#axis of resistance

[workersolidarity]

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ISLAMIC RESISTANCE IN IRAQ TARGETS ZIONIST MILITARY BASES IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES

📹 Scenes from the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, launching loitering munitions towards the port of Haifa, in the occupied Palestinian territories.

✍️ In a statement issued by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, the Resistance said it struck a "vital target" in the port of Haifa, in the northwest of the occupied Palestinian territories, using drones as part of its effort to destroy Zionist strongholds in response to the genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

According to the statement:

"Today, Friday, April 26, 2024, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, using drones, targeted a vital target in Haifa in our occupied territories, confirming that we will continue to destroy enemy strongholds in completion of the second phase of operations to resist the occupation, and to support our people in Gaza, and in response to the massacres of Zionism against defenseless Palestinian civilians."

April 26th, 2024.

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[sayruq]

Never forget that this would not be happening had Biden reined in Israel in October '23 instead of giving them a blank check to attack anyone they please. At the very least there should have been consequences for Israel bombing an embassy.

Instead Biden promised iron clad support for Israel. We're now facing the possibility of a huge regional war that will devastate the lives of tens of millions of civilians in West Asia

[heritageposts]

Podcast w/Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi, link + transcript above ↑

[mirkobloom77]

‼️🇵🇸🇮🇱🇾🇪🇺🇸 Yemen’s Houthis claim fresh attacks on Israeli, US ships

🔸 Source: Al Jazeera

[bloodycoolfrye]

(April 14,2024) No buzzing of drones over Gaza for the first time since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa storm, after Iran's retaliation🇮🇷🫂🇵🇸

[mapsontheweb]

The Axis of Resistance is an informal Iran-led political and military coalition in the Middle East. The Axis is composed of different political and military organisations.

by cactusmapping

Despite their differing ideologies and interests, they are unified by their declared objectives of opposing the regional influence of the Western countries and Israel in the region.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Ibrahim Al-Amin

Since the start of Al-Aqsa Flood, all the forces of the Axis of Resistance, spanning across Arab and Islamic countries, have solidified strategies for providing the highest level of “effective support” for the resistance in Palestine. Multiple joint operations rooms have been established to monitor the field conditions for tactical and strategic operations, in addition to political activities. Furthermore, numerous plans have been drawn up to reinforce the strength of several Resistance factions in various arenas.

[wubsbian]

Another thread from twt@/IbnRiad on Palestinian Resistance

Dec 3rd, 8am: 🧵 For all people saying "what's the point of the resistance's rockets": you must understand the fragility of the settlers, their desperation for safety and security and their unwillingness to sacrifice themselves for their stolen land.

This is why, despite the asymmetry in firepower, the rockets of the resistance threaten the fragile colonists and their dream of maintaining a safe, luxurious occupation without any price. The disruption of rushing to shelters is enough to make life "intolerable" for these people

There is great injustice in the non-equivalence between the sacrifices of Palestinians vs. the occupier's, but the natives of the land have no choice but to sacrifice for it. Settlers from across the world will return whence they came, if they can't steal land and homes in peace.

Due to this disgusting, hypocritical, unjust world in which we live, Palestinians have to sacrifice thousands upon thousands of martyrs in their struggle- but they do so with great faith and resilience, sacrificing all for the struggle.

The settlers, meanwhile, are complaining about the conditions of the hotels they were shipped to after they fled the Gaza envelope and the northern border. This is the difference between the native and the coloniser.

This is why the rockets of the resistance hold great, great power: the shake the security of the occupation. They remind the settlers their occupation has a price, and will always have a price. If they are not willing to pay it (and the majority are not), they must leave.

Unfortunately so many people on here who think they just know better than the resistance (whose leaders orchestrated the single greatest military operation of this century), and simply pass judgement with an ill-educated glance, dripping with racism and orinetalism.

There is staggering arrogance in the assumption that you can pass judgement without bothering to try and understand the social dynamics and psychology underlying this equation, and jump straight to saying "the resistance should do this, instead". Who do you think you are?

This is even without discussing the Iron Dome & its finite stock of interceptors, which if depleted in this stage of the battle, will leave the occupation facing thousands of missiles from across the region the moment it progresses into regional war, with nothing to stop them.

End thread

Personal note: I did not author these. Yes I still use Twitter and I boost updates on the genocide on there. Yes in spite of Musk. Of course Palestinian and resistance voices are not only limited to there; @fairuzfan made a short Palestinian tumblr list a day ago. Gotta boost Palestinian voices wherever I see them. Probably won't make another post like this, I don't add anything. If you like what I show you from IbnRiad go follow on Twitter yourself or use a client like Fritter. Stand with Palestine. Stand with the Resistance.

[thisisabernieblog]

‘A frightening precedent’: New Zealand to send military personnel to target Houthis

By Mick Hall

Jan 25, 2024



Bombing one of the most impoverished nations on Earth over its sea blockade to stop genocide in Gaza reflects Kiwi values, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says.

