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Al Arabi:

Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, and Morrocco rejected the draft proposal for an oil ban and banning the US from using the Arabic airspace to deliver arms or bombs to other countries in the region.

Kinda mixed feelings about this; I think it is genuinely important to get these countries on the record for supporting the Zionists in front of everybody so that the Resistance has something to point to if/when (probably when at this point) a full-on regional war breaks out, but only if it actually like, leads to actions and consequences, and isn't just the feckless Western politics shit of "look at how awful these politicians are for supporting X!" and then literally nothing happens for years. I'm not necessarily saying that Ansarallah should start dronestriking the oil refineries of Gulf States that side with Israel, but I'm not not saying that either.

I think the problem Iran is having is that it wants to be the regional power in the region and take down Israel, or at the very least have a kind of multipolar-ish arrangement that obviously requires Israel removed from the equation to function, and so is trying to do the Reasonable Adult thing of doing diplomatic visits and negotiations and such - but it's going to hit a brick wall because a lot of the states it needs to convince are Zionist-aligned. This diplomatic approach is also pretty much mutually exclusive with various Resistance countries/factions starting shit up: nobody in the upper echelons of Saudi Arabia is going to think that Iran has nothing to do with Yemen hitting infrastructure, if it comes to that.

As others have said, it feels very much like the lead-up to WW1, where nobody really wants to fight it - not Israel (the Samson option might kill everybody else but will still leave itself destroyed), not the US, not Syria, not Saudi Arabia, not Iran, not China, not Russia - but it feels like there's just no conceivable diplomatic way out of it because Israel is in such a frothing genocidal frenzy at having their monopoly on violence taken down by Gaza and they're desperate to re-assert it, even if it means sniping children inside hospitals which has obviously no military value. And it took 37 days for the major powers to get drawn in to WW1 and we are 35 days since October 7th, and Israel continues to idiotically march its army into the killing grounds of Gaza City.

Maybe the current PM of Japan made some guy mad about his dealings with Israel

Assad and Iran both going to Saudi Arabia for a summit. Sounds potentially spicy? Can Saudi Arabia be pressured into being marginally more cool?

by slammer on twitter

Emphasis mine.

AP: The Iran-backed militant groups, who in Iraq operate mainly under the name Islamic Resistance, have carried out nearly 50 attacks since 17 October on bases housing US personnel in Iraq and Syria. According to the Pentagon, about 56 US personnel have been injured in the attacks in Syria and Iraq, but all have returned to duty. Their injuries are a combination of traumatic brain injury and minor wounds.

- The Guardian

Have the Israel MIC and the American MIC outsourced a large part of their propaganda to the same crappy firm with a name like PetraeusConsulting? A lot of media reports are odd.

I edited the update so the notable part is first.

Hamas spokesmen have denied Israeli forces had made major advances. Senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad told Al Jazeera television:

I challenge [Israel] if it has been able, to this moment, to record any military achievement on the ground other than killing civilians.

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Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed dozens of Hamas commanders as troops advance deeper into the battered territory, with some fighting in “the heart of Gaza City”, Israel Defence Forces (IDF) officials and analysts have said.

However, there were doubts over the importance of the dead commanders within Hamas, and analysts said there was no obvious sign that the organisation had yet been significantly weakened.

Analysts said the mission of the Israeli armed forces is to kill all the senior leaders of Hamas to destroy its capacity to pose any future threat. Dr Michael Milstein, a Hamas expert at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, said:

Right now the IDF is trying to translate the terms ‘erasing’ or ‘crushing’ Hamas into concrete results, so that means destroying all military infrastructure and killing leaders, not just the heads of brigade, field commanders and so on but also the members of the political bureau too.

- The Guardian

Love to see three soldiers lined up together in a balcony shooting at empty buildings: https://nitter.cz/AryJeay/status/1722926827046367694

🟢 Martyr Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades: — Al-Qassam Brigades confront the infiltrating forces northwest of Beit Lahia and destroy a number of vehicles. https://streamable.com/w2b2zn

Three litres – average daily water allocation in Gaza

Even before the war, Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip were reeling from a chronic water shortage and a fragile water and sanitation system.

