#Defend Syria

[dzthenerd490]

News Post

Palestine

Dying in ‘Hell’: The fate of Palestinian medics jailed by Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

UK counter-terrorism police arrest 10 Palestine Action activists (newarab.com)

Israeli Attacks Kill 14 in Gaza; Bezalel Smotrich Calls for Palestinian Population to Be Halved  | Democracy Now!

Israel cracks down on Palestinian citizens who speak out against the war in Gaza | AP News

Ukraine

Ukraine says Russian attack sets a new record for the number of drones used | AP News

Ukraine’s warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south  (economist.com)

Russian deserter reveals war secrets of guarding nuclear base (bbc.com)

‘Worst-case scenario’: Ukraine awaits Trump’s presidency with trepidation | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

Sudan

Sudan in danger of becoming a failed state, Jan Egeland warns (bbc.com)

Sudan's Burhan allows UN to use three airports for aid delivery - Sudan Tribune

Major aid scale up by WFP in Sudan as country faces famine (yahoo.com)

U.N. humanitarian chief attends event in Sudan to raise awareness about violence against women | Africanews

Lebanon

LIVE: Israel bombs Lebanon’s Beirut; cabinet discusses possible truce | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Israel cabinet meeting to discuss Lebanon deal postponed: CNN (newarab.com)

Live updates: Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal, war in Lebanon and Gaza | CNN

Syria

(74) Updates LIVE: Israel bombs Lebanon’s Beirut; cabinet discusses possible truce (aljazeera.com)

Can Israeli strikes in Syria undermine Iran-backed militias? (voanews.com)

Surprise Attack On U.S. Base In Syria, Rockets Hit Army Facility During Training Session | Watch (indiatimes.com)

[ymustutortureme]

I genuinely feel like this isn't said enough. So I'm gonna say it.

To everyone Zionist out there, every pro-genocide, pro-israel bigot, from the bottom of my heart, from the depths of my soul:

Fuck you.

[thestarjournal]

DENY DEFEND DEPOSE

DENY THEIR POWER DEFEND THE PEOPLE

DEPOSE THE RULERS

REMEMBER SILENCE IS VIOLENCE

-star

[dani-pixie]

Fantasies of Revolution

As we get daily news reports of the New York police trying to find the man that killed the United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, we see a rising of the people. The unification of the lower class. The death of a man who has been the cause of countless lost lives is to the benefit of us all. The words "Deny" "Defend" "Defend" echo in our minds just as the shell casings did when they dropped to the ground. We can only hope that his fervor does not die down, though I fear it will. Syria has made its dictator flee. South Korea put a stop to tyranny before it ever began. Georgia is fighting to be heard by its government. France voted to remove their far-right prime minister.

With the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, we cannot falter now. This momentum cannot stop. We are the people. We are the employers of the politicians. Make them hear you. Deny their power. Defend the people. Depose the rulers. Vote them out. Fire them. Show them that you are angry.

Earlier this year, I wrote a short rant piece about getting my family to wake up from the delusions that the far-right were promising them. I never showed it to them because it was filled with anger that they would never listen to. Now I call to the words that were in my head for days on end, "Wake up. Get up." Do not let this momentum die. Companies are trying to hide who their upper level executive people are. They are scared of the people.

A cover of Les Mis's "Do You Hear the People Sing" by the.real.eden on tiktok has been particularly powerful for me. I've listened to it over and over. I hope that the politicians and wealthy hear the people sing the song of angry men. I hope we are loud enough. I fear that this is simply just accumulation of fantasies of revolution with nothing to back it up. I fear that this will become the "there are flowers blooming in Antarctica." I fear that this will become a left vs. right instead of the working vs. wealthy. The wealthy fear a coherent and unified working class for a reason. They fear unions. They fear us. They fear those willing to fight for what is right. Do not let this momentum die down. Do not let our angry cries be silenced.

[unhinged-as-hell]

This is literally the start of a dystopian novel.

[iteh3xael]

Jumblr is so funny because they will have scum like Ben Shapiro on “their side” and act like that’s normal??

