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"Leftist" subreddits stop dickriding James O'Brien because he just about acknowledges Palestinians as humans despite spending years calling anyone left of Ed Miliband an antisemite challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

Those hostage posters are legit bait to get people to rip them down and film them doing so

Anyone else get struck with the feeling that any time we spend doing things OTHER than talking about the Genocide in Gaza is a moral failing in a sense? Like an understandable one because we have human limits, but still like. Any time I as an American spend not opposing my country's complicity in it especially?

Brazil's Workers Party (Lula's Party) slams Israel for holding Brazilians in Gaza

BRASILIA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Brazil's ruling Workers Party criticized the Israeli government on Friday for not allowing 34 Brazilians to leave Gaza, saying Israel is playing favorites when deciding who should be allowed to evacuate the besieged Palestinian territory.

Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen told his Brazilian counterpart Brazil's nationals would leave Gaza by Wednesday, a Brazilian foreign ministry spokesman said late on Friday.

In three days since the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt opened to allow nationals of other countries to leave Gaza, Brazilians waiting to leave were not on the list approved by Israel, despite diplomatic efforts to include them.

"For the third time, the Israeli government denied the departure of Brazilian citizens threatened by the massacre against the civilian population in the Gaza strip," Workers Party president Gleisi Hoffmann said in a social media post.

She said the Israeli government has not provided any explanation for what she said was discrimination. Brazil tried to find a negotiated solution to the conflict when it presided over the U.N. Security Council in October, Hoffmann said.

"Unfortunately, the Israeli government signals that it has established a political hierarchy for the release of civilians, favoring some countries over others," Hoffmann said.

"We cannot allow that Brazilian civilians remain threatened in a region under military massacre," she added.

Hundreds of foreign passport holders and gravely injured Palestinians have been evacuated from Gaza via the Rafah crossing to Egypt since Wednesday in a deal brokered by Qatar between Egypt, Israel and Hamas, in coordination with the U.S.

Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas, which rules Gaza, after the militant group killed 1,400 people and took more than 240 hostages in an Oct. 7 assault in southern Israel. Gaza health officials said on Saturday that more than 9,488 Palestinians have been killed so far in the Israeli assault.

A diplomatic source briefed on Egyptian plans said some 7,500 foreign passport holders would be evacuated over two weeks.

Brazilian officials said they have no explanation for the failure to let their citizens out of Gaza. Some local media have speculated it is due to positions taken by Brazil at the United Nations and comments by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

Lula has criticized the "terrorism" of Hamas that started the war, but he has also criticized Israel for its "insane" bombardment of Gaza that has killed hundreds of children.

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They're going to bomb the hospital. It's just a matter of time.

Palestinian Red Cross Society says as heavy artillery and airstrikes hit near Al-Quds Hospital in Gaza

The Al-Quds hospital trembled following heavy “artillery and airstrikes" in the surrounding Tal Al Hawa neighborhood of Gaza City, the Palestinian Red Cross Society said early Tuesday morning local time.

Those sheltering inside the hospital are “experiencing fear and panic,” the Palestinian Red Cross Society said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.

Some 12,000 internally displaced civilians are sheltering at the hospital, group said on Sunday.

The Israeli military did not have an immediate comment on reports of activity in the area.

The Al-Quds hospital is located north of Wadi Gaza — the line south of which Israel has urged people in Gaza to flee.

In central Gaza, journalist Hassan Eslayeh told CNN that artillery fire in the area was consistent all day and night Monday.

He witnessed the injured and dead being brought to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, including 31 bodies at the morgue tent that were being prepared for a morning prayer on the dead.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-10-30-23/h_724a9ff6db1e5659a4c80ba90e41d522

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.

Bernie - where the fuck are you?

Democrats grow nervous over Israel's conduct in Gaza as Senate leader vows not to consider House security bill - as it happened | Democrats | The Guardian

Yesterday, 13 Democratic senators released a joint statement calling for “a short-term cessation of hostilities” in the Gaza Strip, with the goal of getting aid to civilians and releasing hostages taken by Hamas.

The letter was signed by

• Cory Booker
• Tammy Duckworth
• Dick Durbin
• Chris Van Hollen
• Tim Kaine
• Ed Markey
• Jeff Merkley
• Chris Murphy
• Jeanne Shaheen
• Tina Smith
• Mark Warner
• Elizabeth Warren
• Peter Welch

this conflict would be way more bleak if china hadn't orchestrated the ceasefire in Yemen and detente between the saudis and iran

What if there was a Herzbollah and it was just for the gals?

