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sayruq:

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nativenews:

palipunk:

Massive fuck you to everyone who is talking about Palestinians as if we’re already all dead and sharing more solidarity with our corpses than us living. “We will never forget the beautiful Palestinian people-“ how about you stop “making peace” with Palestinian extermination. My people are not going to be forgotten because we are going to live. Palestinians have already survived one genocide and have been surviving one ever since.

Do not ever let the idea that all Palestinians are going to die exist in your mind. Mourn the dead, fight like hell for the living.

sayruq:

The reason for the very heavy bombing of Gaza tonight is that the Israeli army is attempting yet again to infiltrate Gaza at several points.

It has tried this thrice in the past couple days to disastrous results for the IDF

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The guy speaking is Douglas MacGregor, a retired US colonel. According to him, American and Israeli special forces attempted to infiltrate Gaza and they ended up taking heavy losses. Reminder that Gaza is the most militarised place in the world. Underneath it is hundreds of kilometres of tunnels built at least 45 metres deep into the earth. If you know anything about history, you know tunnels and guerilla warfare defeated Americans in Vietnam and later Afghanistan.

Right now, the IDF is trying to infiltrate Gaza again. This isn’t the ground operation it has been promising but a test

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The situation is still ongoing but I can’t say it’s going well for the IDF (and likely American special forces)

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I would also like to remind everyone that a ground operation in Gaza will trigger a regional war

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And these are not empty threats. I’ve made numerous posts about this. Here are some of the latest events in the lead up to tonight

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The situation is Gaza is still unfolding. It is going to be a long night. In the morning, we will see horrifying pictures of the destruction caused by Israel. We will hear about the many civilians who were murdered in their homes and on the streets of their neighbourhoods and in hospitals waiting for treatment.

We will also see the humiliation the IDF has endured while trying to occupy Gaza. Remember they are not invisible and they will be defeated.

We must never stop believing in a free Palestine.

psychotrenny:

I really do think this is the end for Israel. The beginning of the end at least. They’re essentially a relic of an earlier time, a time when, through a complex confluence of factors, the military power of Europe was so far beyond the rest of the world that it could openly keep the world in shackles. The Imperial powers of Europe could do as they wished and respond to any resistance with overwhelming violence that, no matter how costly in money or lives or how many years it took, would eventually force open resistance to come to a (temporary) end. You saw exceptions of course, such as Ethiopia’s successful repulsion of Italian invaders in the 1890s (although even that victory is somewhat undercut but Italy’s more successful invasion about 40 years later), but in the majority of cases even the most brave and intelligent of resistance fighters would see themselves worn down and defeated. Just off the top of my head you have figures like Samori Toure, Omar al-Mukhtar, Samuel Maharero; all inflicted numerous defeats on their European Imperialist enemies but in the end couldn’t overcome the sheer force that was arrayed against them.

Of course such supremacy was never absolute even at it’s apex, and this height was so very short lived. Resistance never fully stopped; outbursts of violence were frequent and various forms of passive resistance like migration, tax evasion and industrial slowdown were ubiquitous. Resistance movements learned from past failures, acquired the weapons of modern war and soon proved a credible threat to the Imperialist forces that by the middle of the 20th century had exhausted themselves through in-fighting. Whether evicted through direct violence or choosing to leave under the inevitable threat of it, the European powers largely ended their direct domination over the colonised world. That’s not to say Imperialism was over, far from it, but it mostly took on subtler forms; more soft power with only the occasional resort to hard. Imperial domination is now more than ever exerted through various local proxies and the broader forces that keep them in check as direct subjugation just isn’t especially viable.

In the parts of the world without substantial settler populations this withdrawal was accomplished smoothly enough; most of the Europeans present either left without a fuss or found some sort of niche under the new order of things. But the liberation of colonies with large settler populations was a longer and bloodier process; just compare the French withdrawal from Indochina to that from Algeria or the fate of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) to Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). A large number of Europeans were heavily entrenched in these colonies and had both their material wealth and sense of pride tied to the maintenance of white supremacy. Many politicians back in Europe were less willing to abandon such settler colonies, while with or without support from back home the colonists engaged in their own bloody wars of oppression against indigenous people.

But in the end they all fell. Algeria, Rhodesia, Angola, South Africa, the list goes on. Even as these places continue to suffer under the yoke of less direct Imperialism they can take pride knowing that the scourge of direct setter subjugation was defeated. Exploiting people is one thing; there are many ways you can accomplish this without the exploited truly catching on. But the sort of violence it takes to brazenly steal control of a people’s land, settle yourself on it while keeping the original inhabitants as second class citizens is going to engender the fiercest resistance no matter what. The only remotely stable settler colonies are those where the indigenous peoples were already decimated by disease before being subjected to centuries of genocidal policies, reducing their current population to a small minority of the nation. And even then the survives continue to resist fiercely. In places where the settlers remained the minority there was simply no chance of such regimes surviving for long.

Israel as a state is among the last of its kind, and I see no reason why it shouldn’t meet the fate of all other such colonies. The way I see it the end of Israel is inevitable. The only question is just how much bloodshed and suffering it’ll take. The struggle has been ongoing for so very long. I truly hope that we’re seeing the final stages of it, but I suppose only time can tell. All I know for sure is that from from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free

pasparal:

Cuban poster from 1972 calling for the expulsion of US troops occupying South Korea.

mapsontheweb:

UN General Assembly Vote for Humanitarian Truce in Gaza

(Source: reddit.com)

rizblogs:

you know whats going to happen is that 10 years from now there are going to be leaks, re-election talking points, journalists making a quick buck by telling you “what really happened in palestine”, ex soldiers telling you how they feel so bad for doing something so abhorrent that they were just following orders and every shit actor on that hollywood list taking back their solidarity lamenting in that “they just didnt know! they followed trusted news sources!”, average people saying they had NO CLUE that america of all nations would take part in something so awful, that they had NO CLUE that america of all nations would fabricate propaganda and i just want you to know if Palestinians end up forgiving them i will not and neither will the world

we saw this all happen in real time and we saw your response and we have receipts

determinate-negation:

i really would like other americans to understand that american foreign policy choices are not an abstract hypothetical thing. they determine whether people live or die. they determine the outcome of millions of lives of the people who live in places the us has invaded and couped and exploited. and what the us does and says influences the decisions close us allies make. you should care more that american politicians and american mainstream media are generally united on violent imperialist policy and see this as the primary contraction in our society that we have to combat. americans only think this is a secondary political issue because they dont see the negative outcomes up close. they only, and in alienated form, experience the positive outcomes, like cheaper imperial spoils and a stronger war economy

roxstargf: