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I had not been to Israel since June 2023, and during this recent visit I found a different country from the one I had known. Although I have worked abroad for many years, Israel is where I was born and raised. It is the place where my parents lived and are buried; it is where my son has established his own family and most of my oldest and best friends live. Knowing the country from the inside and having followed events even more closely than usual since 7 October, I was not entirely surprised by what I encountered on my return, but it was still profoundly disturbing.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Don't get me wrong there's definitely some issues in Iran. But it's pretty obvious to anyone with a functioning brain the Israeli mass rape torture prisons are far far worse.

Newspapers will always focus and magnify issues of an adversary America "needs to liberate". They use the manufactured consent and dehumanization of the target country to bomb the entire country to rubble. Destroy all the infrastructure. Thousands or millions starve to death.

Another tried and true classic is lying about mass rape like our media recently did for Israel. That has actually happened quite a few times in the past when consent needed to be manufactured to invade a country and murder a population.

'2011 Libyan rape allegations'

'Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Luis Moreno Ocampo said "we have information that there was a policy to rape in Libya those who were against the government.'

And afterwards:

'Investigations by Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch[1] and Doctors Without Borders[2] did not find evidence that mass rapes had occurred.'