◾Israeli Arabs or Palestinian residents of East Jerusalem have been targeted with arrest, sacking and dismissal over social media posts expressing solidarity with the people of Gaza.

- Israeli Arabs, many of whom identify as Palestinian citizens of Israel, have expressed solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza amid Israel’s aerial bombing campaign that has so far killed more than 4,000 people in the impoverished territory, the majority civilians, according to the health ministry in the Strip.

- The Palestinian singer Dalal Abu Amneh was arrested briefly this week when she went to a police station to file a complaint after receiving hundreds of death threats. Rather than investigating her complaint, police detained her because of a comment she posted on Facebook, said her lawyer, Abir Bakr.

- “They put cuffs on her hands and feet, and subjected her to insults and humiliation. They want to frighten people and teach them a lesson through Dalal,” Bakr said.

◾Israeli police on Wednesday said they arrested 76 people from East Jerusalem “on suspicion of committing crimes of incitement on Facebook and supporting terrorist organisations”.

- Lawyers also said a young man in the village of Kabul in northern Israel was arrested for five days simply for posting a photo of children in Gaza with the words “my heart is with you”.

◾Hassan Jabareen, the director of the Adalah organisation that works to defend the rights of the Arab minority in Israel, said “there are many people on the right wing who are filing complaints against Arab citizens”.

◾Jaafar Farah, the director of the Musawah rights organisation, said “since the beginning of the war, almost 150 (Arab) workers have been fired and about 200 students from various universities and educational institutions have been dismissed” for expressing solidarity with Gaza on social media.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/20/israeli-arabs-reprisals-online-solidarity-gaza

📢🇵🇸Happening now! Free Palestine Rally in Belfast. Showing Solidarity with Gaza and Palestine ✊

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🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸The number of hostages held in the Gaza Strip is at least 210, Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Daniel Hagari said.

Footage from Tel Aviv shows people looking at photos of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas.

How does a looming ground offensive by the IDF serve these hostages best interests, let alone the millions of Palestinians in Gaza that will pay a brutal price? The sanctity of human life ought to matter more than mere lip service, while cynically planning a ground operation that will knowingly snuff out tens of the thousands of lives.

How does a looming ground offensive by the IDF honor the safe return of these hostages, let alone shield the millions of Palestinians in Gaza from a brutal fate? The sanctity of human life should transcend mere lip service, not be overshadowed by a cynical plan to orchestrate a ground operation destined to extinguish tens of thousands of lives.

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🇺🇦💰🤝🇺🇸Biden's Ukrainian Memory Hole: An Odyssey of Oligarchs and Omissions

US President Joe Biden recently reflected on his extensive time in Ukraine during his two-year tenure as the chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (2007-2008). With a tone of accomplishment, he declared, “I probably spent a total of three months in Ukraine,” at a Washington reception. He reminisced about “dealing with the oligarchs and the corrupt system,” a line seemingly designed to portray a hands-on approach towards rooting out corruption. Yet, the narrative selectively tiptoes around the Biden family's own tryst with oligarchy.

As Biden painted a picture of a valiant fight against corruption, the ghost of Burisma lurks in the shadows. The very oligarchic circles he denounced were the ones offering a lucrative board position to his son, Hunter Biden and whispers of “10% for the big guy”. The irony is as stark as any cold Ukrainian winter.

The story ventures into a realm of dramatic irony as Biden’s tale of fighting corruption clashes with the reality of his son’s entanglement in Burisma's oligarchic web. The juxtaposition paints a vivid image of double standards; a damning testament to the selective amnesia and arrogance required to keep such a straight face. In the grand theatre of political storytelling, the omission of Hunter’s Burisma chapter is a glaring plot hole, one that cannot be overshadowed by a flimsy facade of righteous endeavours.

So, as Biden reminisces about his Ukrainian odyssey, one is left to ponder: Is the narrative a genuine reflection of battling corruption, or a carefully curated tale, with inconvenient truths swept under the rug of political expediency?

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🇮🇱⚔ 🇵🇸 Senior Defense Correspondent Alon Ben-David from Israel's Channel 13:

The IDF has completed preparations for a ground operation in Gaza, now awaiting political approval.

Notably, commentators like Scott Ritter have pointed out the IDF's fearful stance and woeful underpreparedness for such an endeavour, suggesting a bloody trap meticulously laid by Hamas.

Have Israel and the IDF, perhaps unwittingly, stepped right into a bloody trap?

