Israel trying to pass the hospital bombing off as Palestine doing it is utterly disgusting and guarantees Netanyahu a spot in the deepest pit of Hell for all eternity, obviously, but do not forget that
a) the only reason why Westerners will believe it is because they want to believe it - they are not being brainwashed and this is not some masterful propaganda being weaved around us to turn kind-hearted people into monsters,
b) no Westerner opinions matter at all. In most Western countries there is no real anti-Israel option to vote for even if they did realize that Israel was a giant factory for crimes against humanity, and Westerners protesting against things in general almost never achieves anything (tens of millions protested for BLM in 2020 and not only did the situation not change, it got worse), and
c) the people whose opinions do matter (both the people in the region, and the leaders who aren’t already Zionist compradors) already know that Israel is full of shit and that they just murdered nearly a thousand civilians in a single bomb attack.
It is despair-inducing to think that the genocidal Zionist entity is so brazenly, so smugly getting away with bullshitting this away into a cloud of confusion, as they release their metaphorical squid ink just like they did with the stupid babies story, but the propaganda and the media narrative that they are creating isn’t what matters. It cannot address the fundamental contradictions ripping the country, the region, and the world apart any more than masterfully-applied makeup can fix a stab wound. It can merely obfuscate.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.
The Country of the Week is still Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update isn’t coming because I’m sick and too focussed on the collapse of the Zionist entity.
Links and Stuff
The bulletins site is down.
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can.
Resources For Understanding The War
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Telegram Channels
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
Pro-Russian
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Last week’s discussion post.
If I see one more person on Hexbear even suggest the West might have a shred of credibility on the hospital story I am going to scream.
These people told you with wide smiles that Russia destroyed their own pipeline - a lie so ridiculous it beggars belief.
Holy fuck. They are literally just lying. They do this every time. Biden already did this with the babies claim last week. He literally claimed to have seen the fucking nonexistent photos in person. That is how boldly they will lie.
it’s literally the exact same playbook as the Kunduz hospital strike by the US. They’ve just swapped out the names of the hospitals. Laziest propaganda I’ve seen in my life. Honestly if Mossad (or Shin Bet or whatever the fuck)'s best attempt to make it convincing was that hilariously scripted phone call (even the “intercepted Russian calls” where soldiers admitted to genociding Ukraine and that Putin was a very bad stupid idiot were more convincing) then I can totally see why they failed to catch October 7th
failsonization is bringing down Western intelligence agencies faster than Russia/China/Iran/etc ever could
Honestly, I’ve always kind of perceived the shittiness of the made up excuses the US and Israel use to be an intentional flex. Like a cop saying “he fell down some stairs” when asked why the person they arrested is black and blue and bleeding. There’s a malice and threat to the thin veneer.
The hospital exploded from excited delirium
Does anyone have a written text of the ‘call’, by the way?
The IDF’s transcription reads (sourced from live mint.com)
spoiler
Hamas Operative #2: I’m telling you this is the first time that we see a missile like this failing and so that’s why we are saying it belongs to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Hamas Operative #1: What?
Hamas Operative #2: They are saying it belongs to Palestinian Islamic Jihad
Hamas Operative #1: It’s from us?
#2: It looks like it
#1: Who says this?
#2: They are saying that the shrapnel from the missile is local shrapnel and not like Israeli shrapnel
#1: What are you saying (name)?
#2: But God bless, it couldn’t have found another place to explode?
#1: Nevermind, (name), yes they shot it from the cemetery behind the hospital
#2: What?
#1: They shot it coming from the cemetery behind the Al-Ma’amadani Hospital, and it misfired and fell on them
#2: there is a cemetery behind it?
#1: Yes, Al-Ma’amadani is exactly in the compound 2: Where is it when you enter the compound?
#1: You first enter the compound and don’t go towards the city and it’s on the right side of the Al-Ma’amadani Hospital.
Yes , I know it.
Insane
A huge tell is the sheer number of competing narratives.
It was oxygen tanks. It was a Hamas missile. It was intercepted and fell down. It was a hezbollah rocket. Here is a recording. Here are some lines on a map.
They just start throwing mud and they know these flimsy stories will get debunked but the sheer noise and the debunking creates an aura of uncertainty and that aura is all they need to get away with it.
Pretty sure no one is actually bringing up oxygen tanks except my dumb ass (and that only as a way to say, even if we afford maximum benefit of the doubt here, the Israeli lies still fall totally flat). But you’re otherwise totally correct.
if Israel is not the one responsible, then why did they publish that faked audio recording? There is no other answer except Israel trying to cover up it’s crimes
Nice try tankie, but everyone knows Hamas blew up the pipeline and ruZZian orcs blew up that hospital.
People’s attention spans are fucking cooked, I’m afraid
Remember earlier this summer when US intel was making all sorts of claims about a Chinese spy balloon? I’m sure all of the people who uncritically accepted that narrative can confidently admit it was a lie (lmao)
There were also multiple strikes around the hospital, before and after the hospital was hit. You can see smoke rising from where the ground is being hit with airstrikes.
It’s rage inducing to see the narrative shift in real time, even in leftist spaces
It’s probably a bit of both. As in, clearly Israel attacked the hospital but some of the Palestinian weapons might have caused some collateral damage as well.
There’s video of the attack. There was one explosion, there were no secondary explosions.
Also, speaking of… three day old account pretending obvious lies have some credibility.
That is not remotely true at all or the “collateral damage” is so insignificant as to be not worth mentioning unless as a form of misdirection from the crimes of the Zionist entity.
Yeah, 2 bullets in a gun that a random Gazan had went off from the heat of the blast and one lodged itself in the leg of one of the hundreds of already dead people killed by an Israeli bomb.
Palestinians hyperventilating over their impending genocide elevated ambient CO2 levels by 0.000004% past normal parameters, which constitutes a health hazard.
“Hundreds small rocks, a known weapon previousltly wielded by children in the region, were found in and around the area of the blast.”
ah yes, nefarious Palestinian weapons in the middle of an open courtyard, maybe they were hidden in the children’s backpacks
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yeah, right, what Palestinian weapons? all the C4 they store in the floorboards of ambulances?
This is pointless pedantry and completely irrelevant
Secondary explosions? Nonexistent.