#ink.palestine

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Isnotreal attacked the Iranian consulate in Syria, killing an important general in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, among others (1) (2). Isnotreal hasn't confirmed or denied blame for this attack (2).

Iran declared, Wednesday last week, that it would respond (1) (3).

my sources disagree (slightly):(NRK: The Iranian response was sending over 300 missiles and drones (3). ) (Reuters: over 200 drones and missiles, according to Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari(2))

Most of them got cut off, according to isnotreal (3). Iran also said it was a response to multiple crimes by Israel (not just the criminal attack on the consulate) (3).

Iran's allies, including Hizbollah (according to themselves) and the Houthies (according to media), are also supposed to have attacked isnotreal (3).

The USA (Biden) is saying they are assisting isnotreals defence and side with Isnotreal strongly against Iran (3) (2) (link to statement). Donald Trump says he thinks the USA is not doing enough to support isnotreal (2). The Norwegian foreign minister condemned isnotreals attack on Iran (3). Iranians celebrate Irans attack on Isnotreal, saying "death to Israel", "death to usa", according to AFP (4). Iran warns isnotreal not to commit further crimes, or else they will respond stronger, but say they consider the matter concluded (2). Isnotreal wants the UN to move to condemn Iran's retaliation (3). Isnotreal says they will retaliate grandly (2).

Multiple news bureaus report having seen drones from Iraq (3).

The British, Usamerican and Jordanian defenses all report having shot down Iranian drones that were heading to isnotreal (3).

The NRK correspondent in Jerusalem reports having seen missiles being shot down, this being the first time in a while there's been any bombing in the area, videos from Hareetz also show this (3).

For most of the bombing isnotrealis were told to sit in bomb rooms (3). The bombings we're warned about in the app Red Alert (3).

slight disagreement between my sources here, but: (NRK: According to isnotreali ambulances there has been one injury, a ten year old was critically hurt (3).) (Reuters: According to isnotreali authorities there has been one injury, a seven year old girl was critically hurt (2))

edit: Addition that Norwegian newspaper The Class Struggle (Klassekampen) made a two pager on the attack on Iran (published Saturday 13.04.2024), predicting Irans attack and supporting the claim that 7 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. They also added that the UK David Cameron said it would be a misstep for Iran to retaliate. (5)

Sources:

1 NRK link published april 1 2024 18:59 (Norwegian time). No author listed. language: Norwegian bokmål. Accessed April 14 11:12.

2 Reuters link . Published April 14 2024 10:45 GMT+2 (edited 3 hours ago). Written by Dan Williams in Jerusalem, Parisa Hafezi in Dubai, Timur Azhari in Baghdad, Jeff Mason, Eric Beech and Doina Chiacu in Washington and Suleiman al-Khalidi in Amman and Lidia Kelly in Lisbon; Writing by Angus McDowall; Editing by Jonathan Oatis, Daniel Wallis, Chizu Nomiyama, Howard Goller and William Mallard. Accessed April 14 13:54.

3 NRK link published april 14 2024 13:18. Written by Øyvind Bye Skille, Åse Marit Befring, Milana Kenžević, Julia Kirsebom Thomassen, Aud Darrud, Hedda Kurseth and Eivind Molde. language: Norwegian bokmål. Accessed April 14 13:20.

4 NRK link published april 14 2024 12:37. Written by Ida Kristin Rønning, Aid Darrud and Amanda Iversen Orlich. Language: Norwegian bokmål. Accessed April 14 13:22.

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5 Klassekampen. Published April 13 2024. Written by Amal A Wahab. language: Norwegian bokmål. Accessed April 17 2024.

Note about the quality of sources:

NRK generally seem a lot more critical of isnotreal and don't seem to fit the criticisms that have been raised about "western media", I mean I assume most of the people complaining don't even speak Norwegian so yeah, I trust NRK, NRK is btw Norway's official news agency "Norsk rikskringkasting", which is free. NRK doesn't have a rating, but Norway is considered to have "excellent freedom" of press, ranking first globally (MBFC).

Reuters is English language Western media, so I assume they are more biased in favor of isnotreal, however they have a relatively high factuality score and are said to have low bias, though with being from the UK they are only mostly free media (MBFC). Their trust principles are linked here.

Also note about this post, I am mostly translating the NRK article, I skipped some parts (mostly to make this more strictly news) and restructured some parts. This is mostly the work of the journalists in source 3.

edit:

Klassekampen is a left wing paper that I personally consider fairly reliable for Palestine. They have from the start just written more about Palestine, simply enough. Again there's no MBFC score for this paper. This article has not been debunked in the Norwegian fact checker Faktisk.no. Klassekampen has failed fact check before (at faktisk.no), usually about Norwegian politics.

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Pro palestine music:

Leve Palestina av Spartacus. A Swedish song that translates to "live Palestine".

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Currently I'm watching born in Gaza. It's a documentary about life in Gaza for 10 children and shows the damage the israeli military has done on their lives and some of the restrictions from the occupation/seige. Not just wounds from grapeshots and friends lost (dead), but also jobs lost (bombed) and lack of access to water.

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One BDS thing that confused me so much at first

this is the only AXA I'd ever heard of before I heard of BDS:

image description translation: package of oatmeal with the brand name AXA stylized as white text inside a red circle with a strand of wheat under. The packaging itself is orange and the Norwegian text lettkokte havregryn is capitalized in big text. Produced on Moss mill. It is marked with a green keyhole, signaling that it's healthy.

I'm pretty sure it's a different company, one based in Sweden. edit: yeah it is.

But the boycotted AXA is said to be an insurance company, and this AXA sells oats. Not that it's that relevant, I have like a full kilo left of oats I'm not gonna buy more regardless of boycotting but yeah. Confusing stuff.

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most Norwegians, except the christians, want a boycott of isnotreal. A total of 47% says they want Norway to, 27% say they're unsure and 27% say they don't want it.

the question: are you positive to Norway doing a boycott of Israeli wares and services.

the red lines means they said yes and the blue line that they said no

this is lined up by party ranged by how many yesses, red party (R) / socialist left (SV) / centre party (SP) / workers' party (AP) / Left (V) / Right (H) / progress Party (FrP) / christian people's party (KrF). data gathered between 3rd and 7th of January. They asked 1000 Norwegians.

link to the article on VG.no updated 16. January

by christians I'm referring to the Christian People's Party and Progress Party. Though I'm sure the progress Party has more reasons than religion for not supporting BDS.

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They don't seem to have Farha (that Palestinian movie) on Netflix in Norway :(

They do seem to have other movies about Palestine/Palestinians though so I can watch them/one of those. They have one Netflix is presenting to me under the title "født i Gaza" -> born in Gaza. Another called 3000 nights and another called A world not ours.

(the language stuff on Netflix is kinda weird cause I technically have Netflix in french but it gives me a mix of norwegian, english and French movie titles)

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Palestinian song:

the song title translates to Palestinan or falastini. by Toni Qattan.