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Reading Silenced No More, the new report by the Civil Commission on October 7th Crimes by Hamas Against Women and Children, we were transported back to Oct. 27, 2023, and a screening of the raw footage of Hamass atrocities. The mouths of journalists were agape, but time dulls horrific reality.
The new report is a catalogue, for memorys sake, of Hamas depravity. Testimony from site after site attests to rape and assault. Screams and pleas. Gunshots to the face and genitals. Mutilation. Burning. Bodies naked, legs spread. Grotesque scenes staged. All forming an evidentiary record, the result of more than 10,000 photos and video segments and more than 430 interviews, testimonies and meetings with survivors, witnesses and experts.
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A male says he was gang-raped at the Nova site, providing medical records and a detailed account: They laughed, they were really pleased, as if I was their sex doll. The Hamas invaders had been given operational materials including Arabic-to-Hebrew phrase lists such as take off your pants/take your clothes off, lie down and spread your legs. The planned sexual degradation speaks to years of Palestinian propaganda that treats Jews as sub-human.
Sexual abuse continued for hostages, who are on video being groped and humiliated during abductions. In one video, a female hostage begs for her life while the narrator says, This is one of the Jewish dogs.
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We regret having to relate such details, but it is crucial to remember when the understandable human impulse is to forget such horrors. All the more so because the sexual violence by Hamas has been aggressively denied by an antisemitic global left that wants us to forget. Everywhere denial serves the same purpose: to distort Israels defensive war as if it were wanton violence. Such deniers prefer anything to reminding the world why Israel has no choice but to fight for its life.
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/hamas-sexual-violence-report-civil-commission-october-7-israel-2e68d781?st=SMjMWv&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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The report Silence No Moe
https://cc4e0711-9401-400e-ae14-65ae0400675b.filesusr.com/ugd/aab121_882e9391df384e169d29f16c0faefeac.pdf
Behind the Aegis
(56,201 posts)mopinko
(73,902 posts)was a calculated attempt to both sides this report.
i honestly dont know who/what to believe any more, but his piece doesnt hold water, imo. mostly hamas sources. full of the same old libels.
question everything
(52,355 posts)posting on their own media. And we all saw the victory marches carrying victims to Gaza.
And who can forget Shiri Bibas taken hostages with her two children?
mopinko
(73,902 posts)the way they had the propaganda queued up the next day was rly something to behold.
Mossfern
(4,763 posts)I remember being astonished at the immediate "response" by pro Hamas groups with printed signs at the ready.
How did they organize so swiftly? It was heartbreaking for me. There must have been a concerted propaganda machine
in place well before hand.
... and then there's the deniers... in spite of Hamas' generated documentation of the atrocities.
mopinko
(73,902 posts)quatar has given tons of money to the very colleges where the protests sprang up.
the whole thing was a set up aimed at defeating joe biden.
mcar
(46,338 posts)and so many rubes fell for it. The "pro-Palestine" protests were not pro-Palestine, they were designed to generate hatred of Jews and depress the Democratic vote here.
mopinko
(73,902 posts)were a nation of useful idiots.
mcar
(46,338 posts)and the denial of reality continues on this very thread.
mopinko
(73,902 posts)i learned sooo much about the persistent libels of the jews. but they seem to b a deep, dark secret to most ppl, cuz theyre popping up and being swallowed by folks who rly ought to know better. even here.
Behind the Aegis
(56,201 posts)Mention anti-Semitism? Discuss ever other form of bigotry! Highlight the atrocities of Hamas? ISRAEL! Denialism and revisionism at its worst.
mcar
(46,338 posts)betsuni
(29,270 posts)harumph
(3,408 posts)I don't think most reasonable people dispute that. I certainly don't. However, does this have something to do with the recent NYTimes article about Israel abusing their prisoners? The Japanese in WW2 were notorious abusers of prisoners - there is no argument. We abused prisoners in Abu Ghraib - there is no argument. It is never excusable under any circumstances whether committed by non-state actors or nation states. If recent reports are credible, heads need to roll. Here are two statements: People who act violently toward Jews as if Jewish individuals are a proxy for Israel is classic antisemitism, and "Remember Oct 7" is not the win some seem to think it is. Both are true at the same time.
sarisataka
(22,812 posts)but we have deniers here on DU. Their reasoning is that there is no proof, only the word of the alleged victims.
