Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The North
Bulletins and News Discussion from September 23rd to September 29th, 2024 - The War In The North
Image is of a Hezbollah missile attack on a military camp west of Jenin.
The situation between Hezbollah and Israel is rapidly escalating, with massive bombing campaigns on southern Lebanon by Israel predominantly on civilians (as the tunnels in South Lebanon are mostly unreachable to the Zionists, just like in Gaza), while Hezbollah and its allies respond with missile attacks predominantly on Israeli military facilities. Israel is spreading an evacuation order to the residents of southern Lebanese villages while also bombing their routes of escape and civilian infrastructure, similar to a terror tactic used widely in Gaza.
Northern Israel is currently under military censorship to hide their losses, so we get very little information other than what the Resistance provides and what videos and images get through the censors.
I don't know if Israel will dare a ground incursion soon, but it seems fairly likely in the coming days or weeks.
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Israel-Palestine Conflict
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA 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.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
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.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
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.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
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 Telegram Channels:
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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It's getting hard to keep your head up when it feels like it's just been a constant string of bad news. Cynical posts cascades the effect and creates a strong feeling of helplessness, like everything is going downhill, you've been tied up and your eyelids have been taped open to force you to watch. Is it creating the illusion that Israel is truly invincible, or is that the reality?
What does it feel like right now. That the good guys always have to make the right calls; they can never make mistakes if they want to win. But somehow they always do, they always make mistakes and I guess those mistakes always lead to their destruction. The bad guys on the other hand never make mistakes, or if they did, the good guys never capitalize on it. And even if the good guys take action and do something to hurt the bad guys... erm ackshually no it didn't harm them in any meaningful way at all really. Every time that's what it feels like.
Maybe I just need to see another video of an IOF goon getting domed.
A ton of this is the media inventing reality. Israel will be handily winning right up until the last helicopter full of Knesset politicians flee the country, and then I guarantee that the articles in the NYT and WaPo etc afterwards will be headlined like:
Why Hamas has actually lost the war
As Israel transitions into Palestine, Hamas and other Iranian proxies will not find it easy to pacify the freedom-loving Jews who remain. They should expect major resistance to their new government
Absolutely, you see this with Ukraine too. Most Westerners still think Ukraine is winning even though its defeat is sealed at this point.
God I wish. Mindset's in a bad place right now though.
you're not alone in your mourning, comrade. millions across the Middle East, and the world, join you
Maybe I just need to see another video of an IOF goon getting domed.
Flag kicker always makes me laugh.
Funny but he survived which is unfortunate.
They say he was fine but in my heart I know his balls got blown off and he feels like half a man living half a life begging to be put out of his misery.
You feel like this because defeat and victory are not inevitabilities but forgeable and unpredictable chains of decisions that produce such a conclusion. I doubt Hezbollah will cease in its efforts but it is actually looking grim, assassinations aside.
The conclusion we all fear is that since Israel has the full support of the US, Hamas and Hezbollah are effectively fighting the US, and therefore it is only a matter of time that Israel destroys them both and finishes the genocide in Gaza. That the world just stood by, again, to witness and failed to stop genocide. And that follows a precedent that genocide is OK (even if the precedent was that it was tolerable if the US supports the ally doing so. ) And if the victims resist their own extinction.
I think this anxiety also comes from that Israel's strategy of targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure to undermine the military capabilities of their enemies also is not just meant to undermine their enemy's political and military capabilities/credibility, but the objective in of itself. The terrorism, the mass murder, the cruelty, are all the point.
The notion that Israel has the right to torture, deform, maim, kill, and oppress its victims in Palestine and abroad, that this right is inviolable and retribution for violating this right is annihilation and decimation is a cruel and vicious one that is impossible to bear.
Scholars, commentators, journalists can all try to forecast "Here is why Israel is actually doomed" but genocidal and fascist projects like empire and settler colonialism do live on. They are fueled by human sacrifice. The only thing that can stop these things are power.
The hope is that Israel collapses on its own power before it is too late.