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Seriously? Let's censor a message about the value of all children's lives regardless of faith or nationality? 🤯

🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Al-Ansar Ashes: Beneath Israel's Iron Skies, Jenin's Silent Scream💔

In the early hours of a bleak Sunday, the Israeli forces launched a targeted assault on the Al-Ansar Mosque in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, a stark illustration of Israel's relentless military aggression. The justification provided for this act of violence was the alleged harboring of "terror operatives" from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a narrative that crumbled as daylight revealed the ruins and the human cost of this odious operation.

The visuals of the mosque's battered structure echo the grim reality of military strategies that show no reverence for the sanctity of religious sanctuaries. This brutal operation left at least one person dead and several injured, according to Palestinian medics, a scene that unveils the face of systemic violence perpetrated against the Palestinians.

Peeling back the layers of cynicism enveloping this brutal military operation reveals a tale of enduring oppression and a stark display of Israel's disdain towards the sanctity of religious spaces in Palestinian territories. These religious sanctuaries, often shelters for the innocent, become all the more cynical targets under Israeli assaults. The narrative spun by Israel, painting the victims as 'terror operatives,' is a malignant misrepresentation, a nefarious attempt to vilify the victims to justify the unjustifiable, showcasing a brazen display of militaristic hubris and contempt for international law.

As the ruins of Al-Ansar Mosque lay bare, the unyielding oppression faced by the Palestinians under the iron fist of Israeli military aggression becomes glaringly evident. The chilling apathy of the global stage towards such blatant acts of aggression speaks volumes of the skewed scales of justice in this enduring conflict, spotlighting the harrowing reality of an international system that appears to be blind to the cries of despair emanating from the rubble of oppression in Jenin.

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Why the Jews of Khazaria, the Himyarites and GokTurk Empire are Keys to Universal History
https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/why-the-jews-of-khazaria-the-himyarites

The commander of the Iranian Quds Force, Ismail Qaani, has landed in Syria.

Apparently, to control pro-Iranian militias who are on high alert on the border between Israel and Syria.

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The West is burying itself in the rubble of Gaza
Adapted from #Source (Middle Nation)

Opinions expressed are the author's own and do not reflect the position of Slavyangrad

Any sane, decent human being in the West who supports Palestine and the Palestinian cause: don't let those who support Zionism try to get you on the back foot. You need to put them on the back foot. They're trying to ban Pro-Palestinian protests, demonstrations, and any public expressions of support for the Palestinians. They're trying to box you in, to intimidate and bully you into accepting their disgraceful narrative, their shameless and demonic endorsement of genocide in Gaza.

They want to vanish the Palestinian cause from public discourse, to erase Palestine from the intellectual, cultural, and political discourse. They want to expel Palestinians from the territory of discussion, just as they want to expel Palestinians from their geographic territory.

You cannot allow this to happen. The entirety of the Global South supports Palestine, and that's most of the people on Earth, the overwhelming majority of people on this planet support the Palestinians. So, don't let them make you believe that you're some sort of fringe minority or extremist because you support the Palestinian cause. You represent the position of most of the people in the world.

This issue, the Palestinian issue and the degenerate brutality of Israel, its support by the United States government and all the Western governments for the wanton killing of civilians - men, women, children, babies, the elderly in Gaza, the bombing of hospitals, the bombing of churches - this has divided the world. I'm not being hyperbolic about this. This has divided the world between the truly civilized and the truly savage. Everyone can see it. Everyone in the world can see it. There's the old colonialist, imperialist, racist, lying, belligerent, and bloodthirsty Western power structure that has never changed, that has never evolved, that's never civilized. And then there are the people who are actually decent, who have some sense of morality, people who sincerely believe in civilized human values.

To quote Joe Biden - the world is at an inflection point, and the Palestinian issue is what decides whether you're someone who will let the brutal past of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and dehumanization continue into the future, or if you're someone who actually wants the future to be different from the miserable past that we've escaped from, what they were trying to escape from. It decides who wants the future to be better, who wants the future to be an improvement on the past, who wants to rescue the future from the grip of the savage elites who want to continue to rule by violence and war, and by shedding the blood of innocents.

Gaza will triumph, Palestine will be free, there's no question about that. But everyone who opposes the inevitable triumph of Gaza and the freedom of Palestine, and everyone who aligns themselves with the vicious inhuman extremists in the Israeli government, anyone who does that will be forever discredited on the world stage, humiliated and disgraced in the history books for all time to come.