[fortunatelychaoticphantom]

Jesus fucking Christ. I just saw a Syrian woman's post celebrating the fall of the brutal dictator that has been massacring her people for over two decades, not including the decades of his father's rule, and the only thing in the comments is people accusing her of supporting Israel, because we are also happy that the evil dictator with a bio-chemical arsenal on the other side of our border has fallen??? Just say you don't give a shit about anyone or anything unless it includes hating Jews and save us all the time and effort.

[news4dzhozhar]

[indecisiveavocado]

dear december,

please stop too much has been happening and I am not ready.

you need to space things out. you can't do all this. I mean, really. You can't do all this newsworthy shit. documentation:

in thirteen days, you have:

had martial law declared in south korea

killed brian thompson

collapsed the french government

ousted assad

had a reasonably fair and free ghanaian election

among continuing many other crises. you can't do this. you can only have four by this point in time, one every three days. And really, syria should count for two, if not more.

please pause all news for the next few days to let us get back to normal.

thank you.

[mariesoliver]

Messaged my close friend whatsapp group (all non-turkish ppl) about how angry i felt about the turkish government not investing in proper earthquake proof infrastructure and this girl just went "pff pretty fucked if that's actually true" uhmm excuse you? What do you mean "if actually true"??

I initially sent a text in the chat about how disgusted i was with the authorities and this glorified trad wife goes "oh but at least they allow help to pass through! It's not like the government in Syria" GIRL WTF ARE YIU TALKING ABOUT

[dzthenerd490]

News Post

Palestine

Ireland hears the call of Palestine, but is it free to answer? | Israel-Palestine conflict | Al Jazeera

Israeli strikes on Gaza kill at least 33 including children, Palestinian medics say | AP News

Israel pounds Gaza as Katz says there is a ‘chance’ for a deal | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Ukraine

US warns Russia may use new lethal missile against Ukraine again soon | AP News

Russia inches ahead in eastern Ukraine as Trump warns of aid cuts to Kyiv | News | Al Jazeera

Russian forces just three kilometers from key Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk | CNN

Sudan

Sudan bombardments: At least 127, mostly civilians, killed in two days | CNN

Sudan air strike causes 'horrific massacre' in a Darfur market (bbc.com)

Sudan's RSF arrests dozens in Nyala after air strikes - Sudan Tribune

Lebanon

Israeli strikes kill five in southern Lebanon amid shaky ceasefire | Israel attacks Lebanon News | Al Jazeera

At Syria’s border with Lebanon, refugees return home while others flee fearing the worst | CNN

Migrant workers in Lebanon are trying to return home after abuses and then war | AP News

Syria

Why is Israel attacking Syria? | Features | Al Jazeera

Israel strikes Syria 480 times and seizes territory as Netanyahu pledges to change face of the Middle East | CNN

Bodies showing torture signs found at hospital, Syria rebels say (bbc.com)

[quark-nova]

And "it's complicated" is predictably being used as an excuse to support the Turkish and Israeli invasions, despite them only furthering their own interests. And explicitly not having in mind the interests of the Syrian people they are currently bombing and invading.

We can and should have a larger conversation about how the reconstruction process should take place, how to guarantee AANES autonomy while also keeping it multicultural rather than Kurdish-dominated, and how to make sure that HTS doesn't turn Syria into an Islamist country. This "larger conversation" does not involve immediately bombing the fuck out of Syria.

Kinda weird how the one time you can actually use “complicated” to reference the situation in a certain swana country, people are suddenly no longer interested in doing so?

