Just got off calls with my family in both Beirut and Damascus. The situation feels extremely tense right now. Our family house in Beirut is quite close to the Hezbollah areas south of Beirut, so the neighborhood will most likely be bombed in case shit escalates. My family in Damascus are maybe relocating to my cousin's farm outside of the city, just waiting to see how everything develops. Very odd feeling in my whole body right now, a mixture of sadness and some weird hope as well. Not liking this "being a part of history" thing tbh.

massive shout-out to the guy driving 5 mph down my street shouting "free Palestine from modern day holocaust", what a legend

Death to America

USMC Lt. Gen. James Glynn, dispatched by Pentagon to advise Israel on risks inherent in an invasion of Gaza Strip, has returned to the US.

“Make no mistake: what is, has or will unfold in Gaza is purely an Israeli decision.” -USMC commandant Gen. Eric Smith told reporters.

This dude noped the fuck out of there

I really really despise the way discourse around humanitarian aid is framed.

Israel's genocide isn't some natural disaster. They are actively bombing, actively killing civilians.

And yet the debate is somehow about whether scraps of aid should be let in to mitigate some of the immeasurable suffering in Gaza. And then Israel or the US and its vassals block it, and somehow this is all fine, this is just a normal diplomatic disagreement here.

All of that is burying the lede. Can Israel not stop genociding civilians? Apparently not. That's not an option. In fact, we'll give them some more weapons to continue the slaughter.

A baby was found in an oven, baked to death by Hamas terrorists, leading Israeli first responder @EliBeerUH recounted to an @RJC gathering last night.

His group was among the first to respond to and witness the Oct 7 atrocities.

Babe wake up new atrocity propaganda just dropped. Actually cackling this is so fucking stupid if you believe this shit you need to be shot for your own good and more importantly for the good of society.

It's always interesting how jet pilots dropping bombs are never called terrorists, despite every single one of them being one. What difference is there between throwing a bomb by hand or throwing a bomb by gadget? The "civilized" approach just shields the perp from consequences of their actions, making them a cowardly terrorist as well.

Al Jazeera:

Pro-Palestine rally held in Berlin
Thousands have taken to streets in the German capital Berlin in support of Palestinians and to end the war in Gaza.
One of the posters at the rally accused Israel of “genocide”, while others voiced disapproval of the German government’s backing of Israel. People could be heard chanting “Viva, Viva Palestine” and “Free Palestine” during the demonstration.
The event was organised by an individual and operated under the banner of “Global South United,” according to the police.

Global south united?

bro I'm prooobing. bro. it's not a ground offensive bro. it's a limited incursion where we're probing. we're probers, bro. bro, we need to find the tunnels, and so we need to proooooobe

The evil fuckers are going to bomb the hospital. The NYT is coming out and saying Israeli military sees it as a threat and they might also see it as a target.

Israel says Al Shifa hospital conceals underground Hamas command centers, which the group denies.

To people in Gaza, Al Shifa is the biggest and most advanced hospital around — a lifeline, in normal times, and now a place of refuge from relentless Israeli airstrikes.

More than 60,000 people are sheltering there. But to the Israeli military, it is a threat, and, perhaps, a target.

[Continues]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/28/world/israel-gaza-news-hamas-war/israel-says-al-shifa-hospital-conceals-underground-hamas-command-centers-which-the-group-denies?smid=url-share

The media are calling these "welded visors" now.

When the russians did it they called them cope cages.

DPRK releases another banger

The U.S., wrecker of global peace and strangler of justice, can never evade the blame for having connived at and fostered Israel's hideous war crime that ruthlessly killed Palestinians.

It's interesting. Considering how Gaza is a city "ruthlessly ruled by Hamas" that, when you watch videos from the city itself, you don't actually see Hamas members or even armed people. Like nowhere, no technicals driving around with big DShKs, no people with AKs hanging walking around, nothing. It's just completely unarmed civilians rushing to the ambulances helping each other out. The city is continuously being bombed for having "Hamas targets" yet we barely get to see them in the streets...

Can someone help me understand something?

Building vocational schools to juvenile offenders so they can integrate to larger society by getting educated - this is genocide

Moving orphans out of a warzone to orphanages where they can speak their own mother tongue, and where the orphans will get elementary education - this is clearly genocide

Building a giant open air prison for an ethnic group, depriving them of water, food, and medicine, then bombing them inordinately, murdering children - this is not genocide, it's just a rational political response to an unusual situation

Azov batallion dude with the callsign Adolf from the SS brigade - not a Nazi

A literal Waffen-SS volunteer from WW2 - not a Nazi

Greta Thunberg - she is a Nazi because she has a stuffed octopus fluffy toy

Wolfsangel, Black Sun, Totenkopf - not a symbol of antisemitism

Pink octopus toy - a clear symbol for antisemitism

Did I get this right? This is what liberals think?

I fucking hate Germany, I fucking hate Germans, dumbest fucking people on Earth, dumber than Americans by far, holy fucking shit. We truly never moved past the Nazis, it must seriously be in our blood that we just love genocide so fucking much. The people in this country actually still defend Israel, not even the American people are this fucking dumb and gullible to their state propaganda. Unironically posting takes such as "if we give food to the gazans then Hamas can focus on their terrorism" holy fuck.

