There is less water being supplied to entire cities in Gaza than, by comparison, even into one to a few apartment towers in the working-class areas of Johannesburg. Ponte City, a skycraper with 3,500 residents gets 100,000L more water per day than Khan Younis, a city of 205,000. The comparison gets even worse if the amount of clean water is factored in.

A SINGLE APARTMENT TOWER has more clean water than the entire Gaza Strip.

And the depravity is of people genuinely over the moon beyond their wildest dreams.

this Yemen shit is amazing , the fucking Zionist have no idea how to play it .. since they can close the aden straight and threaten all the US assets there (Dschibutie , Somalia) ,

Chad Yemen just shot down a US drone in international airspace , while virgin russia lets them stil fly alonge the Crimea coast. And it seems like the US just took it..

The IDF have released a report finding that Hamas bases are located in and around the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon

a fourth location yet to be released is also mentioned

Dude from gaza predicted the latest propaganda over 2 weeks ago lmao

The Nyan Cat YouTube channel has posted a pro-Palestine video. Those two videos are the only ones on the channel.

TL note: This used to be the channel for MeansTV, so not super surprising but still

Norm back with a dunk on

https://twitter.com/normfinkelstein/status/1723721210981237115

https://nitter.net/normfinkelstein/status/1723721210981237115

I'm on a big BadEmpanada kick recently, his twitter posting is so unhinged and funny

Zelensky’s Visit to Israel May Be Canceled over News Leak (Palestine Chronicles / RT, 6th of November 2023)

A planned trip to Israel by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky later this month may be canceled after Israel’s Channel 12 news was tipped off about the visit, an unnamed Ukrainian diplomat told the Times of Israel on Sunday.

“He wanted the trip to be public when he stepped on Israeli soil,” the official told the news outlet, adding that Zelensky was “very disappointed.”

The Ukrainian leader was expected to visit Israel as soon as next week, Channel 12 reported on Friday, claiming the plans were already at an “advanced stage.”

The visit was supposed to represent “something of a united front of Israel, Ukraine, Europe, and the US against the Russia-Iran axis.”

This would culminate in a photo Zelensky would take with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli President Isaac Herzog to “send a message of the enlightened world under attack, standing against the less-enlightened world, attacking,” according to the network.

https://twitter.com/DavidKlion/status/1723707586380214373

https://nitter.net/DavidKlion/status/1723707586380214373

Simply astonishing, watching this dude insult and condescend to Israel’s critics as he slowly discovers basic facts about the conflict and reaches the same conclusions those critics reached years ago

Can't believe the smartest neoliberals in the room are actually a bunch of dumbasses with no understanding of reality.

love to have mfs who think Abbas is the CEO of Hamas tell me that I only support Palestine because I'm uneducated

The unbreakable spirit of Palestine's heroic collective resistance shines in this video from the clashes in #Jenin earlier today.

All embody resistance: A resistance fighter, wounded while engaging in an armed clash with the IOF, fell to the ground. A medic rushed to save him, carrying the fighter's rifle to safeguard it. An IOF sniper shoots the heroic medic, who also fell.

At this moment, a bystander came from afar to uplift the cause, took the inherited rifle from the medic, and continued to shoot at the zionist forces with the rifle and the united determination of a people who will never kneel

https://t.me/PalestineResist/18778

god damn dude

As soon as the colonized begin to strain at the leash and to pose a threat to the colonist, they are assigned a series of good souls who in the “Symposiums on Culture” spell out the specificity and richness of Western values. But every time the issue of Western values crops up, the colonized grow tense and their muscles seize up. During the period of decolonization the colonized are called upon to be reasonable. They are offered rocksolid values, they are told in great detail that decolonization should not mean regression, and that they must rely on values which have proved to be reliable and worthwhile. Now it so happens that when the colonized hear a speech on Western culture they draw their machetes or at least check to see they are close to hand. The supremacy of white values is stated with such violence, the victorious confrontation of these values with the lifestyle and beliefs of the colonized is so impregnated with aggressiveness, that as a counter measure the colonized rightly make a mockery of them whenever they are mentioned. In the colonial context the colonist only quits undermining the colonized once the latter have proclaimed loud and clear that white values reign supreme. In the period of decolonization the colonized masses thumb their noses at these very values, shower them with insults and vomit them up.