[sayruq]

My grandmother Naifa al-Sawada was born in June 1932. A beautiful girl with blue eyes, she was the only daughter to her parents. They were originally from Gaza but moved to nearby Bir al-Saba, where Naifa’s father Rizq worked as a merchant. She did well at school and in 1947 obtained the necessary certificate from the British – then the rulers of Palestine – to attend university. She did not do so, however. Her father was fearful about what could happen to her at a time when war in Palestine appeared imminent. At a young age, she married my grandfather Salman al-Nawaty and went to live in Gaza. Between 1947 and 1949, Zionist forces expelled approximately 800,000 Palestinians from their homes. Among those directly affected by the Nakba – Arabic for catastrophe – were Naifa’s own parents, who fled their home in Bir al-Saba for Gaza. Having witnessed the Nakba, Naifa encouraged her own children to defend Palestine. Naifa gave birth to four girls and six boys.Like so many mothers in Gaza, she experienced great loss. Her son Moataz went missing while traveling to Jerusalem in 1982. It is still not known what happened to him. Another son Moheeb, a journalist, left Palestine for Norway in 2007. Three years later he traveled to Syria. In January 2011, he went missing. The Syrian authorities subsequently confirmed to the Norwegian diplomatic service that he was imprisoned. But he has not been allowed to contact his family.We do not know his current whereabouts or even if he is alive or dead. My grandmother witnessed the first intifada from 1987 and 1993. On the streets around her, youngsters with stones and slingshots rose up against armed Israeli soldiers in tanks and military jeeps. During that time, her son Moheeb – the aforementioned journalist – was held for more than a year without charge or trial. That infamous practice is called administrative detention. My grandmother lived close to al-Shifa, Gaza’s largest hospital. She took great care of arranging everything in her home with her delicate hands. She used those same hands to comb her hair into braids. She memorized the Quran and took great interest in the education of her children and grandchildren. On 21 March this year, Israeli troops broke into my grandmother’s home. The soldiers displayed immense brutality. They ordered the women in our family to evacuate on foot and arrested the men. They would not allow the women to take my grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s disease, with them. The soldiers claimed that my grandmother would be safe. That was a lie. The invasion of my grandmother’s house took place amid Israel’s siege on al-Shifa hospital. My grandmother’s house was destroyed during that siege and she was killed. Her remains were found days after the Israeli troops eventually withdrew from the hospital earlier this month. She was killed – alone – in the same house where she had lived since 1955. We do not know if she suffered or if she died quickly. We do know that she was older than Israel’s merciless occupation.

[fiercynn]

okay, if you have ever made or reblogged a “hold your nose and vote for biden” post, this is for you.

here’s the fucking thing about these kinds of posts. i've been seeing them since i first returned to tumblr in, I think, late 2022? they've certainly increased in frequency since october 7, but they were there before too, ready to counter any kind of opposition to biden that has cropped up. many of them are not just trying to educate people about what positive things biden has done, which, like, at least I can understand the motivation behind those ones? but so many of them are directly in response to people criticizing biden, and their only real point is “sure you’re upset at this thing biden did, but have you considered the election?” starting YEARS before the next presidential election, mind you.

and october 7 only made that clearer. i don’t think it had been a week before i saw these posts cropping up. can you not see how fucking ghoulish that is? to look at the rightful pain and anger of those whose relatives and communities are being slaughtered with active american support, to respond to one of the few pieces of agency most americans have in influencing what their governments do – their vote – by saying “yes but trump would be worse.” as if the primary people you’re lecturing – palestinians, muslims, arabs, black people, indigenous people, disabled people, other marginalized people – don’t remember exactly how bad it was under trump!

and even if you think not voting is an empty gesture – something i, who studied political science at a mainstream american lib college, who has worked as a field organizer on a previous democratic presidential campaign and for several policy campaigns, who currently works in public policy in america, used to believe, but have absolutely changed my mind on – what is in no way an empty gesture is saying publicly that you will not vote for someone. the arguments people usually have about why simply not voting is bad are that you can’t tell why someone is not voting, so it is as likely to be apathy or disenfranchisement as it is a political statement. but saying publicly that you will not vote for someone, and why you will not vote for them, absolutely is a political statement, and potentially a powerful one! but you choose to negate and/or ignore that by trotting out the “lesser of two evils” bullshit.