I'm so fucking angry at this country, a country full of pathetic, genocidal maggots. Stalin should've flattened the entire state, the world would be better off for it.

Israel-Palestine war: Israel will flood Hamas tunnels with nerve gas under US Army supervision

Palestinian resistance groups expect Israel to flood Hamas tunnels with nerve gas and chemical weapons under the surveillance of US Delta Force commandos as part of a surprise attack on the Gaza Strip, a senior Arab source familiar with the groups told Middle East Eye.

Israel and the US hope to achieve the element of surprise in order to penetrate Hamas tunnels, rescue an estimated 220 hostages, and kill thousands of soldiers belonging to Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades, the source said in a statement, noting that the information comes from a leak originating in the US. Middle East Eye cannot independently verify the information in the leak. “The plan hinges on the element of surprise so as to decisively win the battle, using internationally forbidden gases, particularly nerve gas, and chemical weapons. Large quantities of nerve gas would be pumped into the tunnels,” the source said.

US Delta Force will oversee “large quantities of nerve gas being pumped into Hamas tunnels, capable of paralyzing the bodily movement for a period of time between six and 12 hours." "During this period, the tunnels would be penetrated, the hostages rescued and thousands of al-Qassam soldiers killed,” they added.

Yeah dude, it'll be like, pew pew pew! Arghh! Another hundred dead terrorists! Wham! Kaboom!

watching the various US special forces become increasingly moronic is really entertaining

Liberals’ primary problem with Hitler is that he wasn’t American.

Al Jazeera and especially OG Arabic Al Jazeera provides literally the most brave and real journalism in the whole world right now. American and European newspapers and TV channels are worth less than fucking dust at this point.

@VILenin@hexbear.net

Makes me feel utterly furious and insane to see NYPD busses full of Jews arrested for protesting Israel's genocide in Gaza.

Again I don't think this many Jewish people have been rounded up since WW2, zionism is quite literally nazism

Nahal Oz (Hebrew: נַחַ"ל עֹז, lit. "Mighty Stream" or "Mighty Nahal") is a kibbutz in southern Israel. Located in the northwestern part of the Negev desert close to the border with the Gaza Strip

Ok what’s Nahal mean?

Nahal (Hebrew: נח"ל) (acronym of Noar Halutzi Lohem, lit. Fighting Pioneer Youth[1]) is a program that combines military service with mostly social welfare and informal education projects such as youth movement activities... Prior to the 1990s it was a paramilitary Israel Defense Forces program that combined military service and the establishment of agricultural settlements, often in peripheral areas.

The Nahal group (Hebrew: גרעין נחל) is a form of community service developed in Israel, which combines social volunteerism, agriculture and military service. The service is divided into several parts:

The national mission period lasts a year, in which all the core group stays together, under the command of the Education and Youth Corps. During the establishment of the state, the national mission was mostly the establishment of new settlements in periphery areas (by means of Nahal settlements)

What’s a Nahal settlement?

The goal for every Nahal settlement was to become a civilian settlement and serve as a first line of defense against potential future Arab invasions while providing a base of operations and resources for military forces operating in peripheral regions.

The first Nahal settlement was Nahal Oz located in the northwestern Negev desert close to the border with the Gaza Strip.

So these settlements near to Gaza that were targeted are explicitly hybrid military-civilian installations. Militarized communes of military trained populations with the explicit purpose of being the front line of Israeli colonial expansion.

Soldier settlements.

Adam Johnson on Bernie's recent senate speech about Gaza.

"Humanitarian pause" for a few hours so we can get some water and food into Gaza before Israel goes right back to bombing them is an illogical, chickenshit demand. OxFam, Amnesty, MSF and dozens of aid and human rights orgs are demanding a CEASEFIRE. Why wont Sanders join them?

(This is a rhetorical question, the answer is because Sanders supports the Israeli bombing and siege he just wants it to be a bit nicer around the margins)

Nitter

A reply

He drew the line at they shouldn't be dehydrated when they die.

The obsession with "innocent civilians" is infuriating. No interest in the reality that every war results in massive civilian casualties. No interest or awareness that Palestinian's don't have the luxury of precision weapons (which still kill tons of civilians). Not even the hint of the concept that maybe settlers aren't non-combatant civilians due to the specific circumstances of the Israeli state and it's mode of conquest. No awareness or interest that Israel is a heavily militarized state (Human shields!).

Just "These people trying to save themselves from genocide are illegitimate because they killed civilians".

And this standard is never applied except to the designated enemy.

Whatever happens, the world owes Palestinians a debt we can never repay. Gaza was a testing ground for surveillance and counterinsurgency worldwide, a laboratory in which the ruling class devised increasingly violent means of separating themselves from their subjects. October 7th shattered the illusion of an invincible, low-cost and high-tech military occupation. The goal was always to build more Gazas to manage refugee and homeless populations, Operation Al-Aqsa Flood has delayed that future indefinitely.

Why are liberals obsessed with calling leftist opinions and principles childish or accusing people having them of being teenagers?

