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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/2/us-gives-bunker-buster-bombs-to-israel-for-war-on-gaza-report

Bunker Bombs - used to level apartment buildings.

paper asserts that satellite imaging during rollout of household responsibility system/rural decollectivization during deng does not find graphical evidence of higher agricultural yields despite official yields claiming a 43% increase over the six years from 78-84

pls president xi, lin yifu yearns for the wall

Of course there is a history that explains why that is the case, but the fact that it is Russia and China bringing Pakistan into BRICS feels like more than a foreign policy failure on India's part. It feels like a raison d'etre failure overall. It's like if Brazil and Argentina still pretended to be rivals anywhere outside of a football stadium. That is not to say that Pakistan is an easy neighbor to have, but by God these indian nationalist channels online are so hysterical about muslims. It feels like a dead end for India, which is an 'union of states'.

In Bad State, school boards restrict teachers' right to free expression.

“The District is aware that some educators want to teach their students about the situation in Gaza and Israel with a very specific view of who is at fault and why. This is not what teachers should be teaching, and the District made this clear to all principals and teachers,” according to a district statement. “It is the job of educators to teach students how to think critically, not to teach them what to think. We are reminding all educators of their responsibility to adhere to principles of education, and to keep their personal beliefs out of the classroom.”

It's Oakland, California, and the teachers union is organizing a teach-in. Naturally, the article has scare quotes around "the Palestinian struggle." Death to America.

PW: The Palestinian struggle within Israel: Interview with the Communist Party of Israel

In the wake of the Hamas attacks of October 7th, the Communists and Hadash—as well as the broader Palestinian minority in Israel—have suffered a wave of repression and intimidation.

The CPI’s lone Jewish Member of the Knesset, Ofer Cassif, was suspended for 45 days in mid-October for criticizing the war on Gaza. In early November, leading CPI member and former lawmaker Mohammad Barakah was detained in Nazareth for announcing an anti-war demonstration, on the grounds that it could lead to “incitement.” Most recently, another CPI parliamentarian, Aida Touma-Suleiman, was sanctioned for two months for daring to decry the slaughter of innocents by the Israeli military.

As the first protests demanding a ceasefire and the return of hostages have started taking shape in Israel, People’s World met with the Communist Party’s International Secretary, Reem Hazzan, to ask her about the outlook for the coming period. Through it all, Hazzan maintains that she is still optimistic about a future of peace and equality.

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"As a party, we say that this did not start on October 7th. If you take everything out of context, then nothing has any meaning. We cannot say that things suddenly erupted on one peaceful morning as if violence and oppression had not been the constant reality of Palestinians for decades.

Even if we don’t start with the Nakba of 1948, and begin with the occupation of the West Bank that’s been the reality since 1967, the problem is clear. We don’t have a Palestinian state. Gaza has been under siege for the last 16 years. The West Bank is being ethnically cleansed in a very methodical way. Nowadays, nobody’s paying attention to the increased violence against Palestinians in the West Bank because people’s eyes are fixed on Gaza. Settler violence has intensified, backed by the Israeli military forces.

If you ask me how Israel should have reacted, let me say that any peace-seeking country would not be engaged in an occupation to begin with. It wouldn’t take decades to solve, or we can say in this case to not solve. A normal government would not be in this situation in the first place. I think that Israel should have understood at that point that a political solution is desperately needed. But with such a far-right government, this means that the perceptions that should have changed on October 7th, did not. If you believe that military force is your only resort to begin with, then the only solution will always be military—more force, more violence."

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"Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has been dreaming for the past two years about how to have armed mobs do his dirty work. They would call themselves a “civilian support force” for the police. This war gave him the perfect opportunity to actually make this happen. Now, you have over 600 groups of armed people, some of them civilians, some of them ex-military or ex-police. They go on patrol in our cities and towns. I live in Haifa, which is a mixed city of Arabs and Jews. These people go around carrying M-16s, saying that they are keeping the order or supporting the police force, but their main aim is to intimidate Arabs."

Brownshirts shit.

Shoutout to all ASS lovers out there

🚨🇾🇪 According to UKMTO, an [Israeli] ship has been ordered to alter course on orders of AnsarAllah Yemen.

