Bulletins and News Discussion from September 30th to October 6th, 2024 - Qassam, Qassem, Quagmire
Bulletins and News Discussion from September 30th to October 6th, 2024 - Qassam, Qassem, Quagmire
Image is of the aftermath of an Israeli bombing of Beirut in 2006.
We are now almost one year into the war and genocide in Gaza. Despite profound hardship, the Gazan Resistance continues its battles against the enemy, entirely undeterred. Despite Israeli proclamations throughout 2024 that they have cleared out Hamas from various places throughout Gaza, we still see regular attacks and ambushes against Zionist forces. Just today (Monday), Al Qassam fighters ambushed and destroyed another convoy of Israeli vehicles. The predictions early on in the war were that Israel would defeat Hamas in mere months, needing only until December, then January, and so on. This has proven very much untrue. Israel is stuck in the mud; unable to destroy their enemy due to their lack of knowledge about the "Gaza Metro" and, of course, a lack of actual fighting skill, given how many times I've seen Zionists getting shot while they gaze wistfully out of windows.
The same quagmire will occur in Lebanon, only considerably worse. Both Nasrallah and Sinwar possess a similar strategy of luring Zionist forces onto known, friendly territory, replete with traps and ambushes, to bleed them dry of equipment, manpower, and the will to continue fighting. The scale of the invasion could fall anywhere on the spectrum from "very limited" - more of a series of raids on Hezbollah positions than truly trying to occupy land - to a total invasion which would seek to permanently take control of Southern Lebanon. Neither is likely to destroy, or even substantially diminish Hezbollah's fighting abilities. This is not wishful thinking: Hezbollah has convincingly defeated Israel twice before in its history, pushing them from their territory, and both times Hezbollah had almost no missiles and a limited supply of other equipment, relying on improvisation as often as not. The Hezbollah of 2024 is an entirely different organization to that of the early 2000s.
Attempts to drive wedges between Hezbollah and the rest of Lebanon are also unlikely to succeed. Hezbollah is not just a military force, it is extremely interlinked into various communities throughout Lebanon, drawing upon those communities to recruit soldiers. Throughout its history, it has provided education, healthcare, reconstruction, and dozens of other services one would attribute to a state. Amal Saad's recent suggestion of using "quasi-state actor" as a more respectful replacement for the typical "non-state actor" seems advisable. And the decentralized command structures, compartmented leadership, strong succession planning, and aforementioned community ties almost entirely neutralizes the effectiveness of assassinations. Hezbollah's Deputy Secretary General Naim Qassem has confirmed that Hezbollah's path has been set by Nasrallah, and his martyrdom will not stop nor even pause their efforts. Additionally, he confirmed that despite the recent attacks by Israel which nominally focussed on destroying missile depots, Hezbollah's supply of weapons has not been degraded, and they are still only using the minimum of their capabilities.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA 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.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
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 Telegram Channels:
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.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1841221416282161326
The State Department rejected Iran's justification for today's missile strikes, stating that the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Iranian nationals—actions against Iranian sovereignty—“occurred weeks ago.”
Israel is committing genocide over an attack that happened a year ago you weasel.
This will be the ground invasion of Lebanon megathread. May God protect everyone. My aunt and her little kids are on their way to the Syrian border now, the plan is that they make their way to Damascus by tomorrow and then stay with my cousin outside of Damascus. Plan B is that they make it to Damascus then register their names with one of the Iraqi refugee settling programs then go to Iraq which will be safer and the kids can actually go to school there without any bureaucratic nightmares. They're resettling Lebanese families in the pilgrim hotels outside of Karbala and Najaf, so that sounds like a more manageable life than my cousin's farm in the Damascus countryside.
https://xcancel.com/SinaToossi/status/1841207114666057848
Multiple IRGC-affiliated Iranian outlets & Telegram channels report, "Iran has warned the US: if you target our refineries, we will set fire to the refineries and oil fields across the entire region, including those in Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, the UAE, and Bahrain."
Just incredible that Israel is allowed to bomb the shit out of Beirut and terrorize the population of Lebanon under the pretext of “uh yeah Hezbollah is probably around there somewhere”… and the west just sorta shrugs its collective shoulders and says “sure I guess”.
The Israel propaganda is way less thorough than it was back last October. Remember that hilariously fake audio of two “Hamas” commanders? Or all the spinning they tried to do about how an Israeli missile that killed hundreds outside a hospital was really a wayward Hamas rocket? They’re not even bothering with it anymore.
Looked at the reaction on Reddit and there’s a vocal minority on the Palestinian sub angry that Iran attacked because now it will lead to a regional war, as if Israel wasn’t already doing everything to make sure that would happen.
that website is almost entirely populated by the biggest contrarians of every country.
Nice clean room you got there. It would be a shame if we ransack it:
https://xcancel.com/Pal_action/status/1841373470896107613
BREAKING: Palestine Action are on the roof of Teledyne's weapons factory, disrupting the producers of crucial components for Israel's F-35 fighter jets.
This one is for Palestine and Lebanon. Resistance until victory!
https://xcancel.com/Pal_action/status/1841405529484063224
Contamination of this clean room will cause severe disruption to the production of Israel's F-35 fighter jet components.
When our government fails to abide by their legal duty to end complicity in genocide, it's up to ordinary people to take action.
Watch this space.
https://xcancel.com/Pal_action/status/1841444322593415592
According to a senior Teledyne manager, contamination of their clean rooms could stop production for up to 12 months.
Actionists just got through to the clean room for Israel's F-35 fighter jet parts.
And does anyone know her accent? It's like an Irish(?)/USian mix.
After this, I will never again fail to mercilessly dunk on any liberal who blathers on about how DPRK, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela are rogue, irrational states. Not while Israel continues to exist in any capacity other than as a terrible memory. This apex reactionary state is the perfect definition of everything liberals complain about in US state enemies, yet Israel's inalienable right to commit war crimes and genocide galore with US weapons and funding is forever unquestioned.
At what point does it become comical even to the unobservant libs who think Russia invaded Ukraine out of nowhere in 2022? How can one think that is a moral black hole beyond the point of no return, yet also apparently that the Israeli invasion of Lebanon is complex and nuanced?
I'm sorry, I hardly use non-Hexbear social media anymore, and day by day I get more incredulous that the garden variety western libs continue to exist like this with no sign of slowing down.
Fireworks went off tonight in my town. It seems to come from the part of town with a large Muslim community. Lots of people all over the world has a reason to celebrate tonight.
everyone is getting an upbear from me today. truly cause for celebration!
In what appeared a blatant attempt to skirt the warnings, dozens of protesters waved banners that appeared to be very similar to the flag of the terror group. One green and gold flag – colours that represent both Australian sporting teams and Hezbollah – depicted Australian outlaw Ned Kelly holding a gun above his head.
Under the image of Kelly were the words: “The boys in green and gold will win.”
[...]
Alex, an attendee who also had the flag, told The Australian he was simply a “sporting enthusiast” who was backing “the green and gold”. “I’m just a sporting enthusiast who is supporting Ned Kelly and the boys in the green and gold,” he said.
snippet about the pro-palestine rally in sydney yesterday
https://archive.md/rR7iH (its the australian, don't read it)
Here's basically a claim in the Guardian that Israel has finally just decided that using Iron Dome is too expensive, so it isn't even bothering to try to intercept Iran's missiles. LMFAAAAAAAO.
It, of course, also repeats the claim that the attack was an utter failure because there were allegedly no fatalities. And the usual overblown claims of how effective the missile defense systems are.
New rule update hasn't happened because of the huge stuff happening right now. Yup That's totally why.
Nottaly totally not me being a bit lazy because works roflstomping me, no siree. I am but a simple servator of the news comm posters keeping things simple and familiar while decades are happening in hours.
Yup
On vaction in London, Ontario, Canada. Go out for evening stroll and meet these based comrades standing for Lebanese and Palestinians. Edit -op sec covered faces.
Good polling data.
There's an outright majority of people in each of the listed countries that has an unfavourable opinion of Israel, with a supermajority or near supermajority for unfavourable in most of them. Highest levels of favourability are France, Germany, and Sweden, with an absolute maximum of 26%.
https://d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/Topline_Eurotrack_Aug24_lEbyhNM.pdf
Spain is the objectively the most based country in Europe, with 16/17% favourable, 71/70% unfavourable.
I completely missed that Macklemore released Hind’s Hall 2 a couple weeks ago; with Palestinian artists and a Palestinian choir to boot. I’m guessing if I missed it than other did too, so sharing here. It’s just as good as the first one IMO. The line they can bury us, but they will find out we are seeds hits quite hard.
Biden:
"No administration has helped Israel more than I have. None. None. None."
I hope someone strings this motherfucker upside down on a lamp post
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dockworkers at ports from Maine to Texas began walking picket lines early Tuesday in a strike over wages and automation that could reignite inflation and cause shortages of goods if it goes on more than a few weeks.
The contract between the ports and about 45,000 members of the International Longshoremen’s Association expired at midnight, and even though progress was reported in talks on Monday, the workers went on strike. The strike affecting 36 ports is the first by the union since 1977.
https://apnews.com/article/port-strike-ila-dockworkers-begins-e5468e760f46a64e4322d1702beb1f72
They're on strike folks
So before the lovely October surprise there was a interesting video by Justin Podur. In it he talks about how he doubts that Hezbollah was "compromised." (and other things)
isisrael had to drop 85 bunker buster bombs to get Nasrallah. They didn't "know" where he was they played wack a mole till they were pretty sure they got him. He wasn't "in hiding" he was in his bunker in his city. The only reason they even knew roughly where the bunker was is because Nasrallah was having a meeting with other top Hezbollah guys and a IRGC rep. The only reason isisrael knew who to watch was because Hezbollah sacrificed their opsec to go fight in Syria.
It wasn't a failure or a betrayal from within. Nasrallah died because he was fighting a world spanning empire and it took every trick empire had and even then they could only do it by killing 1000 people wounding 6000 and displacing a million.