Former German leader Schroeder divulges more detail on thwarted Russia-Ukraine peace deal bne intelliNews

We are getting more and more corroborating evidence that the peace deal in March-April 2022 was real, and painted US/NATO as the party behind that denied the deal from moving forward because some wanted to use the opportunity to weaken Russia.

I recommend reading the linked article because there are a lot more details in this story, but the most interesting part I want to point out is this:

According to Schroeder the deal would have included the following main aspects:

• Ukraine would abandon its Nato aspirations;
• The bans on the Russian language in Ukraine would be removed;
• Donbass would remain in Ukraine but as an autonomous region (Schroeder: "Like South Tyrol");
• The United Nations Security Council plus Germany should offer and supervise the security agreements; and
• The Crimea problem would be addressed.

Honestly this sounds like a very good deal for Ukraine considering what they are going through today. All the blood shed since can now be firmly laid on the hands on US and NATO imperialism at this point.

I absentmindedly had Hexbear open on my laptop, and my toddler just happened to see the logo and declared I WANT TO SEE THE BEAR

Pull from a Russian fighter near avdeevka, cited by the latest simplicius

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-102723-ukraines-prospects

Do I feel sorry for them? No. They killed and injured my friends, they want to kill me every day. I don't feel sorry for them. Although, for the most part, the people who stand against us are not rabid Nazis, but ordinary Hataskrayniks who were forcibly driven to slaughter.

But if you look at everything in its entirety, it was they who brought Ukraine to its current state. That same silent majority who don’t care about Bandera, or the Russians, or the USA - as long as their farm, kindergarten, pigs are not touched, as long as they don’t run out of vodka and lard, and at least the grass doesn’t grow.

They didn’t care about the Maidan, about the shelling of Donetsk and Lugansk, about the genocide of the Russian population, about the murders of children, women and the elderly, about Azov’s torture, about language bans, about the split in faith... And then it turned out that they couldn’t sit it out that you have to take a machine gun and die for the interests and goals of NATO.

And then they hated us, with a fierce, terrible hatred. Because their little farmstead world collapsed. Because this war reminds them every day of their cowardice, weakness and silence. And in their anger they blame us for everything, because they are afraid to look in the mirror and ask themselves uncomfortable questions.

And we, of course, will win. We know that. And they know it. And this makes them hate us even more.

Hasan dared to expose me to like 5 minutes of MSNBC coverage and it made me so viscerally angry. "Hamas has no credibility whatsoever" says this

US occuptation forces evacuating Baghdad tonight at the airport.

Sabereen News

Cant Keffals fucking coke habit blow up her heart already?

Doing tankie bad fearmongering during a genocide, what a fucking worm.

U.S. Cannot Halt China's Semiconductor Advance to 5nm: Ex TSMC VP says

Interestingly, the U.S. sanctions seem to have inadvertently opened the doors of opportunity for SMIC. The restrictions imposed on TSMC, barring it from transacting with certain Chinese entities, have allowed SMIC to step in and capitalize on substantial orders. This shift has facilitated SMIC's enhancement of its manufacturing techniques and technological capabilities.

I hope they end up outperforming the US way faster than anyone expected

On a group chat with a bunch of american libs I kineticly engaged with western style propaganda and utilized fact based materielist ordinance. Enemy combatant posters were neutralized to the point of asking "well what would you do?"

Thank you news thread for providing a steady supply of wunderposten that has allowed establishment of a beach head on an otherwise perfectly smooth surface.

Last night at Celtic Park:

60,000 people are sheltering at Al Shifa hospital, and Israel just released some fake recording saying it is Hamas HQ.

being reported on Al Jazeera

Via Middle East Observer:

⚡️🇪🇬 Vodafone in Egypt states that it will install cell towers in Rafah, Egypt, to allow Palestinians in Gaza to continue their coverage and document the atrocities that is ongoing as of now.

Work should start tommorrow.

Palestinian sources are saying Hamas have pushed up so far that they're engaging forces outside the strip.

Western sources are saying that thousands of Israeli soldiers are inside Gaza.

Complete fog of war has descended. I have basically no idea what is happening now. I'm more inclined to trust Palestinian sources but take it as you will.

I'm looking forward to the day when the US Empire crumbles to fucking dust, and it and its allies get to pay for all the death and destruction they've caused over the last century. It will be bittersweet, and the least they'll deserve.

Hasan losing connection, Hexbear going down periodically

On the last RWN episode John made an interesting point, that many if not most of the recent famous urban and/or guerrilla battles have seen the aggressor use proxy forces or some kind of expendable troops to do the boots on the ground work.

For example, in Vietnam/Korea the US used the south Vietnamese/south Koreans, in fallujah and mosul the Americans had Iraqi/peshmeera/militia troops, in mariupol the Russians had DPR troops, in bakhmut the Russians used Wagner prison conscripts, and Russia supported the battle of aleppo from the air while on the ground work was done by various militias and government forces.

In contrast, the IDF is flying solo, with nobody but Israelis to die for the cause of genocide. Considering how precious Israel treats IDF sperm, this can't help but change the calculus.

it seems that Israel's offensive has begun... reminds me of this quote:

"The mask of humanity fall from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone -- everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the word. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed."