Such an occurrence normally goes unseen because, during decolonization, certain colonized intellectuals have established a dialogue with the bourgeoisie of the colonizing country. During this period the indigenous population is seen as a blurred mass. The few “native” personalities whom the colonialist bourgeois have chanced to encounter have had insufficient impact to alter their current perception and nuance their thinking. During the period of liberation, however, the colonialist bourgeoisie frantically seeks contact with the colonized “elite.” It is with this elite that the famous dialogue on values is established. When the colonialist bourgeoisie realizes it is impossible to maintain its domination over the colonies it decides to wage a rearguard campaign in the fields of culture, values, and technology, etc. But what we should never forget is that the immense majority of colonized peoples are impervious to such issues. For a colonized people, the most essential value, because it is the most meaningful, is first and foremost the land: the land, which must provide bread and, naturally, dignity. But this dignity has nothing to do with “human” dignity. The colonized subject has never heard of such an ideal. All he has ever seen on his land is that he can be arrested, beaten, and starved with impunity; and no sermonizer on morals, no priest has ever stepped in to bear the blows in his place or share his bread. For the colonized, to be a moralist quite plainly means silencing the arrogance of the colonist, breaking his spiral of violence, in a word ejecting him outright from the picture. The famous dictum which states that all men are equal will find its illustration in the colonies only when the colonized subject states he is equal to the colonist. Taking it a step further, he is determined to fight to be more than the colonist. In fact, he has already decided to take his place. As we have seen, it is the collapse of an entire moral and material universe. The intellectual who, for his part, has adopted the abstract, universal values of the colonizer is prepared to fight so that colonist and colonized can live in peace in a new world. But what he does not see, because precisely colonialism and all its modes of thought have seeped into him, is that the colonist is no longer interested in staying on and coexisting once the colonial context has disappeared.

Blinken denounces civilian toll in Gaza, says ‘far too many Palestinians have been killed’

And the "No Shit Sherlock" award of 2023 goes to:

https://twitter.com/RobinBrooksIIF/status/1721942219442028817

@IDF just spotted Hamas tunnels under White House and Pentangon

Has anyone else noticed that Zionists and Israel apologists have quickly pivoted back to homophobia and transphobia as soon as they realized pinkwashing wasn't working?

Western leaders using "Never Again" Holocaust messaging to justify a ongoing genocide, becoming the equivalent of the Nazi-appeasers before/during WW2 upon who we look back on with such disgust (ignoring that leaders like Churchill were relatively pro-Nazi before it all kicked off, of course) would have shattered my previous liberal brain into a trillion pieces. The whiplash we've experienced in such a relatively short time (over the last 3-4 years or so) between:

1. the coronavirus pandemic telling us that we're all ultimately disposable and that over a million people can and should die, shoveled like coal chunks into the furnace of the economy, then

2. the war in Ukraine telling us that actually, people are worth things again, human life is precious and Russia is bad for destroying it, and we must arm Nazis, then

3. the Canada Hunka incident telling us that murderers who freely volunteered to commit atrocities against Jews and Roma and other groups is actually complicated and those anti-semitic genocidal atrocities could even be justified because of how bad the USSR was, so human life isn't actually precious anymore, then

4. the Gaza genocide telling us that, actually, any Jewish person being killed even if they're the equivalent of concentration camp guards is an unspeakable atrocity and resistance is unjustifiable if there's any violence involved, "they go low, we go high" but also we love Israel anyway so we don't even really think they're going low