Iran warns "Israel": 'Any miscalculation will lead to your sudden collapse' | The Cradle
“Our armed forces have devised a surprise plan for the enemies, and our next response will be on a completely different level. If the Zionist entity tries to attack Iran, it will quickly disappear and collapse,” Qalibaf added, warning Washington “to tighten the collar of its rabid dog ["Israel"] so that it does not harm itself and cause trouble for its owner.”
Alexander Lukashenko advises students to study Marxism in order to understand life.
And earlier, meeting with Alexander Dugin, the President of Belarus said that nothing better than Marxist-Leninist philosophy has ever been created.
We completely agree, Alexander Grigorievich. It will be impossible to understand the current socio-economic life and see the prospects for the development of the world without Marxism.
lmao owned
Al Mayadeen: German police conduct raid on homes of pro palestine activist
5 pro palestine activist were raided and police took all phones and laptops, because they allegedly had "banned symbols".
I'm not surprised yet still disappointed.
https://x.com/zeteo_news/status/1840873984553783449
State Department Spokesperson Matthew Miller: We've never wanted to see a diplomatic resolution with Hamas.
@prem_thakker : Well, what about the ceasefire?
Miller: I wish that Hamas would come to the table.
In other news, feds have still not been able to get into Eric Adams' phone. Apparently he changed the password right before they took it and then "forgot" it
happy october 7th 🎊 may a thousand colonizers die
Tropical Storm Milton is expected to make landfall in Florida as a major Category 3 hurricane, NHC says. Storm surge expected to be significant.
Sorry Jack, help's not in the budget this year.Lebanon's National News Agency has reported that internationally banned white phosphorus bombs were deployed in the recent Israeli strike on #Beirut.
White phosphorus is notorious for its devastating effects on human flesh, as it is highly soluble in tissue and can inflict deadly thermal and chemical burns that reach deep into the bones.
Victims of white phosphorus exposure endure excruciating pain and may suffer long-term damage to internal organs. Even inhaling the vapor can lead to severe inflammation of the trachea, making the use of such weapons a grave violation of international law and human rights.
Im hearing the 100 things Sheinbaum wants to do during her presidency, and she just mention that she wants México to join the semiconductors race and that México will not only built them but will also start making them from zero using the litium on the north.
So that another country that is planning to compete with Taiwan's semiconductor industry
I'll still never forget seeing someone on twitter post those paragliding videos for the first time, then the next day seeing the fence being bulldozed.
Israel Defense Forces tells Ireland and Unifil to remove peacekeepers from Lebanese border outpost Irish Times, Oct 4 2024
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has told Ireland to remove its peacekeepers from an outpost on the border with Lebanon as its invasion of the country continues.
Sources confirmed the request was made to the headquarters of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) and individual countries contributing troops, including Ireland. Israel has been told the troops will remain in place.
edit: this part is probably also worth highlighting
There is one Irish outpost on the Lebanese-Israeli border, which is known as the Blue Line. This outpost, designated post 6-52, is manned by a single Irish platoon who are responsible for observing the border and reporting on incursions.
Israel is already using the Gaza playbook in Lebanon. They're destroying the healthcare system and killing paramedics.
The entire staff of Marjayoun public hospital in south Lebanon were evacuated on Friday morning after an Israeli drone strike killed four paramedics, putting the hospital out of service, Lebanon’s national news agency reported. The hospital was one of the major medical providers in south Lebanon, particularly as Israel’s intensified aerial campaign which started on 23 September displaced many medical staff from the region.
“They hit right next to us, so we had to flee. The area is very dangerous and there is no one on the roads and I am driving alone,” Shoshana Mazraani, the head of the emergency services at Marjayoun public hospital, said while fleeing. Israel also carried out a strike on the Islamic health organisation’s center in Khirbet Selem, causing injuries on Friday afternoon, according to Lebanon’s national news agency.
An additional member of the ambulance service was killed and one injured while carrying out rescue services in the southern suburbs of Beirut, which was intensely bombed the night prior, according to Hezbollah-affiliated media. Lebanon’s prime minister Najib Mikati had a series of diplomatic meetings on Friday in order to pressure Israel to safely allow rescue and relief teams to transfer victims of airstrikes.
At least 102 Lebanese paramedics have been killed since the beginning of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah a year prior.
Footage shows moments when Iranian missiles hit a military base in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv.
Holy shit what a pounding
IOF boots have been instructed to not get owned:
https://xcancel.com/IbnRiad/status/1841546932117786714⚡️ Enemy media: the army has given instructions to its forces operating in southern Lebanon to avoid getting kidnapping by the elite Radwan forces.
Ansarallah remote controlled boat bomb hitting a ship, from the perspective of the ship
Sick boat, Ansarallah have got style in spades
Everyone who said that they would convert to Shia Islam if Iran responded better start breaking out the Quran
There's a photo at the link.
Spoiler - The NYT is allergic to the word "hypersonic" so they replaced it with "capable of flying at extremely fast speeds". I didn't even make that up.
[Full text] Iran appears to have used its most advanced missiles in the attack on Israel.
Photos and videos of debris from Tuesday’s missile barrage suggest Iran used some of its most advanced weaponry to target Israel.
The weaponry includes ballistic missiles and may include Fattah missiles, which experts told The Times have not been seen in use before by Iran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps also claimed that they had deployed the Fattah missile, which is highly maneuverable and capable of flying at extremely fast speeds, for the first time on Tuesday.
Videos verified by The New York Times show the booster section — essentially the back of the projectile, containing the motor and guidance fins — of a large, black missile stuck into the ground in a backyard in Tel Sheva, Israel. Fabian Hinz, an expert in Iranian missiles based in Berlin for the International Institute for Strategic Studies, said the missile’s distinctive fin pattern matches that of Iran’s Kheibar Shekan and Fattah-1 missiles.
Both types of missiles use the same booster and are therefore difficult to tell apart. But, he said, of known Iranian missiles, “These are the most advanced, no questions asked.”
And while it’s unclear how many of the approximately 180 missiles the Israeli military said Iran fired toward Israel were Kheibar Shekan or Fattah-1s, videos from several sites across Israel and the West Bank show booster sections that appear to be from those types of missiles.
Iranian news media said Kheibar Shekan ballistic missiles were used in Iran’s attack on Israel in April, after Israel struck the Iranian Consulate in Damascus. Tom Karako, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies’s Missile Defense Project in Washington, said that “unlike that previous attack, however, more missiles appear to be getting through.” It’s unclear whether the type of projectile may be related to these missiles reaching Israel.
The Kheibar Shekan and Fattah-1 are both new, precision-guided missiles with ranges sufficient to reach Israel if launched from Iran. In a statement on Tuesday night, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said Fattah missiles had been used to destroy missile defense radar systems in Israel. That claim could not be independently confirmed.
Genocide Joe is making some masterful plays
President Joe Biden’s response to whether he supported Israel striking Iran’s oil facilities has sent crude oil prices surging by 8.5%. Energy and Big Oil stocks also shot up, with Chevron (a new BDS target) a major beneficiary.
President Biden said, “We’re discussing that. I think that would be a little... Anyway.”
https://nitter.poast.org/DropSiteNews/status/1841905302205301135
happy International Paragliding Day to all who celebrate 🥰
Hezbollah is launching rockets at Haifa for the first time. And it seems like they fucked up a bunch of settlers:
https://xcancel.com/BIG__Brother7/status/1843035275460829315Enemy Media: A large number of ambulances are in the city of Haifa after the fall of several rockets.
Apparently, the IOF is resorting to using warships and drone to bomb people because their planes got wrecked:
https://twitter.com/sameh_asker/status/1841886792443642189?mx=1
Israel, after the beating it got from Iran, is bombing Lebanon and Syria with warships and drones for the first time.
It is clear that the air force was damaged yesterday and today.
Hours ago, photos of some of the damage to the Nevatim base appeared, and the company that leaked the photos allowed them to be published in news agencies and satellite channels, and Maariv talked about them.
This is a small part of what happened at the base, and what happened at the Hatzerim and Tel Nof airports has not yet been published, which indicates that what happened at Israel's airports is an unprecedented military disaster in the history of the entity.
The blood of Nasrallah and Haniyeh is very precious. It seems that their price will not stop at destroying airports next time. In my opinion, if the leaders of Israel knew the price paid for assassinating the two men, they would not have taken that step...
Traffic through the Suez Canal has fallen from around 2,000 transits per month before November 2023 to around 800 in August,
Greece-based Conbulk Shipmanagement Corporation stopped Red Sea voyages after its vessel MV Groton was attacked twice in August.
Torben Kolln, managing director of German-based container shipping group Leonhardt & Blumberg, said the Red Sea and wider Gulf of Aden was a "no go" area for their fleet.
An executive at a third shipping company, which has also received a letter, said they decided to end business with Israel in order to be able to continue to use the Red Sea route.
The Houthis have not stopped all traffic and the majority of Chinese and Russian-owned ships - which they do not see as affiliated with Israel - are able to sail through unhindered with lower insurance costs.
Israeli air defenses are proving to be utterly useless against Iranian missiles — and most or all of the ballistic strikes have been older generation Iranian missiles. They will save the newer ones for subsequent strikes against US bases if the US gets involved.
White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan: "There will be serious consequences for Iran as a result of this attack and we will work with Israel to make sure that happens."
IDF announces it will respond to Iranian missile attack tonight, and the result will be “seen by the entire Middle East”
colonies of a settler flock together
Speaking to reporters in Melbourne, the PM said the government was "very concerned" but it was a "good thing" the defence of Israel, supported by the US, ensured there was no loss of civilian life.
"There's been too much loss of life in that region," he says.
"Israel, of course, has a right to defend itself. What we have called for consistently is for a de-escalation in the region. Along with our friends in the United States and others.
"There's been too much loss of life in that region," he says.
