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There is not evidence of rape, though there is evidence that Israelis rape Palestinian prisoners; negotiations had not broken down according to the Omani mediator; Iran was never hostile to us; the school was no closer to the military target than the soldiers were close to the festival-goers
I do believe there is an evil regime trying to get Americans killed, trying to kill civilians, and trying to make the world less safe. IMO that regime is the Israeli regime. They want us dying like we did in Iraq for them.
I just can’t take this credibly, I think you’ve been propagandized honestly, I know that every claim involving Israel is hotly contested but if you think all evidence of rape committed by terrorists who kidnapped civilians is a priori implausible I would at least expect you to admit such an implausible frame.
The Iranian regime was founded on hostility to America. They fund Hamas and Hezbollah, they chant Death to America, they support Russia and China, they are one of our number one enemies. I don’t even know what you could mean
That would make them hostile to Israel, which is not America.
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Israel has not presented one name of a rape victim.
None of the hostages that Hamas kept for years have alleged rape(correcting myself: a few accusations from hostages). None of the women who had Hamas members enter their homes and who interacted with them have alleged rape. When an Israeli journalist called every hotline and every hospital to determine whether rapes happened, not only did no one claim to have met a victim, but no one knew anyone who met a victim.Israelis, in contrast, mass rape Palestinian prisoners. There are actual people coming forward, with documented injuries. The Israeli army’s top lawyer had to leak video evidence of a rape because the Israelis refused to prosecute the Israeli rapists, and for this act she was fired. When they tried to prosecute the Israeli rapists, popular politicians instigated a riot on the prison where the Israeli rapist was kept. The Israelis dropped all the charges against the Israeli rapists just a few hours ago, actually, this despite there being video evidence.
It is insane to me that we are allied with this country.
I'm supposed to believe that an insurgency of third-world Muslims who aren't even accepted as refugees by other third-world Muslims have not raped a single person they captured in a raid - all this coming from the same mouths as the ones who claim Israel deliberately floods Europe with third-world Muslims who do rape people on occasions much less heated than a raid on their eternal enemy.
There are two worlds. In one, Hamas has acted wildly uncharacteristically of either violent guerillas who have a deep-seated hate for their enemy, or third-world Muslims. In another, you lie and/or every single outlet who could report rapes by Hamas is aligned against Israel. Given that it's no secret many third-worldists and thirdworldphiles openly hate Israel, it's not hard to believe the second world is true.
So we went from: "Palestinians were sent to mass-rape" as a fact, to "there must have been rape because it confirms my priors"? Im not going to deny that sexual transgressions have happened, but october 7th was a terrorist attack with the goal of taking hostages back, so the stories about tens of Hamas fighters teaming up to rape israelis in the open in the festival do seem a bit fantastical.
The NYT spent 2 months researching "Screams without words", yet out of 7 stories in the artircle, 5 had serious inconsistensies, including family members or other witnesses who directly contradicted the reporting. Notably one of the sources for "Screams without words" Shari Mendez had also reported to the Daily Mail in October 2023 that she had seen: "A baby was cut out of a pregnant woman and beheaded and then the mother was beheaded"
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