and then there’s the whole “yes but people will DIE under trump”. PEOPLE ARE DYING NOW. even if you’re fucking racist and have decided that palestinian lives don’t count, have you forgotten biden’s ongoing covid minimalism and dismantling of the CDC’s covid research and prevention infrastructure? have you forgotten his increase in spending for law enforcement scant years after the murder of george floyd and his administration's surveillance of protesters, including cop city protesters? have you forgotten his recent ramp-up in deportations of undocumented immigrants, including the active continuation of many trump-era policies?

maybe you have forgotten all those things and do purport to care about palestinians, but you just think that biden is doing his best to influence netanyahu and is getting nowhere! but then you must have forgotten all of the things that biden and his administration themselves have done to further this fucking genocide, including:

continuing to send arms to israel

putting together a military task force within days of yemen’s red sea blockade and attacking yemeni ships

bombing yemen

bombing syria

bombing iraq

vetoing three ceasefire resolutions at the united nations

testifying to defend israel and its genocide and occupation at the international court of justice

refusing to rescue palestinian-americans stuck in gaza

halting funding to the united nations relief and works agency for palestinian refugees (UNRWA) based on israeli claims that 12 of UNRWA’s over 30,000 staff were hamas agents, even though u.s. intelligence has not been able to independently verify this

lying that he’s personally seen photos of babies beheaded by hamas when he hadn’t because they didn’t exist (and even when his own staff cautioned him that reports of beheaded babies may not be credible)

questioning the number of palestinian deaths reported by the gaza ministry of health (when even israel has not questioned them, since they are in fact proud of those numbers)

perpetuating lies about hamas having committed the attack on al-aqsa hospital

questioning united nations reports of adults and children raped by israeli soldiers while claiming to have proof (that no one else has seen) of hamas doing the same

honestly so many more things that i can’t remember them all but others feel free to add

or maybe you haven’t forgotten any of that, and think that you’re still justified in lecturing people about why they should vote for biden, because you genuinely believe trump would still be worse. if that is the case, you have still failed to see that by saying you will vote for biden no matter what, you are part of the problem of biden continuing to act like this. because biden is counting on fear of trump to win him this next election no matter what else he does. despite his appalling polling numbers, despite the knowledge that he is losing the palestinian-american vote, the arab-american vote, the muslim-american vote, the black american vote, the youth vote – despite all of that, he is secure in the idea that he will still win because he is better than trump. can you not see how that allows him to act without impunity? how it becomes increasingly impossible for his base to influence what he’s doing if he thinks that they will be with him no matter what? this is how you make yourself complicit to biden’s actions, by not affording anyone even the slightest power to hold him accountable for anything.

and in most cases, the “hold your nose and vote for biden” thing is the response of people who aren’t even being instructed by others not to vote for biden. it is their response to people saying they themselves are choosing not to vote for biden. fucking ghoulish.

[read-marx-and-lenin]

Of the Americans who fought in Korea or Vietnam, none were "innocent" by virtue of having been drafted. The moral choice there was to either dodge the draft, defect to the other side, or frag the guy giving orders. Anyone who chose otherwise was a criminal and a murderer. And once the draft was over and the army became volunteer-only, all the excuses vanished. Yes, there are people who were in Iraq or Afghanistan or Syria who regretted it, but regretting your crime doesn't undo it. That's just the minimum requirement for being a decent human being in the aftermath.

To everyone who says "you leftists can't go around hating on the troops, don't you want them to join the revolution?" I say "why would they join us if they couldn't handle being told the truth about the genocidal terrorist organization they volunteered for?" If their reaction upon hearing people call the US military murderers and terrorists is to deny or equivocate or rationalize their participation, then they're not yet fit to be a revolutionary. If we're trying to dismantle the imperialist warmongering empire that continues to use its might and influence to murder millions around the world that is the United States, what good is a person who balks at the notion that the troops who volunteer to pledge their lives and their loyalty in service of this empire might be complicit in its crimes?

An American soldier or veteran who is not ready to admit they were wrong will not be any more ready to join us if we lie to them and say they made no mistake in joining the US military. We only weaken our own messaging and our own position if we refuse to condemn not just the US military as an organization but all those who continue to participate in and defend its actions. The troops are not innocent.