Israeli official says will fight Starlink’s deployment in Gaza

The minister of communications has said Israel will “use all means at its disposal to fight” the use of Elon Musk’s Starlink to support connectivity for aid groups in Gaza.

Posting on X, Shlomo Khari said if the Starlink satellite internet is deployed “Hamas will use it for terrorist activities”.

“There is no doubt about it, we know it, and Musk knows it,” he wrote.

“Perhaps Musk would be willing to condition it with the release of our abducted babies, sons, daughters, elderly people,” he wrote.

Musk had made the offer to use Starlink in Gaza earlier today, although further details have yet to emerge.

Al Jazeera

I was out and about today and was happy to see a whole bunch of pro palestine people demonstrating on the street downtown. This is settler country so great to see. No blue and white chuds in sight.

Shaun's chat raised 50,000 for Palestine so he has to stream FFX-2 in a cat maid outfit

I'm Korean. Israel and Palestinian relation is very different from South and North Korea. However, there is one similarity. While Israel and South Korea are prosperous, Palestinians and North Korea are poor and miserable. Why? It's because they spend all their energy on hate.

Current situation: Sounds like Israel tried to do a ground advance. Shit went very badly and even some of their troops were captured. Helicopters called in. Media blackout.

It is very funny that the rhetoric of Israel's government has basically been "We will utterly destroy Hamas. There will be no living member of the organization when we are done. Our forces will enter Gaza and annihilate the terrorists found within. We are fulfilling the prophecies of our ancestors by finally wiping out the most evil group that has yet existed on this earth. We have a dozen ways to destroy the tunnel networks." and then they try and enter Gaza and within five minutes their forces are crying their eyes out and calling for helicopter evacuations.

We really are cursed to relive the Ukrainian counteroffensive again. First as farce, second as even greater farce. Israel's plans for Gaza post-war feel like Zelensky saying that he'll be sunbathing in Crimea in the summer.

"Okay, you can say 'killed,' but try and make sure no one believes you."

NYT: "The Hamas-controlled health ministry in Gaza released the names of 6,747 people it said were killed in Israeli strikes." (Slightly different headline in link, but the above is what they have on the front page right now.)

. . .

"How much Hamas, which brooks little dissent within Gaza, influences ministry statistics — or whether it does at all — is unclear."

Fuck offfffffff

Might have already been posted but the journalist whose family was killed in an airstrike is continuing to report, saying "It is my duty"

Get ready for 3 months of probing attacks.

I don't think I've seen this mentioned yet. Senior Tory MP Crispin Blunt was arrested on suspicion of rape and possession of drugs yesterday. He was also suspended from the Tory party. Says he's innocent of course.

Now I'm not usually one to come out in defense some Br*tish sex pest, especially a fucking Tory MP, but this guy literally said that the United Kingdom was complicit in Israeli war crimes LAST WEEK. He also claims he was extorted in connection to this three weeks ago. Now considering the noncery the average Tory MP gets away with daily on that godforsaken island, the timing, and how he was immediately arrested and expelled from the party based on an unknown accusation, before charges are even filed... what?? that happens to powerful people over there?

Like I'm freaking the fuck out at this? holy shit they just totally suppressed this guy right? jesus there's probably some fucking Epstein/Maxwell connection involved here too with Israeli and British intelligence services or some shit, idk my brain is melting and I'm going fucking insane with this rn!

BBC journalists 'crying in toilets' over Israel-Gaza output

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23881014.bbc-journalists-crying-toilets-israel-gaza-output/

BBC journalists have allegedly been “crying at work” over the corporation’s “dehumanising” coverage of Palestinians.

Concerns were raised during meeting this week that the BBC had been too lenient on Israel, with staff left crying in toilets and taking time off work over the approach to the conflict.

An email setting out fears that the BBC was “treating Israeli lives as more worthy than Palestinian lives” was sent to Tim Davie, the director-general.

“What Hamas did was atrocious and nobody is excusing its actions, but the mood from a lot of people in the building is that we aren't getting the coverage right,” a source told The Times.

“Staff have been crying in the toilets and freelancers have been sacrificing earnings by not showing up to work because of the distress caused.”

In another email to Davie, Beirut-based correspondent Rami Ruhayem said that he had “the gravest possible concerns” about the output.

“Words like ‘massacre’, ‘slaughter’ and ‘atrocities’ are being used prominently in reference to actions by Hamas, but hardly, if at all, in reference to actions by Israel,” he said.

“Does this not raise the question of the possible complicity of the BBC in incitement, dehumanisation and war propaganda?”

He claimed the BBC was frequently going easy on Israeli officials and allowing them “comfortable airtime”.

“The BBC has taken upon itself in recent years the task of fighting fake news, disinformation, hate speech and such things, a trend in western media,” he said.

“Where is the content analysing the flood of incitement against Palestinians and tracking its impact?”

Journalist John Simpson earlier this week said the BBC has received an almost equal number of complaints about it being biased towards and against Israel.