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another one :dj-khaled:

Today's NC on palestine is also (not) good https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/11/gaza-conflict-end-game-not-in-sight.html

I think Yves point about the destruction of hospitals are very important. Regardless of Israel's failure to militarily best Hamas, the destruction of hospitals means more death from the mass displacement and infrastructure destruction. Even a complete military defeat and withdrawal from Gaza at this point has still baked in the short term deaths of another few tens of thousands of people via degradation of infrastructure and social murder. Not to mention the ongoing Israeli terror campaign in the west bank.

The only positive thing about Bob 2 is that he’s vaguely legitimized third parties enough for major polling firms to offer choices between five candidates lol

Amazing how in every "i care about both palestinian and israel victims" post, the replies is full of the most racist people ever who wants to nuke Gaza

Four attacks on three separate ships in Red Sea on Sunday, US military says

An update on attacks against ships in the Red Sea, where the US military has said in its latest statement that there were four attacks against three separate commercial ships on Sunday.

The ships were connected to 14 different countries and the US destroyer USS Carney responded to distress calls from the ships, US Central Command said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter.

The Unity Explorer was targeted by a ballistic missile launched from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen which landed “in the vicinity of the vessel” at around 9.15 am, the US said. Three hours later it was targeted again and this time was struck. The statement continued:

CARNEY responded to the distress call. While assisting with the damage assessment, CARNEY detected another inbound UAV, destroying the drone with no damage or injuries on the CARNEY or UNITY EXPLORER. UNITY EXPLORER reports minor damage from the missile strike.

Hours after that attack, at around 3.30pm, another ship, the Number 9, was also struck by a missile launched from a Houthi-controlled area of Yemen. The bulk carrier reported damage but no casualties.

An hour later, a third ship, the Sophie II, sent a distress call saying they had been struck by a missile, Central Command said.

CARNEY again responded to the distress call and reported no significant damage. While en route to render support, CARNEY shot down a UAV headed in its direction.

The Carney had also shot down a drone at around midday, the US military said, adding: “The drone was headed toward CARNEY although its specific target is not clear.”

- The Guardian

the case #ofarim

so 2 years ago , this german C-Promi stated in a video that he was ordered to hide his star of david in the Best Western Hotel in Leipzig.. .... now you all know that german Puplic and Bourgoisie is obviously , not some kind of "Lynchmob" that would go Haywire on the Acussation of "antisemitism" like they are Pavlos Dog.... ähm .. ähm.. trying to hunt down the receptionist.. ..

Well it turns out that it was all a lie and he was pissed he couldnt check in first. So he just went outside and recorded his video accusing the receptionist of beeing antisemitic.. Its fucking hilarious , as germany is going completttly insane with its "guilt demands Holocaust or do you wanna be a Nazi " . No there is accute danger that maybe some germans might fiigure out that maybe a certain "entity" is maybe in the same practise , and all institutions are going full "damage Controll"

The proposal was shown to key figures in the House and Senate from both parties. Longtime lawmaker, Rep. Joe Wilson, has even expressed open support for it while others who were privy to the details of the text have so far kept a low profile, saying that publicly coming out in favor of the program could derail it.

“Israel is trying to keep civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip as low as possible, but Hamas is not allowing the refugees to leave and Egypt is unwilling to open its borders,” the plan’s authors write in the opening paragraph.

They later go on to explain that “the only moral solution is to ensure that Egypt opens its borders and allows for the refugees to flee from the tyrant control of Hamas. The US Government provides Egypt with approximately $1.3 billion in foreign aid, and these funds can be allocated to the refugees from Gaza who will be allowed into Egypt.”

Is Tankie a popular term in the English speaking world outside of niche internet spaces?

Crowd at a pro-Palestine rally upon hearing the news

New slammer post

In reference to what gustavo petro said

Hitler is knocking on the doors of the homes of the European and North American middle class—and many have already let him in.

