Can’t wait for Nasrallah’s next speech where he gives his much awaited in-depth review of the FNAF movie

Ta-Nehisi Coates on his visit to Israel and Palestine - "There's a word that come up all the time and it's 'complexity' and it's closely related adjective 'complicated'... I assumed it would be hard to descern right from wrong to understand the morality at play [and the conflict]. But perhaps the most shocking thing was that I immediately understood."

video - https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1720062305562497024/vid/avc1/480x270/OZBnhaK-xzfYInO9.mp4?tag=16

"You can't behold evil and then return and not speak on it."

Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks about how an experience in Palestine illuminated the connections between the African American and Palestinian liberation struggles, and the moral responsibility to speak out.

Nitter

There are 3 tweets and each as a video.

A thread with some interesting points on the latest Israeli claim of a hostage being retaken:

"The girl was not a prisoner in the first place. Her name - Ori Megidish - was not on the official list of hostages. Her name was added to it later, but the site was archived prior, without the girl's name being visible anywhere on it"

The full POW list via the BBC also does not show her name

The #Israeli prisoner whom the occupation claimed to have liberated through a complex operation published a post on Facebook on 10/12, 5 days after the Al-Aqsa Flood operation.

edit: this facebook account does not seem to be her but the other points hold up so far. this may or may not have been a thing where they slapped an Israeli soldier inside Gaza, did a photo op, then took her out and acted as if she was a hostage - I think the most plausible version of events currently is that she was separated from her unit during a ground incursion, perhaps taken prisoner or perhaps just got lost and hunkered down and called for aid via radio or something, and then rescued one way or another - this isn't somebody who was taken hostage in the October 7th attack, at least that's what the current evidence suggests.

I’m feeling a mixture of optimism and caution. This is the first time in my life, since the George Floyd protests and riots, that I’ve seen one of the “eternal” veils of propaganda stripped from so many people’s eyes. This is a good thing, but I feel incredibly cautious because this leads to wanton brutality upon the masses by the bourgeoise as they struggle to maintain control

Russian communist talks about her visit to Rome:

Haven’t been to the Eternal City, I'm ashamed to say, for almost 10 months! It's a big mess. Let's make up for it.

Rome is still the same. We go to a cell phone store to buy a SIM card. Behind the counters are hot Apennine guys.

• “Russians?… Come on, don't wait in line. Hey, we love Putin!”
• “But we don't,” we mutter gloomily through clenched teeth and skip the line.

We go to the cafeteria for coffee and pistachio cake.

• “Russians? Allora, let's swap, take Meloni, give us Putin! We want Putin to be our prime minister!”
• “Yes, take Putin,” I say, “but we don't give a shit about your Meloni....”

The #Yemeni Ansar Allah movement published a poster hinting at a possible attack on the American fleet!!

Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is rising sharply.

Attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank are surging, with at least 115 killed, more than 2,000 injured and nearly 1,000 others forcibly displaced from their homes because of violence and intimidation by Israeli forces and settlers since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, according the United Nations.

Among the dead are 33 children, according to an update on Sunday from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, which has been tracking the conflicts.

[Continues]

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/world/middleeast/west-bank-settlers-palestinians-violence.html?smid=url-share

Today's rally was huge and hugely encouraging, so naturally I had to ruin any positivity I may have felt by reading comments in the local newspaper.

Lines within the bourgeoisie are being drawn: https://nitter.cz/FT/status/1719385543971328436

‘Hamas is more Vietcong than Isis.’

Faced with Israel’s technological and military superiority, Hamas’s military wing, the al-Qassam Brigade, has turned Gaza into a haven for guerrilla war.

