The kids are alright

Keep reading rumors about a 5 day pause in hostiles. Just in time to bury the conflict before Thanksgiving

Rybar end of day

I am a touch concerned with the speed of Israeli progress right now. They were seemingly unopposed when they took Al Shifa overnight and I'm concerned if that tactic continues to work.

Holy mother of fuck - these IDF fuckers.

IDF spokesman shows 'video of Hamas infrastructure under hospital'

IDF spokesman Daniel Hagari has been holding a press briefing showing what he says is evidence of Hamas infrastructure at Rantissi hospital.

Hagari says the video shown to the press shows Hamas equipment - explosives, suicide vests, and even a motorcycle used in the 7 October attacks - hidden in a basement under the hospital.

He says the Israeli army also spotted baby bottles, a makeshift toilet and a small kitchen in the basement, which he says points at Hamas holding hostages here. "This is a war crime... This is a crime against humanity," he says.

Hamas has consistently denied hiding its fighters underneath hospitals.

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Look at these pictures of France training nazis

This and other articles also make much about the camp being "secret" and not being allowed to mention its location; it's this one.

For any Hexbears venturing to other instances: would it be useful to have a list of previously discredited Israeli propaganda?

Two Al Jazeera updates...

2m ago (11:47 GMT)

Breaking

Israeli forces strike Al-Fakhoora School in northern Gaza

Israeli air raids have hit the Al-Fakhoora School, run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

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4m ago (11:45 GMT)

Israeli air raid hits inhabited house in Nuseirat refugee camp

An Al Jazeera correspondent reports that Israeli forces have launched an air raid on an inhabited house in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.

The reporter said four bodies have so far been recovered from under the rubble of the collapsed house.

A meteor crashing into the White House would be a net good for the world right?

If the United States were represented by a vase, and destroying said vase would kill the United States, I'm tossing that shit to concrete, and maybe I'd take a hammer to it just for good measure.

The original version of the above I was gonna write would have most likely been removed for violence. I'm just gonna leave it to your imagination.

Johnny Mnemonic but instead of storing data in his skull it's Zionist jizz

Accumulation Through War: Capitalism and the Blood of Gaza

Because this is a struggle for all of humanity, whenever the Arabs and Palestinians submit to Zionism, capitalism strengthens its grip on the rest of humanity. Conversely, whenever Arabs and Palestinians triumph over Zionism, the imperialist grip on the peoples of the world weakens. Gaza is at the heart of this intensification because it is at the forefront of militarization and the capitalist process of accumulation through war.

On one hand, one might initially pose a seemingly logical question: wouldn’t sending food, medicine, and even rebuilding Gaza be cheaper than bombing it with bombs worth millions of dollars? How does it make sense to bomb a house with a bomb whose cost is exponentially greater than what it destroys? Isn’t that material loss and in contradiction with the capitalist principle of profit accumulation?

Gaza precisely answers these questions by understanding capitalism and the role of Zionism in it accurately. War here, contrary to the portrayal of mere material and financial losses, is part of the budget of the occupying entity and its economy, yes. But from a historical materialist perspective it is a process of capitalist accumulation. This accumulation through war makes war, for Zionism, a precondition of peace and continuity, culturally conditioned into [settler society] as Joseph Massad illustrates.

This can be understood from two perspectives. Firstly, the blood of the people in Gaza is, in a literal sense, profit calculated in dollars for American arms companies. With every residential block destroyed and every massacre in Gaza with a bomb like the MK84, for example, this, in the literal sense, is a figure recorded in the invoices of the US company General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GDOTS) and its budget for the year 2023. The other, more complex and detailed perspective, is that, according to the logic of capitalist accumulation, one of the main capitalist goals of accumulation and profit-making is to reduce the price and value of commodities and labor. The lower the price of labor, through deteriorating economic conditions in their country and pushing them to emigrate or work for Western factories at low wages, the more it is in the interest of German, United States, and British capital. Similarly, as the prices of natural resources used by capitalist companies for the production of their bombs and weapons decrease, it means more profits for the capitalist class in the West. When we talk about reducing the value of humans and land, we are talking about reducing the value of entire countries and societies. And this process is carried out through [imperialist] wars.

Most importantly, this is the primary role of Zionist-imperialism in the Arab world and globally. Just as the World Bank and the IMF provide financial tools for capitalism to accumulate profits and perpetuate poverty in Asia, Africa, and South America, “Israel’s” role is [perpetual] war and keeping the Arab world in a state of poverty and weakness. This is to reduce humans into mere inputs into the calculations of capital. Just as the process of reducing the value of Gazans to work in the economy of their enemy and to be killed on an industrial scale by [imperialist] military commodities, the fate of being Arab in our present era is to be Syrian, Iraqi, Yemeni, Lebanese, or Libyan, killed or displaced, working for the white man in Europe. Because your Palestinian brothers and sisters have been in the forefront for over seventy years, facing the killing machine without pause for decades, and because they are the subject of this historical profit-making process, this makes the mere existence of Palestinians an enemy of Zionism. The existence of the Palestinian is an enemy of the complicit elites, classes, and the normalizing Arab regimes–those elites who sold millions of Arabs to survive the onslaught of accumulation through war. This is what makes Arab resistance [against Zionist-imperialism] on every front, a battle for all of our futures.

Netanyahu, the CEO of the ADL, and the devil go to bar. One of them says "My treat!" and the devil is taken aback.

Cw: combat footage, implied death

New hizbullah war trailer dropped. I noted a lot of explicitly Palestinian imagery (wall, child rock into rocket, kite, flag, something I’m assuming translates to “road to Al-Quds) https://streamable.com/8fnnsk

About Argentina, it's my understanding that Millei, despite having elite backing for his campaign in general, doesn't have elite backing for his more crazier economic policies, there was an interview in the FT with an argentinian billionaire who was like "yeah I'm funding his campaign but obviously I won't let him do this and that". Which tracks honestly, in so far as the bourgeoisie is aware of itself right now they probably know not to take economic deprivation too far lest it possibly cause a leftist upsurge, just take it far enough that they'll make money with the upcoming privatizations and friendly state actions.

And obviously he doesn't have mass support from labour either, so with no elite backing or a mass movement behind you how are you actually going to change things that much? He'll probably just compensate on the cultural front by attacking queer people and other minorities like other right wing populists have.

Even if the idea of an anarcho capitalist Venezuela where things get so bad there that you can just say "oh you're a neoliberal, look at argentina to see the consequences of your ideology" is pretty funny (though not funny for Argentinians of course) I don't think things will get that drastically worse, just progressively worse as usual.

As to why he got elected, back when he was climbing the polls I remember Matt Christman (get well soon our lord and savior) saying it made sense because radical right wing anarcho capitalism was one of the only political tendencies that hadn't been at one point or another integrated into the mashed up ideology that is Peronism, and since that has been failing the country people are going for what they perceive "hasn't been done yet" or something like that