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If they had this sport in the winter Olympics, they would get all the gold. (lemmy.ca)

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[–] psycocan@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You are very enthusiastic and overly exaggerating in your defence of Israel. What is "literally" incorrect exactly? All I read in your reply is just pure unfounded whataboutism.

Probably you didn't hear about how rape is dominant in the Israeli society, you know the hostage that reported she got raped by a gym coach after she returned to Israel! Revealed by many whistleblowers, they widely use sexual abuse as a torture tool of the Palestinian prisoners, heck, they literally protested for the right to rape Palestinian prisoners.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.org -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Calling them the Olympic gold winner is comparing them with all other countries. Hence this is not whataboutism.

Reports of using rape as a weapon of war usually talk about other countries. A quick Google search suggests the wars in Haiti, Ukraine and Ethiopia. But that is from a few years ago.

Let's be clear here: Israel is at least accused by reputable media to use rape systematically as a weapon of war. But the world is much more harrowing than you would hope.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165650 South Sudan was particularly terrible last year to name a concrete example.

Edit: individual Stories are compelling but in no way shape or form suitable to establish a pattern of systematic behavior. They are deeply manipulative as you tend to emphasize deeply with the victims and discount the amount of suffering in the world.