Some on the ground analysis from Minneapolis right now:

"The thing that's lacking from last year is the variety of roles and the participation of people from outside the leftist milieu. Namely, there needs to be a more tactical approach to this protest instead of just using the aesthetics of militancy (the shield wall) without the actions that back it up (light mages, ranged attacks, fire mages, barricades). I keep hearing on the stream "stop throwing shit" people don't realize that even sporadic projectile usage can make cops hesitant to move forward. When facing a long line of riot cops, your best friend is distance. It's what exhausted the police outside the 3rd precinct.

Also the sideshow crowd that came out to the uprising was very effective, the cars blocking streets and doing burnouts to generate smoke provided a diversion and helped boost morale, almost like a "mounted bloc" if you will

Bottom line is the uprising last year was effective because it was an incredibly diverse cross section of the south Minneapolis population representing many different walks of life and bringing many different tactical approaches, and the collective intelligence that was developed organically in the streets

This time around I fear there's been too much specialization of the role of "front line militant" and it's making it easier for the cops to drive a wedge between that militant frontliner identity and the "peaceful protester" and the complete isolation of the looters as being entirely apolitical and outside the insurgency entirely instead of active participants in it and its most avant garde section. The looters have taken the mantra "Be water" to heart and decentralized the action allowing it to spread into all corners of the metro area, never staying in one place long enough to be apprehended by police while still expropriating thousands upon thousands potentially millions of dollars in products and doing just as much if not more in financial damages.

We need to avoid specialized roles, we need to get ahead of the badjacketing and white washing, we need to continue articulating why looting is good, why barricades are good, why throwing stuff at police defensively is good, we need to remind people that "be water" means we don't stay stuck at one location but move and flow freely, staying out of reach of the law when we need to and crashing like waves on them when the opportunity strikes. We cannot possibly hope to defeat the largest police mobilization in Minnesota history with symmetrical warfare tactics, we must fight them on our terms. The state has nothing but time, we have nothing but numbers, we win by attrition. We exhaust them, we waste their time, we deceive them, we distract them."

Sun Tzu on "Be Water":
"Tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak."

"Water shapes its course according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing.

Therefore, just as water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant conditions."

A leaked document from the Chicago PD Crime Prevention & Information Center describes the potential for decentralized encrypted communications to defeat surveillance by law enforcement, citing goTenna Mesh devices in particular.

goTenna Mesh:
https://gotennamesh.com

similar projects you can build yourself:
https://disaster.radio
https://www.meshtastic.org

Comparative infographics on the types of missiles used by Hamas fighters.

For added analysis of Israel and Hamas’s potentially mutually beneficial antagonisms:

https://youtu.be/o7grSsuFSS0

If we are talking about rocket strikes, let’s compare and contrast these two styles of attacks:

-indiscriminate attacks targeting random people

Of course there’s a thousand reasons killing random people or doing things that gesture at that are bad ethically/tactically. For states they ironically call this ‘strategic bombing,’ for non state actors or states unaligned with NATO or whatever they call this terrorism.

The goal of such attacks for states is to break the morale of the populace being bombed, to inflict terror and wear down their willingness to resist and produce. For non-state actors it’s similar with the added factor of wanting to embarrass the authorities responsible for the attacks and shattering the facade of social peace, often ‘bringing the war home’ as it were. If you’re just looking for escalation this is a way to get their especially if you and your enemies kill all the moderates. After all no tactic exist in a vacuum.

Some of the problem with these tactics is the are basically enemy and precedent for repression generating machines. They can drastically decrease sympathy from a base, decrease potential for contagion across difference. They also may not even decrease your enemies power if you’re fighting an insurgency because while you may send shockwaves through your enemies supporters you will probably not do enough to deplete their population and will again galvanize the population against you.

In the case of Hamas we can see they have managed, with the help of Israel, to be as popular as ever in Gaza, but they and they’re tactics are also part of the reason things don’t pop off in the rest of Palestine despite many supporting them there. But again no tactics exists in a vacuum.

In the case of Israel and the US, killing ‘civilians’ is the number one recruiting tool for their enemies.

It’s worth repeating child killed air strikes and bombings is an accident it is either the whole point, like Israel drooping cluster bombs in Lebanon’s fields where kids play, or it’s “an acceptable loss” that the military accounted for.

-logistics oriented attacks with precise strikes targeting infrastructure

Attacking infrastructure can be attacks on the civilian population like when the US bombed water infrastructure in Iraq in Operation Iron Hammer named after a Nazi operation that devastated Russian civilian and military infrastructure.

But let’s talk about underdog attacks on infrastructure. Attacking infrastructure attacks power directly and highlights said power’s weak spots. Infrastructure and logistics are how EVERYTHING operates and so much of it can be targeted easily. It’s also more palatable to a broader set of potential supporters. And for actual supporters it can be like fireworks without going into a morbid death-cult direction. Death cults can of course be successful, look at the Islamic State for an example of this, but their project is at its core very different than a truly liberating project and if your goal is to actually escape or to “shake off” the oppressor as Intifada can be translated to mean, other methods must proliferate.

🚨 In a few moments, Al-Qassam Brigades will release a video of a "Shehab" suicide plane attacking the chemical factory in Nir Oz, hitting it directly this morning.

This will yet again expose Israeli lies that all drones were intercepted with no impacts.

(Update) Video here

Since the uptick in settler violence Israeli state forces have been right there backing them up.

https://twitter.com/m7mdkurd/status/1393238194993442821?s=21

As people, including many displaced Palestinians, in Jordan rush the border with Israel to support the Palestinian struggle let’s take a moment to reflect on the historical significance of this. Many Palestinians were displaced to Jordan and their liberation orgs followed. However, in the 1970s the King turned on the PLO, PFLP, etc in a brutal wave of repression known as Black September (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September) which marked a desperate turn for Palestinian armed struggle and since then there’s been little unrest in Jordan.

Likewise something similar happened a little bit later with Hafez Al-Assad in Syria turning on the PLO and even bombarding Palestinian refugee camps. (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/01/world/dispute-threatens-plo-syrian-reconciliation.html)

Suffice to say that this could mark the return of an international solidarity not seen in some time.