From a non-racist liberal point of view (as in, they're still racist but don't think saying slurs is good, etc), this all must seem totally bonkers at least on a subconscious level. All liberal values seem to be currently in this violent political vortex, where sometimes a statement like "killing ethnic minorities is complicated" is not only true in one case (Ukrainian Nazis killing civilians in WW2, killing Palestinians in Gaza, etc) and false in another (Jewish settlers in Israel, who obviously aren't a minority in Israel but are on a global scale; the "Ughyur genocide", etc), but true and false for the exact same conflict. The only way to come out of this chaos with even a vaguely coherent political ideology is to either become a socialist or become an all-out racist and apologist/supporter of imperialism - and we're watching many people become the latter. Otherwise, you're just watching the news on the TV or your phone or your computer with a slack-jawed face while the words enter your brain without the slighest post-processing and then go about your day not ever thinking about how like, Russia killing 500 children in ~2 years is intentional, planned genocide but Israel killing over 4000 in a month is just an unfortunate Thing That Happened.

I don't think that people who do genuinely believe in the rules-based international order ("Yeah, the United States should try and maintain justice and order around the world, we can't let evil forces try and disrupt how great things are for everybody, sucks about the bad side effects but it's better than if Russia or China were in charge, can you imagine?") are like, having mental breakdowns or crises of faith about their ideology or anything, at least partially because they don't even think they have an ideology in which to have a crisis about, but it does express itself in a general kind of malaise or alienation about the world and general events or even everyday life. "There's a sense in which things kinda suck, but maybe it's just because I didn't meditate this morning or take my multivitamin or that my co-worker was being annoying or something, IDK." At least, this is what I observe in my friends and family.

The contradictions have accelerated so rapidly in just a short amount of time that I literally cannot imagine where we'll be in, say, 2030.

more info about the Palestinian woman and her husband who were arrested in Isntreal over her social media posts - all she did was change her WhatsApp status to "may God grant them victory and protect them"

insanity

Wake up babe, new Israeli bullshit story just dropped

Apparently you’re embedded with Hamas if you take photos of them. I didn’t know everyone with a camera on 9/11 was secretly embedded with ~~George Bush~~ Al Qaeda.

The Israeli president holds up a copy of Mein Kampf containing post-it notes, claiming it was found on a body 'in a children's living room' in northern Gaza.

Here's some comparisons from the historical record to previous anti-colonial wars. The level of Zionist brutality is about on par with the fallen European empires of ~75+ years ago.

Key features:

1. The imperialist violence is completely disproportionate to the initial inciting act
2. Concentration camps are usually involved in some form
3. Elderly, women, and children are not spared any of the violence
4. Resistance is in the form of protracted guerrilla war despite the fighters being usually woefully outgunned
5. Even failure eventually results in independence as the weakness of the imperialists is exposed
6. None of the empires that committed these acts still exist

Truthfully, though, there are also significant differences to Palestine. Israel is getting its ass handed to it on the battlefield as their bombing raids don't seem to be impacting the Resistance very much and they possess the ability to go toe-to-toe with armored vehicles; there exists several strong external forces that are helping Palestine resist; the nature of modern warfare is just very different in many ways from how things were in the early 20th century; and the nuclear threat obviously changes the calculus of action significantly. Nonetheless, it's always useful to see what broadly similar movements have gone through. Have you done your daily condemnation of the Mau Mau?

CW for atrocities of many kinds, including involving sexual violence.

Algeria:

Ethiopia:

Libya:

Kenya:

Despite the defeat of the Mau Mau, the uprising had put Kenya on an inevitable path to independence from colonial rule. There were several reasons for this. The first was that it was made clear to the Kenyan population that the Europeans were far from invincible, and that their rule was more tenuous than previously realised. Consequently, the effective resistance to colonial rule shown by the Mau Mau accelerated the pace of nationalism in Kenya and throughout East Africa. The actions of the white settler community had demonstrated how fearful they were of indigenous opposition to their land seizures, and divisions emerged between extremists and moderates, weakening the political domination the community previously enjoyed. In addition, the brutality shown by the government had been effective in driving a fresh wave of anti-colonialist sentiment in the country.

Just fyi, beware of a video floating around of the IOF bombing a journalists’ camp next to a hospital. Absolutely terrible images/sounds

When the children have to hold press conferences on behalf of themselves to beg for their lives. What a stain on humanity.