"Israel, of course, has a right to defend itself.
This is tragic. There's apparently a lot of people who are in denial that Nasrallah was martyred to the point where the Deputy Chairman of Hezbollah's Political Council has to go out of his way to say that he personally saw Nasrallah's body:
https://xcancel.com/Saraa_Hajj/status/1843089218282938503Israel warns rescue workers against going to strike-hit areas - Lebanon Civil Defence 16:55 BST
Israel has threatened to strike Lebanese search and rescue teams if they go to the southern suburbs of Beirut to help those trapped under the rubble, according to Lebanon’s Civil Defence.
Following Israel’s massive strike on a residential neighbourhood in Dahieh overnight, the Civil Defence – administered by the Ministry of Interior - received a call saying any teams heading to the area within 72 hours of the attack will be struck, they told the BBC.
Lebanon’s national news agency said the Prime Minister Najib Mikati has made several calls to foreign officials asking them to pressure Israel to allow search and rescue teams to do their work.
Israel has hit rescue teams and health workers across south Lebanon and in Beirut, killing and wounding dozens. Yesterday the Lebanese minister of health said Israel had killed 97 health and search and rescue workers so far and injured 188.
The majority of those killed are from the Islamic Health Organisation - linked to Hezbollah - which has been offering health services to the displaced and conducting search-and-rescue operations.
Teams from the Lebanese Red Cross, the Lebanese Civil Defence, the Islamic Risala Scout Association, and the Amel Association international, have also been struck by Israel, according to the Lebanese minister.
The BBC has asked the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) for comment.
US politicians move to revoke tax-exempt status of rights groups criticising Israel
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a group of 100 rights and legal organisations have sent a letter to US House Speaker Mike Johnson and another official to condemn their pressure on the Internal Revenue Service.
They claim that the authorities have been pushing to illegally revoke the tax-exempt status of 15 US-based Muslim, Arab, Jewish and progressive groups “to punish criticism of the Israeli government”.
“We will continue to fight these politically motivated attacks, and we stand ready to defend any organisation targeted by their McCarthyistic tactics,” the group said.
The ISISreal terror machine is doing massive bombings in Beirut once again
Unconfirmed reports suggest airstrike occurred near a Total gas station on Airport Road in Beirut. TotalEnergies, a French multinational, operates these stations. Earlier, Israeli PM Netanyahu condemned French President Macron for backing an arms embargo on Israel.
Lmao attacking TotalEnergies. Retaliation for Macron calling for for arms embargo? Bet France will do fuck all.
https://nitter.poast.org/DropSiteNews/status/1842687186690564191
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if you go to the harris-walz merch store and begin scrolling down you can actually see the right-wing shift in the democratic party. all the lgbt stuff, like the kamala pride stickers, are hangovers from the old biden merch store. any of the bi and trans flag stuff that the biden store would sell is nowhere in sight. even the 'control guns not girls' is a biden antique. apart from a few reproductive rights items, the new harris-waltz stuff doesn't convey anything resembling a political message or vision. they're instead offering the most uninspiring campaign logo imaginable, a merch line with the slogan 'yes she can', another with 'when we fight we win', and some camo stuff that feels like its made to appeal to conservative voters. it's all very dull and visually unappealing.
for comparison, this is what the biden-harris merch store looked like in november 2020:
wake up babe new
just dropped
Always nice to see that Hamas is still operational, especially a year after October 7thThe western left is afraid of its own shadow and completely useless, exhibit #586254:
During yesterday's opening of Denmark's rubber-stamp parliament, the small pro-democracy centre-left Red-Green party was met by pointless bad-faith attacks by right-wing regime representatives for having met with PFLP representatives and for having house an event featuring anti-imperialist author Torkil Lauesen. Back in the 1970's and 80's Lauesen was part of a group that raised funds for the PFLP through bank heists.
The right demanded that Red-Green not-party-leader Pelle Dragsted answered a silly bad-faith question of whether you could remain a member of the party if you sympathise with the PFLP. True to his spineless nature, Dragsted did not tell them to go fuck themselves or attempt a defence of the Palestinian resistance movement it his own party members. Instead recited milquetoast liberal phrases about how the alleged transgressions had been done by individuals who didn't reflect official party line and how the Red-Greens condemns "any kind of violence and terror against civilians".
Western leftists has had their minds poisoned by generations of anti-communist propaganda and had had their spirit completely broken by the disaster of the 1990's counter-revolutions. Parties with roots back to militant labour activism and bold antifascist resistance has turned into some of the most conflict-averse liberal teddy bears on the planet. They are so afraid that some reactionary knucklehead is going to be mad at them or that some lanyard duel is going to accuse them of not being civil enough that they have turned completely harmless.
Pure delusion:
https://xcancel.com/TheCradleMedia/status/1842270115796058568According to Israeli Channel 13, the security cabinet has taken a decision to respond to the Iranian retaliatory operation 'Truthful Promise-2.'
Officials say they want to carry out a major attack on Iran that does not to lead to an exchange of fire in the near future, as to not distract from the goals of the current war.
🇮🇷 Iran's Mission to the United Nations: — Iran’s legal, rational, and legitimate response to the terrorist acts of the zionist regime—which involved targeting Iranian nationals and interests and infringing upon the national sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran—has been duly carried out. Should the zionist regime dare to respond or commit further acts of malevolence, a subsequent and crushing response will ensue. Regional states and the zionists’ supporters are advised to part ways with the regime
🇮🇶 Iraqi Resistance Coordination Committee: — In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
If the Americans intervene in any hostile action against the Islamic Republic or if the zionist enemy uses Iraqi airspace to carry out any bombing operations on its territory, then all American bases and interests in Iraq and the region will be our target, (and there will be no escape).
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I have so much respect for Yemeni people, they just don't care about impact on (domestic) trade or whatever like most other countries. They do what's right.
my friend (not in gaza): "all the news is about 'sirens sound in'... that's the thing if we had warning sirens they would be sounding for a year without end"
Israeli sources to Sky News Arabia: 14 Israeli occupation soldiers killed in confrontations with Hezbollah in southern Lebanon
https://xcancel.com/EyesOnSouth1/status/1841451902753526072#m
Russian telegram:
Iranian agency ShafaqNA: More than 20 F-35 aircraft of the Israeli Air Force were hit during the missile strike of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the territory of the Jewish state.
More from Telegram:
Iranian media claim that 20 F-35 fighters were destroyed by hypersonic missiles during strikes on Israeli air bases.
It was also claimed that a concentration of Israeli armored vehicles in the Gaza Strip was destroyed (the IDF likes to display its equipment in large groups).
Iran emphasizes that it specifically targeted IDF military facilities and gas platforms, so there will not be a large number of civilian casualties.
Aside from the fact of strikes on air bases, it is currently difficult to assess the extent of the actual damage. It will be interesting to see satellite images of the facilities if some Western company publishes them.
Iran will naturally exaggerate the effectiveness of the strikes. Israel, on the contrary, will understate and emphasize the work of the air defense. At the same time, the parties will continue to exchange threats of new strikes.
More:
Iran informed the US and Russia of its intentions before striking Israel. No civilian targets were hit.
lol Jimmy Carter lived to see his PeAcE PrOcEsS go to absolute shit
In other dying empire news, the US Navy's recently released Navigation Plan has the primary goal of preparing the Navy for war with the PRC by 2027. The plan also reads like a hybrid between marketing speak and a r/worldnews comment
A brief recap of events for today (September 30, 2024) on the Palestine/Lebanon front.
Zionist genocidal attacks on Lebanon killed 136 people (including six paramedics) over the past 24 hours. In response to the attacks, Hezbollah resistance forces conducted a Nour missile strike on the northern Zionist settlement of Kafr Giladi. In addition, the resistance also conducted rocket strikes on Safed, the Katsarin military base, and the Naqoura military base (using Fadi-2 rockets).
Islamic Resistance in Iraq forces conducted drone strikes on targets in Haifa.
Yemeni air defenses shot down another US MQ-9 Reaper drone.
At the very end of the day, the fascist Tel Aviv regime started invading parts of southern Lebanon.
15 entire minutes of footage of strikes. Many posted here already but it's a good compilation.
They lost some F-35. this is certain. Its very likely the thomas friedman bullshit was US intelligence work to protect israel from the fallout of its own arrogance when the missiles destroyed important things and that the IOF believed they would be able to protect their military assets, so they kept part of its stealth fighters in the ground and part of its military HQs manned. This with the general attempt by most of worldwide media (tied up to US media interests and US journalist training as we all know) were very likely attempts to not allow the harm to israeli and american deterrence spill public. They didn't even had the sufficient missiles to fire from the destroyers, which means whatever happened, they got to know about the strike too late for properly preparing the US apparatus for intercepting a higher number of missiles.
The US media and paid agents passing as independent analysts in twitter and other places are attempting to cause fear by disregarding the iranian government, their president and their intelligence apparatus. Do not fall for this. Its their traditional method of completely rewriting history on the go to hide their military losses and psychological warfare to convince NATO military superiority as something that cannot be opposed by any power. The anglo-european white supremacist alliance is the new fascist axis and they will use all kinds of propaganda and dirty tactics to keep anglo-european imperialism afloat, and they will not think twice in defending a settler colonial state which is a vacation place for american billionaires with ancestry to the settlers and their local base for exploring and exploiting the resources and land of middle-eastern states and peoples.
A full-scale war is indeed bad but...
Jonathan Panikoff, the director of the Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council...
“A full-scale war, or even a more limited one, could be devastating for Lebanon, Israel, and the region. But from it, unexpected opportunities will also come — to undermine Iranian malign influence in the region, for example, by actively impeding its efforts to reconstitute Hezbollah. And a new administration should be prepared to take advantage of them."
NYT: A Wider War in the Middle East, From Hamas to Hezbollah and Now Iran
Ghoulish fuckers must revel in their fantasies of mass death and suffering.
