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.
-1 MORALE
[Impossible: Failure] — You are submerged deep within the milieu of news cycles and chauvinism, and you are drowning. Air. You need air. It burns at the corners of your eyes and claws at your throat. Everything hurts. If this is the way it’s going to be, you don’t know if you can keep going.
— How could you, when everything is so terrible?
[Challenging: Success] — A world away, further than any place you’ll ever go, a young boy sits outside a crumbling, concrete apartment block. Sea spray and smoke swirl through the air together, salty and acrid, coating the world in a shade grayer than usual. He sits and stares up at the sky, at the planes carrying missiles overhead, and he listens for the sounds of catching powders and marching footsteps. He sits with two million siblings. None of them may make it to tomorrow. The sufficiently old and sufficiently able take to the streets. The shelters and tunnels curling beneath them like veins tremble against the tension.
— Have they given up?
— No. They haven’t. And that means neither can you.If I see one more person on Hexbear even suggest the West might have a shred of credibility on the hospital story I am going to scream.
These people told you with wide smiles that Russia destroyed their own pipeline - a lie so ridiculous it beggars belief.
Holy fuck. They are literally just lying. They do this every time. Biden already did this with the babies claim last week. He literally claimed to have seen the fucking nonexistent photos in person. That is how boldly they will lie.
Remember how people were screaming and screaming and screaming at us about harm reduction? And then harm reduction turned out to be losing roe, war in ukraine, trans genocide, palestinian genocide, siccing the cops on any kind of dissent, no student debt relief, and lots of other bad shit?
I wonder if any of them feel horror for what they did.
Just surreal being alive right now. We’re all witnessing a modern day trail of tears in an age of ubiquitous information (folks alive in 1830s couldn’t say the same), and the prevailing narrative is that this is fine.
It really is the powerful vs the powerless and always has been
Isr*el is so cooked man lol
Long-standing fractures among settlers in the zionist entity continue to deepen today: As the families of those held captive in Gaza went to protest in “Tel Aviv”, they were assaulted by other settlers.
One settler called the families of captives “traitors” and said “I hope your daughter dies!”
Despite the fact that the war for liberation is only just beginning, settlers are beginning to tear one another apart in an expression of the rabid supremacism and self-interest that they embody.
10,000 Palestenian rockets over a decade killed… about 30 people.
Wow, what a coincidence the first seriously destructive missile that Hamas built fell directly on a Gazan Hospital by total accident and killed ~20 times as many as 10 years of rocket attacks had!
Gave a pretty fiery little speech at my Palestine protest today on behalf of
that the crowd went nuts forColombia has expelled the Israeli ambassador, hopefully starting a trend
Nebula kicked JT/secondthought off their site for his views on Israel.
Also JT gave a shoutout to hexbear called us a bunch of sweeties on the latest Deprogram, ep 101.
New type of guy just happened.
Instead of calling me a tankie, a lib called me a “working-class supremacist”.
They’ve kicked a huge hornets nest. It feels like when BLM first started, except this time it’s the entire arab world.
Tomorrow will be bigger.
Israel could drop a nuke on Gaza and the Western media would start saying that Hamas has a WMD program and tested it on their own territory
truthfully though it doesn’t matter what westerners think. most propagandized people in world history. western politicians are perfectly aware that Israel just dropped a JDAM on a hospital and they do not care and will happily go along with the story that it was Hamas. what matters is what the rest of the world thinks, and particularly what Middle Eastern powers think. I don’t think this is enough to sway them - I don’t think 2.4 million Gazan deaths would be enough to sway the oil capitalist ghouls, in fact - but I do at least hope that they’ll turn a blind eye to Resistance involvement if they ever decide to go in
I can’t prove it started with me other than my comments in the last mega, but I’ve seen people use Genocide Joe on Twitter, including Noah Kulwin and Mike Prysner, and I’m gonna chose to believe I started that.
