Israel versus Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Syria, aid workers, journalists, and UN peacekeepers. 2023-24

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How can they not realize that once the muslims are driven out, theyā€™ll turn on the Jewish community next? Thatā€™s always how this worksā€¦

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Because the Leopards Eating Faces party is open to all, regardless of faith or creed.

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BBC News - Omer and Omar: How two 4-year-olds were killed and social media denied it

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Shalabi said leaving his home in Beit Lahia didnā€™t make sense considering the relentless bombardment of southern Gaza, where Israel has repeatedly urged the more than 1 million northern residents like him to seek refuge.

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Can we trust casualty figures from Israel and Joe Biden? :rage:

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Real Housewives Sigh GIF

How many times have the numbers changed on how many hostages Hamas has?

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His work on this has always been solid, but lately heā€™s been throwing about a good deal of transphobic nonsenseā€¦

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And heā€™s pretty solidly in the ā€œpro-Putinā€ campā€¦ Him being right on the issue of Palestine doesnā€™t mean heā€™s not a raging asshole.

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a pro-Putin transphobe :angry:

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About those missiles(?) or drones(?) the US ā€œdownedā€ from Yemen(?)ā€¦

Red Sea

By all of these glorious achievements, Iā€™ve nearly missed the subplot. Indeed, an ā€˜intriguingā€™ episode that, according to the Pentagon and the US media, occurredā€¦.well, somewhere in the Red Sea , on Thursday, 19 October.

Correspondingly, and as first, it was claimed (not sure if it was the USN that claimed this, but at least the White House and the Pentagon), that USS Carney was in the ā€˜northern Red Seaā€™ when shooting downā€¦ā€™fewā€™ missiles and UAVs, and thus ā€˜defending Israelā€™.



Then, the number of missiles was increased to 3, and then to 4. First they were said to have been ā€˜land attack missilesā€™, meanwhile even that is not sure. The number of UAVs engaged and shot down by Carney grew to 19, and meanwhile seems to be at ā€˜over 20ā€™ā€¦





Two photos showing the launch of Standard surface-to-air missiles by USS Carney, in the course of engagements of 19 October.

As far as I can assess, most of this is complete nonsense. For the start, and except the USN has secretly introduced the technology of beaming to its warships, there is no way USS Carney couldā€™ve traveled over some 2,000km ā€“ from southern to the northern Red Sea ā€“ in the course of less than 24 hours. Yes, sure, as a vessel of the Arleigh-Burke -(Flight I)-class, this ship can reach a maximum speed of 31 knots. Means: within 24 hours, it could travel over some 740 nautical miles, which is something like 1,370km. But, it would run out of fuel while trying to do so, because at maximum speed itā€™s gulping maximum amounts of fuel, too: more likely, it was underway at its best economic speed of around 20 knots, which in turn means it couldnā€™t have been more than ā€˜upā€™ about central Red Seaā€¦ā€¦or less, in which case I doubt the ship was any further up the Red Sea than at the height of the Saudi-Yemeni border.

As next, itā€™s not only that the Houthis have no missiles with a range of more than 800km (thatā€™s what they call the Sayyad, see the video-still below), or that Israel is about 1,850km away from the areas they control: Saudis are monitoring northern Yemen and the southern Red Sea all the time, and extremely carefully ā€“ precisely because of all the missile- and UAV-strikes theyā€™ve experienced over the last 7-8 years. Thus, thinking the Saudis have ā€˜missedā€™ a ā€˜streamā€™ of missiles travelling all the way up the Red Sea and did nothing, would be plain dumbā€¦ what a surprise then, somebody found a WGU-44/B guidance section of an AIM-120C AMRAAM medium-range air-to-air missile in northern Yemen: exactly the kind that is the primary weapon of Saudi F-15 and EF-2000 interceptorsā€¦ or that now there are claims that the Saudis shot down several of Houthi missiles.



Bottom line: the version of this story as presented by US officials is quite a load of unsubstantiated nonsense. But hey: never mind! Nowadays, and as soon as one claims ā€˜USS Carney defending Israelā€™, one can sā€¦.ermā€¦ tell the US Americans (plus Germans, French, Austrians and quite a few others in the West) whatever one likesā€¦

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Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) is an ad hoc coalition committed to solidarity and the horizon of liberation for the Palestinian people. Drawing together writers, editors, and other culture workers, WAWOG hopes to provide ongoing infrastructure for cultural organizing in response to the war. This project is modeled on American Writers Against the War in Vietnam, an organization founded in 1965.

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ā€¦ especially when theyā€™re out of power

ā€œCome hate liberals and ā€˜elitesā€™ with us, itā€™s fun!ā€

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[eta]

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