One of the things I left behind on October 7th was my willingness to excuse things because it was inconvenient for my ideology. I will not excuse atrocities just because I am pro-Israel. Rape is wrong. Full stop.
That said, I’ve read this piece three times very carefully. All of the sources are anti-Israel and it is running all these claims without substantiation from a second party.
It’s notable to me that the New York Times withdrew a piece about the Hamas rapes of October 7th. That piece had much, much stronger sourcing than this piece.
The double standard matters. It really seems like for the New York Times. Israel is guilty until proven innocent, and Hamas is innocent until proven guilty. It matters for me as a reader looking at this piece, wondering if I can believe the things in it.
I need to see this reported out with substantiation from better sourcing to believe it.
That said, if the things in it are true, Israel must address them. I will not excuse rape.
@champtgram Few understand that the triangle immediately northwest of the red area and south of Dixie highway and the rickenbacker causeway is the most immaculate zone in Miami.
The problem is the double standard.
There are all kinds of things I find disturbing about Israeli domestic politics. Violence in the West Bank towards Palestinians would be towards the top. Netanyahu’s attack on the rule of law would be number two.
But it’s hard to see the point of giving voice to it when people can’t even acknowledge that Arabs literally create training videos about how to go on busses and execute all the Jews. Which they go and do. Or how they snipered a pregnant woman on her way to the hospital to give birth.
It’s a dynamic that gives people the misleading impression that Jews are the aggressors. They are not. Their actions are overwhelmingly defensive.
I can’t vote in Israeli elections, but if I did, I sure wouldn’t vote for Likud. And maybe I would be more critical of Israeli domestic politics.
But I’m not. I’m an American that values our national security alliance. And is the best use of my time feeding into a narrative designed to mislead the public? I don’t think it is.
Waymo is so good at saving lives that if it were a new drug in trial, it would hit the bar for being unblinded and made immediately available to the control group for ethical reasons.
@MorePerfectUS would prefer to keep killing pedestrians.
Centrist Democrats in the 90s were the greatest form of government we have experienced.
-Budget surpluses
-Staunchly capitalist
-Strong border
-Merit-based legal immigration
-Strong military
-Sensible on social issues
It’s a shame how progressives and socialists dragged the party to the left to the ruinous place they are now. And their extremism pushes the right to be more extreme too.