“People rail at the BBC because they hope they can force it to come down on their side; and when that doesn’t happen — and it’s not going to — they get angrier still,” he wrote in the New Statesman.

Hamas released some tunnel pictures. Notable because this is the first I've seen with vehicles underground.

The only congressmembers who aren't currently endorsing genocide.

Matthew Perry apparently bullied/beat up Justin Trudeau when they were kids, so everyone who laughed about his death here owes him an apology.

Celtic fans defy club to fly Palestine flags inside stadium

Video of them singing "You'll never walk alone" in support of Palestine over on

People with Palestine Action shutting down weapon factories in the UK are braver than the troops.

Although they should really be burning them to the fucking ground

Telegram has blocked Hamas channels on Android because Google forced it to

Hey Google, fuck off.

The IDF used helicopters on the border to provide support for the withdrawal of forces from inside the ambush. A very major event.

Very much sounds like shit went badly and close air support from helicopters was required just to get people the hell out of there.

Erdogan is so goddamn funny, in NATO while recognizing Hamas and invoking the damn crusades. Go off watermelon vendor

Western protesters: We don't support Hamas

🟢 Hamas: — In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

We applaud the masses that demonstrated in American cities and Western capitals in solidarity with Gaza and in rejection of the fascist occupation’s aggression.

We, in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), commend the mass mobilization, marches, and solidarity events that took place yesterday, Saturday, and today, Sunday, in various American cities and Western capitals, denouncing the aggression and genocide waged by the fascist occupation government against the Gaza Strip, now on its twenty-third day. We affirm that these large gatherings express their living conscience in supporting the legitimate rights of our people to freedom and self-determination and denouncing the American and Western support and bias for the occupation.

We renew our call to these free masses and all the free people in the world to continue their movement in solidarity with the Gaza Strip and in support of the justice of our national cause. We urge the escalation of all forms of popular pressure in the coming days to stop the genocide against children and two million Palestinian citizens in the Gaza Strip.

Islamic Resistance Movement - Hamas.

Sunday: 14 Rabi’ al-Akhir 1445 AH Corresponding to: October 29, 2023 AD

From https://t.me/PalestineResist

Say the line Bart!

"The mass shooter was known to authorities for months before he did the massacre."

New: Biden's approval rating hits the lowest point within his own party, dipping 11 points w/ Dems according to a new Gallup poll

Among RVs, he's now at 37 percent

https://nitter.net/HCTrudo/status/1717552904708476962#m

A growing number of reports indicate Israeli forces responsible for Israeli civilian and military deaths following October 7 attack

“The Coordination and Liaison Office was attacked on October 7 together with all the outposts along the division’s line. A large Hamas force seized the adjacent Erez Crossing, which was closed for the Simhat Torah holiday. From there, within minutes and with no resistance, they advanced into the military base, killing and kidnapping the soldiers of the Civil Administration, though a few of them managed to return fire before being hit… Brig. Gen. Rosenfeld entrenched himself in the division’s subterranean war room together with a handful of male and female soldiers, trying desperately to rescue and organize the sector under attack. Many of the soldiers, most of them not combat personnel, were killed or wounded outside. The division was compelled to request an aerial strike against the base itself in order to repulse the terrorists.”

This dry, complimentary description of the high commander, hiding with a few soldiers in an underground bunker and ordering an aerial bombardment of “the base” where his soldiers were fighting against Hamas militants, maybe wounded and maybe taken as prisoners, has a lot to say about the Israeli psyche in these bloody times.

On October 11, Quique Kierszenbaum reported in The Guardian about his tour of Kibbutz Be’eri, a tour organized by the Israeli Army’s propaganda unit. He writes:

“Building after building has been destroyed, whether in the Hamas assault or in the fighting that followed, nearby trees splintered and walls reduced to concrete rubble from where Israeli tanks blasted the Hamas militants where they were hiding. Floors collapsed on floors. Roof beams were tangled and exposed like rib cages.”

In another report in Haaretz in Hebrew (it does not appear to be available in English) on October 11, probably following the same army-guided PR tour, Nir Hasson and Eden Solomon interviewed “Erez, deputy commander of an armored reserve battalion.” He described how he and his tanks unit “fought inside the kibbutz, from house to house, with the tanks.” “We had no choice,” he concludes. Most recently, Nir Hasson returned to Be’eri and interviewed a local resident named Tuval, who was lucky to be away from the kibbutz at the time of the attack but whose partner was killed. In Hasson’s October 20 Haaretz article, he reports:

“His voice trembles when his partner, who was besieged in her home shelter at the time, comes to mind. According to him, only on Monday night and only after the commanders in the field made difficult decisions — including shelling houses with all their occupants inside in order to eliminate the terrorists along with the hostages — did the IDF complete the takeover of the kibbutz. The price was terrible: at least 112 Be’eri people were killed. Others were kidnapped. Yesterday, 11 days after the massacre, the bodies of a mother and her son were discovered in one of the destroyed houses. It is believed that more bodies are still lying in the rubble.”

