Bulletins and News Discussion from April 15th to April 21st, 2024 - Between The Darkness And The Dawn, There Rises A Red Star

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Israel-Palestine Conflict

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. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Sources:

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.

Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

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 Telegram Channels:

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.

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So uh

A while ago I saw posts that said "The resistance is using the sound of crying babies to lure in IOF soldiers because they know that IOF soldiers love murdering babies" and just earlier I saw a post on twitter that said "The IOF is using the sound of crying babies next to auto-turrets to lure in empathetic Palestinians who want to save helpless children"

Zionazis undeniably love murdering kids and these technically aren't mutually exclusive but it still kinda feels like a Parenti quote moment.
- One is luring soldiers, one is luring civilians
  
  I don't think both sides are using this same very specific tactic to begin with, if it's been used at all and it's not just random posts.
  
  It doesn't sit right with me to assume the worst for one side while assuming the best for the other when they're deploying the exact same methods. Zionists could just as easily say "The IDF is trying to lure Khhamas because they love beheading babies, Khhamas uses it because they know our heroic IDF soldiers will try to save the babies."
  
  I'm not trying to both sides this discussion. I know the argument of "assuming intent" has been abused to deflect Israel's genocidal intentions, but there's a limit. This is a pretty extreme example of assuming intent and I don't like it, it feels dishonest.
  
  I have no problem assuming the worst intention of Israelis when they are the ones actively committing genocide and the Palestinians are the ones actively resisting. There's already an asymmetry there. It's a pretty useful heuristic to assume the worst intent of the side commiting genocide. Personally, I am not concerned with being fair to both sides or hearing one side out or being careful with assuming intent when there already is such a clear demarcation between what each side is fighting for and why.
  
  But, like you said. It may not even be true. Perhaps just posts. And if so, then the posts are just reflections of what the posters feel - one side is defending themselves from genocide, the other is actively engaging in it. Both sides would have different intentions toward the cries of Palestinian children. I don't think that's much of a stretch, so I don't feel we need to be too concerned with fairness is assuming the intent of genociders.
  
  Also, sorry if am coming across as too callous, or too personal of an attack on your comment. I realize my voice my sound harsh on response to you, but my anger is toward Israel and I have no empathy for the IOF
  
  IOF literally admits their soldiers were lured by crying baby sound. There is literally no evidence people who are lured by crying baby sound are hamas soldiers.
  
  Not that I doubt you, but do you happen to have a source handy? I have some Zionists to dunk on
  
  https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1735651616416514381 Be extra toxic for the zionazi for me comrade
  
  Fuck me running when you said the IDF admitted it I thought you meant like someone let it slip on the news and a random Twitter poster found it
  
  Not the actual IDF itself
  
  Not the actual IDF itself
  
  You haven't been keeping up
  
  IDK I think it's perfectly reasonable to assume vastly different intents when one side is a genocidal, occupying army in their target, foreign community which has been slaughtering children left and right, and the other side is people in their own community fighting their oppressors. When there's a crying baby in the area, literally everyone is going to assume it is a distressed child who is a part of the community. And those two entities are going to search out the baby with very, VERY different intent.
- One of those is a very dark joke and the other is likely to be a fact.

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