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I posted that before I read the next paragraph. Holy mother of fuck.
That is what old wars and hot wars do. They create new power dynamics, vacuums to be filled.
Wake up
687 new comments in the news mega
So it's happening, huh
Russian ambassador urges Russian citizens to leave Israel:
https://xcancel.com/upholdreality/status/1841805797350662452In the neoliberal hell that is Finland the government that managed to make striking illegal earlier this year is now pushing through a change into labor practices to have a pay gap in lower paying jobs. This would mean the wages can never go above a certain level. They are calling this "an export focused wage model", loosely translated.
Our self-proclaimed "left" party Left Alliance is countering this by asking people to sign yet another petition.
Burkina Faso massacre
Massacre in Burkina Faso left 600 dead, double previous estimates, according to French security assessment
CNN articleUp to 600 people were shot dead in a matter of hours by al Qaeda-linked militants in an August attack on a town in Burkina Faso, according to a French government security assessment that nearly doubles the death toll cited in earlier reports. The new figure would make the assault, in which civilians were shot dead as they dug trenches to defend the remote town of Barsalogho, one of the deadliest single attacks in Africa in recent decades.
Militants from Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM), an al Qaeda affiliate based in Mali and active in Burkina Faso, opened fire methodically as they swept into the outskirts of Barsalogho on motorcycles and shot down villagers, who lay helpless in the freshly upturned dirt of the trench, according to several videos of the August 24 attack posted by pro-JNIM accounts on social media. Many of the dead were women and children, and the footage is punctuated by the sound of automatic gunfire and screams of victims as they are shot while apparently trying to play dead.
The rest of the article is a "I told you so American soldiers in the Sahel is actually good these dumb Africans brought Ruzzians who aren't good :smug:"
United Nations peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, Unifil, are no longer able to move in southern Lebanon as a result of fighting between Hezbollah and Israel, the UN said.
“Our UNIFIL Blue Helmets remain in position in the mission’s area of responsibility, while the intensity of fighting is preventing their movements and ability to undertake their mandated tasks,” Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told a media briefing.
“Given the intensity of the rockets going back and forth, they are not able to do patrolling".
Sounds like some heavy fighting has started.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the UN to recommend the use of force to stop Israeli strikes on Lebanon and Gaza.
Erdogan invoked a six-decade-old Security Council resolution.
“The UN General Assembly should rapidly implement the authority to recommend the use of force, as it did with the 1950 Uniting for Peace resolution, if the Security Council can’t show the necessary will,” Erdogan says after a cabinet meeting in Ankara.
If Israel starts shooting Turkish soldiers does that mean the US has a NATO obligation to nuke Tel Aviv?
Hezbollah confirms killing 17 Israeli officers and soldiers attempting to infiltrate Lebanon in today’s confrontations
https://xcancel.com/eyesonsouth1/status/1841894586714628581?s=46
⚡️⭕️ IOF announces the start of the invasion of #Lebanon:
In accordance with the decision of the political echelon, a few hours ago, the IOF began limited, localized, and targeted ground raids based on precise intelligence against Hezbullah targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
They add that these targets are located in villages close to the border and pose an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel.
so far no incursiona reported in Lebanon
It's official now. I have an horrible pit in my stomach
https://nitter.poast.org/ME_Observer_/status/1840888777503621543#m
What is the appropriate response to us “celebrating” Oct 7th? Should we celebrate it? I mean, what we saw was an incredibly heroic attempt of a colonized people to break their chains. It has in some ways been a success beyond imagining. I truly believe this will be remembered as the very beginning of the end of the Zionist entity. However, the cost to people of Gaza, the West Bank, and now Lebanon is almost beyond comprehension. So what is the correct response? Sober remembrance of the fallen that day and every day since?
Weapons grade cope in this morning's Economist. (In their Espresso app so I can only share the text, no link)
When an Israeli bomb killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hizbullah, last week it also decapitated a fearsome militia and dealt a blow to Iran’s “axis of resistance”, a constellation of proxy forces. His funeral is rumoured to be held on Friday. Since then, Iran has fired directly on Israel. But it appeared to fail in its objectives of hitting two air-force bases and a military-intelligence facility. Most of the missiles were intercepted and destroyed mid-air.
"Most of the missiles" is truly incredible reality invention, especially given we've more and more satellite evidence Iran successfully hit those airbases.
Iran is ending this year weaker than it began. Although it has warned Israel against hitting back, Israel’s retaliation will probably be of a far greater magnitude. And the proxies that are its first line of defence are struggling. Hamas is markedly weaker after a year of war in Gaza; the Houthis’ income has been cut along with the flow of goods from Hodeida, Yemen’s main port. As Iran mourns Nasrallah, it also mourns the depletion of its power.
They really are living on another planet. Hamas is still functioning and scoring hits on a war machine a hundred times its size after a year of war, Hezbollah is holding off an Israeli invasion, and Yemen has successfully reshaped global shipping lanes with its own power projection. Iran just carried out the largest single day ballastic missile strike in history, has joined BRICS, and negotiated a détente with Saudi Arabia. How exactly is it getting less powerful?
Scoop: U.S. wants to use Hezbollah's weakness to elect new Lebanese president
U.S. officials say the White House wants to take advantage of Israel's massive blow to Hezbollah's leadership and infrastructure to push for an election of a new Lebanese president in the coming days.
Why it matters: Lebanon hasn't had a president for almost two years, which has increased instability and exacerbated the political and economic crisis in the country.
- Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah, top militia commanders and other Hezbollah members were killed by Israeli airstrikes in recent weeks, weakening the influential militia.
- The Israeli attacks killed more than 1,100 people in Lebanon, including dozens of women and children, the Lebanese health ministry said without specifying how many of the people killed were Hezbollah members. Hezbollah in recent weeks stopped publishing the number of casualties it suffered.
Good old regime change was likely the decision for Israel to assassinate Nasrallah. I kept thinking about what Michael Hudson said the other day that Terrorism has become the only non-Atomic war alternative for the US empire to shape the geopolitical conflicts to advance its interests.
FP article on Ukraine is quite funny. Russia wants to leave captured territory in exchange for Ukraine being neutral, the US wants to offer Russia territory in order to get Ukraine into NATO - https://archive.is/Ylpt9#selection-4797.0-2364.61
“Land for [Nato] membership is the only game in town, everyone knows it,” says one senior western official. “Nobody will say it out loud . . . but it’s the only strategy on the table.”
dont mind me googling "netanyahu slandering the lion of syria" for headlines I can use to make a
meme when the time comesDeath to America
There are rumors that Israel struck Maher Al Assad, brother of Bashar Al Assad yesterday, some of the Resistance sources are notoriously silent on that, so right now I'm assuming he's dead. That's someone that I won't mourn at all, I'm not happy about the Israelis killing people, but Maher is such a notorious piece of shit so he's better off dead. One day when I'm more emotionally stable and focused, you'll get a full breakdown of Syria and how bad Assad's rule really is. We like the Assad memes, but I do really hate him and his leech family. He's better than the Jihadis, but that's not a high bar tbh.
Main suspect of apparent accident fails to alleviate suspicion:
https://xcancel.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1841817164803662152In an interview to Israel Hayom newspaper, Israeli Minister of Finance and de-facto governor of the West Bank, Bezalel Smotrich, hinted that Israel was behind Iranian president Raisi's helicopter crash (!) last May.
The zionist terror regime bombed a humanitarian train in Syria, destined for Lebanon. Another day, another 100 war crimes by the genocidal regime
Iran didn't tell the US shit before wrecking the Zionist entity:
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/if-you-attack-us--you-ll-be-on-the-verge-of-collapse--demiseIran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi affirms that no messages were exchanged between Iran and the US prior to the operation.
Americans need to pack up their shit and go home. They probably have a few days to withdraw, if that, before they drag us into another war.
shit looks post apocalyptic. hate to be a
but it seems like it could be from Horizon or TLOU.edit: her tiktok has other great footage
Don’t forget to fill out your apology forms folks!
The tomato king will one day pay for his continued treachery:
https://xcancel.com/QudsNen/status/1841194090651701625According to local sources in Jordan, multiple injuries were reported after the Jordanian government allowed American forces to intercept Iranian missiles heading towards Israel, which were intercepted over civilian areas in several regions of Jordan.
Good action, but why does Palestine Action keep on posting their faces while doing felonies?
https://xcancel.com/JesseJenkins/status/1840773225070158215
critical support to the US in reducing carbon emissions by de-electrifying itself
gommunism no food? capitalism no power!
NYT: After Missile Attack, Israel May Be Ready to Risk All-Out War With Iran
The first 90+% is cheerleading for war. In the last ~120 words there are finally criticisms...
To some experts, however, Israelis risk underestimating Iran’s resilience and overestimating their own ability to cause meaningful damage.
“The approach that Israel has had over 75 years has always been about hitting your enemy harder than you’re being hit,” said Andreas Krieg, an expert on warfare at King’s College, London. “That doesn’t work with a regime like Iran, though. I don’t think you can deter them.”
As a result, Israel may be able to inflict short-term damage but fall short of long-term change, he said.
“I still haven’t seen a strategy,” Mr. Krieg said. “That’s what I’m trying to get from the Israelis: What is your strategy to weaken the regime?”
Things in the southeast are very bleak
CW: Death, Trauma
Saw this just now as a news update from NRK (machine translated from Norwegian):
Iran's defense chief threatens Israel with destroying all Israeli infrastructure if Israel attacks Iran. AFP reports.
"The bombing will be repeated with higher intensity and all infrastructure in the country will be affected," Major General Mohammad Bagheri said on state television.
< me
< October 7th settlers' graves
< Them in hellI'm concerned that Israel is going to commemorate the day with its response to the Iranian attack. Nothing about the American response recently has given me confidence that they won't strike oil and nuclear infrastructure.
ISIS learned from the very best:
https://xcancel.com/tomyoungart/status/1842992469971202069Zionist horror now bombing next to Roman Temples in Baalbek, Lebanon, the largest & best preserved Roman temple site in the world.