This quote is important for several reasons; one is because it adds to the understood timeline of events. This testimony would seem to indicate that many Israeli captives were still alive on Monday, October 9, a full two days after the events of Saturday, October 7. While it might be understandable if captives had been killed in the hectic crossfire of an initial Israeli response to the attack on the 7th, this account would seem to indicate that the decision to assault the kibbutz and everyone inside was made as a clear military calculation.

I genuinely cannot imagine what it would be like to be the sole surviving member of my family.

thread (nitter alt) about how Hollywood propaganda has completely broken people's brains about US military capabilities

One of the worst moments in the history of military cinema was the final battle in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Considering that film was heavily supported by the Pentagon, recent events have put a sinister cast on what is facially just an over-the-top action scene. ... an American general in a high-tech command center sees the battle happening on a drone feed and barks out orders to commence the operation. This causes a US Navy armada (including one destroyer mounting a railgun) to magically appear off the Egyptian coast and launch an amphibious assault with LCACs 110 miles up the Nile Delta to Giza to put US Army tanks on the ground and firing on Megatron in what appears to be literally a couple of minutes of in-universe time.

Of course the good guys win, hooray, it's a fun action set-piece in a lowbrow blockbuster. But here's the thing. This entire sequence was vetted and approved by the Public Affairs Office, and the US military was heavily involved with the production - to the point some of the "special effects" in the battle were live tank gun rounds being fired into the set. And yet, apparently, none of the soldiers involved with this thought for a moment to pump the brakes and point out that all of this was ridiculous. How ridiculous? This is a franchise about transforming robots from outer space and somehow the most unrealistic moment in all five movies doesn't even involve them. That cinematic low point instead falls on a depiction of the United States military teleporting its entire joint force enterprise into battle over the course of a literal phone call. And nobody thought to point this out to Michael Bay, probably, because that was exactly the message the Pentagon wanted to send.

And now we have people on this website assuming that the United States can just handwave the kind of military forces out of thin air needed to deter and, if necessary, defeat Iran. Logistics, basing, access, transit times, force correlations, who cares - we've got this. And that is, unfortunately, exactly in line with the Pentagon's most public messaging about its own capabilities. This has seen the US government repeatedly embarrassed and the US public disappointed in recent years when it turns out that American aircraft take days, carriers take weeks and tanks take months to arrive at the crisis of the hour.

I miss the Soviet Union, I 100% bet they would have made the US fuck off and flooded the PFLP with weapons

even just an embargo or something they would have done something unlike the rest of the ones now

Rashida Tlaib almost openly telling people not to vote for Biden in 2024.

Genocide joe really has crammed a huge amount of failure into his 4 year term, and he's not even done.

-complete failure on covid, zero change from trump

-embarrassing defeat by the Taliban on the way out. Obviously that was going to happen after any withdrawal, but hanging all American collaborators out to dry was also really something

-complete failure to both avert and win both the military and economic war with Russia. Nordstream sabotage was effective I suppose

-economic sanctions boomerang on the west and destroy a major ally's economy

-China continues its rise unabated. Turns out sanctioning everyone and everything undermines the effectiveness of sanctions

-Israel caught completely napping, brutal defeat straightaway. That fucking crusader state isn't going to last. Let's see how much more he can fuck it up over the next year

Just fucking incredible

Russia and China veto US-drafted UNSC resolution backing Israeli offensive

Presstv

They are going to show us footage of a tunnel found under a hospital and people are going to pretend it proves something, as if building a bomb shelter under a public building in an area that gets bombed regularly isn't the most obvious thing to do.

Is this true? Can anyone from the UK verify? Because if so... you get what you deserve

Former Israeli ambassador calls Palestinians "inhuman animals" on Sky News. Says he doesn't know why anyone cares and makes no distinction between Palestinian civilians and combatants.

https://streamable.com/6dkipi

These people scare the fuck out of me.

The Zionist entity has begun torturing prisoners to death.

Full article

Chinese fighter jet got within 10 feet of US bomber over South China Sea, US military says

The Chinese pilot “flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner, demonstrated poor airmanship by closing with uncontrolled excessive speed, flying below, in front of, and within 10 feet of the B-52, putting both aircraft in danger of collision,” US Indo-Pacific Command said in a Thursday statement. “We are concerned this pilot was unaware of how close he came to causing a collision.”

"We are concerned this pilot was unaware of how hard he was dunking on us, and hope he finds this footage useful in bragging to his compatriots"

mangopress
"Israel, being threatened by China's dialogue for peace and ceasefire, chose to threaten China by cancelling the China-Israeli joint committee in technology cooperation, limit it's trade with China, provocation in the South China Sea and endanger China's water safety."

A huge number of fuel tankers have accumulated on the border of Iraq and Jordan. Protesters blocking the borders say they will not allow a drop of fuel into Israel.

https://streamable.com/aide5s

Just saw a tweet by a Palestinian asking for the full list of dead published by the Gaza Ministry of Health because he hasn't heard from his family in more than a week.

Thankfully his family isn't on the list.

— 🇱🇧 BREAKING: Hezbollah S.G. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah will give a speech on Friday, November 3rd, 3:00 PM Beirut time

It will be the first time he gives a speech since the start of the war, and it is expected to be unprecedented.

