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I don't mean to excuse Israel with whataboutism, but I feel like most militaries do this? Americans have done it, the Israeli have done it, others as well... I'm sure a few like the Candians and Swiss don't, but I would assume them to be the exception more than the rule.
It's never excusable when anyone does it and it should absolutely be called out.
The point remains. This is an endemic thing in military prisons. Its a problem bigger than israel.
The point is not relevant to the discussion, nor does it excuse anything being discussed here.
That is THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT of this article. CALLING IT OUT instead of going all "oh, they diddly daddlied the dudely prisoner into giddily happily compliance".
I don't think there's anything else to say but fuck you.
There have always been undisciplined soldiers with a tendency to rape, pillage, loot, etc. It has never been acceptable, and certainly in more recent times it has been declared utterly illegal. We've got the Geneva Convention against that sort of thing.
Any country whose soldiers do this, shows itself to be depraved and lacking in military discipline. It's a barbaric act, unbecoming of civilised countries.
Oh well I guess that makes it perfectly okay then.
We need to condemn all mimitaries that do this. Everyone involved in its action or cover up should be held accountable and criminally charged.
Just because it's been done before doesn't make it okay then nor now
This is true but most people get very upset when you point out that other Western militaries are doing it. Israel is far removed from them so they do not care as much when you criticize it.
Also camps like Abu Graib are now closed whereas Israel is actively raping 10,000 Palestinians
Yet you chose to do so anyway.
I'm really not getting what your goal was here with posting this. It still sounds like you're either normalizing or doing whataboutism while saying you're not.
I'm saying it's bad when anyone does it. If you think rape is okay for countries X, Y, and Z, but you draw the line at Israel doing it, you don't have a problem with rape, you have a problem with Israel. And that's fine. They're certainly doing bad shit. I'm saying I have a problem with rape and anyone doing it.
Why in the world would anyone be OK for countries x y or z to be doing it
”Most” by definition would mean over 50% of all the militaries in the world have done brutal anal rapes with sharp objects in this millennium.
[X] Doubt
Every military, in every country, in every empire, in all of human history has used rape as a weapon of imperialism.
It's a feature of our species. (A shitty one, let's not be unclear, but a feature.)
One of the many horrors of war.
It’s very different if your army did it in the 1800s when we didn’t know better vs in 2025