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If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.


Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.


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Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

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

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Resources For Understanding The War


Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.

Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.


Telegram Channels

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Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.

https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.

https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

Almost every Western media outlet.

https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.

https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.


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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"It seems to me that the view of Hamas, the strategy if there is one, is that in a way they probably view the hostages as leverage."

some incredible insight here, wow I never thought of it like that

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the strategy if there is one

motherfucker hamas just perfectly executed an impossible jailbreak and national humiliation operation by land sea and air and you're wondering if they have a strategy

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's gotta be deliberate right? You don't get to that position being that fucking obtuse, right?

What am I saying of course it's fucking deliberate

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you have to be exactly that obtuse to get a position like that

the last thing we want are journalists who are smart and inquisitive enough to question prevailing government narratives dontcha know

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

lying through their teeth and calling it a smile

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago

Money can be exchanged for goods and services

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And here all this time I thought Hamas was just lonely and looking for friends!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

From ABCs Global Affairs Editor lol lmao

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same energy as when the press kept saying that Russia would nefariously use a ceasefire to regroup and rest it's forces

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is so wildly racist lmao “the strategy of the brown barbarians, I mean if there even IS one because they’re so stupid they can’t even put a sentence together”

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

anything to uphold the narrative that history began on October 7. It wasn't a well executed military operation, it was an unjustified terror attack. They didn't subdue military installations, they targeted ravers and babies. It's not genocide, it's appropriate and justified response. They were told to move south, ergo anyone in the north is a terrorist. Then they bombed the south. This was unavoidable as there was terrorist infrastructure under those refugee camps.

Bad terrorist, good occupier. Do not look further.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

If this really is Israel's 9/11 (lol) we can expect a massive ramping of surveillance apparatus and tightening of security. Idk exactly what that looks like in a place as secure and surveilled as occupied Palestine and Israel, but patriot act 2 will be fun ig

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought history began on February 24, 2022.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Marvel vs. DC. They have absolutely nothing in common. Beware of trademark infringement.