Israel trying to pass the hospital bombing off as Palestine doing it is utterly disgusting and guarantees Netanyahu a spot in the deepest pit of Hell for all eternity, obviously, but do not forget that
a) the only reason why Westerners will believe it is because they want to believe it - they are not being brainwashed and this is not some masterful propaganda being weaved around us to turn kind-hearted people into monsters,
b) no Westerner opinions matter at all. In most Western countries there is no real anti-Israel option to vote for even if they did realize that Israel was a giant factory for crimes against humanity, and Westerners protesting against things in general almost never achieves anything (tens of millions protested for BLM in 2020 and not only did the situation not change, it got worse), and
c) the people whose opinions do matter (both the people in the region, and the leaders who aren’t already Zionist compradors) already know that Israel is full of shit and that they just murdered nearly a thousand civilians in a single bomb attack.
It is despair-inducing to think that the genocidal Zionist entity is so brazenly, so smugly getting away with bullshitting this away into a cloud of confusion, as they release their metaphorical squid ink just like they did with the stupid babies story, but the propaganda and the media narrative that they are creating isn’t what matters. It cannot address the fundamental contradictions ripping the country, the region, and the world apart any more than masterfully-applied makeup can fix a stab wound. It can merely obfuscate.
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.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update isn’t coming because I’m sick and too focussed on the collapse of the Zionist entity.
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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Honestly, all this expert forensic analysis with people saying “Hmm, well if you look from frame 37 to frame 63 then it’s obvious that this deviates significantly from what an Israeli airstrike usually looks like, but the streak in the sky near the start of the video does add complications… I’ll load up my video editing software to up the contrast and see if I can determine any further details from these five videos, then post my 1 hour long youtube video on it on the weekend.” is going to seem so fucking funny in hindsight when Israel (whether in two weeks or two years) just admits that they did it
and people will be like “Dude how the fuck did anybody possibly think it wasn’t Israel, this is like Nazi Germany claiming that they took out all those other villages harbouring Jews but that one? The one Hitler threatened numerous times to strike? Nah, the Jews blew that one up.” but obviously nobody will care by then anyway because the next crisis will have happened by then
people’s reactions to this have been utterly bizarre. I am genuinely bewildered why there’s even discussion about who the culprit was anymore
yeah for fuck’s sake it has been clear from the first video with the giant fucking explosion that it wasn’t a Palestinian rocket
but this might be the first contact a lot of comfortable westerners are having with Israeli gaslighting and media complicity
“You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet/cable news and tell lies?” <- all the poor naïve innocents who only started paying attention a week ago
how anyone can have an “expert forensic” take on this from 1000 miles away is so ridiculous on it’s face. All this shaky-cam footage which could have been filmed from a different conflict 5 years ago or maps or pictures from an active warzone- man who the fuck knows about all that information. Israel has so many resources dedicated to electronic warfare who can say…
all we can point to is: they’ve bombed hospitals before, warned that they would bomb hospitals, stated repeatedly that they are fighting “animals”, that “there are no civilians” in Israel, that they are the only power in the region that has that kind of firepower. They have motive, they have capability, and they’ve lied in the past. That’s all I need to know.
FFS the question we should be asking instead is, why are they lying about it? They are committing similar brutal crimes everyday for the past 70 years. Is it because the spineless Europeans need to save face to their populations at home? Americans don’t give a shit about a couple thousand dead civilians
the damage is consistent with an anti-personnel airburst, see https://hexbear.net/comment/4122343
of course, an anti-personnel airburst smack over the middle of a crowded courtyard suggests that killing as many refugees as possible was the point of the strike
It was a 300-600 lbs air burst guided bomb used for anti-personnel. The only people with this tech in the area are Israel and America. Stop believing Israeli lies
I wonder if the intention was to proximity detonate the bomb above the roof of the building and shake it enough to cause an evacuation of the hospital - but it missed proximity detonated in the air above the courtyard, several floors lower than intended.
I believe Israel is evil enough to airburst people taking shelter at a hospital, but I don’t think they’re stupid enough to risk the international response.
They knew they could bullshit their way out of anything and that Palestinians don’t have internet or cell coverage so it would be unlikely that much proof got out. From an Israeli perspective, the goal is to flatten all of Gaza and drive all Palestinians into Egypt (or kill them outright). Terrorizing them and giving them no place to hide is a strategy they are purposefully employing, it is why they are hitting compliant refugee convoys following evacuation orders and UN shelters
Possible, since the guidance system is only accurate to within 10m. However, Israel also knows that the guidance system is only accurate to within 10m, so they decided to do a proximity detonation knowing full well there’s a good chance it misses.
The intent is irrelevant in this case.
For reference, these are the missiles Hezbollah is firing. https://t.me/PalestineResist/15758