Podcasts, videos, books and tweets of the week 64

Philip is at the Society for the History of War, Annual Conference and AGM 23-24 November 2023 National Library of Lisbon, Portugal

Philip W. Blood, Independent Scholar: Military History, War Crimes and Social Media

Dr Matthew Ford is one of the organisers, friend of our Fallout.

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Podcast to listen to

Two very frank good interviews.

I sometimes make comments on the Gaza war, pointing out how terrible ‘from river to sea’ is, and both Palestinians and Isrealis, and their supporters, can chant this.

Points covered include:

• cancelling Jewishness
• no Jewish or Palestinian monolith
• anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism
• the forms of Zionism
• Hamas ‘winning’ gerrymandered elections in 2006

I’m not an expert on the region so I don’t suggest solutions (for the love of God, never ever say the Arab Question, please people), peace plans or road maps.

I can however point out nonsense written about proportionality or excusing attacks on hospitals. I can call out Hamas terrorism (and I did repeatedly). I can call out ‘from river to sea’ as a call for genocidal ethnic cleansing, no matter who is chanting it. And show sympathy to the victims, starting first with the Israeli victims. Also calling out Nazis.

Things I can state without special insight

Since an anime Nazi called me out for telling a South African not to spread Elders of Zion conspiracy theories about Netanyahu and his cabinet - because I said I don’t have special insight into the region, which is true, I’d like to make a list of things that I can absolutely state without being a world class diplomat (like

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One of the weapons being used in Gaza

I don’t know if gold standard is the right phrase. Maybe all modern armored non-Soviet self-propelled howitzers descend from the M109 but the video makes it clear that competing variants outmatch the M109 except for experimental super long range models the US is testing. There’s a reason the Ukrainians use their extended range ammo with Krabs and AS90s instead of their M109s… survivability, computers and mobility.

Oh and guess what, this video ties in to one of our first posts:

From God of War to Putin’s Hammer

Explaining why Mechanised Genocide features in the modern Russian Way of War (Dustin’s note July 2023, this was written long before Mariupol was Stalingraded/Groznyed by Russian artillery) From the Russian-Ukrainian War that began in February 2022, there has already established recurring themes across social media. They have included: a lucky dip of World…

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