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I got to shake will menakers hand at the movie mindset show for Halloween 3. I didn’t really know what to say other then I liked the pod bc I got nervous but man what a nice guy.

The Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, General Eric M. Smith has been Hospitalized since last night, October 29th, due to a currently Unknown Medical Emergency; because of this Lieutenant General Karsten Heckl, the Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration and the Commanding General for Marine Corps Combat Development Command is the now the Acting-Commandant of the Marine Corps and will remain so until General Smith can return to Active Duty and/or a New Commandant is chosen by U.S. President Biden.

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Reuters: The Bolivia government cuts diplomatic relations with Israel

500,000 trapped in ‘siege within a siege’ in north Gaza: Oxfam

The charity organisation has said it gravely concerned for about 500,000 Palestinians – as well as the over 200 Israeli and other national Hamas-held captives – currently trapped in a “siege within a siege” in northern Gaza.

The organisation said Israeli forces have a “near-complete stranglehold on Gaza City and the northern region, effectively cutting the enclave in half from the border wall to the sea”.

“We are sharing resources with ten other families. The markets almost empty. There’s no fresh food across all the city. We depend on canned food. The bread markets have no electricity and only a limited amount of fuel – one day, two days, five days – we don’t know,” Oxfam humanitarian worker Alhasan Swairjo via a voice-note from Gaza City, according to Oxfam.

“We are making bread at home but don’t know in next few days if we will have enough cooking gas. Our children are suffering, they don’t understand why we moved, why Israel is shooting us. We cannot give a good explanation why all this is happening. Now we’re fighting to survive, our children are fighting to survive,” Swairjo said.

Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is rising sharply.

Attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are surging, with at least 115 killed, more than 2,000 injured and nearly 1,000 others forcibly displaced from their homes because of violence and intimidation by Israeli forces and settlers since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, according the United Nations.

Among the dead are 33 children, according to an update on Sunday from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which has been tracking the conflicts.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/world/middleeast/west-bank-settlers-palestinians-violence.html?smid=url-share

Turkey and azerbaijan be like: we stand with our palestine brothers, which is why we are shipping secretly cursed oil to israel and buying weapons systems. Our curses grow stronger by the day

An MSNBC reporter just described the slaughter at the Jabalia refugee camp as a "mass casualty event". I guess that will be the American media's generic go-to term for Israeli behavior in Gaza. I wonder what term they'll use in the West Bank. I don't think it'll be "mass casualty event" because it seems to me the media likes that term to describe allies acting in war zones. And they don't want Americans to think of Israeli actions in the West Bank has being warlike.

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Ghouls everywhere.

An MSNBC military guy (Jack Jacobs) just said that's possible that what happened in Jabalia might have been due to an Israeli airstrike with possibly a bunker busting bomb or it could have been caused by munitions stored underground. He said "There's no way to know."

If you live in France and you're not out tonight destroying the C at one of the 74 Chamas Tacos locations in preparation for tomorrow's big speech, I'm not sure we can still be friends

Blessed oakland comrades

Protesting in port, its still going on

Is the Nasrallah speech on Friday really expected to be that big a deal? When it first came up, I didn't think too much about it considering it was scheduled an entire week away. Surely if it was that important, they'd want to put it out ASAP, right? My assumption was that it'd just be Nasrallah summarizing the situation, giving another strongly worded denouncement of Israel, and then business as usual.

Something going on with the Iron Dome Interceptors. Maybe it's a bad batch or maybe the system is being defeated in a new unique way but this video shows 2 interceptors launching then immediately flying straight into the ground. The second can be seen in the background.

https://streamable.com/g5un26

incredible

Hearing that there's a very large pro-Palestine protest in Manchester UK on going right now

Edit: MEN reporting at least a thousand people in city centre

I had the idea to make a meme with a bunch of IDF dorks and a Merkava lost in Blackreach with the caption being like "The IDF proves incapable of conducting tunnel warfare" and one of the soldiers is saying something like "how the fuck did we end up in black-reach again?" but I don't have the focus to actually make it right now so y'all are just going to have to imagine.

The #Yemeni Ansar Allah movement published a poster hinting at a possible attack on the American fleet!!

Israel might be targeting UNRWA facilities, former UN official says

Former UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness pointed to the fact that more than 70 UNRWA staff have been killed and more than 40 facilities have been hit by Israeli strikes.

“Whether or not UNRWA is being targeted, I can’t answer that, but the fact is UNRWA staff are being killed, [and] UNRWA facilities are being hit,” he said.

“They [the Israeli military] know the GPS coordinates. Draw your own conclusions.”

Missed this Merkava video earlier today, thank you for mentioning it Rybar.

Video of Merkava getting wrecked by a Yassin anti tank missile.

https://streamable.com/1k6ajl

Russian communist talks about her visit to Rome:

Haven’t been to the Eternal City, I'm ashamed to say, for almost 10 months! It's a big mess. Let's make up for it.

Rome is still the same. We go to a cell phone store to buy a SIM card. Behind the counters are hot Apennine guys.

• “Russians?… Come on, don't wait in line. Hey, we love Putin!”
• “But we don't,” we mutter gloomily through clenched teeth and skip the line.

We go to the cafeteria for coffee and pistachio cake.