With virtually no potable water, people relied on a polluted and rapidly depleting aquifer. They also purchased water, accessed it from wells or got it through the few desalination plants, as well.

But those were not enough to cover the needs of Gaza’s 2.3 million people. According to the WHO, between 50 and 100 litres of water per person per day are needed.

Now, the UN’s health agency puts the average daily allocation in Gaza at just three litres for their daily needs, which include drinking and hygiene.

-Al Jazeera

Does anyone have a running count of the amount of merkava tanks that have been destroyed so far?

Slovenia: Hundreds Rally Calling for Peace in Gaza

People observed a minute of silence in memory of over 10,000 victims of the Israeli bombing.

On Thursday evening, people gathered in downtown Ljubljana in support of the civilians under attack in Gaza, calling for an end to the violence in the Middle East.

"We are witnessing how Gaza is becoming a graveyard. With the bombing of Gaza, violence is also escalating in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem," a representative of the organizers said in the capital of Slovakia.

People demanded respect for international law and the equality of all people. They urged that Slovenia, who will be a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2024-2025, should do everything in its power to respect humanitarian law and human rights.

The rally started at Preseren Square, marched towards the U.S. Embassy building and ended at Republic Square.

The demonstrators observed a minute of silence in memory of over 10,000 victims of the Israeli bombing, and chanted slogans in support of Palestinians during the rally.

Since the Israeli bombing of Gaza began on October 7, millions of people around the world have been carrying out various acts in solidarity with the Palestinian people and condemning the genocide that Israel is carrying out with impunity.

"A Moroccan rally against Genocide in Gaza evolves into a protest in front of the French Embassy in Tangier," Khaled Beydoun, a law professor, reported on Thursday night.

Can someone explain why every leftist (online and on the streets) seems to support PFLP but not DFLP? Did DFLP do something bad, or is it that DFLP just isn't doing enough in their eyes? DFLP is also part of the Democratic Alliance List with PFLP, supports a one-state solution, and the Omar Al-Qasim Forces (their militant wing) have been active alongside the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades (PFLP's militant wing) in storming IDF watchtowers and fighting the IOF. And the DFLP doesn't have any recent history of massacres at synagogues or killing teenagers... Yet I never hear any support for them, see their flags at marches, etc.

Also, noting PSL being accused of opportunism yesterday, can someone explain the beef between PSL and FRSO? Is it ideological or just personal drama?

I am pretty plugged out so please forgive me if these questions sound like attacks.

If an enterprising regional Resistance group were feeling courageous and looking to at least temporarily hobble the Israeli war machine, one might look towards hijacking a container ship that is entering the Suez and engineering another Ever Given incident, blocking the Suez. Israel's main crude import terminal in Ashkelon has been closed since the start of the conflict, meaning it is relying on the Eilat oil import terminal. 60% of Israel's crude oil comes from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan by way of the Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, with most of the rest of those imports coming from West Africa. Normally, the oil would be put onto tankers in Ceyhan in Turkey or in West Africa and shipped by sea to Ashkelon, where it would then be sent by pipeline to Ashdod or Haifa for refining. With the port of Ashkelon closed, the oil has to be sent through the Suez to Eilat, to then be sent by pipeline to Ashdod and Haifa. With the Suez blocked, the oil would have to go all the way around Africa to get to Eilat, which would delivery increase time and shipping costs.

The downside is that this would piss off the US, Israel, Egypt, Europe, and probably a bunch of GCC nations, so it would have to be done by a group that is already not on good terms with them.

I made a very stupid YouTube short - 'Hamas' Bernie vs 'KHHHamas' Bernie

I was joking at first, but I really think I'm onto something with this theory

I hate youtube. this dumbass short with text that's barely even legible on mobile (which I realized afterwards) I made in like 10 minutes got more views than the videos that took me hours of effort.