A decision to send military personnel to the Red Sea to help bomb Yemen reflects New Zealand’s values and a desire to protect the “rules-based international order”, New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says.

Addressing his first post-Cabinet media stand-up on January 23, Luxon announced the deployment of six NZDF members to target Houthi assets for UK and US bombing missions. The deployment is to last up to 31 July.

Luxon was accompanied by Foreign Minister Winston Peters and Defence Minister Judith Collins.

The decision was greeted with alarm by a range of politicians and peace campaigners.

In Context revealed in December the government was weighing up a request from the US to send military assets to support Operation Prosperity Guardian, a naval coalition formed to confront Ansarallah/Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in response to Israel’s military onslaught against Gaza.

Yemen has now been targeted in strikes on eight separate occasions since it was first attacked on January 12, a move New Zealand backed in a joint statement by 10 countries. The US has said the bombing campaign is separate from and not associated with Operation Prosperity Guardian.

In the latest attack on January 22, Yemen’s capital was hit Sanaa as up to 30 strikes on targets across the country aimed at degrading drone and rocket capabilities were recorded.

Luxon said the NZDF personnel would not enter Yemen and would be used in an intelligence gathering capacity, based at an undisclosed location outside of New Zealand.

New Zealand military officers already operate out of a US base in Jordan, working alongside others as part of Operation Gallant Phoenix. The intelligence cell of about 250 personnel was originally set up in 2013 to monitor foreign Islamic State (IS) fighters in Iraq and Syria, but is said to target “terrorist” groups across the region regardless of ideology.

The US Department of State announced on January 17 it was designating the Houthis as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group.

The Yemeni forces announced in November shipping destined for Israel and vessels linked to the country would be targeted in response to Israel’s Western-backed genocidal onslaught in Gaza, which began after the Hamas attack on October 7.

Houthis ‘destabilising’

The Houthis have targeted other naval and commercial ships, including those owned by US and UK interests. In response, shipping giants have decided to use travel around Africa, through the Cape of Good Hope, rather than attempt to use the Suez Canal, adding up to 10 days to journeys. Approximate 400 commercial vessels use the route at any one time.

Luxon said: “Houthi attacks against commercial and naval shipping are illegal, unacceptable and profoundly destabilising.

“This deployment, as part of an international coalition, is a continuation of New Zealand’s long history of defending freedom of navigation both in the Middle East and closer to home.”

The Israeli bombardment of under-siege Gaza has officially killed nearly 26,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, with many of the strip’s displaced residents now on the verge of starvation and threatened by disease. A leaked Israeli government document revealed last year Israel would like to expel the 2.3 million population into Egypt’s Sinai desert.

In an often-incoherent appraisal of the New Zealand’s foreign policy settings, Luxon said his government’s decision to help bomb one of the most impoverished nations on Earth at the behest of the US was ethically grounded and necessary to maintain a rules-based international order, a descriptor for US hegemony.

“It’s about values. It’s about standing up for things we believe in and we need to talk about them, but we also need to do something about it as well to make sure that we put real capability alongside our words and that’s what we’re doing,” he said.

As Israel prepared a ground assault in Gaza in late October, US and UK naval and military assets were deployed to the region to deter the so-called Axis of Resistance – Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iran and Yemen’s de facto government – from intervening in Israel’s operation, which was described by South Africa at the International Court of Justice earlier this month as a genocide.

As the Gaza killings continue, Israel’s repeated bombing of neighbouring Lebanon and Syria over the past month, with the killing an Iranian general in Damascus and a senior Hamas figure in Beirut, threatens to create a catastrophic regional conflagration.

Wrong to ‘conflate’ issues – Luxon

Luxon said it was wrong to “conflate the two issues” of Houthi attacks and Israel actions in the Middle East. He claimed that 31 attacks from Yemen that had affected 60 countries were “hugely indiscriminate” and that attacks on shipping would have happened regardless of Israel’s operation in Gaza.

“What is obvious is they’ve tried to run an argument but it’s not held up in fact. It’s been a really indiscriminate attack in commercial shipping,” he said.

The Houthi disruption of shipping had the potential to cause starvation, he added.

Foreign Minister Winston Peters said the attacks on commercial shipping routes had affected hundreds of millions of people. He said the Houthi actions also threatened New Zealand’s national interests as a trading nation and necessitated military action. He said the government would “not be intimidated” by the threat of Houthi attacks on Kiwis.

Defence Minister Judith Collins said the US-led coalition’s response was an inevitable consequence of Houthi actions and were designed to address “a serious threat of global stability”.

Palestinian Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA) spokesman John Minto called the government’s justifications for sending personnel “shamelessly hypocritical” and said it would only add fuel to the fire.

“Luxon should be condemning Israel’s slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza as ‘illegal, unacceptable and profoundly destabilising’ and yet Mr Luxon refuses to utter a single word of criticism on Israel despite the death toll of over 25,000 Palestinians – including over 10,000 children,” he said.