Israel went from saying they were better than Palestine for supporting lgbt to mocking it in their latest propaganda video. The right-wing is obsessed with Queers for Palestine.

Ukraine is so cooked

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Redditors are whining about (very few) Palestinian militants not wearing uniforms... HOLY FUCK DUDE I AM GOING TO LOSE IT

Sure, the Nazis were evil, but have you considered that some resistance fighters DIDN'T WEAR UNIFORMS

These are the same people who were cheering it on when Ukraine was handing out assault rifles to civilians on the street.

HEARTWARMING: This gay Palestinian teen was being bullied by his peers and adults in his life, so Israel put him out of his misery by bombing him and his family!

"They are cowards. Despite their great weapons they still hide behind their tanks."

1h ago

Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant has warned Hezbollah on Saturday not to escalate fighting along the border.

“Hezbollah is dragging Lebanon into a war that might happen,” Gallant told troops in a video aired by Israeli television channels, Reuters reports.

“It is making mistakes and ... those who will pay the price are first and foremost Lebanon’s citizens. What we are doing in Gaza, we can do in Beirut,” he added.

- The Guardian

Football players wanted to go on the pitch with message about Gaza - stopped by guards

"Stop the massacre in Gaza", that was the message written on t-shirts worn by the players of Ishøj IF, a club playin in Denmark's third division, when they were going to enter the field at a cup tournament game against super league club AGF. They didn't get that far though as guards stopped them and required that they remove the t-shirts before entering the field. The team was allowed to play after removing the shirt.

A spokesman from the national football association has defended the decision and claimed that they don't "take sides", referring to the international Laws of the Game that prohibits players from displaying any kind of political message on the field.

However, countless teams has displayed Ukrainian flags and imagery on t-shirts, jerseys and banners without facing any averse reactions. A senior referee quoted by the media explains the discrepancy with "back then all of the west was united", "it's FIFA who makes the rules and they allowed it" and "sometimes the rules are very inflexible".

Ishøj IF is based in a Copenhagen suburb with a sizable immigrant and refugee population.

a big chemical explosion/fire in texas, reminiscent of east palestine, ohio back in feb of this year

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/11/08/chemical-plant-explosion-shepherd-texas/71502887007/

also, as someone with a chemistry background, this is the most asinine thing I've read in a while:

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is setting up an air quality monitoring unit to get more information about any hazards, according to Polk County officials.

Wednesday afternoon, Eldridge said air quality monitoring near Livingston had found no chemicals in the air so far.

see that giant plume of black smoke indicating incomplete combustion of carcinogenic solvents? there's no chemicals there actually

It just dawned on me that this year a non-neglible number of people are using the Kristallnacht vigils to defend an ongoing genocide.

My first thought as I woke up in the morning was "Why would I condemn Hamas when they're fighting back against "israeli" genocide? They're doing more to prevent it than pretty much rest of the world"

Biden administration privately warned by American diplomats of growing fury against US in Arab world | CNN Politics

The first paragraph

The Biden administration has received stark warnings from American diplomats in the Arab world that its strong support for Israel’s destructive and deadly military campaign in Gaza “is losing us Arab publics for a generation,” according to a diplomatic cable obtained by CNN.

An important fact to consider is that not all tanks in any military's inventory are combat ready, out of the 2,200 tanks Israel possesses they state 1,730 are combat ready, frankly I think that number is ridiculously high, we're talking a majority of tanks being decades old and held by a military already proven to be incompetent and lax

I wouldn't be surprised if only 40% of their inventory are remotely combat ready, and every day that passes the maintenance needs continue to build up and tanks that were combat ready suddenly aren't, 30% of US vehicles broke down on the three-week march to Baghdad in 2003 without any intervention by the enemy

Just something to keep in mind, one of the greatest virtues of guerrilla warfare is it places the bulk of the logistical burden on the conventional force

"What genocide? According to this chart their population has been increasing over the last several decades." - Redditors in 1941

reddit-ass country I swear to god