by thot_experiment
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- US support for Israel is one of the most horrible things imaginable, really makes me ashamed. It is only the US standing between the current horrendous status quo and Israel being an true international pariah state. Hopefully we cut off support and usher in a find out era.
- The language in the article would be fascinating if it wasn't such a horrible thing.
It's not that the Israeli soldiers are sexually assaulting Palestinians, instead they are using Sexual Assault.
Later they say "Sexualised violence is used...", "men and boys were Targeted..."
It's like there is a gun shooting people, or someone using a gun. But we can't connect fully understand how or who is perpetuating it.
Edit: some more:
"Israeli soldiers present during abuse had repeatedly failed to prevent it..." Who was abusing?
- Nothing to say. Just absolutely maddening that this is what my taxes go to accomplish
by sethammons
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- Sexual assault and violence is the biblical explanation for the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah according to more and more modern biblical scholars. The Christian's who hate the gays should instead direct their bible and politicians at Israeli soldiers and their government.
by datsci_est_2015
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- The reality that war goes hand-in-hand with sexual violence is rarely fairly portrayed in American / Hollywood media. It sickens me when I see warhounds in our government who are, by extension of campaigning for war, rooting for sexual violence against entire populations - though they might not realize it through their ignorance.
That’s why I appreciate anti-war cinema, like Come and See, which notoriously came from Belarusian screenwriters.
- This is absurdly one-sided. The "report" is just a summary of internet articles, two of which are from The Guardian itself, which makes this some weird content laundering situation. It also--obviously on purpose--leaves out IDF's response to the incident at Wadi-as-Seeq: "'After the initial investigation, a decision was made to dismiss the commander of the unit that carried out the arrest. Due to the seriousness of the suspicions, it was decided to open a Military Police investigation,' the army said." Sounds like that guy is in deep shit!
I'm so tired of this garbage. The Guardian had to have read this Times of Israel article because the details it reports (ex: the date) aren't included in the report, but they leave out the part where the commander is under investigation by the Military Police? What a joke.
- If only hell was real.
- The christian supporters of Israel can also think a bit about the itf soldiers destroying a statue of Jesus in Lebanon if they want to understand what they are supporting. Useful idiots doesn't even start to describe it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd575n1znzo
- This is not something new. israel has been doing this since Nakba and it’s well recorded even by the israeli historians and academics around the world. Their atrocities against humanity were just not allowed to be exposed by the Epstein class.
Here are some more studies and reports on this topic, in case anyone interested to know the extent of israeli sexual violence against Palestinians:
1. https://israelpalestinenews.org/israeli-torture-core-element...
“ israel’s widespread use of torture is a core element of its genocide against the Palestinian people”
2. https://youtu.be/KjAmlit0yzY
“israel’s history of sexual assaults on Palestinian women”
3. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372963626_Beyond_Ma...
“ Beyond Male Israeli Soldiers, Palestinian Women, Rape, and War: israeli State Sexual Violence against Palestinians”
4. https://thejerusalemfund.org/2018/08/sexual-harassment-and-v...
“ Sexual Harassment and Violence against Palestinian Women in israeli Prisons”
5. https://zeteo.com/p/palestinian-women-raped-by-israeli
“ Palestinian Women 'Raped by israeli Soldiers.' Silence From Western Media”
6. https://www.academia.edu/43471289/Israeli_Settler_Colonialis...
“ israeli Settler Colonialism in Context: Celebrating (Palestinian) Death and Normalizing Gender and Sexual Violence”
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