African American Resistance Organization

Bengali Association of Students at Harvard College

Harvard Act on a Dream

Harvard Arab Medical and Dental Student Association

Harvard Chan Muslim Student Association

Harvard Chan Students for Health Equity and Justice in Palestine

Harvard College Pakistan Student Association

Harvard Divinity School Muslim Association

Harvard Middle Eastern and North African Law Student Association

Harvard Graduate School of Education Islamic Society

Harvard Graduate Students for Palestine

Harvard Islamic Society

Harvard Law School Justice for Palestine

Harvard Divinity School Students for Justice in Palestine

Harvard Jews for Liberation

Harvard Kennedy School Bangladesh Caucus

Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Caucus

Harvard Kennedy School Muslim Women's Caucus

Harvard Kennedy School Palestine Caucus

Harvard Muslim Law School Association

Harvard Pakistan Forum

Harvard Prison Divest Coalition

Harvard South Asian Law Students Association

Harvard South Asians for Forward-Thinking Advocacy and Research

Harvard TPS Coalition

Harvard Undergraduate Arab Women's Collective

Harvard Undergraduate Ghungroo

Harvard Undergraduate Muslim Women's Medical Alliance

Harvard Undergraduate Nepali Students Association

Harvard Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee

Middle East and North African Graduate School of Design Student Society

Neighbor Program Cambridge

Sikhs and Companions of Harvard Undergraduates

Society of Arab Students

it's over for @MURDERVANN

From the Fediverselore post:

FIY, my account was banned on lemmy.world for sharing the info on one ofLemmy developer, SleeplessOne1917. The post was also removed from lemmy.ml.

I made this throwaway account yesterday because there was always the possibility of getting my main account banned.

It's important for everyone to know the comments of the dev (donors to the project the most) because "TBF the future lemmy developer isn't too far off. I've been discussing being added to the NLNet grant along with another person, phiresky, with Dessalines and Nutomic.".

I've archived the post here: https://web.archive.org/web/20231010071241/https://lemmy.ca/post/6892121

From the post exposing the lemmy dev:

In the recent Lemmy developer update, there's a reference to one Lemmy developer, SleeplessOne1917.

I found some horrifying comments from this user.

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649200 - “There is no such thing as an Israeli civilian. All settlers are valid targets.”

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649472 - “15 year olds are military age. That makes them valid targets for killing.”

https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2649732 - “… There is no such thing as a zionoid civilian. Everything that moves and isn't Palestinian is a valid target. …”

Webarchive: https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171047/https://lemmy.ml/u/[email protected]

Edit: New comment from the user “Cry more. Israelis need to be eliminated. Death to Israel, and death to Amerikkka!”

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171510/https://lemmygrad.ml/comment/2592588

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171739/https://lemmygrad.ml/post/750810

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009171907/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4569805

https://web.archive.org/web/20231009172817/https://lemmy.ml/comment/4413706

https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917

!commies

IAF chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar: "We have a list of everyone who participated in the heinous crimes. And you know the Air Force, we will reach everyone."

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 12, 2023

We have a list of everyone who participated in the heinous crimes. And you know the Air Force, we will reach everyone.

https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1767h9x/premier_league_statement_on_the_current_crisis_in

https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1765gk0/fa_statement_on_friday_evening_we_will_remember

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated his country's support for the establishment of an independent Palestinian state and the implementation of the relevant United Nations resolutions.

Speaking at the plenary session of Russian Energy Week, Putin said: “Russia's position, which I just mentioned and explained, has not evolved today, not with regard to these tragic events, but rather has evolved over decades. This position is known to the Israeli side and to our friends in Palestine: We have always advocated the implementation of UN Security Council resolutions, taking into account first and foremost the establishment of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state.”

Putin added that the conflict in Palestine has extended for a long time, and has become a manifestation of injustice that has reached an incredible degree, adding that the Palestinian issue is in the “heart of every person in the region”.

“What is happening is terrible. We understand that the level of bitterness is enormous. But we need to reduce civilian casualties to a minimum, and this applies to both sides,” he said, explaining that initially there was talk about creating two states – Israel and Palestine, but the latter never happened, adding that part of the Palestinian territories are occupied by Israel.

He stressed that expanding the conflict zone could lead to serious consequences.

“In recent years, the focus has been on meeting the material needs of the population living in the Palestinian territories. In essence, they have tried to replace problem-solving of basic political issues with some kind of material gifts. Of course, this is very important for people who have a low standard of living. It is important to solve economic issues, but we have always said that this will not be enough. And without resolving the basic political issues, the most important of which is the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital, it is impossible to solve the entire problem,” he added.

The Jerusalem Post can now confirm based on verified photos of the bodies that the reports of babies being burnt and decapitated in Hamas's assault on Kfar Aza are correct.