• “Russians? Allora, let's swap, take Meloni, give us Putin! We want Putin to be our prime minister!”
• “Yes, take Putin,” I say, “but we don't give a shit about your Meloni....”

So have the Houthis actually declared war? I've been seeing that they have.

Police said a gyrocopter crashed onto a private property on Snipey Road in Goulburn Weir — close to Nagambie and about 150 kilometres north of Melbourne — about 7:15am.

hamas has breached the victorian border, shelter-in-place warnings have been issued

I wish I spoke more languages

there is now footage coming out of leopards and bradleys being destoryed around avdeevka and kupyansk. Ukrainian military is transferring their western equipped divisions to other directions. I think we can say now that ukrainian zapo offensive is officially over

I'm unsubbing from Bernie's emails. His latest resistance to occupation = terrorism and "humanitarian pause" pandering two state bullshit is the last straw.

How are they goihg to split the baby Bernie? You think the fascist fanatics that rule Israel will give Palestinians a fair deal, give them their land back? You think they'll drop the settlements and the blockades and go home?

People in office need to understand these are the natives fighting back against their oppressors.

51 killed in Israeli attack on Maghazi refugee camp: WAFA

The Palestinian news agency WAFA is reporting that 51 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in Israel’s latest bombardment on Gaza’s Maghazi refugee camp.

Earlier we reported that two residential houses were largely destroyed in the attack in the attack on the Maghazi refugee camp on Saturday night.

Palestinian telecoms company says ‘all communications and Internet services’ with Gaza cut off

Paltel said there is a “complete interruption” of the services with the Gaza Strip. It said the interruption was caused by “international routes that were previously reconnected being cut off again”. We’ll bring you more updates as soon as we get more information.

-Al Jazeera

We need to organize an hour globally where we all psychically focus on Genocide Joe having a heart attack.

‘Criminal against humanity’: Colombia’s Petro takes aim at Israel

A day after recalling the country’s ambassador, Colombian President Gustavo Petro took to X again condemned Israel in no uncertain terms.

“It’s called Genocide, they do it to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza and take it over,” Petro posted on X, with a picture of victims of the Israeli strikes on the Jabalia refugee camp.

“The head of the state who carries out this genocide is a criminal against humanity,” wrote Petro, Colombia’s first-ever leftist leader. “Their allies cannot talk about democracy.”

The post came hours before Israel’s ministry of foreign affairs called on Colombia and Chile, who also recalled their ambassador, to condemn Hamas.

South America is the only good America

Video of an Israeli armored tractor getting IED'd

A couple tweets by Yanis Varoufakis

Future generations will censure us for letting this happen. The death count has surpassed 10 thousand, mostly children and women. There is not even enough water to wash the wounds of survivors, let alone food, drugs etc. How can anyone sleep at night?

Nitter

"IDF says it carried out airstrike on Gaza ambulance". Can there be a stronger invitation to the International Criminal Court to charge them with war crimes? [Even if the ambulance was carrying a Hamas overlord, bombing it violates the Geneva Convention.]

Nitter

So Hakim put out a video I'm getting around to watching. The first book recommendation led me to verso's site where they have like 6 ebooks for free. I'm sure they can be found as pdf's elsewhere as well but figured I'd mention it.

The ebooks for free:

• Ten Myths About Israel
• The Palestine Laboratory
• Palestine Speaks
• Blaming the Victims
• The Case for Sanctions Against Israel
• The Punishment of Gaza

Israel's Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said on Sunday that dropping a nuclear weapon on the Gaza Strip is "an option", according to Haaretz.

Not even pretending they don’t have nukes now.

Meanwhile in the British gutter press (Mildly NSFW, Tabloid Bullshit):

Very much getting the impression IDF got fucked up hard by this hit and are responding with indiscriminate shelling.

In fact, [Edward] Said was Obama’s English professor at Columbia University. Obama attended many pro-Palestine events when he was younger, and he worked closely with many Palestinian organizers. He was supportive or at the least even-handed. That he capitulated to state interests… shame.

https://twitter.com/humzasayshi/status/1721261641294041410

https://nitter.net/humzasayshi/status/1721261641294041410

What a little fucking rat Obama is.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/89478 video

Benjamin Netanyahu: “Just as the United States would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbor or after the terrorist attack of 9/11. Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas after the horrific attacks of October 7th. The Bible says that there is a time for peace and a time for war. This is a time for war.”

Does someone have a link to that poll showing that Israeli voters overwhelmingly support bombing civilians. I swear it was posted in this thread this week but I can't find it.

EDIT: Nevermind, found it.

https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/israeli-opinions-on-fighting-with-hamas

“They are sending aircraft carriers?! By God, I am proud to be from Gaza”

Chileans are marching though Santiago for Palestine. One chant calls on the Gabriel Boric government to ‘break relations with Israel’.

'A romper, a romper, relación con Israel!'

Chile, Colombia and Honduras have recalled their respective ambassadors in Israel as a means of protest but still maintain relations with Israel. Bolivia is the only country to officially sever relations in the last month. Bolivia have broke relations with Israel.

So this is from almost a year ago, but youtube suggested it to me and I think it's a good reminder that there are a lot of Israelis who are really opposed to the oppression of palestinians. These are truly brave people to stand up against the zionist regime, I have extreme respect for them.

Nasrallah: we will not declare war against Israel until millionare socialist hasan piker says on stream that "Hezbollah will never attack israel again"