There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account.
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 Palestine! Feel free to chime in with books, essays, longform articles, even stories and anecdotes or rants. More detail here.
Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.
The weekly update is here.
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.
Two hours ago Mehr news agency published a report in Persian saying Hatzerim Airbase was hit with rockets. Take with grain of salt.
Israel has only given two hours to evacuate Al Awda Hospital in Gaza, Doctors Without Borders says
“Our staff are still treating patients.
"We unequivocally condemn this action, the continued indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks on health care in Gaza.“
🚨 Gaza Government Media Office:
A new massacre committed by the occupation against three convoys of citizens in different locations on Salah Al-Din and Al-Rashid streets, who tried to reach the south of the Gaza valley as per the request of the occupation army.
This massacre has so far, in a preliminary toll, left 70 martyrs, most of them children and women, and more than 200 injured.
Hezbollah has released a statement
In the name of God,
In response to the Israeli attacks this afternoon on the vicinity of a number of southern Lebanese towns, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance attacked the following Israeli outposts: the Al-Abad site, the Miskvam site, the Ramia site, and the Jal Al-Alam site, with direct fire and appropriate weapons, and they achieved accurate hits.
BREAKING — Israel has only given two hours to evacuate Al Awda Hospital in Gaza, Doctors Without Borders says
“Our staff are still treating patients.
We unequivocally condemn this action, the continued indiscriminate bloodshed and attacks on health care in Gaza.“
AUDIO ONLY EXTREMELY GRAPHIC THOUGH: A team of Al-Jazeera and Reuters journalists were hit by an Israeli artillery strike in South Lebanon
The bad part, content warning death
spoiler
“What happened?! What happened?! What happened?! I can’t feel my legs! Fck, fck!”
The woman heard screaming died minutes after. These were her last moments alive.
Might be slightly untrue and the woman here might be the woman in my previous post, who survived. Uncertainty about this. A cameraman did die though.
Almost 5000
Tahrir square, Iraq today.
IDF wounded a journalist in their shelling of Lebanon
Iran’s Foreign Minister Amir Abdollahian met with the Hezbollah Secretary General, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
In messages circulated on Friday, State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm.”
Our legend Gunther Fehlinger dropped his most confusing tweet yet
"I call all law abiding Palestinians to come to European Union 🇪🇺
We can make entry declaration
Who signs a EU sentry, anti Hamas declaration & rejects terrorism can come to EU to get asylum & live with us in safety forever ♾
Rest I guess will be crashed by Israel 🇮🇱 #ExGaza"
Someone please explain how the settlers holding a music festival on stolen land right next to the giant ghetto their government routinely attempts to liquidate are “innocent civilians”.
Swap “Israeli-Palestinian” with “European-Native American” and it suddenly becomes incredibly obvious to many more people what’s wrong in this situation. It’s convenient to only pay lip service to opposing colonialism in situations where the colonisation is functionally complete and your control will never be threatened.
As of Monday, I had the comment Over/Under at 5250, and I upped it to 7000 on Wednesday, where I will keep to for the rest of the week.