May their memory be a blessing.https://t.co/LaVs1aXR50

— The Jerusalem Post (@Jerusalem_Post) October 12, 2023

Armenian genocide never happened btw

Israel cannot confirm the specific claim that babies were beheaded in Hamas' attack, an official says, contradicting previous public statement https://t.co/NiBO1pItAA

— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) October 12, 2023

Israeli official says government cannot confirm babies were beheaded in Hamas attack

Jerusalem (CNN) — The Israeli government has not confirmed the specific claim that Hamas attackers cut off the heads of babies during their shock attack on Saturday, an Israeli official told CNN, contradicting a previous public statement.

“There have been cases of Hamas militants carrying out beheadings and other ISIS-style atrocities. However, we cannot confirm if the victims were men or women, soldiers or civilians, adults or children,” the official said.

The explosive allegations that children had been decapitated at the kibbutz of Kfar Aza emerged Tuesday in Israeli media. Israel Defense Forces later described the scene as a “massacre” in a statement to CNN. Women, children toddlers and the elderly were “brutally butchered in an ISIS way of action,” the IDF said.

Tal Heinrich, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said on Wednesday that babies and toddlers had been found with their “heads decapitated” in Kfar Aza.

An IDF spokesman later in the day said that terrorists had carried out decapitations.

“We know that there were dead babies. There is evidence that there was decapitation. I don't know how to verify numbers or how they were killed,” IDF spokesman Maj. Nir Dinar said.

I'm too lazy to look up photos and think of clever captions so imagine this is a chapter book like you're in the 3rd grade.

There's been so much breathless speculation by journos (forgive me for using profanity) who are desperately hoping that the war in Gaza will draw in the whole region. We know Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iran are the bad guys. So it's confusing to them why the bad guys aren't all fighting together. It's like if Wonder Woman was attacked by the Joker but Loki and Thanos just sat back and watched. Don't they know they're the bad guys?

Actual experts who are paid to understand, not to hype, seem pretty united in saying the opposite. After listening to them and combining it with my autism-powered memory of the region, I'll summarize the different groups and their motives and interactions with each other.

Hamas

Background

Founded originally as a chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas is very much a Sunni organization. So why are they on the bad guys' team? The whole Sunni/Shia thing is a fault line, but fault lines often aren't active, especially when it's politically convenient. Hamas will never have the natural affinity with Iran that Hezbollah does. It even was briefly turned against Iran during the Syrian Civil War. But as long as they have converging interests there is no sectarian reason why they can't be allies. (It helps that there are no Shi'a Palestinians to complicate things.)

Hamas' Muslim Brotherhood origins give it some affinity with governments that have a similar ties like Erdogan's party in Turkey and the royal family in Qatar. But they're not besties, they just have each other's phone numbers and send Christmas cards. Hamas is very close to the actual legit Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and many Egyptians are absolutely incensed at their role in supporting the brief oppressive MB regime during the "Arab Spring".

Before Hamas there was Fatah, led by Yasser Arafat. Fatah ended up getting more moderate and more corrupt, entering the peace process. They now run the West Bank as a protectorate of Israel. Hamas is the edgier, more fanatical and crazy and religious alternative that emerged during the first Intifada in the late 1980s. Hamas and Fatah hate each other and many have been killed over this. But the dynamics between the two are complex, like an incredibly dysfunctional family that's still a family.

Israel has often tacitly supported Hamas against Fatah. The idea is that if the crazier Palestinians win then they will look bad and Americans won't pressure Israel to make peace. Netanyahu had been learning into this hard recently.

Relations with Iran

Iran is the main ally of Hamas. Why? Think about it, do you want to be Hamas' friend? Do you want to be Ayatollah Khamenei's friend? They're like the kids who were too weird to sit at the goth table in high school so they're stuck with each other.

Iran has been estimated to give an entire $100 million/year to them (personally my guess is it's gotta be more). That's a pittance but it's stuff like ATGMs that you can't just pick up on Ali Baba. Also the Revolutionary Guards give vital training.

At the end of the day though, you can give someone weapons but that doesn't give you control of them. Every country that has given weapons to anyone in the Middle East eventually gets told to go blow themselves and their "client" does whatever they want.

Motives

Everyone except me dances around hinting at this but I'm apparently the only person who will say this bluntly in English:

The entire history of Palestine since 1948 has been betrayal by Arabs. One by one each country makes a deal with Israel to frick them over. Saudi Arabia is the last functioning country that even pretends to be on their side. If the Saudi-Israel deal is made, that is the end of the Palestinian nation. They will become stateless refugees at best, "resttled" at worst. So there's nothing to lose and the last longshot is to win a victory so Arabs believe resistance against Israel is possible.

