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From Naked Capitalism:

...one has to wonder what the latest Blinken round of visits to the Middle East was supposed to accomplish, since all it did was expose our impotence. Even the Financial Times could not hide that the meetings with Netanyahu and then Arab leaders were a train wreck. Netanyahu rejected even any itty bitty ceasefire, branded a humanitarian pause, to get relief in, demanding that Hamas release all hostages first. The fact that Israel has welched or underperformed on its past begrudging promises to let trucks from Egypt in, would make that a non-starter even before getting to Hamas being sure to stick to its position of wanting to trade hostages for Palestinian prisoners. And of course the Arab states are not about to budge. Blinken got a more pointed version of what he was told before.

Antony Blinken faced intense pressure from regional allies to facilitate an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, laying bare the stark gap between US support for Israel and the outrage in Arab capitals over the siege and bombardment of the strip….

Sameh Shoukry, the Egyptian foreign minister, demanded an unconditional ceasefire, a commitment that Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu bluntly rejected after meeting Blinken on Friday.

Blinken had been expected to “brainstorm” with Arab diplomats the future of Gaza, home to 2.3mn Palestinians, after the war ends. Safadi bluntly rejected those talks as premature. “How can we even entertain what will happen in Gaza when we do not know how Gaza will be left?” he asked Blinken. “Are we going to be talking about a wasteland? Are we talking about a whole population reduced to refugees?”

This comes off as the sort of thing someone who had just read classic texts on negotiating trying to put in practice: “Gee, let’s get a dialogue going! Let’s get to ‘Yes’ on some less fraught issues to pave the way for further agreement!” In addition, “brainstorming” is cringemakingly American. You don’t do that with people who are mad at you. You don’t do that in a crisis. Between independent entities, you do not do that at the top level. You have low level people or emissaries float ideas. So why this exercise? The worst is that Biden and Blinken come off as so disconnected from reality that they though they might get someone to accommodate US needs.


Friendly reminder: when commenting about a news event, especially something that just happened, please provide a source of some kind. While ideally this would be on nitter or archived, any source is preferable to none at all given.

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.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.

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.


The Country of the Week is still Lebanon! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.



Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

You're going to have to (hex)bear with me on the update this week. Have you been feeling generally pretty terrible this last month or so? So have I, and doomscrolling and archiving it all is my quasi-job at this point. Not good, folks, more and more people are saying it. I'll get over it eventually.

Links and Stuff


The bulletins site is down.

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can.


Resources For Understanding The War


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.


Telegram Channels

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

Pro-Russian

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

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.


Last week's discussion post.


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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (5 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (4 children)

https://archive.ph/90ukk

Middle East Monitor: Spain ‘neo Nazi’ mercenary among others helping Israel in Gaza

Long story short, per the Spanish newspaper El Mundo, this guy Pedro Diaz Flores who fought with other neo nazis in Ukraine last year, said that he's being paid by Israel now. Flores says that mercenaries are only being used for security support and not directly participating in the fighting. He, personally, is stationed in the Golan Heights. An additional note of context about the history of mercenaries working with the IDF follows:

“We are in charge of the security of the checkpoints and access control on the borders of Gaza and Jordan. There are many PMCs [private military companies] here and they share the work. Traditionally they have guarded border terminals between Eliat and Aqaba,” [Flores] added.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (11 children)

trump-moist And then along came a very powerful leader, you know who that is, and he said, 'no more.' mao-aggro-shining

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trump-who-must-go There’s nobody in Hollywood who can play the role of President Xi. The look, the strength, the voice. xigma-male

trump-drenched Kim Jong-un I have a good relationship with…he’s a tough smart guy kim-drip-too-hard

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

"We found a Mein Kampf book that is in pristine condition in a war zone totally not staged!!!!!"

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

In Gaza, ‘even children think of death’, says resident

Yousri al-Ghoul, a Palestinian political writer, said Israel is committing “ethnic cleansing” in Gaza.

Al-Ghoul left al-Shati refugee camp for Jabalia in northern Gaza.

“We didn’t know where to go,” he told Al Jazeera. Al-Ghoul said he and his family did not make the trip to the south due to safety concerns.

He said people who made it south have told him that Israeli troops set up multiple checkpoints, “killed many and took many as prisoners stole their money, stole their jewellery, everything they have”.

“No place in Gaza is safe,” he said. “We don’t have fuel, we don’t have bakeries, we don’t have bread, we don’t have water.

“Everyone here, even children, think of death.”