As well as bombing hospitals, ambulances, Red Cross centers, clinics, schools.. is anyone going to stop this insanity?The Kurds that died for Palestine hexbear post
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is arguably one of the most important non-state actors in modern West Asia. While fighting a brutal guerrilla war against the Turkish government, it has also managed to inspire Kurdish movements in Syria, Iraq and Iran, as well as Iran’s non-Kurdish protesters. In a region where many parties are nakedly sectarian, the PKK has gone from Marxist-Leninist nationalism to a form of radical-democratic “libertarian municipalism” inspired by the late anarchist thinker Murray Bookchin.
For better or worse, the PKK exists today only because the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), a now-obscure Palestinian force, agreed to shelter some Kurdish exiles in the 1980s. That experience in the Palestinian camps permanently affected the worldview of the PKK’s founding generation. Not only did the PKK learn how to fight a guerrilla war, it also walked away with a strong sense of internationalism.
In fact, some of the PKK’s founding figures spent time in an Israeli detention camp as prisoners of war. Old issues of the party magazine Serxwebun tell the remarkable story of the “Beaufort Castle Heroes,” a group of Kurds who had been training at a Palestinian base in Lebanon when they were captured by Israeli forces in June 1982. (Serxwebun means “independence” in Kurdish.) New Lines is reporting much of their story in English for the first time.
Past failures can’t stop Indonesia from clearing forests, Indigenous lands for farms hexbear post
- The Indonesian government is embarking on yet another project to establish a massive area of farmland at the expense of forests and Indigenous lands, despite a long history of near-identical failures.
- The latest megaproject calls for clearing 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) in the district of Merauke in the eastern region of Papua for rice fields.
- Local Indigenous communities say they weren’t consulted about the project, and say the heavy military presence on the ground appears to be aimed at silencing their protests.
- Similar megaprojects, on Borneo and more recently also in Merauke, all failed, leaving behind destroyed landscapes, with the current project also looking “assured to fail,” according to an agricultural researcher.
I'm just struggling with the feeling that we're living in Bizarro World when it comes to Israel. They've been starving and massacring Palestine nonstop for coming up on a year, Lebanon starts attacking in solidarity with Gaza, and now Israel is invading Lebanon like they're the victim and need to defend themselves. Meanwhile Syria and Iran are potentially in Israel's sights, and us Westerners are supposed to support Israel? It's so blatantly obvious that they are the aggressors and main destabilizing force in the region, and all of this is completely their fault. Yet you talk to any lib or turn on the TV, and Israel is just the smol lil bean who's encircled by enemies on all sides. I fucking hate all of it.
Something something 99% interception rate muh iron dome arrow 3 technological marvel
Iran needed to shatter the Zionist air defense propaganda a long time ago. I always knew it was bullshit.
Gulf states are going to be panicking and actually trying to restrain Israel this time. If shit hits the fan, they can kiss their oil money goodbye.
This is the last thing I can post. I need to disappear for an hour or so. God's speed news thread.
Last week in the news mega, I made a comment about how state department narratives get laundered through network news by having incompetent "journalists" asks terrible questions with no follow up to state dept pros. The fact these news anchors don't actually know anything is the point. The people they have on to interview just work them over and reinforce the narratives that they want Americans to fully accept. Was watching another clip today of the same news anchor team (CBS Mornings) give a somewhat hostile interview to Ta-Nehisi Coates. I was getting annoyed so I decided to look up the bios of these three news anchors. The point isn't to pick on them specifically, they are just indicative of a wider issue in one the main ways Americans get their news (I would suspect more Americans watch network news than cable news).
First of the three anchors is Gayle King. She has some professional experience as a local news reporter but what she's really famous for - and presumably why she's an anchor on CBS' morning news show - is being Oprah Winfrey's best friend. By the way, I was acquainted with a local news reporter. She was a very nice person but would make Ron Burgundy look like Walter Kronkite.
Second, we have Nate Burleson. Nate is not in any way a journalist. He is actually... a former American football player (WR for the Minnesota Vikings). I am not making that up.
Finally, we have ostensibly the most qualified "journalist" Tony Dokoupil. He was the one who was asking the hasbara questions to Ta-Nehisi ("why have the Palestinians turned down every offer for peace?" and "Does Israel have a right to defend itself?") By the way he has two kids and an ex-wife who live in Israel, no bias there. He did get a degree in "Media Studies" and wrote for Newsweek for a few years... but honestly so have a lot of people. This guy seems completely unremarkable as a journalist and he doesn't seem to have won any awards or written anything memorable other than a book about what is was like to have a father who was a drug dealer. But he's in control (to an extent) of how millions of Americans get their news.
Having incompetent journalists who don't ask hard questions is just how capitalism and imperialism reproduces itself in the minds of Americans.
Nasrallah laughing his ass off in paradise right now. Glory to the Resistance, death to the Entity.
Someone thought making a video of Netanyahu running for the underground bunker was a good idea.
Someone thought posting it was a good idea too
Today, the inauguration of Mexico's first female president, Claudia Sheinbaum, who was elected in June of this year. Sheinbaum will replace Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, her mentor and the one who opened the doors to politics for the future president. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo, 66th President of the United Mexican States, and Mexico's first female president.
"I said goodbye to them thanking them for their expressions of support and solidarity with Mexico, its people and its government. Hugs from sisters and brothers to all." - AMLO
I will miss AMLO going on his press meeting and showing videos of Milei having meltdowns while AMLO look at it.
edit: reddit deleted it, twitter link: https://xcancel.com/redstreamnet/status/1841161717083967668
Imagine a year ago hearing that when Ugledar finally fell it would be at best the third most important WW3 news item.
🌟⚡️Field officer in Hezbollah: The price of propaganda photos in southern Lebanese villages was 20 soldiers
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"The photos published today by the Israeli enemy army of their soldiers near homes in a border village in southern Lebanon were taken in a geographical spot only dozens of meters away from the occupied territories, where, as everyone knows, some southerners built their homes close to the border
In order to obtain these photos, which the defeated Netanyahu desperately needs, the price was more than 20 dead and wounded among the elite soldiers, which forced the Israeli military censor to hide it and cover up the event"
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"This Friday afternoon, after artillery and air cover, the elite soldiers of the Israeli enemy army attempted to advance from two axes towards the towns of Maroun al-Ras and Yaron on the front edge
Upon the forces’ arrival at the previously prepared ambush points, and at the call of “Labbaik Ya Nasrallah,” the Islamic Resistance fighters detonated a number of explosive devices (some of which were planted yesterday) and clashed with the elite officers and soldiers with light and medium weapons and rockets, from close ranges that reached zero distance, which resulted in a number of deaths and wounded among the ranks of the infiltrating force. Those who were not wounded carried a dead or wounded person and withdrew under artillery cover from the enemy’s positions inside the occupied territories
The fighters of the Islamic Resistance monitor, follow and confront every hostile movement on the frontline in southern Lebanon, and pursue the Israeli enemy soldiers in their bases and rear barracks along the border line in the occupied territories, with artillery shells and rocket barrages"
Hey folks! I will be busy for a long while and will probably be inactive on this site for the same period. I am starting my final year of university - very exciting times ahead.
As a result I’d like to leave a short primer about Malaysian and Singaporean politics on a highly contentious issue: race. Feel free to DM for further elaboration or sources regarding Malaysian/Singaporean politics. I am happy to oblige (whenever I have the time).
Alright, here it goes.
Class, race, culture, community, ethnicity and religion. All are jumbled up when talking about politics in Malaysia and Singapore.
How so? Firstly we have to take a civilisational approach: Chinese, Indian, Malay and Orang Asal (“Original People”) all have their own unique history of thousands of years, and within each there are defining characteristics that define their social structure.
What happens when this long overlapping cultural exchange in the Straits of Malacca gets disrupted by more recent and numerous immigration from South and East Asia under colonization?
This leads to stratification and polarization of the Malayan political economy (old name for Peninsular Malaysia that includes Singapore).
The Malayan Left had many arguments and debates on how to handle these fundamental cultural issues that have plagued the region for centuries. The debate is still ongoing.
However, there, perhaps 2 main strands can be identified:
1. Those that defines cultural autonomy as the primary contradiction.
2. Those that defines class and national liberation as the primary contradiction.
Many organisations can be labelled as one or the other but those within the same camp may not necessarily agree with each other with everything.
For an example, those that fall into
1. often fall into communal fights with other groups. An example of this would be the Chinese Literacy Movement that sought to maintain the existence of colonial era Chinese Language Schools, which more often than not, are also not under the purview of the colonial government (ie. in effect are private schools).
2. often underestimate the role of culture and race in the social reproduction of the Malayan economy. An example of this would be the MCP (Malayan Communist Party). In many of their party debates, it was often assumed that after national liberation was achieved, racial/cultural/communal issues would vanish. Unfortunately for us, we did not achieve true independence and the racialised political economy remains.
Prologue -
I can continue of course but I hope this short glimpse can help you understand why in my arguments I often involve terms such as “racialised”, “culture” or “chauvinism”. Because it is an essential part of understanding Malayan politics.
But understanding Malayan politics also requires some understanding of South, East and Southeast Asian politics. Under the global hegemony of US-led Capital, Eurocentrism and Orientalism pervades many thinkers, even in the Global South. There must be acknowledgment of this fundamental inequality of intellectual production which is overwhelmingly skewed to the West.
Only then you can finally understand and deal with the material realities of what we, the peoples of the Third World, have to face everyday.
SeeRead you all later.Most effective Zionist propagandist: Uh aktually, the videos were played backwards. Those were aktually iron dome interceptors being launched.
Settler officer down
By the guardian
"Israel announces death of soldier killed 'during combat in Lebanon'
Israel has announced the death of a soldier in Lebanon during what it has described as its “limited” ground operation inside the neighbouring company.
