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The number of settlers killed by the resistance has reached 350. 2,000 are injured. Among the settlers killed are several high-ranking IOF officers and 30 zionist policemen.

In just 24 hours, more settlers have been killed than in the first year and a half of the Second Intifada, the most successful anti-colonial period in Palestinian resistance history. This does not account for the uncounted dead and missing settlers, of which there are hundreds.

72 trilli did this to get the megathreads back to >1000 comments

September was world's hottest on record by an 'extraordinary' margin

Last month’s average global temperature was 0.93°C above the 1991-2020 average for September. This is the warmest margin above average for a month in 83 years of records kept by the Copernicus Climate Change Service.

“It’s just mind-blowing really,” said Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo. “Never seen anything like that in any month in our records.”

Hezbollah situation seems extremely measured thus far. Seeing it suggested that a ground invasion of Gaza would trigger serious hezbollah involvement though. And what else is Israel realistically going to do here? Settlers out for blood now, and leadership more than happy to oblige. But, you can’t rescue prisoners with air strikes so what other option is there? Hard to see a prisoner exchange being a palatable resolution for Israel. Is this just bound to escalate and draw hezbollah in?

Damn, even the Saudis are distancing themselves from the Zionist entity

IDF spokesman has stated war goals

1. Remove all military capability of Hamas

2. Remove Hamas from governance of Gaza Strip

100k reserve troops with no experience seems like a strange thing to base your operation on? Aren't these mandatory military service personnel too? How is their morale going to hold up compared to dedicated volunteer fighters who see this as existential?

Former Israeli officials are calling the massive Hamas military offensive against Israel a “catastrophic” intelligence failure that will have immense and swift political ramifications.

On 7 October, Hamas fighters breached the Gaza border fence and swept into Israeli towns and settlements, killing some 100 soldiers and settlers while taking others captive back to Gaza, including the commander of the Israeli army’s southern region. Hamas also fired thousands of rockets into Israel.

The unprecedented Hamas offensive was allowed to happen by “disarray” in the Israeli armed forces and intelligence services, said Chuck Freilich, the country’s former deputy national security adviser. This is a catastrophic failure in regards to Gaza,” he told Politico. “It’s a failure in terms of intelligence, operationally,” Freilich said. “It’s clear we were caught totally unprepared by this. The divisional headquarters responsible for Gaza was occupied, they’re in disarray, and so the whole response has been delayed.”

Freilich predicts the intelligence failures will have significant political repercussions for the Israeli government. “There’s always a short-term rallying around the flag. But once the dust settles we’ll have major political ramifications,” Freilich said. “After the Yom Kippur war, it took three and a half years for [then Israeli Prime Minister] Golda Meir’s government to be toppled — I don’t think it will take that long this time.”

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Amos Yadlin, a former IDF intelligence chief, also compared Saturday’s events to the “intelligence failure” of the Yom Kippur War in which Syria and Egypt initiated the conflict, taking the Israeli army by surprise. Similarly, Eli Marom, the former head of the Israeli navy, stated on live television, “All of Israel is asking itself: Where is the IDF, where is the police, where is the security? … It’s a colossal failure; the hierarchies have simply failed, with vast consequences.”

Peter Beaumont of the Guardian noted the Hamas offensive was enabled by an “intelligence failure for the ages” and came despite Israel’s sophisticated technological surveillance systems and network of human informants among Palestinians.

He noted that according to members of Israeli intelligence’s 8200 Unit, “the net for developing sources is almost all-encompassing” in the occupied Palestinian territories. Members of Unit 8200 “were told to seek individuals with financial and health problems, those vulnerable because of sexual impropriety, efforts duplicated in entry and exit interviews for those Palestinians allowed to leave the coastal strip.”

Israel also employs sophisticated surveillance technology, such as Pegasus spyware, to monitor Hamas’ communications. Israel also monitors the Gaza border fence using a network of regular patrols, cameras, and ground motion sensors while employing remote-controlled mini-cannons to deter Palestinian fighters and protesters from breaching the fence.

Despite this, Israeli intelligence was unaware of Hamas’ preparations for the major offensive and did not observe Hamas fighters gathering to breach the border fence.

One thing this post doesn't go into is the fact that a Blue Ocean Event signals a dramatic loss of albedo, meaning that a significant amount of heat (~90%) which would have been reflected back will instead be directly absorbed into the ocean and surrounding atmosphere.

So not only will it be the end of the thermal buffer that the ice caps afford us but it will turn that buffer into a heatsink.

Couple this with the disruption to the polar vortex and shit's gonna be a catastrophic climate event.

what a thing to wake up to

GO PALESTINE

Rightwing Z guys in shambles over their based friends Orban, Gaetz, Trump all supporting Israel and lining up with the neocon blob

We need a new doohickey emote, but it is the para-gliders

Here’s a nice counter to Cornel West’s “both sides” bullshit, from someone else running for president:

https://nitter.net/votesocialist24/status/1710688176610693449#m

Biden is literally building the wall.

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton are beefing. Max apparently fired Ben for being critical of the Grayzone's anti vax pivot. I stopped even bothering with the Grayzone after their anti vax and transphobic pivot.