If you live in France and you're not out tonight destroying the C at one of the 74 Chamas Tacos locations in preparation for tomorrow's big speech, I'm not sure we can still be friends

feeling really jokerfied lately. like starting to get legit worried I'm going to burst out laughing at an inappropriate moment

10 targets, 10000 collatoral damage, what the fuck is this ratio

https://archive.ph/6XqpR

Shoot and cry bullshit about soldiers firing artillery day after day in Syria and getting fucked up from all the explosive blasts next to them

Instead, in case after case, the military treated the crews’ combat injuries as routine psychiatric disorders, if they treated them at all. Troops were told they had attention deficit disorder or depression. Many were given potent psychotropic drugs that made it hard to function and failed to provide much relief.

“I gave the Marine Corps everything,” he said. “And they spit me out with nothing. Damaged, damaged, very damaged.”

Damn dude, you mean the imperialist war machine doesn't value human life? You thought you were on the team hey? Sucks to be wrong. Eat shit.

Turkey and azerbaijan be like: we stand with our palestine brothers, which is why we are shipping secretly cursed oil to israel and buying weapons systems. Our curses grow stronger by the day

I had the idea to make a meme with a bunch of IDF dorks and a Merkava lost in Blackreach with the caption being like "The IDF proves incapable of conducting tunnel warfare" and one of the soldiers is saying something like "how the fuck did we end up in black-reach again?" but I don't have the focus to actually make it right now so y'all are just going to have to imagine.

The Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps, General Eric M. Smith has been Hospitalized since last night, October 29th, due to a currently Unknown Medical Emergency; because of this Lieutenant General Karsten Heckl, the Deputy Commandant for Combat Development and Integration and the Commanding General for Marine Corps Combat Development Command is the now the Acting-Commandant of the Marine Corps and will remain so until General Smith can return to Active Duty and/or a New Commandant is chosen by U.S. President Biden.

HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Just out of curiosity I looked at what Media Bias Fact Check says about the Electronic Intifada. They rated it Mostly Factual (4 out of 6).

A quote from the site:

... I would rate EI as mostly factual in reporting despite the use of excellent sourcing in most articles and left biased based on story selection and wording that sometimes amounts to propaganda such as this: No hope, no future, only revenge.
A factual search reveals they have not formally failed a fact check.
Overall, we rate Electronic Intifada Left biased based on strong pro-Palestinian and anti-Israeli bias. We also rate them Mostly Factual in reporting, rather than High, due to a lack of transparency regarding funding, as well as strongly loaded emotional wording that may be misleading.

Blessed oakland comrades

Protesting in port, its still going on

“They are sending aircraft carriers?! By God, I am proud to be from Gaza”

Meanwhile in the British gutter press (Mildly NSFW, Tabloid Bullshit):

Hearing that there's a very large pro-Palestine protest in Manchester UK on going right now

Edit: MEN reporting at least a thousand people in city centre

So have the Houthis actually declared war? I've been seeing that they have.

Telecommunications cut to Gaza once again about an hour ago; Gaza is currently experiencing the worst bombing it has ever experienced.

Missed this Merkava video earlier today, thank you for mentioning it Rybar.

Video of Merkava getting wrecked by a Yassin anti tank missile.

https://streamable.com/1k6ajl

Reuters: The Bolivia government cuts diplomatic relations with Israel

An MSNBC reporter just described the slaughter at the Jabalia refugee camp as a "mass casualty event". I guess that will be the American media's generic go-to term for Israeli behavior in Gaza. I wonder what term they'll use in the West Bank. I don't think it'll be "mass casualty event" because it seems to me the media likes that term to describe allies acting in war zones. And they don't want Americans to think of Israeli actions in the West Bank has being warlike.

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Edit

Ghouls everywhere.

An MSNBC military guy (Jack Jacobs) just said that's possible that what happened in Jabalia might have been due to an Israeli airstrike with possibly a bunker busting bomb or it could have been caused by munitions stored underground. He said "There's no way to know."

Feels like the media and western governments are really honing in on the “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” chant over the last few days. In their view, that constitutes promoting the destruction of Israel and is thus terrorism and (ironically) promoting genocide.