British Radlibs when events are occurring around the globe that could fundamentally reshape the world for decades to come:

British Radlibs when a Tory is caught lying about something:

Jesus Christ, every day I take like ten minutes and go to /r/worldnews to see what they're up to, and I've honestly never seen this level of pure, unmitigated bloodlust on Reddit. This is post-9/11 levels of just the most unhinged islamophobic blood thirst that I've ever seen.

These motherfuckers are mainlining IDF propaganda 24/7, and even the most tepid, timid pushback is downvoted to oblivion and gets dozens of answers that read like absolute fucking demons demanding nothing but the complete annihilation of Gaza. I saw comments implying that all Palestinians support Hamas and are therefore fair game in war, and these comments have thousands of upvotes.

I don't know why I still bother. That site achieves the unthinkable: it is way fucking worse than Twitter.

Fucking Guatemala voted against the UN ceasefire proposal. Fucking America worshipping cucks. We have the fourth highest Palestinian population in the Americas and yet our US-led government can't help themselves from following whatever Daddy tells them to do. A ceasefire is the bare minimum and even that was too much for you.

Arbenz please come back from the dead or have your spirit passed on to someone ffs

It’s so easy to support Palestine when it’s under attack by Israel. Everyone who today is shedding tears for Gaza was a couple weeks ago calling for blood going “Israel has a right to defend itself.” Well they got what they wanted, they should be celebrating. One would hope this would cause some self-reflection in westerners but we all know it won’t, in fact this is a situation that is desired in those same westerners. They are happy to support opponents of imperialism when those opponents are being killed off and displaced and on the run, but they can never support those opponents of imperialism when they are actually materially threatening imperialism.

Desperately trying to convince liberals that the only moral and practical options for opposing Hamas is to either directly by force stopping the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, or by creating and funding a 100% morally correct and non-antisemitic militia, giving them superior arms and materiel, and then supporting them in a campaign of military violence in freeing Palestine from ethnic cleansing, therefore depriving Hamas of legitimacy and role as primary armed resistance to Israel.

And of the two the former is obviously the more practical.

Liberals have to undergo a Brainectomy as part of the initiation into their cult

Something tells me that the death of Israel just started tonight

Large scale nationalization is happening all across Russia. Saw this on telegram and decided to look them up:

The court returned the Dalnegorsk GOK to the state, September 27, 2023

Dalnegorsky GOK is the only producer of boric acid in Russia. According to the authorities, the enterprise is one of the leading industrial enterprises in Primorye. In the first half of the year, more than 480,000 tons of ore were mined here, which is 36% more than in the same period in 2022.

The Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit against the Fininvest company to declare the results of the privatization on August 2 illegal. On August 8, at the request of the prosecutor's office, 100% of the shares in the authorized capital of Dalnegorsky GOK LLC were seized as part of interim measures.

The main stake in Perm-based Metafrax Chemicals will be transferred to Russia, September 8, 2023

The Arbitration Court of the Perm Territory satisfied the demands of the Prosecutor General's Office to seize in favor of the state the main stake in the Perm enterprise Metafrax Chemicals, which was privatized in the 90s, producing methanol, said regional arbitration judge Tatyana Morozova.

The defendant pointed out the incomparability of the Soviet plant, the cost of which was estimated at 370 million rubles before the denomination, with the modern complex in Gubakha, its price is 116 billion rubles: “the objects are incommensurable in quality and cost terms.” The defendant drew attention to the statute of limitations: the prosecutor’s office had the opportunity to declare the illegality of “privatization” from 1994 to the 2000s. “The state has been saying for 30 years that everything is fine. Well, you can’t say after 30 years that the cow has fed up the bull,” the defender of the Metaholding company concluded his speech.

NOOO YOU CAN’T JUST SEIZE THE PLANT THAT I BOUGHT OFF CHEAP WHEN THE USSR FELL, YOU NEVER SAID IT WAS ILLEGAL BEFORE AND NOW THAT IT’S VALUED AT HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF RUBLES, YOU JUST CAME IN AND TOOK IT AWAY!!!

The Federal Property Management Agency became the owner of 100% of Volzhsky Orgsintez, September 21, 2023 (Volzhsky Orgsintez is one of the largest chemical factories in Europe)

Information about the new owner was entered on September 20. Previously, 100% of the shares of Volzhsky Orgsintez belonged to Alexander Sobolevsky.

In August, the Arbitration Court of the Volgograd Region satisfied the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office against Sobolevsky to claim 100% of the company's shares in favor of the state. In favor of the state, ordinary shares of the joint-stock company with a par value of 0.2 rubles each in the amount of 2,344,925 were to be credited.

The contract for the sale of the bankrupt Perm defense plant was terminated, August 22, 2023

The agreement was concluded on May 22, 2023, the transaction amount was 725 million rubles. The new owner of the defense enterprise announced plans to modernize the plant's production . The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation challenged the results of the auction by filing a corresponding application with the court as part of the bankruptcy case. The courts of first and appellate instances rejected the claims. As a result, the contract between the defense plant and the Moscow company was terminated pre-trial.