Meanwhile, here on TERF Island:

Successful lobbying from the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) and other industry groups means the millions of tonnes of food wasted by companies each year can be kept secret.

Environment secretary Thérèse Coffey in August cancelled a proposal to require large businesses to measure and publish how much food they waste, meaning the true scale of the problem will remain hidden. Coffey’s own department had advised that mandatory reporting would reduce food waste, save businesses money and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

But the NFU argued in a submission obtained through freedom of information law that public reporting would “just provide more red tape” and create a risk of “bad press” that could threaten contracts. A few trade associations and big food companies also lobbied against the proposal, including the Association of Convenience Stores, Kellogg’s, Pizza Express and Associated British Foods, which owns Kingsmill, Jordans, Allinson’s, Ryvita, Twinings and other food brands. However, the majority of large supermarket chains, food manufacturers and hospitality businesses supported mandatory reporting, as did Costa and McDonald’s.

Businesses making and selling food waste 1.9 million tonnes of edible food a year, according to research by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) charity. Another 2.9 million tonnes of edible food is wasted on farms, equivalent to 18 million meals a day, according to separate research by the environmental group WWF. Food waste on farms is caused partly by supermarkets cancelling orders at the last minute or setting tight specifications on the size and appearance of fruit and vegetables.

"No, we can't have this law go through, because it'll make us look bad!"

"Ah, fair enough. That's a good reason to cancel it. Off you go then."

:steinbeck-sad:

Evo Morales will stand for the presidency, Luis Arce expelled

Australia concludes China decoupling ‘impossible’ after carrying out series of classified studies

Australian authorities conducted three separate internal studies in the past eight years to determine whether the commodity-exporting nation could completely diversify its supply chains from China – but all said the task was impossible, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.

The unanimous and non-partisan judgment helped to justify Canberra’s renewed trade engagement with Beijing late last year despite obstacles such as Aukus, a regional security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and its treasury department jointly administered two studies, one in 2015 and another in 2020, both of which concluded “no other markets could replace China as a market for Australian commodity exports”, one source said.

“Diversifying away from China in the supply chain would be tough,” said Dong Xuyang, an analyst at Climate Energy Finance, an independent think tank in Sydney. “Whether people like it or not, the reality is that China is dominating the global renewable industry as a result of insufficient effort from the rest of the world. And China is producing these products at the scale and speed the global energy transition needs.”

Friendship with Ukraine war has ended, now Israel war is my new best friend.

Looks like the focus change has arrived early!

I feel like a while ago support for Palestine was a bare minimum bar even most liberals could clear. It seems you can't even expect that much. Seen a switch flip in so many liberals, the textbook about-face when they see the oppressed actually start fighting back. Unless, the oppressed people aren't particularly oppressed and wear Nazi symbols, I guess.

death to america

Alright I need a break for a bit, definitely seen too many bodies this evening and it's never pleasant no matter whose side it is.

Israel is tankie because they don't support property rights

Day 2: Xi pls open third front in Taiwan

A massive cyber attack against zionist infrastructure is currently underway, targeting many vital networks. This act underscores that the Palestinian resistance is not alone, as these cyberattacks come from its many allies in the Arab world and beyond.

If this isnt just them emptily boasting,
\1) wtf??? How did they accomplish this???
\2) this really would mean they’ve got some big backers internationally
\3) could explain why Israel seams so caught off guard

2030 World Cup hosts have been finally announced - it will Spain, Portugal and Morocco, with three matches played in Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay to celebrate the 100 year anniversary. Look at how quickly Ukraine got dropped lol.

joining the war on hamas on the side of hamas, IDF DELANDA EST, THE WEST ARE HYPOCRITES

“Both sides” from Cornel West

https://x.com/cornelwest/status/1710672264411189547

If this happens earlier in the week megathread hits 2k comments easy lol

Active fighting at the Jenin checkpoint in the northern West Bank.

I feel like the speaker of the house/shutdown drama is gonna be totally bypassed now because the rhetoric will shift to Israel being in danger because of it and if there’s one thing they can all agree on it’s that so the dems will probably cave to more of their demands in a show of “unity for Israel” god the country is so fucking stupid

:packwatch: :idf-cool: :rip-bozo:

The only thing that will suck if Palestine is liberated will be Netanyahu setting up a government in exile on Long Island

Here to announce my ascent to godhood

Palestinian resistance reports 600 dead settlers now.

There are claims by Twitter accounts (unsure if true) that the Gazans are only 10km from the West Bank; this would effectively split Israel in two halves.

Drones being fired into Israel from Gaza.

Hopefully some of the factions that hamas asked to act do, if hezbolla and syria do a few strikes at the border checkpoints, that would force to isrealis to divide their forces and help the al-aqsa offensive

A Senior U.S. Defense Official has stated that they believe an Israeli Ground Invasion of the Gaza Strip will likely begin sometime in the next 48-72 Hours.

Also

Israel has formerly requested ammunition from the US, expecting a need for it on the northern border.

Not sure how much ammunition the US has left lmao.