Petro version

Zionist drone relays message I advise you to not resist in any form, or we will kill you: https://nitter.net/QudsNen/status/1731059620829974588

🚨 Ceasefire is OVER:

Resumption of fighting:

• israeli warplanes have started bombing southern Gaza Strip (Rafah)

• Hamas launched rockets towards the Gaza envelope (e.g. Sderot)

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Bruh

More deliberately targeting, harming, harassing journalists

The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says Israeli soldiers have been firing tear gas and rubber bullets at journalists gathered to report the release of Palestinian prisoners outside Ofer Prison in the occupied West Bank.

Raed Helou, a Sky News Arabia photographer, was injured in the hand while he was wearing his “press” vest, he told Al Jazeera.

“I was standing with a group of journalists. Suddenly, the Israeli army fired tear gas at us. After that, foot soldiers attacked us. While I was hiding behind a car, I noticed a green laser light on my hand. At this moment, something hit me there,” Helou said.

Another journalist, Fadi al-Assa, an Alaraby TV correspondent, said: “We were standing on the rooftop of a house, our ‘press’ vests clearly showing, but soldiers kept firing tear gas and rubber bullets at us.”

Israeli forces, he added, confiscated his team’s camera memory cards and forced them to leave the rooftop of the building where they were working. They also prevented them from taking their equipment, he said.

"去你妈的！滚你妈的！操你妈的！'' -孔庆东

This made me want to vomit. He was singing.

My husband's business was supposedly here. It was completely flattened to the ground. We got to know from a video an Israeli soldier posted on Tiktok. The soldier was singing as she shows the area destroyed and flattered. Heartburning.

Nitter

The Tiktok vid - https://www.tiktok.com/@arutz_7/video/7305031418873187586?_t=8hgZCyFACTo&_r=1

Tesla suing Sweden over license plates

summary: metalworker's union is striking against Tesla's refusal to sign a collective bargaining agreement, strike extended to dockworkers in sweden and norway and now to postal workers as well. License plates can by law only be distributed via the post office, so Tesla can not sell any of their cars since postal workers are blocking those deliveries.

striking is the one good thing about swedish culture

Mr Liu's visit has been overshadowed by controversy over the November 14 incident, when the Chinese destroyer Ningbo approached the Australian frigate HMAS Toowoomba and deployed its sonar while two Australian divers were in the water, leaving them with "minor" injuries.

Yesterday afternoon, Mr Liu defended the Chinese destroyer's conduct, declaring that Australian vessels have to show "great prudence" near China – even though HMAS Toowoomba was in international waters and enforcing United Nations Security Council sanctions against North Korea.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-29/wong-and-dutton-press-top-chinese-official-over-warship-conduct/103168668

lol

BREAKING: More than 700 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours, according to the Director General of the Gov't Media Office in Gaza http://aje.io/ggedls

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jesus christ, someone needs to nuke Tel Aviv already

I think the local Israeli guy in the music scene has been mostly bullied into supporting Palestine. He's been getting a lot of side eye so I wouldn't be surprised if he's hiding his true feelings.

Hot take: that concluded the pact with the Devil. He lives to age 100 but the Devil will take down the empire.

Al Jazeera: Latest casualty figures

l'Alliance des États du Sahel (AES)

Alliance of Sahel States (ASS)

we could be down here riffing on actually existing socialism and you turned it into a butt joke!

These are real.

i care about palestinians, AND israelis. I care about the palestinian right of return, and the israeli right to a fair trial in the Hague

Western-backed separatists fail to capture town of Djibo: https://nitter.cz/african_stream/status/1729801305349144788

Burkina Faso’s Armed Forces have released a video of a huge contingent of motorbike-riding terrorists descending on the northern town of Djibo. For hours, the local garrison, with air support, mounted a stiff resistance against the onslaught from more than 3,000 assailants. Thankfully the army was victorious, and Djibo remains in government hands.

More context:

The last time the Malian army set foot in Kidal town was in 2012, 11 years ago. It was in 2012 that the French prohibited them from entering Kidal, after they liberated Gao and Timbuktu, and were chasing the remaining terrorists who fled there. If France didn’t forbid them back them, terrorism would never have reached Burkina Faso 🇧🇫. Therefore, France 🇫🇷 intention was never to end terrorism, but rather to keep it alive so that they can justify their presence in the Sahel and remain in the region, and to keep the looting ongoing.