It said the 22-year-old, part of a commando brigade, “fell during combat in Lebanon.”
Earlier Hezbollah claimed that it had inflicted casualties on Israeli troops it engaged in Maroun al-Ras, a Lebanese village in the south of the country which is opposite Avivim and Yir’on in Israel"
Israel taking firsts Ls directly by hezbollah. Probably more unreported as aways.
just now
The Israeli military on Friday told the residents of over 20 more southern towns in Lebanon to evacuate immediately, spokesperson Avichay Adraee said on X.
an hour ago
An Israeli strike has hit near the Masnaa border crossing, cutting off a road** hundreds of thousands** have used to flee in recent days, Reuters reports.
The crossing, between Syria and** Lebanon**, is now closed due to the strike, the Lebanese transport minister said.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-04/israel-lebanon-hezbollah-live-updates/104430472
reporting is when uncritically publishing media releases from the police and military with no comment or thought
also the australian govt is now discussing expelling the Iranian ambassador because of a tweet about Hezbollah, very cool, i love a good will they, or wont they
From El Mayadeen, on the damage caused by Iranian missiles:
According to the AP news agency [linked here], satellite images of a hangar at a major Israeli military air base appear to reveal a significant hole in the roof after a heavy barrage of Iranian missiles on Tuesday night.
The images of Nevatim airbase in southern "Israel" reportedly show roof damage in a row of buildings close to the main runway, with large debris scattered around, AP reports.
Nevatim houses some of "Israel’"s most advanced aircraft, including the US-made F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters. However, it is unclear from the satellite images if any aircraft were inside the hangar at the time of the strike, according to AP.
"A significant hole in the roof"
Here is an opinion poll from a country that has not experienced the phenomenon of "hasbara"
The vast majority of those who took part in Maskina's new survey for the association Iceland-Palestine say they sympathize more with the cause of Palestine than with Israel.
Participants were asked whether they sympathized more with the cause of Palestine or Israel, or equally with both.
The responses indicated that 72.5% sympathized more with the Palestinian cause than with Israel.https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/10742
Chinese anti-drone laser platform spotted at the big prayer service in Tehran.
Must be a new acquisition. Maybe there will be more weapons deals with China in the future?
Saudi Arabia also operates this system, so I guess another possibility is that they provided it as a goodwill gesture ("please don't blow up our oil").
Iranian tankers are leaving their berths en masse
I doubt they have crazy inside information, it's just that it looks likely enough to not risk the tankers being in port. Could be something imminent thoughThe PA has gone mask off.
In a traitorous assassination attempt, the treacherous “Palestinian Authority” targeted a car in #Tubas with gunfire and abducted the wounded Tubas Brigade fighter who was in the vehicle.
Security Forces of the PA began firing indiscriminately at people gathered around the Martyr’s Mosque.
According to local reports, fierce armed clashes have erupted between the resistance fighters of Tubas and the Security Forces
"We notice intense activity in the Iraqi airspace by the Americans and Israelis, and this indicates the possibility of an Israeli aggression being carried out inside Iraq. Accordingly, the Hezbollah Brigades renew their warning: Its response will not be limited to the entity only, but will include all aspects of the American presence..."
Richard D. Wolff & Michael Hudson: Middle East Exploding, Ukraine Crumbling! the US Take Action?
Michael Hudson had a normal one today. Even Richard Wolff was like wtf.
Also a lot of interesting anecdotes of Hudson (who apparently still live in the 1970s) during his time at the Hudson Institute (no relation, named after Hudson River) dealing with the neocons.
Judge for yourself if these are banger quotes or the deranged ramblings of a madman:
- “The United States doesn’t want to see a ceasefire, it wants to use Israel as a catapult; everything that happened today was planned out just 50 years back in 1973-74. I sat in meetings with the head of Mossad who then became Netanyahu’s chief military advisor. The whole strategy was worked out essentially by the Defense Department by the neoliberals and [Henry] “Scoop” Jackson - the ultra-right wing neocon who sponsored them all.”
- “The starting point for all US strategy since the 1970s was that Democracies no longer can field a domestic army with a military draft. America is not in a position able to field enough of an army to invade a country.”
- “That means today’s tactics are limited to bombing, not occupying countries. Neither the Israeli army or any other army are really able to invade and try to take over a country the way armies did during WWII.”
- “The US wars haven’t scaled back because it has a fallback position - it was going to rely on foreign troops to do the fighting as proxies instead of itself. The first example was to create the Wahhabi Jihadi fighters in Afghanistan and Jimmy Carter mobilized them against the secular Afghan interests. Carter justified this by saying, yes they’re Muslims, but after all we all believe in God, so the answer to the secular state of Afghanistan was Wahhabi fanaticism”
- “The US realized that in order for a country to fight to the last Afghan, the last Israeli, the last Ukrainian, you really need a country whose spirit is one of hatred.”
- “Herman Kahn’s (model for Dr. Strangelove) greatest achievement was to convince the US empire builders that the key to achieving their control of the Middle East was to rely on Israeli as their Foreign Legion.”
- “The US realized then that the only kind of full scale war that a Democracy can afford is an Atomic War, but that only works against adversaries who can’t retaliate. The result of today’s military alliances means that any attempt to use nuclear weapons is going to risk full scale nuclear war. What is left for the US? There is only one form of non-Atomic war that Democracies can afford, and that’s Terrorism. You should look at Ukraine and Israel as the Terrorist alternative to Atomic War.”
- “The whole idea of Ukraine and Israel is to bomb civilians, not military targets. It’s a fight to destroy the population under an Ideology of Genocide - that is absolutely central and not an accident.”
- “Zionism has been Christianized and has accepted the hatred of the Other”
- “There cannot be peace in Asia or in Ukraine, because then the status quo would remain and the US would not be able to take over these countries as satellites; peace would mean dependent countries gaining independence”
- “Many neocons at the Hudson Institute, 50 years ago, were Trotskyists or their fathers were Trotskyists and they have picked up Trotsky’s idea of Permanent Revolution; but instead of the Permanent Revolution spreading from the Soviet Union, the neocons believe the Permanent Revolution is the American Empire itself spreading to the entire world.”
- “Who wants to live in a world where we can’t control? Who wants to live in a world where we can’t siphon off their economic surplus for ourselves? That’s the kind of mentality we’re dealing with.”
Iron dome interceptor flew off in some random direction while the Yemeni drone was able to hit its target. (CW: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo):
https://xcancel.com/revolutionaryem/status/1841629430570987983Hamas claims responsibility for deadly Israel shooting attack
The armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas has claimed responsibility for a shooting attack in Jaffa, near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, that left seven people dead and many others wounded.
“The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades takes responsibility for the heroic Jaffa operation carried out by the fighters from the [occupied West Bank] city of Hebron,” the group said in a statement on Wednesday.
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades named the attackers as Mohammed Misk and Ahmed al-Haimoni, who managed to “infiltrate into our occupied lands”.
The attack came moments before Iran launched a barrage of rockets at Israel late on Tuesday, sending people into bomb shelters across the country.
Israeli media have identified three of the dead people as Israelis and one as Georgian. The others were Greek and Moldovan, their governments said. The identity of the seventh victim has not been released
My recap of events for today (October 1st, 2024) on the Palestine/Lebanon front.
Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) launched Operation True Promise II in response to the martyrdom of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyah, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and IRGC commander Abbas Nilforoushan. Around 200 missiles (including some Fattah-2 hypersonic ballistic missiles) struck many targets: three Zionist military bases near Tel Aviv (including the Tel Nof air base); an offshore gas platform near Ashkelon; air and radar bases; and Zionist intelligence bases used to organize assassinations. Some reports say that the strikes destroyed up to twenty F-35 fighter planes at the Zionists’ southern Nevatim air base. Tel Aviv’s propagandists are frantically denying the strikes’ severity.
Lebanese Hezbollah forces conducted Fadi-4 rocket strikes on the Zionists’ Military Intelligence Directorate's Unit 8200 signal intelligence division at the Glilot military base, near Tel Aviv. In addition, the resistance also struck the northern Zionist settlements of Safed and Dovev; and Zionist troop concentrations near Metula and Avivim.
Little has been said about last night’s Zionist invasion attempt on southern Lebanon. In fact, reports are coming in that the Zionist military never actually crossed the border. However, border clashes occurred near the northern Zionist settlement of Shtula and the southern Lebanese settlements of Adaisseh and Kfar Kila.
this clip is incredible
Is Harris really ‘the lesser of the two evils’ to the equally repulsive Trump? Genocide must come with a political price. DO NOT VOTE HARRIS.
@SALHACHIMI explains on @thinking_muslim
A moving section.
https://xcancel.com/jalalayn/status/1841415417018868209
the full video
Why US Muslims are Abandoning Harris with Sami Hamdi | The Thinking Muslim
Wow, can't believe Commie Kamala seeded the clouds to make the hurricanes worse and also gave all the FEMA money to the illegals so now they can't provide enough emergency relief to North Carolina, boy is it swell being able to make up fairy tales so as not to confront the realities of climate change and imperialism. We also need to stop giving Ukraine all our money...oh wait, Israel needs $400 billion to blow up a school? By all means, I'm okay with that!
Happy october 7th, death to israel and western imperealism!
Gaza: returning the hostages
Lebanon: returning the northern settlers to their homes
How about you just return the land you freaks
More details on the US troop deployment to the Middle East.
The U.S. is sending a “few thousand” troops to the Middle East to bolster security and to defend Israel if necessary, the Pentagon said Monday. The announcement follows word that Israel has already launched limited raids across the border into Lebanon.
The additional forces would raise the total number of troops in the region to as many as 43,000...
The additional personnel includes squadrons of F-15E, F-16, and F-22 fighter jets and A-10 attack aircraft, and the personnel needed to support them. The jets were supposed to rotate in and replace the squadrons already there. Instead, both the existing and new squadrons will remain in place to double the airpower on hand.
