The contents of the Israeli Association of Rape Crisis Center’s paper alleging “systematic” Hamas rape derive largely from discredited second-hand testimonies and debunked media reports. Among its most heavily cited sources is a dubious NY Times article that triggered a staff revolt at the paper.
Is anyone else seeing these stories the last couple of days and bracing for some horrific evidence of
spoiler
The systematic and intentional rape of Palestinians by Isreali troops and settlers
thats probably like a week from coming out? We know it’s all projection, we know they see Palestinians as “human animals”, we’ve seen the contrast between the chipper umharmed Isreali prisoners and the traumatized wraithlike Palestinians that were released during the prisoner exchange. We’ve seen the piles of bloody body bags in the desert and the reports of organ theft. It’s clear which side views the other as human beings and which side does not, howthe fuck are they gonna expect us to believe that akshually Hamas are the rapists, other than just banking on racism?
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I’m stealing that drawing. It’s awesome. Did you make it?
Haha I wish I did. Just copied an emoji from Hexbear lol
As I’ve said before, Media Bias/Fact Check is a joke.
I don’t get the point of these arguments; people came across a border and opened fire on any person they saw! Just because they didn’t rape every single one of them as well does not make it any better.
This is incorrect. The Palestinian fighters refrained from attacking Israeli civilians when they were able to. In many cases they did not do any harm to the Israeli civilians they interacted with and we’re in fact courteous towards them. They targeted military and police instead. A currently unknown portion of the deaths of israeli civilians on 7/10 was from Israeli fire. Witnesses and available evidence indicate that Israeli infantry, tanks, and helicopters fired indiscriminately at civilians, militants, and homes with occupants. Israel refuses to investigate its forces’ acts on 7/10 and destroyed and buried evidence (bombed cars).
So those videos that came out right after, like the ones from that festival where all fake? https://youtu.be/APAhJYIhXv4
What do you think that video shows? It does not show Palestinian fighters shooting civilians indiscriminately. It does show a scene of the aftermath of israeli fire on its own civilians’ vehicles. It does not show Palestinian fighters doing anything outside of their legal rights.
In order to justify the Genocide you need to completely dehumanize Palestinians. That is the purpose of this propaganda. The same propaganda tactic has been used before.
I did not upvote this because I’m worried I will be accused of antisemitism
Not immediately reflexively endorsing every Israeli action in perpetuity is antisemetic, I’ve reported you to the ICC.
In this case, it might also be a good call because of the source
I’d prefer some other agency reported the story given Grayzone’s track record
Blegh every war is a crime. I don’t know if there has ever been a war that didn’t involve rape. Even the allies in WWII (“a just war”) were infamous for that, both in the European and Pacific theaters. So it’s not surprising now.
But yes, any Hamas who commit atrocities, may they burn in hell if there is such a place. Same as IDF and settlers who do so.
I’m pretty sure the American troops are still raping people in Japan.
