main applicant, side applicant or descendant hereof
  • If so, what legal founding she was granted citizenship on, and
  • Her original citizenship

From the BBC: Israel-Gaza: Union members block arms factory in protest over conflict

Over 400 union members involved apparently.

Pro Palestinians Protestors occupying New York Times.

https://www.youtube.com/live/XKFJPvO8rUQ?feature=shared

This is how you distinguish real vs “organic” protests btw, real protestors don’t get hours-long specials on prime time TV like the China Human Rights NGO ghouls

Zionists are wheeling out their white children props. One simple trick to save his life: stop carpet bombing Gaza

Haha whoopsie, I forgot that the life of a single white child is worth more than a million brown savages. More genocide now!

Not sure if this has been posted but in today's UN assembly, Israel's UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan has called the UN, WHO, and literally everyone else as working for Hamas (twitter)

Many UNRWA workers in Gaza are themselves members of Hamas. The time has come to bust the myth of UN supplied facts

It bothers me greatly that Arab countries are doing virtually nothing beyond making empty statements about the Gaza genocide.

Post Soviet Russia has many L's but even they had the foresight to intervene in Ukraine and Georgia before they were able to launch their genocides.

I've had a few conversations with Irish people about the Troubles over the years, and I gotta say, the dichotomy between the understanding of the Troubles I've gotten from academic sources; An extremely political conflict between ideological Irish paramilitaries on one side and British foreign and military intelligence on the other, with Britain very deliberately using right wing and fascist proxies to commit massacres to drive up the body count, prop up the religious conflict narrative, and undermine and dismiss the political character of the conflict, is kind of profound. "Well both sides were bad and it was all senseless sectarian violence" is the narrative I hear from Irish people a lot, whereas the academics mostly position it as the tail end of an anti-colonial struggle with the British government being major drivers of violence as they passed arms and intelligence to various Unionists and just outright murderers.

Also something I don't hear much about from Irish people is the initial civil rights protests in Northern Ireland, contemporary with the US Civil Rights movement, that resulted in a harsh crackdown from the British backed by Unionist violence, and was the proximate cause that escalated from relatively low violence protest to armed paramilitary forces. Folks talk like the troubles just happened, with no real cause or origin.

Idk. It's weird. Outsider perspectives vs insider perspectives, different narratives, different sources of information and knowledge.

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Trying to break through a huge wall of "it's complicated" with my Dad on the Palestinian genocide. I told him about the March of Return protests in 2018-19.

He also had no idea that the Palestinian Authority even existed with Israel's full permission and that the West Bank was a separate piece of land from Gaza that has nothing to do with Hamas.

The most critical element guaranteeing Israel's defeat remains Egypt, Israel's ethnic cleansing plan spoke of an incredible lack of knowledge of internal Egyptian politics especially concerning the military, Israel's defeat was sealed the minute they hedge everything on pushing 2.3 million people into the Sinai, THE most politically sensitive region of Egypt

The arrogant fascism of Israeli society assumed the US could pressure the Sisi regime into actions that would guarantee its overthrow, a comprador will sacrifice his fellows, but he won't sacrifice himself

Hamas threaded the needle and revealed the genocidal nature lurking at the heart of that Nazi state, tying all factions in the region inevitably into a reckoning whether they want it or not

And I haven't even brought up the internal divisions ripening in Israel

The BDS working group has split from the DSA

We, as an organization, are no longer affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America and, moving forward, will be known simply as the Palestine Solidarity Working Group.

Them: bans 'from the river to the sea'

Me: 'from a natural stream of fresh water that flows in a channel with defined banks to a large body of salt water partially surrounded by land'

70% of people in Gaza are displaced with many living in inhumane conditions, UN agency says

I usually give a quote or quote the whole thing but just the title was too much for me. In just ~15 minutes I've read one awful update after another. I didn't even want to glance at the text of that one. I didn't mean to but I read "thousands of cases of acute respiratory, skin infections, diarrhea, and chicken pox".

Wishing every IOF tank gets 🔻

Zionists have resorted to paying giving people microgrants to show up to protests: https://nitter.cz/namoooseh/status/1722356557764001958

The direct link: https://israelcc.org/apply-for-a-microgrant/

Thank you for all your requests to attend the March for Israel Rally. We are pleased to announce that we have successfully allocated funding to help thousands of students attend the event.

quirked up hamas fighter with a little bit of swag busts a tank down jihad style. is he goated with the sauce?

new type of confused pro israel guy: "how dare Hamas take hostages knowing full well the IDF would indiscriminately kill them"

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The amount of people fervently trying to pretend that Israel isn't a settler colonialist state when we have thousands of examples of settlers and Israeli leaders going "We are doing settler colonialism and it is great actually" is baffling.

And then seeing the "well Israelis are there now, should they just leave?" from the same people who argue that Palestinians should just leave is going to give me an aneurism.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk-lawmakers-urge-govt-proscribe-irans-revolutionary-guard-2023-11-12/

British lawmakers and members of the upper house of parliament have called on the government to proscribe Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organisation, saying it would be a step towards restoring stability to the Middle East.

saying it would be a step towards restoring stability to the Middle East.

what this doesn't come out and say is nonetheless very loud

🔻 The US Military Command in Europe claims that five US soldiers were killed when "their plane crashed over the eastern Mediterranean Sea" on Friday.

from https://t.me/PalestineResist/19178

I feel like covid has been memory-holed so hard even the libs who were very mad at China for "starting" the pandemic wouldn't mention it if you asked them to list their top grievances with China. it would probably be Taiwan, Uyghurs, and ties to Russia, in that order.