“Foreign Minister Winston Peters saying the deployment should not be linked to recent developments in Israel and the Gaza strip is simply laughable.”

Without Parliamentary mandate – Te Kuaka

New Zealand foreign policy group, Te Kuaka, called the deployment “deeply alarming”. Co-director, Dr Arama Rata, said it would “inflame regional instability and cause more civilian deaths without addressing the root cause of the Houthi actions, which is ending the genocide in Gaza.”

She said the decision was made without a Parliamentary mandate and that there had been no explicit authorisation of military action in self-defence against Yemen by the UN Security Council.”

“This sets a frightening precedent for how foreign policy decisions are made. There are huge risks to not just the Middle East, but New Zealand directly when we take the side of the US and the UK, nations that have a long history of oppressive intervention in the Global South.”

Peters told media the opposition had not been consulted about the decision because the government didn’t think it needed to.

Rata added: “We need to have an honest reflection about our positioning alongside the US and the UK. Instead of colluding with these colonial powers, we should be standing with countries like Brazil and South Africa, which are challenging old colonial regimes, and represent the majority of the international community.”

The Green Party said the government should be focused on de-escalation.

“We are horrified at this Government’s decision to further inflame tensions in the Middle East by sending New Zealand Defence Force personnel to the Red Sea,” co-leaders of the Green Party, Marama Davidson and James Shaw said.

“It seems inconceivable for this government to be so dangerously naïve to say that this deployment has nothing to do with the horrific violence that continues to suffocate Gaza. The Government should be using every opportunity to push for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.”

As well as failing to call for an immediate ceasefire, the government has failed to support South Africa’s application to The Hague for an interim injunction to stop Israel’s military operation in Gaza while the court makes a determination on whether Israeli is guilty of genocide against Palestinians.

There were also moments during the post-cabinet media event where a duplicity in paying lip service to the notion of Palestinian statehood seemed exposed.

When asked if the government would recognise the state of Palestine a clearly bemused Luxon deferred to Peters, who claimed the government supported a two-state solution to the Palestine-Israel conflict, but would not recognise Palestine as a state as its borders were not defined.

The Oslo peace accords of the 1990s clearly defined the borders of a future Palestinian state.

When pressed over the fact borders were defined, so why not support Palestinian statehood, a befuddled Peters replied: “Because the Prime Minister of Israel made a statement to the contrary… he didn’t support the two-state solution”.

Luxon bizarrely added it was because Palestinians didn’t have a functional government.

Over the weekend, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the idea of Palestinian statehood as an existential threat to Israel. He posted on social media: “I will not compromise on full Israeli security control over the entire area west of [the river] Jordan — and this is irreconcilable with a Palestinian state”.

So New Zealand's gone full fascist.

[workersolidarity]

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SCENES FROM THE RESISTANCE

📹 Scenes from the Mujahideen Brigades, belonging to the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement, prep and launch several missiles, targeting the headquarters of the Gaza Division of the Israeli occupation forces in the "Reim" base.

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[sayruq]

It's actually crazy talking to friends and relatives about what's going on because very few of them know that this is a retaliatory attack. I keep seeing people online call the attack unprovoked too.

So those who don't know, on April 1st Israeli warplanes bombed Iran's consulate in Damascus. The attack killed 7 of Iran’s military advisers including 3 senior commanders.

Reuters reporters at the site in the Mezzeh district of Damascus saw emergency workers clambering atop rubble of a destroyed building inside the diplomatic compound, adjacent to the main Iranian embassy building. Emergency vehicles were parked outside. An Iranian flag hung from a pole by the debris.

Iran's ambassador to Syria said the strike hit a consular building in the embassy compound and that his residence was on the top two floors. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement that seven Iranian military advisers died in the strike including Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in its Quds Force, which is an elite foreign espionage and paramilitary arm.

This attack on the embassy is against international law. Embassies are protected sites. But instead of condemning the attack and putting pressure on Israel, the US has spent the past week and a half calling West Asian countries to put pressure on Iran, with Biden going as far as to warn Iran not to attack Israel and saying that his support for Israel is 'iron clad'.

The West, the UN, and UN Security Council have largely failed to condemn the attack which means Iran has no choice but to retaliate with force in order to prevent future attacks. Otherwise, the country will look vulnerable and weak, especially to the Israeli occupation government which has spent months bombing neighbouring countries like Syria and Lebanon

[rafasbiscuits]

Iran brought up the Axis of Resistance card.

Oh damn Israel's fucked lol😍

[mirkobloom77]

‼️🇵🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 40 rockets launched from Lebanon towards Golan Heights

🔸 Sources: Al Jazeera

[bloodycoolfrye]

let this sink in😉

[mapsontheweb]

The Axis of Resistance is an anti-Israel, anti-American and anti-Saudi military and political alliance formed by the Syrian and Iranian regimes, Hezbollah, Shiite militias in Iraq, the Houthis of Yemen and Palestinian organizations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad .

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