Liberals care about Palestine/Hamas because they are not white.
One side has to be the oppressor. And the other side has to be oppressed. There's no other way out of this.
According to liberals, white people are always the oppressors.
Palestine is comparatively less white than many Israeli citizens, and of course, that's enough for the liberal hivemind. A non-white country in war with another who has a lot of people who have fairer skin?
Of course Isreal is committing genocide! How can white people ever be attacked?
It's the same reason why they accuse Israel of "colonizing" Palestine, similar to the European colonization of America.
If Palestine citizens were the ones who're white instead, they would have cheerfully supported Israel.
It is absolutely insane that the public’s response to a war is to demand that the side that didn’t start it, be the one to stop it.
In what other scenario would you see one side attack, announce on video that they will continue to attack again and again until they’ve killed everyone, and then turn to the side being attacked and go, “you have to stop not letting them attack you.”
You want this war to stop? Tell Hamas, the group that started it, to stop. Otherwise you don’t care about Palestinians, you just hate Jews.
just... something I've noticed. (cw: this is about i/p and leftist activism)
so many stories are like:
villain: "there's a problem in this world that needs to be fixed, an injustice in the systems that control our life, so I shall fix it with VIOLENCE AND MURDER AND MORE VIOLENCE!"
hero: "halt, you fiend! I, a Good American Citizen™, shall stop you. scease this treachery at once!"
*proceeds to beat them up and do nothing about the issue that caused this, Happy Ending uwu everything is solved*
the purpose of these stories were propaganda, obviously, to associate fighting for justice with violence and villainy, and heroism with restoring the status quo and never questioning it.
people called bullshit, but instead of going "the source of the issue wasn't the villain, it was the system they were in. you can't just get rid of them and go about your day, you have to remove the problem from its source as well", they went "the source of the issue isn't the villain, it was the system they were in. the villain was actually completely justified in their response because of the end goal! sure their actions are bad, but the system is worse!" while completely ignoring how in most of these stories, the villains were okay with actual mass murder.
and here we are, in a post Oct. 7th world, where people look a massacre of Jews, and say the exact same thing. justifying undescribable acts of violence by saying "well these noble savages Palestinians had endured 75 years of genocide (wrong) apartheid (wrong) and ethnic cleansing (also wrong)! their response is understandable! I don't condone their violence, but something had to be done." and you get people simping for actual extremist terrorist organisations, marching around while parroting calls for genocide, and repeating words to make them sound educated on a conflict they only know about from social media posts.
yes, the systems are unfair and cruel and social justice needs to be achieved. but you can't turn a blind eye or actively condone horrific acts that are done in the name of that cause. speaking against it won't make you the "movie protagonist™", you HAVE to speak up against it if you want to work towards a peaceful future.
The UN's Official Mission report on Hamas' Sexual Violence in Israel was published
Please take your time to read this.
Israeli \ Jewish victims deserve the same protection as any other women.
The brief version can be read here.
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***I am not going to include any graphic detailing.
The pattern of Sexual Violence used by Hamas is very clear:
It was one of their key goals and tactics on October 7th.
You cannot say "Female Hostages are treated well. you're lying by saying they're raped" anymore!
Notice how they also said **Children**
Civilians were in fact burned inside their homes
This is also clearly a pattern used by Hamas, as this is just one of many examples they detail.
-Hamas has also burned soldiers alive in their dorms and offices. That is also further detailed in the report.
This is not fake or propaganda
I can't believe I have to write this but this report is an official report (finally) made by the UN's Sexual Violence Office, as part of their yearly report.
They had a 2-week delegation that toured the actual Kibbutzim (turned crime scenes), interviewed eyewitnesses, spoke to families of victims, etc...
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I do have to say I was mistaken in my earlier post, besides their conclusion, they have also written their recommendations:
...." V. Conclusions
Overall, based on the totality of information gathered from multiple and independent
sources at the different locations, there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related
sexual violence occurred at several locations across the Gaza periphery, including in the form of
rape and gang rape, during the 7 October 2023 attacks. Credible circumstantial information,
which may be indicative of some forms of sexual violence, including genital mutilation,
sexualized torture, or cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment, was also gathered.
