Israel’s leadership is pushing the allegations that Hamas fighters raped Israeli women during the October 7 attacks for its own political objectives while the government’s ongoing refusal to allow the United Nations to conduct a full investigation into the matter threatens to hinder any evidence, advocates have warned.
Stop posting IDF propaganda this is getting embarrassing.
If your evidence for Hamas raping people is not being able to use google translate we are done talking.
My evidence for Hamas raping people is the UN report I already posted which talks about all the evidence for Hamas raping people. We’re talking about something different, which is Hamas fighters using a word which is explicitly associated with rape (and a pretty in depth explanation of what it does and doesn’t imply.)
Isn’t “Never Play Defense” fun? I can switch to a new accusation, if you decide to change your mind and continue the conversation.
Strange can you explain explain why the UN doesn’t say Hamas raped people if your 'UN Report" contains evidence.
Surely they wouldn’t need to call for an investigation first.
That’s actually a fairly reasonable question, which I know you asked a couple times already, which I haven’t addressed.
So, I’ll give a genuine answer: The report explicitly doesn’t deal with the question of who raped the Israeli women who were raped during the October 7th attack, because they were already dealing with enough evidentiary difficulties just trying to put together and say conclusively whether or not it had happened, and where, and dealing with a certain amount of dishonesty and fog-of-war among other issues that made it hard to even sort out the basics, especially with victims who are now deceased where they were dealing purely with forensic evidence. Trying to bring a standard of proof of which specific men had done it into the equation would have made their already pretty challenging task more difficult and more open to criticism, I think.
To me, that’s not automatically a bad thing. It means they’re being cautious and trying to have solid backing for things they are saying. I would contrast it for example with the abysmally low standard of proof that led your OP article to write things like “some reports have asserted that those acts and other reported atrocities were committed by civilians and those not affiliated with the group.” Of course, it’s easy to simply say that obviously it was probably unrelated civilians who raped all these women during the October 7th attack, and not Hamas, if you don’t feel bound by the need to produce evidence or even answer simple questions like, “What reports? Who are you saying did the rapes, then? What the fuck are you talking about?”
You are, of course, welcome to seize onto that pretty sensible decision by the report authors and shake it back and forth like a little bad-faith terrier, as if it somehow invalidated the whole report – for example, implying that the evidence it presents of hostages who were raped during captivity somehow leaves open the possibility that they were raped by some other, non-Hamas captors during their time as prisoners of Hamas.
Speaking of which, how’s that search for the report’s treatment of the prisoners who were raped in captivity coming? I can give you a couple other hints about where to find it, if you still can’t find it after I sent you a link to the report, and then gave you hints about where to look in the table of contents, which page of the TOC, and the general area on the page where you might be able to find the applicable entry.
What a weird hill to die on…you don’t have to defend Hamas in order to be critical of Israel. It’s not one or the other Linkerbaan. Or does that break the Larp. I can’t understand people like you.
Kony 2012 I guess…?
I think some people’s brains are all-or-nothing. I mean, it’s certainly true that whatever significant crimes against humanity Hamas is doing, Israel is doing literally 10 times worse. But some people will go from there to saying that everything Palestinian is good, even if it’s a violent and corrupt organization like Hamas which is bringing only death and destruction to innocents on both sides, and accomplishing nothing at all for better conditions for the Palestinian people.
Surely the right answer is for the Palestinian people who only want to live and not get murdered or starved to death, and the Israeli people who only want to go to the music festival and not get raped or shot or kidnapped, to gang up and seize all the people on both sides who want to continue and profit off the conflict, and string them up upside-down like Mussolini, so they can die of thirst over several days in the hot desert sun. Then, the problem simplified, they can get together and work out some approximation of a peace agreement.
Surely there are a few problems with that, not least of which that the people who like continuing the war have most of the weapons and wouldn’t agree to the proposal. But that makes more sense to me than picking a “right side” and defending them regardless of what horrifying thing they’re doing to innocent people on the “wrong side.”
Because people like @Linkerbaan@lemmy.world don’t really care about any of this. It’s all a larp.
I see it as the same effect as Kony 2012 was when everyone was updating their FB profile (or like when people put the rainbow flag during pride month). It’s an aesthetic, nothing more. If they really cared about resolutions they would be promoting anything towards that, not constant opinion blog posts. Not constant bickering. Not this vitriolic reactionary stuff every time someone pushes back or asks questions.
It’s just theatre. And it feels good.