-Al Jazeera

Awful. And that's the first I've heard of checkpoints in Gaza.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (6 children)

No Palestinian Authority in post-war Gaza: Netanyahu

Israel’s leader has ruled out a role for the current Palestinian Authority government in Gaza once the war between Israel and Hamas is over.

“There will have to be something else there,” he said when asked whether the PA, which has partial administrative control in the occupied West Bank, may govern Gaza after the war.

“There won’t be a civilian authority that educates their children to hate Israel, to kill Israelis, to wipe out the state of Israel,” Netanyahu said.

- Al Jazeera

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

PRCS says Israel ‘opened fire’ at ICU in al-Quds hospital

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says Israeli forces have opened fire on the intensive care unit at Al-Quds hospital in Gaza.

Earlier, PRCS earlier said one person was killed and 20 others were wounded in a shooting by Israeli snipers targeting the hospital.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

massacring children is bad? Oh wow, blood libel much???

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

You can "nuance" the matter all you want but at the end of the day i cant shed many tears for those acting like comprador dogs in the face of genocide, fighting with the ones facilitating it no less. When you not only make a deal with the devil but actively help him and fight for him in such situations, you are one of his demons. No matter the "libertarian socialist" or whatever coating (that so many people still buy into)

Clashes are taking place between the American forces and the SDF from areas they occupy east of the Euphrates, and between the Syrian army and its allies in the axis of resistance from their points of control west of the Euphrates.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Cornel West gets a lot of shit and rightfully so, but I just saw him essentially say that NATO aggression caused the Ukraine war on CNN. I'll have to find the clip, but shit was wild

Here's the edited version his campaign put out on his twitter. He couched it in lib statements but also included the hashtag #AbolishNATO

I'm interested if this signals any shift in the discourse at all wrt NATO, etc in the general lib populace or if this will be dismissed as wack and fanatic

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

In some good news, elections on constitutional amendments for recreational marijuana and abortion rights up to fetal viability (22-24 weeks) both passed in GOP-controlled Ohio.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

I just saw a dead child in Gaza with their head blown open on twitter without a graphic content warning.

I understand what the poster was trying to do but who are you helping at that point?

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Leftist subs need to stop going private because of Vaushite/Destiny brigaders. It's only fueling them more.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jim Acosta on CNN tonight to some other bozo clown: "Do we know who's firing on the people trying to leave the hospitals?"

Gee pal I dunno, it's probably evil Hamas shooting their own people to make perfect heaven baby angel soldiers the IDF look bad.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The final chapter of that CIAnarchist saga

ladies and gentleman

we got 'im

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (4 children)

So I guess Ukraine really is an artillery war now? Seems like the primary force for attrition is drones, for offence is artillery, and for defence is trenches.

Who would have thought that WW1 doctrine would reign supreme in the 21st century?

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

AltTime person of the year cover edited so Zelensky is wearing Hamas headband and a New People’s Army bandana. Putin edited as a monkey sits on his shoulder. Over the other shoulder is Sean Penn’s Oscar, also wearing a Hamas headband

in the background, Palestinians wave their flag. Also, the twin towers on 9/11

In front Benjamin Netanyahu is holding his head, a red triangle floating over his head (indicating he is about to be a target of attack)

There are 4 items of text. First: PERSON OF THE YEAR/ Volodymyr Zelensky and the spirit of Ukraine. Second, in quotes: ‘How do you kill a parasite [the U.S.A.]? You become the parasite’s parasite.’ — JDPON ZELENSKY. Third, a tweet from Marjorie Taylor Greene edited so it looks like it’s coming from the associated press that claims the weapons the US gives Ukraine are being used by Hamas. Fourth a real headline that reads “BIDEN PUMPS BILLIONS INTO THE LONG WAR IN UKRAINE. But don’t expect to see new weapons on the battlefield anytime soon.”

By slammer on twitter bird-mad

zelensky-navi

I have a blueskkky code if anyone wants it

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Danish government-controlled broadcaster DR brought an article about an increasing number of "antisemitic incidents" worldwide due to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. They provide the following tally:

Austria: According the time Jewish community in Vienna there were 79 antisemitic incidents from October 7th to October 19th which is a 300 percent increase compared to last year.

Brazil: According to CONIB who tracks antisemitism in Brazil there has been 467 antisemitic incidents since October 7th, an increase of 961 percent compared to last year.

France: According to the French minister of the interiors Gerald Darmanin there were 1040 antisemitic incidents and 486 arrests since October 7th.

Germany: According to RIAS, an NGO who registers antisemitic incidents in Germany - from October 7th to October 15th there was an increase in antisemitic incidents of 240 percent since October 7th compared to the same period last year. 91 percent of these are anti-"Israel" related antisemitism.