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With regards to the hostages, the mission team found clear and convincing information
that some hostages taken to Gaza have been subjected to various forms of conflict-related sexual
violence and has reasonable grounds to believe that such violence may be ongoing.
The mission team was unable to establish the prevalence of sexual violence and
concludes that the overall magnitude, scope, and specific attribution of these violations would
require a fully-fledged investigation. A comprehensive investigation would enable the
information base to be expanded in locations which the mission team was not able to visit and to
build the required trust with survivors/victims of conflict-related sexual violence who may be
reluctant to come forward at this point.
Regarding the occupied Palestinian Territory, while its scope did not extend to
verification, the mission team received information from institutional and civil society sources as
well as through direct interviews, about some forms of sexual violence against Palestinian men
and women in detention settings, during house raids and at checkpoints. Though the mission
team did not visit Gaza, the Office of the SRSG-SVC will continue to monitor the situation for
any relevant allegations of CRSV in the context of the ongoing hostilities. The relevant UN
entities present in the occupied Palestinian Territory will provide UN-verified information for
reporting to the Security Council on allegations of CRSV, which will be complemented by the
information obtained by the mission team.
VI. Recommendations
The mission team makes the following recommendations:
a) Continue to encourage the Government of Israeli to grant, without further delay, access to
the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Independent
International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian Territory, including East
Jerusalem and Israel, to carry-out fully-fledged investigations into all alleged violations
that would deepen the preliminary findings contained in the present report.
b) Urge Hamas and other armed groups to immediately and unconditionally release all
individuals held in captivity and to ensure their protection including from sexual violence,
in line with international law.
c) Call on all relevant and competent bodies, national and international, to bring all
perpetrators, regardless of rank or affiliation, to justice based on individual, superior and
command responsibility, in accordance with due process of law and fair trial standards.
d) Encourage the Government of Israel to consider signing a Framework of Cooperation
with the Office of the SRSG-SVC to strengthen capacity on justice and accountability for
CRSV crimes as well as security sector engagement, training, and oversight to prevent
and address CRSV.
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e) Strengthen the capacity of the United Nations to monitor and report on incidents, patterns
and trends of CRSV in both Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territory through the
establishment of the Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Arrangements on CRSV
(MARA), convened by dedicated technical specialists, namely Women’s Protection
Advisors (WPAs), deployed to the region to ensure prevention, protection and
coordinated multi-sectoral assistance to survivors/victims.
f) Encourage relevant actors to uphold information integrity and ethical, trauma-informed
representations of conflict-related sexual violence, including by respecting and
safeguarding the dignity and identity of survivors/victims and witnesses of sexual
violence, as sensationalizing headlines, media pressure and scrutiny, exposure of identity,
political instrumentalization and pressure, and/or fear of reprisal can result in the
suppression, silencing and discrediting of survivors/victims and witnesses, further
compound trauma and increase the risk of social stigmatization.
g) Urge all parties to the conflict to adopt a humanitarian ceasefire, and to ensure that
expertise on addressing conflict-related sexual violence informs the design and
implementation of all ceasefire and political agreements and that the voices of women
and affected communities are heard in all conflict resolution and peacebuilding processes....."
Israelis have been repeatedly saying all of this for months now, while you deny it. I've personally had people tell me it's all "fake propaganda". You should all be ashamed.
I am infuriated at the fact that for 5 months, our evidence and word isn't enough for Anti-Zionists. Here is some undeniable proof for you.
Hamas terrorists admit to interrogators that they used ambulances to transport civilian hostages taken from southern Israel to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, where the hostages were kept under armed guard.
Palestinian ambulances and hospitals used for terrorist purposes, with full cooperation of the medical staff.
On October 7, Hamas broke into Israel and slaughtered, raped, and kidnapped hundreds and thousands of civilians, and recorded themselves doing so. Now Israel must fight to get their civilians back.
Multiple hostages have already died, some from murder and others from poor conditions.
2 hostages who were recently saved said that Hamas did not let them have the medicine they needed.
Hamas also has a 1 year old child in custody, and some women who have been released haves stated that they have been raped while in custody.
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Bring them home now.