Hezbollah

Background

You could write a book about the origins of Hezbollah. Suffice it to say here that they were Lebanese Shi'a who either were fanatics inspired by the Islamic Revolution in Iran (the core group) or turned to it because of the Israeli occupation. The leadership has personal ties to the Iranian regime, like the old geezers studied together in Najaf. Many of the old-school Hezbos (Mughniya especially) seem to have been taking orders direct from Iran.

It also incorporates lots of people who were basically forced into it because the Israelis blew up their house, tried to draft them into their puppet army, or tortured them. Many Christians were what we used to call "fellow travelers" in boomer times, although way less now than when they were actually liberating the country.

Relations with Iran

This is much different than Hamas. Certain people say that Jewish Americans in the government have "divided loyalties". If they could only see how much Hezbos put the "Axis of Resistance" ahead of their own country.

Hezbollah is much more dependent on Iran than Hamas. Shrill r-slurs on tv scream that they're a "terrorist organization". Not really. They're a conglomerate with a terrorism subsidiary. They run hospitals and provide basic services to the Shi'a in Lebanon, who the rest of the country have always just shit on. They get way more in weapons than Hamas because it can be flown into Damascus and just picked up with a truck.

Having said all that, in the last 20 years I can't think of a single time that Hezbollah attacked Israel because Iran asked them to. They did send lots of troops to fight in the Syrian Civil War but stopping Turkey/al-Qaeda was in their interest too. Again this kind of aid is a one way street.

Motives

Hezbollah is in real trouble right now. The whole country has been reduced to extreme poverty because basically all the politicians stuffed cash into briefcases and ran away. Right around when that massive explosion blew up Beirut because the politicians were too lazy to prevent it.

The whole population is absolutely fricking livid at the whole ruling class. Hezbollah isn't a major player directly in the corruption but everyone knows that they protect the gangsters. Nothing will get better as long as they can have their own private army. You liberated us from the Israelis. That was great. So why don't you accept victory and go home?

So Hezbollah has been trying to reach some kind of compromise with Saudi Arabia, etc. to return everything to the status quo and end this crisis before a popular revolution. They're in really deep shit and the last thing they wanted was a big surprise.

Iran

Background

The Iranian regime comes from Ayatollah Khomeini, who Old Man Redactor most eloquently described as "the best argument for colon cancer". He somehow mesmerized both ends of the horseshoe, commies and tradmuslim larpers, to join together and wipe out anyone sane and then turn on each other. Then the Iran-Iraq War, which I can't even get into without raging at these chickenhawk f-slurs.

Suffice it to say, the Iranian regime has been so dishonest and intransigent in the past that nobody trusts them. But being massive fricking buttholes doesn't mean you're responsible for everything. These are still the same sick bastards from the 1980s but they've been relatively quiet since then.

Motives

Apparently the government really wants to murder teenage girls over fashion. When the economy tanked, the government instigated culture war bullshit as a distraction. Things have gotten dramatically worse there in the last decade. The economy is destroyed. There are about 58 billion women who have engineering degrees but can't get a job or find housing so they can get married, but some f-slur can harrass them on the street and say God told him to do it.

The regime is in survival mode. It's lasted this long off the blood of the martyrs who fought Iraq. But people who remember that are dying off. So they really are serious about the rapprochement with Saudi Arabia. The last thing they want is a bunch of fricking Arabs starting some huge war on their own initiative, but what can you do?

Iran is now onto talks with Lebanon about what's happening in Gaza.

Before this Iran was in talks with Saudi Arabia as to what is happening in Gaza.

It is likely that either Iran is going out of its way to tell everybody to calm down, or that Iran is going out of its way to set up every other Arabian country in the middle east to the same page as to when and how to coordinate an attack against Israel.

The visions told me the Palestinians will fulfill their purpose, so I am putting my money on another middle east vs Israel war.

Also death toll of Israel is 1300+ so far.

Death toll of Palestine is 1200+ so far.

#day6 things will get worse.

Well...no. The President lied. pic.twitter.com/lsvgGKAjBx

— Mats Nilsson (@mazzenilsson) October 12, 2023

Let's settle this once and for all:

Saturday's terrorist attacks in Israel by Hamas militants represent the worst crisis between Israelis and Palestinians in more than two decades. But rather than offering constructive policy alternatives, Republican presidential candidates have settled on an intellectually bankrupt strategy of blaming the Biden administration for everything. The finger-pointing is particularly rich given the way that the Trump administration obliterated longstanding American policy in the region, handed a series of pinless policy grenades to President Biden and then took cover.

The inability to broker a final settlement between Israel and Palestine is an American foreign policy failure that spans at least six administrations stretching back to the 1980s. But it was the last two Republican presidents who departed dramatically from the international "land for peace" consensus that was supposed to result in a Palestinian state. Former President George W. Bush, despite occasional rhetoric supporting Palestinian statehood, walked back America's commitment to widely shared interpretations of UN Security Council Resolution 242 by signing off on Israel retaining large settlement blocs in the West Bank, demanding that Palestinians usher in a functioning democracy before peace was possible and then washing his hands of the matter when he didn't like the election results. His world-historically disastrous war of choice in Iraq did more to bolster Iranian authoritarians than any other single event since the country's revolution in 1979.