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

this is one of the craziest things I’ve ever seen from a modern conflict. this is something you’d see Speirs in Band of Brothers do and then wonder how much they embellished from the Easy Company book because you can’t believe anyone could just do this

Felix really has a way of embodying my thoughts, cause that Speirs comparison is on point

i took trigonometry in high school but it was during covid so i didn’t learn shit but i’m taking it again in college and it’s blowing my mind how connected math is to everything, specifically music with how the graph of something like y=cos(theta) is a sine wave. and that’s something i can hear! i’ve listened to songs today with sine wave synths in them! and all that shit comes from shapes and triangles!!!!

Matt Christman and Nasrallah have both been extremely quiet lately, other than posting cryptic messages

If my boy's speech doesn't finish with 10000 rockets being launched at Haifa I don't want to hear it

The editorial board of the Financial Times has officially come out in favour of a ceasefire. It also rightly criticises the Biden admin over their rejection of Palestinian death tolls.

Sorry, no Nitter link as non of the instances I use seem to be able to find it.

Can't stop watching the video of the guy running up to that tank. Legit one of the most insane things I've ever seen.

I’ve been going on Reddit and arguing with people today … Somebody help me. Make me stop

I like Björk. When I hear her album Vespertine, I think “yes”. When she posts, I also think “yes”.

Princess Bubblegum is a liberal who felt guilty about creating the Earl of Lemongrab, and when she found him intolerable, instead of facing the struggle of integrating him into her candy society, she gave him an ethnostate. In this essay, I will...

US congressman suggests there are no ‘innocent Palestinian civilians’

US Congressman Brian Mast has suggested that there are no “innocent” Palestinians in the conflict with Israel.

“I would encourage the other side to not so lightly throw around the idea of innocent Palestinian civilians,” Mast, a Florida Republican, said in a speech on the House floor. “I don’t think we would so lightly throw around the term innocent Nazi civilians.”

Mast previously wore an Israeli army uniform to Capitol Hill in a show of support for Israel.

The congressman’s remarks come as rights advocates have been decrying the ongoing “dehumanisation” of Palestinians by US politicians.

Arab-American activists also have warned that such rhetoric leads to hate against their communities at home in the US. Last month, a six-year-old Palestinian American boy was stabbed to death near Chicago in a suspected hate crime.

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Military spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, Abu Ubaida:

• Our fighters continue to confront the Israeli occupation forces on various fronts of Zionist incursion.
• We have destroyed a total of equal to a tank battalion [~40 tanks] along the advancement routes, in less than 48h
• We successfully maneuvered behind enemy lines and launched an attack from point-blank.
• We executed a counteroffensive this evening in the northwest of Gaza City, where we destroyed 6 tanks and 2 military vehicles, in just 1 hour.
• The number of casualties is significantly higher than what the enemy's leadership has announced.

He also mentioned that the enemy is lying and that the resistance can fight for many years and hold its positions.

U.N. human rights lawyer resigns, criticizes the agency and calls the Israeli strikes in Gaza ‘genocide.’

The director of the New York office of the United Nations’ human rights agency has resigned, accusing the U.N. in a sharply worded letter of abandoning its own principles and international law, and of failing to stop Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza, which he called a “genocide.”

The former director, Craig Mokhiber, a human rights lawyer, wrote in the letter dated Oct. 28: “I write at a moment of great anguish for the world, including for many of our colleagues. Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it.”

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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/31/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news/un-human-rights-lawyer-resigns-criticizes-the-agency-and-calls-the-israeli-strikes-in-gaza-genocide?smid=url-share

Ukraine's Counteroffensive Isn't Going As Well As Many Had Hoped. The Prognosis Isn't Great, Either.

I never thought there will be Russian shills working for Radio Free Europe!

Professional opnionhavers have the worst fuckin opinions. Look at Friedman, the dumb fuck. I have way better opinions than the entire editorial board of the NYT and spread them for free in a bar at three in the morning to anyone who will listen

Looks like Celtic's green brigade is getting suspended. It's for "safety" reasons and totally not because of their Palestine support.

Old Reddit Link

British establishment strongly condemns calls for armistice on Armistice Day

A lot of strong opinions have been voiced here the last couple weeks by people who have never been close to any military strategy or planning lmao

The US special envoy David Satterfield said on Saturday that between 800,000 and 1 million people have moved to the south of the Gaza Strip, while 350,000-400,000 remain in the north of the enclave.

- Guardian

It's amazing that some people look at the reality and they don't see it as ethnic cleansing.

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Protracted otter's war against Amerikkka SSurfers

doing that thing I do where I drink and watch hamas videos, then when I'm pretty drunk start watching videos about how to say the shahada because hamas videos are so hype

Hezbollah is yet to form a Juggalo division, so I will be remaining in the US until further notice.

Kinda surprised I haven’t seen any crazy shit from Kanye West during all this