Image is of the aftermath of an Israeli bombing of Beirut in 2006.
We are now almost one year into the war and genocide in Gaza. Despite profound hardship, the Gazan Resistance continues its battles against the enemy, entirely undeterred. Despite Israeli proclamations throughout 2024 that they have cleared out Hamas from various places throughout Gaza, we still see regular attacks and ambushes against Zionist forces. Just today (Monday), Al Qassam fighters ambushed and destroyed another convoy of Israeli vehicles. The predictions early on in the war were that Israel would defeat Hamas in mere months, needing only until December, then January, and so on. This has proven very much untrue. Israel is stuck in the mud; unable to destroy their enemy due to their lack of knowledge about the “Gaza Metro” and, of course, a lack of actual fighting skill, given how many times I’ve seen Zionists getting shot while they gaze wistfully out of windows.
The same quagmire will occur in Lebanon, only considerably worse. Both Nasrallah and Sinwar possess a similar strategy of luring Zionist forces onto known, friendly territory, replete with traps and ambushes, to bleed them dry of equipment, manpower, and the will to continue fighting. The scale of the invasion could fall anywhere on the spectrum from “very limited” - more of a series of raids on Hezbollah positions than truly trying to occupy land - to a total invasion which would seek to permanently take control of Southern Lebanon. Neither is likely to destroy, or even substantially diminish Hezbollah’s fighting abilities. This is not wishful thinking: Hezbollah has convincingly defeated Israel twice before in its history, pushing them from their territory, and both times Hezbollah had almost no missiles and a limited supply of other equipment, relying on improvisation as often as not. The Hezbollah of 2024 is an entirely different organization to that of the early 2000s.
Attempts to drive wedges between Hezbollah and the rest of Lebanon are also unlikely to succeed. Hezbollah is not just a military force, it is extremely interlinked into various communities throughout Lebanon, drawing upon those communities to recruit soldiers. Throughout its history, it has provided education, healthcare, reconstruction, and dozens of other services one would attribute to a state. Amal Saad’s recent suggestion of using “quasi-state actor” as a more respectful replacement for the typical “non-state actor” seems advisable. And the decentralized command structures, compartmented leadership, strong succession planning, and aforementioned community ties almost entirely neutralizes the effectiveness of assassinations. Hezbollah’s Deputy Secretary General Naim Qassem has confirmed that Hezbollah’s path has been set by Nasrallah, and his martyrdom will not stop nor even pause their efforts. Additionally, he confirmed that despite the recent attacks by Israel which nominally focussed on destroying missile depots, Hezbollah’s supply of weapons has not been degraded, and they are still only using the minimum of their capabilities.
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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.
From El Mayadeen, on the damage caused by Iranian missiles:
According to the AP news agency [linked here], satellite images of a hangar at a major Israeli military air base appear to reveal a significant hole in the roof after a heavy barrage of Iranian missiles on Tuesday night.
The images of Nevatim airbase in southern “Israel” reportedly show roof damage in a row of buildings close to the main runway, with large debris scattered around, AP reports.
Nevatim houses some of "Israel’"s most advanced aircraft, including the US-made F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters. However, it is unclear from the satellite images if any aircraft were inside the hangar at the time of the strike, according to AP.
“A significant hole in the roof”
idk if its news news, but Hasan had Motaz on stream today and they had an interesting conversation
Ok so the hypothesis flying around is that Iran was storing weapons/ammunition at the Russian Hmeimim base in Syria before transfer to Hezbollah and that’s why Israel bombed it.
No idea what to make of it to be honest but it seems like the narrative people believe.
Footage of the ammo cooking off is on here: https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/1fuyvg9/israeli_air_force_striking_russias_hmeimim_air/
Hamas claims responsibility for deadly Israel shooting attack
The armed wing of the Palestinian group Hamas has claimed responsibility for a shooting attack in Jaffa, near the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, that left seven people dead and many others wounded.
“The Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades takes responsibility for the heroic Jaffa operation carried out by the fighters from the [occupied West Bank] city of Hebron,” the group said in a statement on Wednesday.
Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades named the attackers as Mohammed Misk and Ahmed al-Haimoni, who managed to “infiltrate into our occupied lands”.
The attack came moments before Iran launched a barrage of rockets at Israel late on Tuesday, sending people into bomb shelters across the country.
Israeli media have identified three of the dead people as Israelis and one as Georgian. The others were Greek and Moldovan, their governments said. The identity of the seventh victim has not been released
Resistance News Network Telegram link to Jordanian video of Iranian rocket barrage going overhead
CIA assessment on various militant groups and the feasibility of assassinating their leaders as COIN:
https://xcancel.com/richimedhurst/status/1840419193860088238Most effective Zionist propagandist: Uh aktually, the videos were played backwards. Those were aktually iron dome interceptors being launched.
They really are an army of cowards:
https://xcancel.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1841479744610611511IOF loser gets owned by a paper straw:
https://xcancel.com/WarMonitors/status/1841519654503649385NYT: After Missile Attack, Israel May Be Ready to Risk All-Out War With Iran
The first 90+% is cheerleading for war. In the last ~120 words there are finally criticisms…
To some experts, however, Israelis risk underestimating Iran’s resilience and overestimating their own ability to cause meaningful damage.
“The approach that Israel has had over 75 years has always been about hitting your enemy harder than you’re being hit,” said Andreas Krieg, an expert on warfare at King’s College, London. “That doesn’t work with a regime like Iran, though. I don’t think you can deter them.”
As a result, Israel may be able to inflict short-term damage but fall short of long-term change, he said.
“I still haven’t seen a strategy,” Mr. Krieg said. “That’s what I’m trying to get from the Israelis: What is your strategy to weaken the regime?”
Very early and unconfirmed reports but there is a situation developing in Hmeimim Airbase, Syria, which is operated by Russia. Apparently the ammo depot in the base is gone. No more concrete details are known as of right now.
https://xcancel.com/ME_Observer_/status/1841659953230008742
We’ll wait and see. Original poster quickly puts the blame on either Ukraine or “Israel”, could be an accident too.
I’ve found several good video compilations from yesterday’s Iranian Operation True Promise II missile strikes.
The first shows some of the missile launches: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Missles_YT:0
The second shows many of the missiles striking their targets: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/Compilation_0210:c
And the third shows people throughout the regional celebrating afterwards: https://odysee.com/@RT:fd/People-celebrate-iran-attack:d
I believe Operation True Promise 2 was the largest one day ballistic missile attack in history, someone correct me if I’m wrong. 181 ballistic missiles launched according to Israeli claims.
Russia’s largest one day volley in Ukraine was August 27, 2024 and it involved lots of drones but only “100 missiles of various types”, most of which were cruise missiles. I believe there were a handful of Khinzals here as well.
The US and allies don’t really tend to fight using ballistic missiles that much in tactical warfare, so I don’t think they’ve beaten the record. Maybe mass SCUD launches outnumbered these attacks, but these new Iranian missiles are far more sophisticated and accurate and damaging.
Iron dome interceptor flew off in some random direction while the Yemeni drone was able to hit its target. (CW: yo yo yo yo yo yo yo):
https://xcancel.com/revolutionaryem/status/1841629430570987983