Looking at that force, which will obviously be supplemented by EA-18G Growler Electronic Warfare (EW) aircraft from aircraft carriers in the region, it is a very diverse force capable of carrying out a first strike on any country in the region and bypassing their air defences, or being capable of supporting strikes, close air support with air superiority being secured, or intercepting ballistic missile attacks.
The F-15E Strike Eagle is a two seat, twin engine multirole jet very capable at air interdiction missions. This was the type of jet that shot down quite a few Iranian drones during the Iranian retaliation earlier this year. It can carry out air to air and air to ground missions.
The F-16 is a single seat, single engine multirole aircraft capable of air to air and air to ground missions. It is a jet that also has a variant and squadrons trained exclusively for "wild weasel" tactics, which involve baiting air defences and shooting anti radiation missiles at their location.
The F-22 is a twin engine, single seat stealth fighter jet, designed for air superiority, but is also capable of limited air to ground missions. Should be able to fly over the entire region without having to worry about being detected or shot down, gives the option for a stealth first strike on any country.
The A-10 is a ground attack aircraft designed exclusively for Close Air Support (CAS) missions. It is very venerable to enemy air defences and even MANPADS, requires complete air superiority to be used. But it is good at that role, designed around it's 30mm Gatling gun.
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on the invadersNetanyahu trembles during announcement
Over 1,000,000 Lebanese have been displaced from the south, with at least one AMA-funded school now having to be repurposed as a refugee shelter one week before opening as a school otherwise. AMA personell have also come just meters from being hit by airstrikes.
Sources: Africa Muslims Agency (AMA) Instagram, Salaamedia Live
Zionists in South Africa have literally lodged complaints that "Jewish students and faculty do not claim to feel unsafe as Jews in South Africa's universities". They of course also take it real personal when the SAJFP hosts their "Shabbos against genocide" and continues to be very active politically. - Africa4Palestine, SAJFP
Actual complaint by the way. Likely the people who call themselves "openly Zionist" got reprimanded by various universities in South Africa, namely UCT, for making thinly-veiled bomb threats or chanting Islamophobic slurs.
The SAJR, SAZF and SAJBD also have praised the "israeli" targeted destruction of South African humanitarian missions in Gaza, specifically the ones led by Gift of the Givers
Their days really are numbered:
https://xcancel.com/revolutionaryem/status/1841636074486911443Ziоnist ambulance: We are heading to the “Bat Yam” area to treat those who were injured during the stampede while fleeing to shelters in “Tel Aviv”
death to america
death to israel
death to imperialism
all glory to the martyrs
liberation is on the horizon
The Saudis realized their oil refineries are completely toast if they continue to do nothing:
https://twitter.com/SinaToossi/status/1841893818976608575?mx=1Reports coming out showing hundreds of civilians in liberated Ugledar. This city has been under constant siege and attack for over 2 years and basically looks like a pile of rubble from the air. Why the fuck did Ukraine not forcibly evacuate the population in the 2 years of fighting? Like what the fuck
Good morning to everyone especially the resistance fighters who yeeted at least 4 fascist soldiers in an ambush.
in light of today's events i'd like to remind everyone that nothing ever happens and russia is never going to invade ukraine
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⚡️🚨CBS quoting an American official:
Israel informed us that the ground operation that will be launched in southern #Lebanon is imminent and may begin tonight
⚡️🚨AP on the Pentagon :
US to send a 'few thousand' additional troops to the Middle East to boost security and defend Israel if needed
https://nitter.poast.org/ME_Observer_/status/1840785650347286997
Lebanon foreign minister says Nasrallah himself agreed to a ceasefire shortly before Israel bombed him
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/10478
Close-up of an Iranian ballistic missile striking its target
If you want to watch the live Jill Stein / Abandon Harris rally in Dearborn here the linky.
Zionazis put explosives in food cans and killed 3 kids thinking they were recieving food.
Tel Aviv getting hit with Yemeni drones:
https://xcancel.com/MayadeenEnglish/status/1841635711520248301:#BREAKING | Israeli media reports that a drone was intercepted over Herzilya, while four others launched from #Yemen exploded at low altitude around Tel Aviv.
Into Other news :
Ugledar has Fallen
and a big dick Russian Breakthrough at Seversk
Edit: Super wierd town btw . 1 double row of houses 3 ,5 km long.
From the satellite footage so far of the Israeli air bases, I'd say they got perhaps 2x F-35s destroyed, not 20. The Iranian missiles just aren't accurate enough to take on hardened hangers unless fired in higher volume. I'd wager it's still a cost effective way to knock out F-35s in a full war though.
It appears that if war kicked off and Iran did some full sends, they could actually do some real damage, and I'm guessing that was the message they wanted to send.
On one hand, it is comforting to know that this will be the death of Israel and contribute to the death of the American empire. On the other, we will bear witness to many monstrous events and it may take decades still to come to fruition. May the victory for the oppressed be as swift and bloodless as could be possible.
Today has been a pretty great day, so cathartic after the events of the past few months.
I don't believe this alone will end the zionist entity, of course, there is still a long road ahead. A long road filled with yet more pain and bitterness. There will be ups and downs, and today has shown that even amidst all the "downs," there are still "ups" to look forward to. It has reminded everyone that Israel is not invincible, and Iran is still in the fight after all.
And unlike the Zionists, I won't declare victory just yet. I will not declare victory until the last settler boards the helicopter bound out of Palestine.
God did I feel my humanity seeping back into me. I've never felt so relieved in my life.
The IRGC has developed an undeclared technology to punish Israel - Tasnim (in Farsi)
The Revolutionary Guards have acquired new technology and equipment, which can give them a big surprise if the Zionist regime acts against our country.
Some informed sources told the defense reporter of Tasnim news agency that the reason for the IRGC's patience for several weeks to punish the Zionist terrorists is to complete and develop some undeclared technologies that keep Iran in a completely superior position over the Zionists.
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According to these sources, during the past weeks, very sensitive and new information has been collected and missile systems have been updated in a way that will surprise and weaken Israel.
These sources say that the reason for not intercepting more than 90% of Iran's missiles in the Operation Truthful Promise 2 are those new capability and technologies which important part of them have not been used yet.
Based on this, the IRGC is ready to make new surprises for the Zionists if they act.
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I believe Operation True Promise 2 was the largest one day ballistic missile attack in history, someone correct me if I'm wrong. 181 ballistic missiles launched according to Israeli claims.
Russia's largest one day volley in Ukraine was August 27, 2024 and it involved lots of drones but only "100 missiles of various types", most of which were cruise missiles. I believe there were a handful of Khinzals here as well.
The US and allies don't really tend to fight using ballistic missiles that much in tactical warfare, so I don't think they've beaten the record. Maybe mass SCUD launches outnumbered these attacks, but these new Iranian missiles are far more sophisticated and accurate and damaging.
Oh they 100% fucked up a bunch of aircraft:
https://xcancel.com/Archer83Able/status/1841187750914990106IDF: The capabilities of the Air Force have been fully preserved - we will strike firmly in the Middle East tonight.
4.6 Earthquake on the Richter scale registered in the Iranian desert, which apparently rarely sees earthquakes. I see some speculation online it might have been nuclear tests.
Does anyone here have any information that would confirm or disprove this? Would an underground nuclear test potentially cause a 4.6 Earthquake alarm?
Mexican President Sheinbaum Pays Tribute to Victims of the Tlatelolco Massacre - Telesur English
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The student movement of 1968 opened the door to greater democratization of the Mexican society, she pointed out.
On Wednesday, President Claudia Sheinbaum dedicated her first morning press conference to the victims of October 2, 1968, when the Mexican State perpetrated a massacre against hundreds of students protesting just days before the Olympic Games.
“Today, on the first morning press conference of the people in the second phase of the Fourth Transformation, we are going to dedicate it to October 2. October 2 is not forgotten!,” she stressed.
In this first event, Sheinbaum stated that what happened 56 years ago in Tlatelolco Plaza in Mexico City was “one of the greatest atrocities experienced in Mexico in the second half of the 20th century,” with over 300 people killed and hundreds of political prisoners.
“Gustavo Diaz Ordas, the then president and commander in chief of the Armed Forces, ordered the repression against students to whom he had promised dialogue but who were killed and imprisoned,” she noted.
Sheinbaum explained that the subject is “personal” and “painful” for her because she was six years old when it happened, and her mother, Annie Pardo, was a professor at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) during the 1968 student movement and was expelled for participating in it.
Interior Secretary Rosa Rodriguez will offer a public apology on behalf of the State to the victims, a practice that former President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO) had begun.
“The student movement of 1968 opened the door for political participation of many young people and society as a whole for a more democratic country. For me, the triumph of that movement was in 2018 with the electoral victory of President AMLO, who restored freedoms, democracy, and justice for the people of Mexico,” Sheinbaum stated.
R/Lebanon was discussed on here recently. For further illustration, this is the top post on r/Lebanon right now:
This is top post on r/Lebanese
"A truth is to be known always, to be uttered sometimes. Your thought sees power in armies, cannons, battleships, submarines, aeroplanes, and poison gas." Khalil Gibran
i like playing with the True Size Of.. website sometimes just to compared other nations/territories to expaneses i'm more personally familiar with (as i have traveled a lot in parts of the U.S.)
but to any ghouls out there that think Iran is just ripe for a U.S. invasion. it's basically like invading the entire U.S. east coast east of the Mississippi (minus Florida and Maine).
oh and making it vastly more mountainous. so like triple the geographic coverage of the entire Appalachian range
all through naval invasion or invading through other nations that will fight back. good luck
Middle East Spectator on Telegram:
— ❗️🇮🇱/ 🇱🇧 NEW: The IDF admits at least 8 deaths in Lebanon so far:
– Captain Harel Etinger, 23, a team commander in the Egoz Commando Unit, from Eli.
– Captain Itai Ariel Giat, 23, of the Yahalom Combat Engineering Unit, from Shoham.
– Captain Eitan Olster, 23, a team commander in the Egoz Unit.
– Sgt. First Class Noam Barzilay, 22, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kohav Yair.
– Sgt. First Class Or Mantzur, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Beit Aryeh.
– Sgt. First Class Nazar Itkin, 21, of the Egoz Commando Unit, from Kiryat Atta.
– Staff Sgt. Almken Terefe, 21, of the Golani Brigade's reconnaissance unit, from Jerusalem.
– Staff Sgt. Ido Broyer, 21, of the Golani Brigade's reconnaissance unit, from Nes Tziona.
Middle East Spectator on Telegram
❗️🇮🇱/ 🇱🇧 NEW: 'The fighters of the Islamic Resistance destroyed 3 Israeli Merkava tanks with ATGMs which were advancing towards Maroun al-Ra'as' – Hezbollah
Iran Attacked "Israel" Only After U.S. Rejected Its Moderate Stance | Moon of Alabama
Not that I think it matters overly much - I can't say I give a single solitary shit about Mohammed bin Salman - but China must be looking at this whole situation hiding behind their hands a little. Brought Saudi Arabia and Iran closer together in opposition to US planning, and now we might, before too long, see Iran (or groups allied to them) blowing up their refineries in a giant war, alongside those in other regional monarchies.
The @xiaohongshu@hexbear.net approach would be to praise America for subverting that Chinese plan, and I can't really say that's terribly wrong, but the Biden admin October Surprise-ing itself due to potentially dramatically raising oil prices also doesn't seem very productive. Perhaps they'll tell Israel to hold off until mid-November.
I was away from the computer for a few hours and so I turned on CNN and MSNBC to see what was up - and they both were covering a Pentagon press briefing about Iran and a chyron made me up to date. It's almost funny how the US cable news is a media arm of the Pentagon.
And then I started to check live update pages and the fetish towards US-centric coverage is at times Onion-like.
Two U.S. naval destroyers launched a dozen interceptors against the incoming Iranian missiles, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The U.S.S. Bulkeley and the U.S.S. Cole fired the interceptors, Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon press secretary, said during a news conference. He said that no American troops – there are more than 40,000 in the region — were hurt in Tuesday’s attacks.
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I looked around a bit more and I noted Jake Sullivan say "the Iranian attack was ‘ineffective’". And there were mentions that there were no injuries but oddly (or not oddly at all really) - there was no mention of damage except for this quickie hasbara quip from the NYT
A video verified by The Times shows a crater inside the grounds of the Shalhavot Chabad elementary school in Gedera, Israel. The windows and facade of the school building next to the impact site were blown off.
If Israelis were injured in or near the Mossad building - I assume the Israelis lied about it.
From Al Mayadeen:
Lebanese Resistance field source to Al Mayadeen: Heroic epic which our fighters are conducting against Israeli elite forces at several axes in South Lebanon resulted in killing, wounding of more than 80 soldiers, officers; almost five tanks destroyed.
Very early and unconfirmed reports but there is a situation developing in Hmeimim Airbase, Syria, which is operated by Russia. Apparently the ammo depot in the base is gone. No more concrete details are known as of right now.
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/1841659953230008742
We'll wait and see. Original poster quickly puts the blame on either Ukraine or "Israel", could be an accident too.
God I hope Iran sets fire to every inch of Israeli infrastructure
Iranian media says flights are cancelled until next morning.
It seems that the US / UK terror regimes are increasing their terror attacks against Yemen
⚡️ ⭕️ #Yemen: Al Mayadeen correspondent:
4 aggressive raids target the north of the capital, #Sanaa
Oct 4, 2024 · 2:29 PM UTC
https://nitter.poast.org/ME_Observer_/status/1842210556578594818
I want to believe. Someone has claimed the "there are no babies to kill" freak has been liquidated in Lebanon.
https://twitter.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1841894709276316030?mx=1
Strike on Beirut International Airport
Lebanese troops have pulled back 5km north of the border with Israel, a Lebanese security source tells Reuters
Flares going up now on the border, constant artillery fire, attack helicopters in the air, reports Lebanese army is withdrawing from positions in this area, no word re: UNIFIL peacekeepers if they remain. Artillery is so constant and loud it is setting off car alarms in the city.
IDF are firing phosphorus bombs at Kfar Shuba and Khalta in southern Lebanon. The US military in the Middle East has also been put on heightened combat alert.
Can any Spanish speakers confirm this?
https://xcancel.com/chuy90023/status/1841936132323303753A good chunk of Argentinian President Javier Milei’s recent UN speech was plagiarized word for word from The West Wing.
spoiler
We’ve seen a very sharp escalation by Israelis, so has your call for restraint failed
Miller: Israel has a right to defend itself
Tom: Killing of more than 1000 people in 🇮🇱 strikes, million+ people displaced is a huge escalation, you were calling for restraint
Miller: We support them bringing terrorists to justice
idk if yall saw this
https://www.algemeiner.com/2024/09/11/canada-cancels-arms-export-licenses-israel/
canada cancelled a handful of arms deals to israel totalling 61mill in worth
Checking AP News to see headlines about the latest, why do they suck so much? Basically repeating the same sort of IDF propaganda we've seen in relation to the conflict. Talking about how hard it is to be Jewish in the US right now (mentioning 'divisive pro-Palestine protests,' give me a fuckin break), about the incredible air defences of Israel and how they completely foiled Iran's attack.
But in food related articles, they had one about how you can have good protein without meat and they have the worst photo of a shitty looking plate, are they trying to make vegan food unappealing?
Wtf is this?? I think it's a crack on the plate but it looks like a hair in it lol.
Source: Cutting back on meat doesn’t have to mean going without protein.Is Israel unhinged enough to retaliate with direct strikes on Iran? It would make zero strategic sense. My guess is they will probably let out their fury on Lebanon and try to maintain the narrative that the Iranian strikes were a failure that don’t need a response. But I also keep underestimating Israel’s bloodthirsty recklessness so I’m not really sure.
Loving the good news around Iran's long-awaited response. Happy to see zionists getting domed again.
I am a microbrain so I don't usually post, but I was thinking about the bullshit ceasefire that Iran was offered. If Pezeshkian and the gang had just said "No, your words are worth nothing" and refused the offer, some ghoul would absolutely have been crowing about that and it probably would have been used as a propaganda argument, right?
Plus, the most immediate goal for the resistance is still to stop zionist soldiers from killing people in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon and elsewhere, right? Even if the US has a history of lying through their teeth all the time, this could have been the one time they actually were being honest, especially since I truly don't think it benefits the US for Isntreal to be stomping around with their ground forces losing troops all over the place. So I guess, I can sort of see the devils-advocate logic for why Iranian leadership would at least be compelled to try to meet these losers halfway on a potential ceasefire, regardless of the history of lies. Maybe the thought was: finally, the US thinks Isntreal has gone too far?
Just spitballing so I'm curious to hear takes on this. For what it's worth I'm also pretty sure the US just will not reign in its attack dog even when it would objectivelty benefit them. Biden just set the limit for zionist support as Iran's nuclear sites...
https://xcancel.com/Israel_katz/status/1841422324890812763 CW: unhinged settler lies about SA
Secretary-General Guterrez is now "persona non grata" in Israel because he failed to condemn Iran now or Hamas regarding 7th October attacks
He actually did condemn the attacks last October but I guess it was not enough because he also said they didn't happen in a vacuum.
🟡| Hezbollah announces destroying Merkavas:
We destroyed 3 Merkava tanks with guided missiles at 5:00 PM, while they were advancing towards the town of Maroun al-Ras.
Yo ! they apperently pushed again towards Maroun al-Ras this time to the north , apperently heavy loses again. The lack of Israeli advances might also be connected to Hezbollah freely dishing out the local Specialities to their Gatheringplaces
The big news of the day on the Donbass front: Russian forces conducted a successful pincer movement and liberated the small, but heavily fortified, southern Donetsk People’s Republic city of Ugledar. The remaining Kiev regime troops attempted fleeing through fields to the city’s north under heavy Russian fire. Some surrendered to save their lives. Below are two videos showing the city’s liberation.
Russian flags and Victory Banners waving over buildings in the DPR’s Ugledar (part 1): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/ugl1-3.mp4?_=1
Russian flags and Victory Banners waving over buildings in the DPR’s Ugledar (part 2): https://s5.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/admin.mp4?_=3
I sure do hope I'm not like super tired when I get home from work.
Loads of very special IP addresses I have just for the occasion
Thread of Hamas prepping and the first moments of Oct 7th:
https://xcancel.com/Ayita_14/status/1814997438505103684It appears that Syrian news broadcaster Safaa Ahmed has died as a result of Israeli airstrikes in Damascus tonight.
The General Authority for Radio and Television mourns the great broadcaster Safaa Ahmed, a martyr, as a result of the treacherous #Israeli aggression that the capital, #Damascus, was subjected to.
It appears as if she ended up reporting on her own death...
The attack is obviously deserved but I'm scared about what happens next.
If israel strikes back, the Iran will also do so. Maybe this is the best course of action, if it leads to israel losing, but if it doesn't, or it leads to ww3...
On the other hand, if israel does nothing, then maybe Iran will consider this a job well done and back down while the idf stays in Lebanon.
Holy shit, hearing the coverage on western media is fucking enraging.
-Mention Oct. 7 and all the innocent people that died.
-Hope for a ceasefire (LOL)
-Hamas refuses because leadership was killed
No mention of the thousands of innocent Palestinians that have been killed and displaced.
And now they're talking about how Iran is making a point of attacking during Jewish holidays as if Israelis don't attack Palestians during their holidays
link
doesn't iran know they're just helping to just solidify electing trump? can't they play nice with the kamala and work on a nice deal after the election
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Bernie is going to be in Grand Rapids, MI on Sunday 3/6 at 11am with 
to bullshit people in Michigan about 
.
The double speak on gaza is ridiculous