But it was former President Donald Trump who did far more catastrophic damage. Trump greenlit the needlessly provocative move of the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, part of which is located in territory the United Nations considered unlawfully occupied by Israel since the 1967 war. The move abandoned another longstanding American negotiating position---that Jerusalem would ultimately be a shared capital between two national people.

Warned that moving the embassy would result in blowback down the line, the Trump administration and its allies mostly gloated about how clever they were. When Palestine did not immediately erupt into chaos, they concluded that the maneuver would have no repercussions. Not only that, but Trump then recognized the permanent Israeli annexation of the occupied Golan Heights and invalidated a 1978 State Department ruling that Israeli settlements in the West Bank were unlawful.

Instead, the Trump administration gave the Israeli government carte blanche not only to expand existing settlements but to grant even isolated encampments anywhere in the West Bank legitimacy and sovereignty. The Trump administration's subservience to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his maximalist government was so complete that polling suggested Israel would have given the former president his largest margin over Biden if it were a U.S. state.

To make matters worse, the Trump team followed through on its promise to torch the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, better known as the Iran Deal. Not even the Trump officials responsible for this gratuitous act of diplomatic sabotage could identify any reason for it, other than that they wanted to. The move not only led predictably to the resumption of Iranian nuclear activities but also to the election of an ultra-hardline government in Tehran that redoubled its destructive meddling in regional affairs, including providing cash, training and weapons to Hamas militants.

The Biden administration did little to reverse any of these Trump disasters, even picking up the baton of helping Israel conclude separate peace agreements with Arab states rather than encouraging a resumption of talks with Palestinians. Biden has refused to follow through on reopening the consulate in Jerusalem for Palestinians. And ultimately, the administration's severe political risk aversion has insulated it neither from disingenuous Republican attacks nor Palestinian frustration with the status quo.

Nevertheless, claiming that the president is responsible for the horrific Hamas attacks inside of Israel is preposterous, like poking a hornet's nest, running away and then blaming the sucker who comes along next and gets stung. The Trump administration did everything it possibly could to encourage and legitimize Palestinian violence against Israelis, and Republicans have little standing to point fingers at Biden for it. Worse still are false and disgusting charges by charlatans like Vivek Ramaswamy and Trump himself that the Biden administration "funded Hamas," a zombie lie that will surely be repeated thousands of times between now and next November no matter how many articles are publishing debunking it.

Biden must not allow this tragedy to suck the United States back into its previous, heavy-handed military posture in the region, or to encourage Israeli military strikes on Iranian nuclear installations in retaliation for Tehran's role in the attacks. The administration should instead use this terrible moment as an opportunity to advance a new vision of peace between Israelis and Palestinians, one that doesn't rely on what are by now dead-letter proposals for statehood that lack anything approaching majority support in Israel or Palestine.

David Faris is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Roosevelt University and the author of It's Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics. His writing has appeared in The Week, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Washington Monthly and more. You can find him on Twitter @davidmfaris.

Frick both sides unironically lol. I hope both sides bomb themselves out to death or someone like the US or Russia nukes the entire middle east.

Giving me awards on this post means you're seething, tread carefully!

Clarification from the White House regarding Biden's remarks https://t.co/8fXafd5Bpn https://t.co/zsEf93bH0g pic.twitter.com/N7ci2jHXf2

— Evan Hill (@evanhill) October 12, 2023

To give you guys a bit of context UOL is a turbo lib brazilian news outlet and their journos are some of the most deranged members of the press while still being “mainstream”, which is not saying much considering the turbo wingcuckism of Brazilian Media.

https://noticias.uol.com.br/internacional/ultimas-noticias/2023/10/11/sakamoto-fotos-de-criancas-mortas-sao-usadas-como-instrumento-de-guerra.htm

Here's an article by notorious Brazilian journo and professional r-slur with a terminal case case of BDS (Bolsonaro Derangement Syndrome) Leonardo Sakamoto , he's been seething about Israel in the past few days (a bunch of articles about how Israel will use the r*pe and death of civilians to make Palestine look bad) and talks about the worst aspect of the dead of Israeli babies, they'll be used as part of Israeli propaganda

https://noticias.uol.com.br/colunas/jose-roberto-de-toledo/2023/10/11/nas-redes-bolsonarismo-esta-faturando-politicamente-com-ataques-do-hamas.htm

On this article José Roberto Toledo talks about how 65% of mentions of Hamas on Brazilian Whatsapp are negative and only 5% are positive! According to him this means a bigger support for Bolsonaro as people associate Hamas and Palestine with Lula

!macacos