I stand by what I have said previously- All perpetrators of sexual violence should be brought to justice.
PufPuf23
(9,932 posts)Netanyahu's Israel and IDF commit atrocities too.
Israel and the IDF are more single-minded, organized, competent, well-funded, well-armed, and have greater reach and quality in their propaganda.
All perps of sexual violence should be brought to justice.
It is the height of human depravity to sexualize war.
mopinko
(73,902 posts)the release date was known in advance. the nyt opinion was designed to both sides this report.
the piece is NOT credible. the sources r hamas members, some of whom made previous statements that r much tamer than those quoted in the piece. 1 of the sources was charged w sa in the past.
i dont think israel is perfect, but every crime they commit is front page news, and blown out of proportion.
harumph
(3,408 posts)I will try and stay on top of this for more information. If however there are Israeli whistleblowers
to corroborate, that's a different story.
mopinko
(73,902 posts)esp since this was an opinion piece, not subject to even their lax standards.
theyve had to walk back quite a few libels since oct 7, and thats in their news division. theres no reason to trust them.
Solly Mack
(97,252 posts)malaise
(297,834 posts)That is all
Mossfern
(4,763 posts)that his justifies torturing, raping, burning, kidnapping women and babies?
Just what did Hamas accomplish on October 7th?
Black and white thinking is not becoming of anyone.
malaise
(297,834 posts)Answer that re those little girls in Iran.
The lack of condemnation is frightrning.
mopinko
(73,902 posts)plain and simple. qatar is the home of hamas. not palestine. qatar.
Rob H.
(5,910 posts)he didn't want to hear about what happened in Palestine before October 7, 2023, as if it's possible in the absence of context to honestly discuss what's happening there.
malaise
(297,834 posts)Chosen history doesnt work for me or most of my relatives with Jewish blood.
Ethnic cleansing is ethnic cleansing and so are war crimes.
Nanjeanne
(6,636 posts)Shehada also describes current conditions in Gaza still under Israeli blockade and occupation and what he calls the disarmament trap of unfairly weighted negotiations designed to strip Palestinians of political autonomy. The 'realistic' proposal that Israel is putting on the table is surrender, capitulate, become fully defenseless, weaponless, and entrust the very army that carried out a genocide against you to be merciful towards you once you are an easier target than you ever were before.
Finally, he responds to the Israeli governments recent threat to file a defamation lawsuit against The New York Times, after the paper published a column by longtime opinion writer Nicholas Kristof about systemic sexual abuse against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons. Its the newspaper of record. Itll be spread and disseminated widely to an American audience, says Shehada about the allegations levied in Kristofs piece. So we see, basically, an Israeli panic attack in return.
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mcar
(46,338 posts)I'm coming to the conclusion that calling it antisemitism is too bland.
ive been calling it jew hate. more to the point.
malaise
(297,834 posts)Anti-Zionism and anti-semitism.
betsuni
(29,270 posts)mcar
(46,338 posts)Blue Full Moon
(3,645 posts)Also at that time Israel was breaking records for killing Palestinian children that included American citizens.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/
sarisataka
(22,812 posts)Hamas has explicitly said, "Everything we do is justified"
Rob H.
(5,910 posts)than any other journalists in any other conflict in history, as well. More than 200 have been systematically targeted and killed, many by drone strikes, air strikes, and shelling.
Edit: and since October 7, 2023, thanks to the IDF, Gaza now has the largest number of child amputees per capita than anywhere else in the world.
mopinko
(73,902 posts)masquerading as journos.
malaise
(297,834 posts)Fil1957
(859 posts)It is well documented that both sides have committed at least some atrocities during and since October 7. There is no justification for these acts.
Efforts should be made to bring the perpetrators to justice regardless of what side they're on.
Rob H.
(5,910 posts)are denying that genocide and ethnic cleansing are ongoing in Gaza. They'll never honestly condemn the IDF. Count on that.