Concern "Pokrovsky" confiscated for corruption proceeds of its beneficiary, October 25, 2023

At the suit of Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Tkachev, the property of Andrei Korovayko, Arkady Chebanov, as well as related structures of the Pokrovsky concern, one of the large agro-industrial holdings in Russia, was confiscated. In total, 94 enterprises with a total value of 100 billion rubles were donated to the state. The case concerns shares and shares of JSC Concern Pokrovsky, agricultural firms Rus, Dolzhanskaya, Urozhaynaya, Rassvet, Mostovskaya, Rodina, the Kanevskoy meat and poultry plant, and the Pavlovsky meat processing plant. and "Tikhoretsky", Kanevsky, Timashevsky and Kurganinsky sugar factories, Albashsky, Stepnyansky and Staroshcherbinovsky elevators, as well as numerous trading and service companies.

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At first I thought this smells like election season, but the weird part is that none of these moves were advertised loudly. Dozens of news like these are silently happening in the background.

Russia is such a weird country. It’s almost as if two separate factions are running the country.

You have on the one side the willingness to nationalize industries under state control, and on the other side you have the libs preparing for privatization of state assets to patch up the budget deficit.

You have a government that is willing to spend a huge amount of money to keep the economy going, and on the other side you have the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank that doing everything they can to reverse all these efforts by raising interest rates at the snap of a finger.

It’s such a weird country I don’t even know what’s going on anymore.

2913 dead Palestinian children in 18 days, 5 times more than dead Ukrainian/Russian children in 20 MONTHS. This is insane.

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They say anything they can to avoid saying the IDF is doing it. "What's happening in Gaza right now is a massive casualty event." MSNBC's reporter in southern Israel just said that.

Praying that the IDF gets fucking crushed

I expect hexbear to receive collective royalties for coining GenocideJoe, if not, then I will write a very strongly worded letter to The News

It's so cool how the zionist government of israel is just this rabid dog that murders everything and the USA is it's demonic handler.

President Biden said he had “no confidence” in the claims by Palestinians about the number of civilians who have been killed in Gaza during the last two weeks. The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza said more than 6,500 people have been killed by Israeli airstrikes since Oct. 7, a number which could not be independently verified.

“I have no notion that Palestinians are telling the truth about how many people are killed,” Biden said. “I’m sure innocents have been killed. And that’s the price of waging a war.” He added, “I have no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using.”

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/25/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/4cbfd597-2e43-5a81-b7da-496479c309aa?smid=url-share

Example of the fake rubbish out there that I avoid posting here lmao:

From the Hebrew website: Colonel Yair Shalam, Israel commander of the attack on the Bureij camp in Gaza, was captured by the Palestinian resistance!!!

For those that don't know. This dude is Herzi Halevi and he's literally the highest ranking person in the IDF. Extremely obviously and easily verifiable fake post that is getting reshared by massive numbers of accounts.

⚡️BREAKING: #Israeli army spokesman told ABC News: The expanded operations underway in #Gaza now are not the official ground invasion

I call bullshit. They could say this every single night while continually making it bigger and bigger until they're effectively in an operation that's normalised without ever saying it. Salami slice escalation.

Other actors need to act, and act now.

God I hate this conflict so much. It's all one sided negative news. I don't feel the energy to read it because it's so depressing.

Unclear? Israel did it.

The cause of phone and internet outages in Gaza remains unclear, experts say.

It was unclear on Saturday whether a widespread communications outage in the Gaza Strip was because strikes had damaged cellular infrastructure or because Israel had deliberately cut Palestinian service, experts said.

[Continues]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/28/world/israel-gaza-war-hamas-news/the-cause-of-phone-and-internet-outages-in-gaza-remains-unclear-experts-say?smid=url-share

we really need to come up with a better expression than "braver than the troops" because most (Western, at least) troops are utter cowards who piss themselves if they aren't backed up by frequent bomber raids and dozens of various high-tech gizmos. it's sorta like saying "warmer than liquid nitrogen." not a hard bar to pass

Bear with me on this one news heads.

The first time I used marijuana and actually got high was a long time ago when I was a teen. I was with a couple friends of mine and we walked to a little cove on the beach, a ways down into a public park. We smoked a joint at the cove, chilled for a few, and then walked back home. Walking back, it really hit me. I vividly remember the feeling of being high for the first time. I felt as though every single moment I was waking up from a dream, like every step and heartbeat was spent piercing the veil between sleep and waking life. It was a feeling of constant transition, where the past was only ever a flicker out of the corner of my eye, and any future, even just 10 steps down the path, was unimaginable. I could focus only on the singular instant in which I existed. It wasn't that the past and the future were hard to fathom, it's that they did not exist.

I am describing this feeling now to the news thread because I believe that this way of being that I experienced as a minor using weed for the first time is a close analogue for how liberals experience and understand history. Just an infinite sequence of individual, disconnected moments, no past or present, only smooth vibes.

A missile fell on a major electrical transformer in the eastern Tel Aviv area, leading to a widespread power outage.

a dozen more lucky shots like that and then we might be really getting somewhere

Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard: If the Zionists launch a ground attack in Gaza, they will be buried there

An image of Hamas fighters geared up like IOF.