I mean, yeah, we do want the destruction of the Israeli state. Settler colonial states don’t have a “right” to exist (USA, Canada, Australia et al included). The problem is, since most people are so woefully ignorant of the history of Palestine, they don’t understand that the destruction of Israel does not mean, like, killing everyone there. It means the destruction of the racist and apartheid system. Palestine will only be free when there is one binational secular state where the rights of all are protected, and the Palestinians who were forced out are allowed to return. So while I (and do think we, too) do not believe anyone currently in Israel proper should be forced out much less killed, the current fascist theocratic ethnostate of Israel must be eliminated.

IRL, I’ve tried to explain the “from the river to the sea” chant by comparing it to South Africa. It was only just that the apartheid system be smashed. South Africa under apartheid was effectively like Israel/Palestine now: bantustans were essentially occupied territory and had no real autonomy but Africans were also not allowed to have any real say in the overall system. When that system was dismantled, South Africa was no longer a racist white supremacist state that legally constrained the rights of the majority of the population. Obviously the work was not complete as there is still significant economic and political disparity, but South Africa was transformed from a racist white supremacist state that occupied and held down the black majority to a multinational state where there is ostensibly equal rights for all. And at no point (to my knowledge) was there any serious consideration to shipping off the white population back to the UK and Holland, much less serious advocacy for genociding them.

I think people have a much easier time wrapping their heads around the situation in South Africa. Just sucks that people are so ignorant that you have to go into such detail to explain it. Not that western governments care, this crackdown on speech is genuinely getting scary.

Gaza tunnels

Goddamn that's deep

Israel might be targeting UNRWA facilities, former UN official says

Former UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness pointed to the fact that more than 70 UNRWA staff have been killed and more than 40 facilities have been hit by Israeli strikes.

“Whether or not UNRWA is being targeted, I can’t answer that, but the fact is UNRWA staff are being killed, [and] UNRWA facilities are being hit,” he said.

“They [the Israeli military] know the GPS coordinates. Draw your own conclusions.”

Is the Nasrallah speech on Friday really expected to be that big a deal? When it first came up, I didn't think too much about it considering it was scheduled an entire week away. Surely if it was that important, they'd want to put it out ASAP, right? My assumption was that it'd just be Nasrallah summarizing the situation, giving another strongly worded denouncement of Israel, and then business as usual.

"Leftist" subreddits stop dickriding James O'Brien because he just about acknowledges Palestinians as humans despite spending years calling anyone left of Ed Miliband an antisemite challenge [IMPOSSIBLE]

Something going on with the Iron Dome Interceptors. Maybe it's a bad batch or maybe the system is being defeated in a new unique way but this video shows 2 interceptors launching then immediately flying straight into the ground. The second can be seen in the background.

https://streamable.com/g5un26

I got to shake will menakers hand at the movie mindset show for Halloween 3. I didn’t really know what to say other then I liked the pod bc I got nervous but man what a nice guy.

72 comments in a 72 trillion post but I'm here to make it 73 comments

Israel's Jerusalem Affairs and Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu said on Sunday that dropping a nuclear weapon on the Gaza Strip is "an option", according to Haaretz.

Not even pretending they don’t have nukes now.

Very much getting the impression IDF got fucked up hard by this hit and are responding with indiscriminate shelling.

there is now footage coming out of leopards and bradleys being destoryed around avdeevka and kupyansk. Ukrainian military is transferring their western equipped divisions to other directions. I think we can say now that ukrainian zapo offensive is officially over

Video of an Israeli armored tractor getting IED'd

I'm unsubbing from Bernie's emails. His latest resistance to occupation = terrorism and "humanitarian pause" pandering two state bullshit is the last straw.

How are they goihg to split the baby Bernie? You think the fascist fanatics that rule Israel will give Palestinians a fair deal, give them their land back? You think they'll drop the settlements and the blockades and go home?

People in office need to understand these are the natives fighting back against their oppressors.