imagine creating a military force designed explicitly to stop this exact thing from ever happening, pouring billions upon billions of dollars into it, pouring the hard work of Western scientists into it for decades, training much of your civilian base in that military force, and it gets rolled over by people you’ve oppressed in a massive concentration camp for years on end with drones dropping mortar rounds on your heads

the IDF has gone from the “second strongest army in the world” to the second strongest army in Israel

they’re reaching virgin cuck levels that are off the charts. we’ll need an entirely new category just for them

Here’s a reminder: No emancipation process was done without the use of violence at some point. No emancipation process was exclusively peaceful and all parties agreed in everything and lived in peace ever since. Especially, when that emancipation process involves oppressed peoples (the palestinians) in one side and a ruthless ethnostate on the other (Israel) with clear genocidal intent.

Lots of handwringing in the other featured thread that oppressed natives actually shouldn’t fight back against their oppressors.

On my Hexbear? It’s more likely than you think.

Finally time to post my Lebanon-Syria trip report:

• Flew to Beirut, Lebanon with my wife, where I spent 3 days with my family there, staying with my Putin stan communist uncle. Mostly just caught up with random cousins in random cafés serving the most incredible food of all time. Ate a half meter shawarma. I was coincidentally in Burj Hammoud, an Armenian neighborhood, the day the Azeri war started. Witnessed a fist fight between two older Armenian men who were fighting over whether Pashinyan is a cuck or a victim.

• Took a cab to Damascus two weeks ago, which was pretty straightforward and I went in with my Lebanese passport so that no westerner knows I was there. Chilled in my mom’s family house in the Damascus suburbs and just took in the vibes. Ate amazing food every single day. Did the usual Damascus tourism stuff around the Umayyed Mosque, Souq Al Hamidiya and the rest of the old town. Went to the Sayyida Zainab shrine with my wife because she’s Shia and they like their shrines. She went back to Beirut after a few days, because her cousins from Iraq travelled to Beirut and she haven’t seen them in years. Signs of war aren’t really really there in Damascus, You can feel the insane poverty everywhere since the sanctions and disastrous financial policy has fucked the country, but Damascus is still a beautiful city with barely any destruction except in a few suburban residental areas.

• After chilling for a few days, I did a little heartbreaking tour with my cousin. We took his car from Damascus and just drove north on the main highway. We went through Homs, Hama and Aleppo. Most traumatic two days of my life with no competition. The Syrian countryside has just been destroyed, and it’s even worse in the cities. Everyone should be blamed for these tragedies that are present in almost every street in especially Homs and Aleppo. Schools and apartment buildings are just completely destroyed, I can’t even describe the sadness of walking into a bombed classroom with x/x/2011 still on the chalkboard and random books burnt on the ground. Families have been ruined by the war itself, but also from the unnecessarily vicious government oppression that let the war happen in the first place. Every American and Russian that has financed and supported this shit should be subjected to a bombing campaign.

• Went back to Damascus and stayed the last 2 days of the trip in a cousin’s farm around an hour outside of Damascus. Ate some amazing fruit there and was met with amazing hospitality by the rural folks. Sadly also felt the effects of the insane poverty there in the villages. Met a random Chinese delegation that was responsible for some project in a village, they were some really serious dudes and kept measuring the ground at a bunch of locations with some cool tech that I haven’t seen before. Smoked locally grown weed, which was weird and fun.

• Went back to Beirut with a cab again. Just chilled and let my thoughts about Syria play around a little in my head. My communist uncle took me to George Hawi’s grave again and kept calling Zelensky lots of homophobic things during the ride. Ate more amazing food. Trip ended there and I flew back yesterday.

The way I see it, white westerners oppose the Palestinian struggle because not only they’re racist fucks, but also because deep down they’re scared, they’re scared at the sight of a cornered non-white nation taking up arms and leading a successful struggle against a key white western ally. They’re scared because they know that if Palestine wins, the entire Global South can imitate their success, and nothing scares them more than their beloved colonial, imperialist and capitalist world order being crushed into pieces by the Global South.

Vietnam and Algeria showed that despite overwhelming odds, despite being against literal titans, you can beat the living fuck out of them and achieve emancipation. Cuba showed us that you can resist for decades in your revolutionary struggle against impossible odds. Palestine will show the world that even in the most desperate situation, against a genocidal ethnostate, a victory is possible. And their example will be followed by those who desire to be free.

Don’t think for a second our most sacred struggle ended in 1991. There’s a lot to fight for.

My hatred of liberals and of western empire has been 100% re affirmed and re invigorated

A slave strikes their slave master with a fraction of a fraction of the violence the master has inflicted, and the liberal calls for complete destruction and unlimited violence against the slave

Getting real sick of all the winging liberal comments about “oh I dread what Israel will do to them after this.” The west has such a fetish for losing and inaction. They took a risk and thus far it’s been pretty successful, and ultimately we’re not making decisions for the Palestinians, ultimately our job is to support the Palestinians because ultimately they are right to attack Israel like this, and then condemn Israel when they inevitably do react. I mean what should they do instead? Sit around and get genocided as the US ensures they are increasingly isolated in the region and wait for the westerners to vote in the moderate wing of fascism who doesn’t even and has never supported Palestine?

Anyway, I’m gonna stay off Reddit for today. Even the pro-Palestine comments are insufferable

Hello hexbear. Thanks for all the info.

Zionists: “Shooting missiles at settler cities is an unspeakable terrorist war crime against innocent civilians! Nothing can justify this!”

Also Zionists: “Let’s do revenge air strikes on random Palestinian housing blocks! It’s the most humane airstrikes in the world because we do a small one before the big one”

Shoot and cry is such a disgusting propaganda tactic.

It is October 7th, 2023. I am watching an Indian man who uses the Twitter handle ‘Adolf Hitler’ declare their support for Israel.

God I fucking hate westoids so much. Living ccomfortably in their sheltered little lives, built over the backs of the global south, pontificating over how they are not anti-Palestine, just anti-violence.

As much as people like to mythologise resistance to the Nazi occupation in WW2, I am once again reminded that most of my fellow countrymen, almost especially the so-called progressives, would rather collaborate than offer resistance, as did their grandparents.

Seems likely to me that Palestine will eventually be pushed back into Gaza but will have killed and captured a shitload of settlers/troops, as well as various military equipment. Then we really enter the Cool Zone depending on what Israel does then; if they try and invade Gaza then they have to do urban warfare and Hezbollah and others may join (there’s of course already been strikes by Hezbollah into Israel). Or perhaps a negotiation happens and the hostages are exchanged for thousands of imprisoned Palestinian fighters.

Holding territory is, for now, very difficult, and Palestine clearly knows this, so I expect they’re taking notes from other guerilla movements and staying mobile, retreating and advancing strategically, etc. Insert various Mao quotes here.

I’m sympathetic to the people who are like “Yes, it’s all very brave but let’s face it: the IDF massively outguns Palestine. At the end of the day it’s an equation that Palestine is on the bad side of,” but there are more avenues to victory than the outcomes of conventional warfare. The future is vast and unknowable. Smaller, lively forces can take on larger, sclerotic ones if the international situation evolves in a certain way, or if there’s internal dissent in the bigger country, or a million other possibilities.

Palestinians should start wearing totenkopf patches and doing nazi salutes. Then they’ll get billions of dollars in funding and weapons from the International Community™️.

President Xi, please open up a third front in Taiwan. The US and its allies cannot supply Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan rebels simultaneously. The fascists cannot win a war on three fronts.

This shit is the ultimate Litmus Test. A fuckton of self proclaimed leftists coming out as reactionaries.