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6 days ago

Megyn says she disagrees with Candace but believes her to be in earnest, investigating theories based on distrust/trauma over Charlie’s death. I’m sorry, @megynkelly, but Candace’s trauma/distrust is no excuse. Candace’s pain is not greater than Erika’s. It’s MUCH, MUCH less. When you increase the pain of someone far closer to the tragedy to indulge your own unregulated feelings…it’s called narcissism. When you sadistically terrorize them, it’s called MALIGNANT. When you make money off the slander, it’s called PREDATORY. That’s what Candace has done. Her “investigation” is nothing but mockery and falsehoods. Making excuses for her is helping her.

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https://t.co/0GfU7oMPu1 Love the coverage.

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Roy K. Altman

@RoyKAltman

about 1 month ago

I was a sexual violence and human trafficking prosecutor for many years. There are really three buckets of evidence that go into a successful sexual violence or human trafficking prosecution. As an evidentiary matter, Israel checked all three buckets given the overwhelming proof from Hamas’ October 7 attacks. What are those three buckets? 1. Victims We see this in cases that come on TV or appear in the news. If there is one victim, it is hard to win a case because it becomes a “he said, she said.” Nobody was there. There were no cameras, etc. But here we don't have one victim. We have dozens and dozens of victims. People that have never met one another. People that don't know each other. They don't work together. They're not family members. What does that tell you? In the law, we always tell our jurors, when disconnected people who have no affiliation with one another tell you the same story about their interaction with a series of men, that is extremely probative as to whether they're telling you the truth. And these victims, they're not speaking anonymously. They have come forward on the record. They have done so in person at the United Nations, for example. They've done so in person to Israeli and American investigators. They've done it on camera for all the world to see. It's there for all time. One of the reasons why we think it's really important in our justice system not to rely on anonymous sources is because we want to test the reliability of the claim through cross-examination, background investigation of the person, and their history. But there's a separate reason. We believe that the mere process of declaring something publicly and on the record that's unfavorable to you evinces some degree of credibility. 2. Independent investigators We have these medical examiners who have come to the scene and investigated these victims' bodies. Some of the victims were alive, and their genitalia had to be investigated and tested. And some of them were dead. Many of the women who were abused sexually were then murdered by the Hamas terrorists. We know this. It's extremely painful to talk about, and I'd rather not talk about it, but we have to talk about it because the world doesn't understand the compare and contrast game. 3. Defendants This is the crown jewel. This is the cherry on top. You can go on YouTube right now and watch the videotaped confessions of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists to the mass sexual violence they perpetrated on October 7th. There are videotaped confessions of these men on the record for all the world to see. *********** Why is it important to compare and contrast? Because The New York Times op-ed story has none of those three buckets. First bucket, they rely on anonymous sources. They won't tell you who these people are. These people won't come on video to tell you what they suffered. It's important to ask why they won't go on the record with their allegations. Second bucket, they don't have independent medical examiners. The NYT article tries to tell you that they have these independent medical examiners and NGOs. They claim that Euromed is an independent organization, no affiliation, sometimes critical of Israel, they say. But we know that the CEO, the director of this organization, has called for a million October 7s. There were 1,200 Jews murdered on October 7th. A million October 7s, that's way more Jews than there are on the planet, if you're scoring at home. This is the kind of person that they're pitching as the independent third party. Third bucket, on the back end, there's no confession by anyone. There's no secret recording confessing to mass systemic sexual violence as a state policy against Palestinians. Of course, there have been individuals who have done wrong. That's not the question. No one denies that. In any society where there are prison guards and there are prisoners—including our own—there are prison guards who are bad and do bad things to individual prisoners. That's not the point of the Kristof piece. The point, he is clear, is that there is a systemic policy of perpetrating mass sexual violence against Palestinians in these prisons, and there is simply no evidence of that, not from the victims, not from the independent third parties, and not from the the so-called defendants themselves.