Israel/Palestine thread
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Discuss my fellow 2+2ers..
AM YISRAEL CHAI.
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Oh one thing we didn't mention (for me it's always obvious but maybe it ain't for everyone?) Is that outside of the actual belligerents, for many people siding with Israel or Palestine is just about how much they love (or hate) capitalism, with the israel-jews-finance connection being the capitalist side...
Yeah I feel like that's just a you thing.
I wouldn't say people are doing well just not universally "rattled af", but I don't feel like I deserve the inquisition or being banished by mets for saying:
"Sure, some of them are or maybe all are to some degree."
Seems like that's people being *******s and demanding someone TOE the line.
Meh. They’re just saying things that they hope will bother you. Kinda like how I’m apparently Victor’s best friend and a rape denier now lol. If it’s not true, I just ignore it and laugh at the attempts. I wouldn’t take it too personally. They’re on an agenda and don’t see you.
It's an everyone thing in Italy, with center left and center right parties (which in Italy tend both to have pro capitalist and anti capitalist voters) caught in the crossfire of an impossible position with their voters (the center left especially).
On Italian Twitter the correlation between being clearly pro capitalism and so pro Israel, and viceversa, is more than 0.9
Meh. They’re just saying things that they hope will bother you. Kinda like how I’m apparently Victor’s best friend and a rape denier now lol. If it’s not true, I just ignore it and laugh at the attempts. I wouldn’t take it too personally. They’re on an agenda and don’t see you.
Tbh what I read is that you thought victor had admitted rape happened (and maybe he did to you in private), but the he seems to be back to rape denial.
does anyone know the correct term for a person who denies the rape denial of a rape denier
And Pointless, I'm asking you:
Why do you think the sliding scale matters when discussing someone's pain or trauma?
if you break your leg, is it just as broken if your neighbor also broke his back?
If someone is a rape victim, are they still a rape victim if meanwhile someone else is dead?
Where does your need to measure the two side by side come from? And what is the need for?
You answer my simple question first.
rape might have occurred. but not in the way the NYT reported it. and I think it was very unlikely that it was a coordinated part of the attack or a goal.
as crossnerd said, rape always occurs at war. so I am not going to disqualify that some it happened in isolated situations.
but even on that level there has been no credible evidence.
Seemed like an admission to me
Also just for the record, I don’t believe anyone in here cares terribly about women being raped during war. It’s just a gotcha point used whenever it suits people. This thread has been an excellent example.
We can't all be neurotic over it. Clutching pearls like Vic.
Make a friend of it - Kurtz' wisdom #1
Also also, expecting rape victims to come forward and give evidence of their trauma *to the world* is an absurd expectation, and nobody should be asking them to do that. I will not judge any supposed lack of evidence as no evidence existing until more time has passed.
We can stipulate to that. Next.
I would bet that there was at least 1 rape on Oct 7 or 8 but that has nothing to do woth Hamas or Gaza or Islam. I don't think that an angelic women was gangraped while Hamas members threw her severed breast around I mean cmon.
Another thing is that there were many non-Hamas people who opportunistically infiltrated. Hamas seems much more disciplined and righteous than randos (and Israelis for that matter).
Also also, expecting rape victims to come forward and give evidence of their trauma *to the world* is an absurd expectation, and nobody should be asking them to do that. I will not judge any supposed lack of evidence as no evidence existing until more time has passed.
I get that. And that is why there should be independent investigations. Quite simply I am not going to believe Gentleman or the Israelis.
I would bet that there was at least 1 rape on Oct 7 or 8 but that has nothing to do woth Hamas or Gaza or Islam. I don't think that an angelic women was gangraped while Hamas members threw her severed breast around I mean cmon.
Another thing is that there were many non-Hamas people who opportunistically infiltrated. Hamas seems much more disciplined and righteous than randos (and Israelis for that matter).
No wait the most corroborated rapes are those of hostages.
Those are held by the very disciplined and righteous Hamas terrorists.
Pointless, this isn't Good Will Hunting. You don't get this GOTCHA moment where you say DO YOU LIKE APPLES on this.
Because as I've explained, there's no point to your question in the context of today's discussion. You just want to hear someone say what you already know. And the answer to that just doesn't matter with regards to Israeli trauma. And it never will.
There is no competition for pain.