South Africa: According to the South African Jewish Board of Deputies there were 41 antisemitic incidents in October which is a significant increase compared to previous years.

Great Britain: According to the Jewish community's security organisation, CST, from October 7th to 31st there has been 893 antisemitic incidents, an increase of 609 percent compared to the same 25 day period in 2022. The highest amount measured since the organisation was founded in 1984.

USA: Since October 7th ADL has registered a total of 312 antisemitic incidents between October 7th and 23rd of which 190 were directly connected to the war in "Israel" and Gaza

Reports like these are very nebulous about what constitutes an "antisemitic incident" but the numbers highlighted above suggests that most of what western propaganda calls antisemitism is in fact anti-zionism. It suggests that the term "antisemitic incident" can be anything from a swastika-waving Nazi riot to the guy in my city who has put up a "Palestinian children have the right to live" sign on his house.

Zionist propaganda has been crying wolf for decades, working hard to conflate racism against Jews with support for anticolonial struggle in Palestine. It is entirely within the realm of possibility that some idiots blames "the Jews" for the genocide, led along by zionist propaganda who conflates Judaism and Zionism, and turns to antisemitic reactions but in all likelihood the vast majority of "antisemitic incidents" is just zionist crybullies pissing and moaning about being called out for their genocidal ideas.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

I stg if this massacre ends in a puff of pink smoke announcing Netanyahu's baby daughter I'm gonna be so mad

[–] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

in today's MoA about Ukraine I learned there is a Dutch politican named Tiny Kox

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Israeli military says striking Lebanon after latest cross-border attacks

The military said three Israeli soldiers had been injured by an anti-tank missile that hit a military post in the Manara area of northern Israel.

The military also said two other soldiers were wounded, one seriously, by a brought-down “hostile aircraft” that flew over Israel from Lebanon.

It said it was “currently attacking” several Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.

hostile aircraft? is that just a drone?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

US carried out strike on facility in eastern Syria: Pentagon

The Pentagon said the targeted facility was being used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated groups.

In a statement, the Pentagon said the “precision self-defense strike” was carried out by two US F-15s in response to attacks on American personnel in Iraq and Syria over the past weeks.

The US also said the targeted facility was being used to store weapons.

“The President has no higher priority than the safety of US personnel, and he directed today’s action to make clear that the United States will defend itself, its personnel, and its interests,” the Pentagon statement read.

This is the second US attack on facilities in Syria since the war in Gaza began.

precision self-defense lethal aid was administered to the region

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

:officer-down::officer-down::officer-down::officer-down:

🚨 Al-Mayadeen reports that a number of American soldiers were killed during the recent bombing with 15 missiles of the Conoco gas field in eastern Syria by the resistance.

from https://t.me/PalestineResist/19211

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (9 children)

We all know "world war" only happens in europe if it's in the early 20th century and must involve germans etc., but no, really, what is a world war and why does the category matter?

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago

The final two sentences

Central Gaza hospital says it saw over 100 fatalities in one day

On a day of heavy Israeli bombardment, workers at central Gaza's Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital saw more than 100 fatalities in a single day, according to the institution's media office.

Separately, journalist Hassan Eslayeh saw dozens of casualties brought into the hospital Monday. Most came in private cars since people have not been able to call for emergency service due to the disruption in communications in Gaza.

Ambulances were seen following cars back to bombing sites and returning with more casualties.

CNN video shows more than 20 body bags lined up in front of the hospital during the day for funeral prayer. People then carried the bags into trucks and ambulances for burial.

https://www.cnn.com/middleeast/live-news/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-11-06-23/h_ce295adb4f293e819db6fff39e3c73d5

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Israel to begin daily four-hour pauses in fighting: US

The White House has announced that Israel has agreed to suspend fighting for four hours on a daily basis to allow for Palestinian civilians to flee from northern Gaza.

The pauses will start from today in what the White House said is a step in the right direction.

More from the White House

National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby added that there will be two humanitarian corridors for people to flee from northern Gaza, and that Israel has said that there will be no military operations in those areas during those periods.

Kirby said that the White House believed that the pauses were a step in the right direction, and want them to continue for as long as they are needed.

The US aims for no less than 150 humanitarian trucks a day into Gaza.

big win for Biden, the great statesmen

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Mahmoud Abbas is 87 years old, even older than Biden

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The latest episode of chapo with Derek davison is good. Derek has the laugh of someone who has a sense of humor himself but spends all his time on grim and serious subjects with grim and serious people. on the show you can hear the joy in his voice when he actually gets to do jokes

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