Bulletins and News Discussion from October 23rd to October 29th, 2023 - Tunnel Vision
Bulletins and News Discussion from October 23rd to October 29th, 2023 - Tunnel Vision
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.
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 Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly (biweekly?) update is here.
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.
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New York Times analysis indicating the projectile that Israel claims was a failed PIJ rocket was actually an Iron Dome missile and is unrelated to the subsequent hospital explosion. The Israeli narrative is falling apart if even the
US propaganda rag"newspaper of record" is going against it.It has no conclusions on the cause of the explosion though, just debunks of Israel's claim. But that doesn't leave many other options.
Wikipedia is finally being forced to accept that the expert analysis is not so one sided, going from
Experts largely agreed that a misfired rocket launched from within Gaza was the likely cause of the explosion based on video analysis and the extent of the damage caused by the impact.
to
Experts speaking in the days after the strike agreed with the Israel Defense Forces' analysis that a misfired Palestinian rocket launched at Israel from within Gaza and captured on video was the likely cause of the explosion. However, a subsequent video analysis by The New York Times concluded that the much-publicized video in fact showed the break-up of an Israeli rocket unrelated to the hospital explosion.
The NYT concurs that there were two explosions near the hospital before the hospital itself was hit. Calling the scene "chaotic". What they don't mention is that in the extended video from Al Jazeera at least two more explosions can be seen in the next 10 minutes after the hospital was hit.
So either a half dozen palestinian rockets misfired, or a palestinian rocket misfired from somewhere out of view of all cameras and happened to land perfectly in the courtyard in the middle Israeli airstrikes on the area, or israel was conducting airstrikes in the area and hit the hospital like they repeatedly warned they would.
This is how much bullshit we have to suffer through from western media whenever the US or it's allies commit a blatant and well-documented war crime.
Remembering how even people in this site began to waver.
Biden and the media being able to so blatantly lie with such confidence can shake the resolve of anyone.
In such times, remind yourself of this moment. They are the most despicable monsters, truth is a luxury to them.
Did they warn this specific hospital? I remember them telling hospitals to evacuate, i'm just curious if they ever specified this one.
Yes, the doctors there said they received something like three warnings, and Israel previously hit it with a smaller strike earlier.
Edit: This is ignored in western media because they "work for Hamas".
The Anglican bishop of Jerusalem, Hosam Naoum, confirmed that the hospital had received at least three Israeli military orders to evacuate in the days before the blast, though he declined to cast blame on either party. The hospital had been hit by Israeli shelling on Sunday, wounding four staffers, he said.
Yes, they warned this specific hospital 3 times and also bombed a wing of it a couple days earlier as well
It’s just like the fucking pipeline. The intelligence agencies aren’t used to having their narrative questioned, and didn’t put together an airtight story to begin with. You can’t invent a perfect alibi after you committed the crime.
There will be months of “well that explanation was wrong, but we JUST discovered this possible way it was Hamas.”
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I'm sure they had advance notice that the NYT was going to run this story, so they hastily put out one last lie to muddy the water
