Review is consistent with the situation in Thailand, as having spent time there, I heard from several people that the current government -also a de facto dictatorship, even if still a "soft" one for now- are financing and arming the Junta in Myanmar.

At first I thought China was behind the Junta, but they're behind the Red factions. I dunno who's arming the Karen native factions, tho. This very much looks like a proxy civil war.

Did FBI open it up?

Whenever I think of Japan I can only think of domestication, all over the place.

I'd very much like to see the stats on that...

Much welcome.

US Leftists are really just social-democrats. Tankies are just a facade for more authoritarian Left views, and these people often end up in academic or nonprofit positions. In both cases their notion of communism or even socialism is skewed and unsubstantial... like rah-rah on the imagery and positioning but having no clue of what kind of social utopia to achieve to reach their goals.... as in the end the goal is just power.

I know that in at least France, Germany, Italy, Greece and Spain you get entire families of communists, a few that are anarchist-leaning (anarchists aren't a lot into family values, lol), and socialists tend to be seen on a negative light due to being just neoliberals. You don't get that in North America, neither the UK or its colonies, where ideologies get sucked in through the grind of the two-party dictatorships.

Since when are ethno-nationalist political agendas like national liberation related to anarchism?

These are wars between statist interests, and random civilians are suffering and dying over these.

Also some infos about Samidoun: https://www.ngo-monitor.org/ngos/samidoun/ It was banned in Germany as a pro-Hamas organization. They're also related to the PFLP... yet another nationalist group with quite a terrible history, of bombing Jewish sites outside of Israel and being formerly set up by Otto Skorzeny.

stealing must increase the price, which decreases demand, because demand is price-sensitive.

There's no foreseeable connection between stealing and price increases. CEOs of food corporations and chain suppliers are mostly responsible for the price increases, putting aside the basic supply chain and production issues.

If you're stealing, it's just affecting stockholders pockets, yet even that is covered by that part of the accounting "buffer" related to random losses. Every big chain has that.

I did it lately in an organic foods market for top quality locally-produced meat, since they made their dumpsters no longer accessible, so I figured that'd be the only way to keep getting free good shit and carcasses from them?

Also lifting meat will support the industry in a way... as no difference is being made at accounting & supply management level on what's been stolen or bought. So this would count as just more purchases. So more ethical, yes and no.

Wait, does this mean some people in the Israeli state and its military could be profiting from the war? Noooo! /s

States exist because of might makes right. If "Palestine", too, ever exerts enough might to impose its existent, it's "right to exist" will follow, and won't be allowed to be questioned. Or else.

That's how all states work.

You already answered, thanks!

But "freedum" has nothing to do with privileges. Like those you got here.

As of 2020, 21,1% of Israelis are Arabic. 17,2% got a full Israeli citizenship.

https://en.idi.org.il/media/18218/statistical-report-on-arab-society-in-israel-2021.pdf

As of 2022, Muslims are 18,1% of the whole Israeli population, which makes them the biggest minority ethno-religious group there.

That appears to be contradicting the claims of an "apartheid state"... while trivializing the conditions that Black native people of South Africa have endured for more than a century, under a White Euro settler society that negated their very existence.

I pointed out a bunch of documented facts against the bullshit dismissals of the post above mine. Implying that, yes, the Palestinian nationalist movement is rooted in fascists and imperialists. And of course I get downvoted by the fanatics for this.

It's sad that so many people are being instrumentalized by these demagogues, but anarchists should be IMO the first people to be standing against all this manipulation and polarization.

But where did I defend Israel's attacks on Palestinians? It's rather people here using the generic pro-Palestine narrative to justify the massacres that just happened... Literally jumping on defense of it.

On both sides of this conflict, militarist authoritarians are focusing on targeting civilians before they even do anything to the power networks exploiting them. That's equally what's being said of Russia in Ukraine. The consequences of this are terrible endless wars where lay people are dying for a bunch of despots.

Yes, "because Israel bombed Gaza in the past", it's justified to shoot random people at events.. that's what you're saying. Awesome Daesh logic. :-

You're going overboard here. That's a fucking defense of mass murder, with the pretext of "resisting colonialism". Are mass-shootings in the US also justified just because all USians are settlers and not resisting USA enough!? I mean that's fucked, dude... Rethink that shit.

These Mujaheedins (Hamas literally called them as such) could have attacked police and IDF assets, but no... they shot random, unarmed civilians. And witness accounts say they also shot people seeking refuge, as well.

Yes, unarmed.

According to your definition of being "armed", children can be "armed' targets, since there's a whole system of government, police and CPS supporting them when they're being targeted by thugs.

So I think you might need a reality check... But no, the fact of having a kind of systemic backing that can retaliate doesn't mean being "armed". Being armed is being armed.

Wow. So bad there's so few of the Western pro-Palestine crowd reading this.

So you mean they also praise the Saudi regime, the Taliban, etc? That'd be insane.

Fuck all the fascist mafias posing as heroes, indeed.

Best statement thus far! No one here has to be a drone for militarist and ethno-nationalist organizations and their bloody agendas based on pure ressentiment. Peace and understanding is the best that can be done.

Muslims and Jews can be bros and sis; they both are nice people when they stay away from the national bullshit.

Hey!

This is a bit late to ask and in the very context of this antisemitic ordinary hate you're talking about...

Why are there apparently so few people criticizing Hamas and similar authoritarian organizations within Palestinian milieus? Is this due to fear, or that these groups have become so pervasive that they're seen as the only institutions that can save people around?

Take care.

Post-war Nazis were solidly into Assad. The Mein Kampf war first translated and published through the Arab world through the Assad regime, and the Ba'ath Party was pro-Nazi to the bone.

As for Nasser, that was only a collaboration in the early years of his regime. Nasser wasn't an antisemite unlike Assad, Saddam and the Iranian regime, but rather a social-democrat with a hard line against Western hegemony.

What is this supposed to even mean?

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a Nazi collaborator and made deals directly with Hitler. He ran the Islamic Central Institute under the Third Reich in Berlin and was carrying Nazi propaganda among the Muslims in Europe, through Radio Berlin, and played a part especially the Balkans where he acted as leader for the Muslim SS.

https://www.jns.org/the-muftis-war-against-the-jews/

http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/yugoslavia_collaboration.htm

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/hajj-amin-al-husayni-the-mufti-of-jerusalem

https://www.timesofisrael.com/full-official-record-what-the-mufti-said-to-hitler/

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/hajj-amin-al-husayni-wartime-propagandist

https://www.thetower.org/article/how-the-mufti-of-jerusalem-created-the-permanent-problem-of-palestinian-violence/

Have fun dismissing that as "Jewish propaganda"... :-/ Then I'll question those "anarchists" who're so energetic at standing by a bunch of ultra-conservative nationalists and militarists.

And also this attack by Hamas is completely unprecedented, and we are talking about a group operating in a place that is commonly referred to as an 'open air prison', which has been under siege for nearly 20 years. They launch an attack against a nuclear power who has the backing of the USA and Europe.

Yes, it is unprecedented and over-the-top. Tho Hamas have ordered the attack and Iran has celebrated it, as if it was their operation. Which makes it hardly an Israeli "false flag" ploy, unless there's a secret connection between Israel and Iran we're not aware of...

Of course it is. Palestine was never an independent entity on its own, but a stage of inter-imperialist conflict. It started as a British Mandate, then the Nazis went on backing the Arab nationalism both against the waning British presence and the Jews.

Nowadays it's Iran, Turkey and now perhaps Saudi Arabia arming and backing the dominant Palestinian factions (Hamas and Hezbollah). but Russia and China too, apparently.