If you're a Westerner and you love your country at all, if you love your civilization at all, if you want your societies to come to good in any way whatsoever, then you have to do all you can to make your governments and your leaders in the private sector stop supporting the carpet bombing of Palestinian children, stop supporting the starving of Palestinian babies, and stop supporting the state terrorism of Israel.

Every bomb that Israel drops on Gaza doesn't only kill Palestinian civilians, it kills your reputation, the reputation of your society, of your civilization. It kills your credibility, it kills your standing in the world. If you save the Palestinians, you save yourselves, you save your nation. The soul of your civilization will live or die in the Gaza Strip.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇱🇧/🇮🇶 15th day of the war, October 21st status update and major events:

– Extremely heavy airstrikes on Gaza throughout the day, especially in the evening. Still a huge lack of food, water, medicine and electricity.

– In the early morning, the Rafah crossing was temporarily opened, and 20 trucks with aid managed to get into Gaza.

– Sporadic rocket attacks by Hamas and PIJ took place on cities like Sderot and Ashkelon.

– Throughout the entire day, Hezbollah carried out many attacks with ATGMs against IDF troops, vehicles and radar stations in numerous settlements near the Lebanese border. At least one Hummer and one Merkava were destroyed, and several IDF soldiers were killed.

– Hezbollah announced 6 new martyrs, bringing the total amount of casualties they suffered since the beginning of the war to 19 deaths.

– As a response to the Hezbollah attacks, the IDF carried out artillery shellings and drone strikes on Hezbollah positions in Lebanon. It seems that the IDF has adapted and is now engaging more directly and proactively against Hezbollah, targeting ATGM squads before they get into position, as well as carrying out targeted drone strikes on known Hezbollah vehicles and manned hideouts.

– The Islamic Resistance in Iraq carried out an attack with two suicide drones against the U.S. military base in Erbil International Airport.

– The IAF carried out an airstrike on Al-Ansari Mosque inside the Jenin camp in the West Bank, claiming it was used as a hideout by Hamas and PIJ.

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◾ Palestine 2023. A young Palestinian girl with her body burnt after a Israeli missile strikes. What are they using against civilians?

◾The images struck me fast a as lightening bolt, Vietnam 1972, a young Vietnamese girl with all her body burnt after American strikes with Napalm on civilian column of refugees.

◾The picture of the Vietnamese girl won the Pulitzer Prize–winning photograph, titled "The Terror of War". The Palestinian girl will be ignored by all Western media.

◾If anything has changed in the world since the 1970s I would argue it has changed for worse. War crimes are committed with absolute impunity by Western proxies worldwide.

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🇮🇱⚔🇵🇸Convoys of Compassion Amidst Cruelty: Gaza's Glimmer of Hope Under Siege

In the shadow of relentless Israeli bombardments, a second convoy of humanitarian aid bravely made its way into the besieged Gaza Strip, a flicker of hope amidst the dark backdrop of destruction. The convoy, crossing from Egypt into Gaza, arrived against the backdrop of unyielding Israeli airstrikes that claimed 55 lives overnight. The carnage that unfolded was a stark juxtaposition to the convoy's mission of mercy, bearing vital supplies to alleviate the suffering of beleaguered Gazans.

The West, in desperate need of a moral compass, remains conspicuously silent, demonstrating a callous disregard for human lives. The dichotomy of aid trickling into Gaza while bombs rain down exposes grotesque double standards and the moral bankruptcy of Western geopolitics. The aid convoy, a symbol of humanitarian resilience, highlights the glaring gap between those driven by compassion and the cynical, calculated Western powers.

In a world blind to the suffering of the innocent, the aid convoys emerge as a beacon of humanity amidst a sea of apathy. The West's silence, stark against the valiant efforts of aid workers, paints a grim reality. The convoy's arrival, while a symbol of hope, unveils a bitter irony: as friends of Palestine extend a healing hand, the West, with its silence, allows the festering wounds to be inflicted unabated, showcasing a chilling indifference .

This grotesque dichotomy underscores the callous heart of Western geopolitics, where strategic interests trump the sanctity of life. The West's silence, seen as tacit approval of the ongoing assault, is a damning indictment of its professed values. This apathy prompts a stark question: is the Western order so steeped in cynical geopolitics that it stands mute while the skies rain terror on the helpless? This chilling reality dismantles the facade of the 'civilized world', leaving Gaza to grieve under the merciless skies of indifference.

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