Three babies have died in the neonatal unit of Gaza's largest hospital, which is surrounded and "out of service" following persistent Israeli fire in the vicinity, according to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health. Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, director-general of the Ministry of Health, estimated on Saturday that 400 people were being treated at the hospital, with around 20,000 displaced people seeking shelter in the complex.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-11-23/h_7ec81e52f17d81c1e0ab0da498b52a7a

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Dozens of babies at risk in Al-Shifa hospital

Back to Gaza itself now - where Palestinian health officials have said the lives of dozens of babies are at risk in Al-Shifa hospital after fuel ran out and caused operations to be halted.

Earlier, a surgeon inside the hospital told the BBC that water, fuel and electricity had all run out, and people were trapped inside due to constant bombardment. Israel has claimed its enemy Hamas is using the hospital for its military purposes - something Hamas denies.

The exact number of babies at risk in the neo-natal unit is unclear. The Gazan health ministry, run by Hamas, reports 45. Meanwhile, the Palestinian health ministry in the separate West Bank ministry says it's 39.

What seems clear is that there are dozens of newborns requiring urgent care that is currently impossible.

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More than 180,000 join marches against anti-Semitism in France

More than 180,000 people across France, including tens of thousands in Paris, have joined marches to condemn a surge in anti-Semitism amid Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.

As of Saturday, the interior minister said there had been 1,247 anti-Semitic acts since the war began on October 7, nearly three times as many as in the whole of 2022.

lol clown country

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This Intercept article is the most depressing thing I have read about Gaza.

I Joined Gaza's Trail of Tears And Displacement

After weeks of reporting on Israel's war from Gaza City, I was one of thousands of Palestinians who fled south on Friday.

This...

To our right were four soldiers standing in front a bombed-out building, posing and taking selfies on the rubble.

...gives me a special kind of rage.

Israel's Propaganda Campaign (Nov 6, 2023)

Israel spending millions on social media propaganda ads targeting Western nations (Oct 22, 2023)

The campaign explicitly targeted France, Germany, and the United Kingdom among other nations, releasing a total of 88 ads in a short span from October 7 to October 19.

Geographically, the propaganda was heavily skewed towards Europe, with nearly 50 video ads in the English language directed at European Union countries.

Some videos would appear and disappear from the ad centre intermittently, suggesting a possible violation of YouTube’s ad guidelines.

Ads ranged from depicting severe forms of violence to playing lullabies against a backdrop of a rainbow, pleading with parents to empathize with those whose children had been killed during attacks on Israel.

An actual video from Hezbollah - as opposed to the amateur hype trailers made by people who aren't Hezbollah, for one reason or another, which has so frequently brought people's hopes up before crashing again. ATGM attacks, drone attacks, ambushes with tunnels, sniper attacks, etc.

Can we take a second and appreciate how big YouTubers like MrBeast are supporting Palestinians in every way possible like posting a single tweet?

Mutahar known as SomeOrdinaryGamers tweeted:

I pray for the people of Gaza :(

This is beyond scary.

penguinz0 also known as MoistCr1TiKaL uploaded videos titled This Man Is Fighting Israel with Music and This Lady Just Stopped Israel.

I believe we should support them by buying their merchs like MrBeast Palestine T-shirt as they send aid to Palestinians: We Gave $3,000,000 of Aid to Palestinian Refugees!

PS: I am not saying they should do these charitable acts because they are famous and influential but I don't like to see their efforts go unappreciated.

Former Polish President Lech Walesa said that, according to his information, terrorist attacks are being prepared in Poland after the elections

“Not everything in Poland ended with elections. I have information that a number of events are planned, including those of a terrorist nature. The party that lost the elections is capable of anything not to give up power,” Walesa wrote on Facebook.

"A number of activities are planned, including of a terrorist nature. The losing side of the election is capable of anything not to give up power," - wrote Walesa in social networks.

The former Polish President said that he would soon send a statement to law enforcers "on the commission of a crime." He said he hoped they would "quickly and efficiently catch these losers."

PIS terrorism

new video of IOF getting owned by IEDs just dropped