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https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-2-debunked-accounts-of-sexual-violence-on-oct-7-fueled-a-global-dispute-over-israel-hamas-war
There's a bit by Zizek where he's quoting Lacan. Lacan uses the analogy of a jealous husband who believes his wife is cheating on him.
The man has a deep-seated psychological need to be a victim. He needs the idea of the cheating wife to maintain this identity. In this case, his obsession with his cheating wife, even if it's true and she's sleeping around with everyone in town, is part of a pathology meant to protect his psyche from breaking.
That's the Lacanian part. As Zizek often does, he takes this type of individualized psychoanalysis and expands it up to the realm of societal ideology. The example he gives is of the Nazis and their obsession with the Jews.
An example he gives is that Jews were exploiting Germans. And this is, on its face, can be a true statement. Some Jews were bankers and therefore charging interest and profiting from Germans. Some young Jews were going around and seducing young German girls. Etc.
But the fact is, it doesn't matter if the Jews are doing this or aren't doing that. The Nazi obsession with the Jew has nothing to do with the Jew seducing young German women. The obsession is a necessary prerequisite for the Nazi to maintain their ideological position. A Nazi needs the Jew to be a scapegoat. To be a symbol of the Other- to use as an ambiguous threat; a vague amorphous barbaric enemy.
The Jews control the world and the global capitalist system. They are devious and scheming and mean to exploit us. On the other hand, the Jew is a stupid primitive animal who has inferior genes. They are everything and they are nothing.
I would take this and use this article as an example of a pathological ideological obsession on the Israeli side.
Even if the claims are true, which from what I've read there isn't much evidence at all, that Hamas raped many young women on Oct 7th, I'd argue that it's pathological. The Israelis need the idea of the barbaric and savage Palestinian in order to maintain their ideological position. When they talk about the rapes, it doesn't matter if the rapes really happened or not. It's there for an ideological purpose.
And just like the Nazi claims about the Jews- using small truths to create a large lie- the Israelis are following line by line with the playbook.
There is plenty of evidence, but maybe you need a refresher.
Archival link (haaretz): https://archive.is/sRK4M
Warning, graphical content: https://www.7thofoctober.com/
Denying the events of October 7th is comparable to denying the events of 9/11. Both terrible events, which traumatized an entire people and caused wars where a much greater number of people got hurt and died. Yet, attempting to deny or trivialize the origin event is a surefire way to make those affected by it not listen to another word of what you're trying to get across.
Again I checked your link and like I said above... There is no real evidence there.
Unlike SA on 10/7, I saw planes crash into the world trade center. The comparison is complete trash and indicative of the phony propaganda used by zios.
Nobody is denying the attack took place. Your conflations just indicate yet again the misleading and false propaganda coming from fascists.
I think the better comparison is that the genocide in Gaza is like a 911 every couple days.
If you want to post gore like a creep, you should check out the thousands of kids murdered by your disgusting racist regime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violence_in_the_7_October_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israel
While it's possible that individual rapes and other sexual violence happened, it's overwhelmingly likely that it wasn't widespread or systematic. Hamas has called for an independent investigation into the claims, which Israel blocks to this day. Israel also refuses to release the purported evidence. Numerous witness statements and commonly shared outrage-stories have been discredited (there were, for example, images circulating of horribly mutilated women, claimed to be Israeli. They were actually Kurdish YPJ fighters that fell in the battle of Kobane against Daesh in 2019). Video testimonies of Palestinian fighters were shown to have been given under duress, with obvious signs of torture.
None of this helps the credibility of Israel. The pathological liars of the IDF are using the language and goodwill of feminism (like the #MeToo hashtag, which got flooded by pro-genocide propaganda after the 07.10.) to paint Arabs as savages and less-than-human, to manufacture consent for their genocide. And it seemed to have worked. As someone who considers herself a feminist, I am sickened by how gullibly most western feminists followed this narrative.