Paxlovid does not prevent Long Covid

Multivariable logistic regression models controlled for age, sex, race/ethnicity, chronic conditions, and COVID-19 vaccination status. We found that participants who took nirmatrelvir/ritonavir were no less likely to develop long COVID symptoms, compared to those who did not take the medication (44% vs. 49.6%, p = 0.21). Taking nirmatrelvir/ritonavir was associated with a lower odds of two of the eleven long COVID symptoms, brain fog (OR 0.58, 95% CI 0.38–0.88) and chest pain/tightness (OR 0.51, 95% CI 0.28–0.91). Our finding that treatment with nirmatrelvir/ritonavir was not associated with a lower risk of developing long COVID is different from prior studies that obtained data only from electronic medical records.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2023/11/6/turkish-protesters-try-to-storm-airbase-housing-us-troops

I don't see this on CNN's website....

I’m shocked they actually aired this on CNN

Someone's getting fired at CNN HQ

President Xi says we can have a little Maoism, as a treat

Xi meets with representatives of grassroots units applying 'Fengqiao model'

What is the Fengqiao model? Generaly speaking, a mass line based model developed and advocated in Mao’s era that directed the masses themselves at the local level to carry out the on-site “rectification” of “reactionary elements” in society promoting greater degrees of local self-governance and "decentralizing" class struggle. The “Fengqiao experience” ,named after Fengqiao Township, was the process of mobilizing the masses in order to “strengthen the dictatorship over class enemies.” Here is how the top Party leader of Fengqiao District at the time (early 60s) reflected back on it:

During the National People’s Congress in 1963, the minister of public security, Xie Fuzhi (谢富治), gave a speech called, “Relying on the Strength of the Masses, Strengthening the People’s Democratic Dictatorship, Transforming the Majority of ‘Reactionary Elements’ into New People” (依靠群众力量，加强人民民主专政，把绝大多数“四类分子”改造成新人). Xie’s speech made specific mention of the example provided by Fengqiao.

On November 20, 1963, Mao Zedong added his written instructions to the Xie Fuzhi speech, in which he said: “The example of Zhuji raised here is a good one — various regions should follow this example, expanding the work through pilot programs.” Before the Cultural Revolution, the ministry of public security released materials about Fengqiao, but the People’s Daily never reported on these. On December 21, 1977, the People’s Daily published the piece from the top Party leader of Fengqiao District quoted above. That piece was called, “Raising High the Red Flag of Fengqiao Erected by Mao Zedong, Relying on the Masses to Strengthen Dictatorship"

In the struggle against the enemy, arrest is necessary and proper only for a small number of class enemies; as for those you can choose to arrest or not, none should be arrested; you must mobilize the masses to carry out a struggle of reason, to deal with the enemies, carrying out on-site monitoring and rehabilitation, without the need to submit issues to higher authorities. This experience was affirmed and praised by the greater leader and teacher Mao Zedong.

Until recently, no top Chinese leader since Mao Zedong had ever been quoted publicly in the People’s Daily or other state media making remarks on the “Fengqiao experience.” But in 2013, marking the 50th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s written instructions, Xi Jinping broke this pattern by issuing “important instructions on the development of the ‘Fengqiao experience’." But the focus and promotion of the model has increased considerably in the last few years.

In the report of the 20th National Congress it was clearly directed that that the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era must be upheld and developed at the grassroots level of society and based on it the mechanism for correctly handling contradictions among the people under the new situation should be improved. To facilitate and regulate the expression of public demands, coordinate interests and safeguard rights.

In March 2023, Xi again emphasized the need to uphold and develop the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, improve the mechanism for correctly handling conflicts among the people under the new situation, and promptly resolve conflicts and disputes at the grassroots level and in the bud by involving the masses in the identification of elements ,practices or people that must be reformed. During the Hangzhou Asian Games, Xi made a special trip to inspect the Fengqiao Museum and affirmed the great historical and practical significance of the "Fengqiao Experience".

The other day, along with the meetup i originaly linked Xi met with like 4 heads of state (including the Australian dumbass) ,yet his meeting with cadre representatives of the "fengqiao model" was the frontpage news on the People's Daily and other state media over them

To end with some interesting (optimistic and with a bunch of assumptions) food for thought. The "common prosperity" project, lauded as the next stage in socialism with chinese chracteristics and specificaly its "pilot" in Zhejiang, aimed to be completed by the mid 30s, calls , among other things, for "adjusting income distribution" and "adjusting excessive income". No specifics have been given on how that wealth redistribution will be achieved but it is notable that county-level social conflict and dispute mediation and resolution centers have been also a behind the scenes focus of the "common prosperity" pilot in Zhenjiang and its also the province with the most developed and widespread grassroots "fengqiao model" system

A doctor in Gaza

11 surgeries back to back today

11 broken bodies

11 shattered lives

11 stories of heartbreak, sorrow and grief over loved ones slain

11 Palestinians betrayed by a humanity that sides with powerfull against the rightious

11 unknown futures without loved ones

Nitter

Timothy Snyder writing about how Ukraine is the battle for democracy “of the century” on the very same day Zelenskyy declares no elections in Ukraine.

Interview with a settler

Absolutely unhinged stuff

What are the borders of that Jewish nation?

The borders of the homeland of the Jews are the Euphrates in the east and the Nile in the southwest.

Saudi preacher calls for prayers to help the people of #Gaza and obedience to their Kings and rulers [obeying orders to not help Gaza physically], because apparently according to him, helping Gaza creates divisions amongst Muslims. Thoughts and prayers, everyone, Gaza needs you. 🤷‍♂️.

Saudi Arabia needs a proper French Revolution, guillotine and all, traitorous dogs

The shittiest propaganda you’ve ever seen <3

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