content warning: involving discussion of rape/sexual assault although as the title implies, there is no convincing evidence that any of this has actually occurred.
note: and I promise you person about to link something, it's not convincing evidence, I read a lot of news including mainstream news, there is none as of the time I am posting this and if you believe some of the lurid, unsubstantiated (and frankly racist) atrocity propaganda fantasies spun up then propogated by the BBC among other outlers, I have a bridge to sell you.
The lack of any evidence of "mass rape" perpetrated by Hamas members on October 7 hasn't stopped Israel from weaponizing these accusations to legitimize its genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
and the closing paragraph
But it extends further than that. The reliance on lazy Orientalist caricatures of Arab men as savage sexual predators is both cunning and destructive. The implication that brutality and sexual depravity are intrinsic characteristics of Arab men and Arab people suggests that Palestinians are, inherently and irredeemably, an evil race, and their total annihilation, therefore, is justifiable. Manufacturing consent for a genocide works only when the genocide of a people is not regarded as a loss, and the eradication of their culture, their history, and their humanity is an act that renders the world a better place. The stigmatization and dehumanization of indigenous men and men of color is not new. It is an agenda that is all too familiar, and we must resist it.
read more: https://mondoweiss.net/2023/12/despite-lack-of-evidence-allegations-of-hamas-mass-rape-are-fueling-israeli-genocide-in-gaza/
Sexual violence as a tool of war has always happened and probably will always happen as long as wars exist. Pick a war, pick any side, they use sexual violence.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2631054/
I’m not defending anyone doing this, I think it’s heinous, but it’s incredibly common, which is my main point.
Fortunately the US and NATO as a whole has gotten pretty good at preventing and dealing with it compared to other countries/regions.
Tell us more about how the US did a good job.
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse 2004 American military scandal during the Iraq War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisoner_abuse?wprov=sfla1
Thanks for making my point!
"In response to the events at Abu Ghraib, the United States Department of Defense removed 17 soldiers and officers from duty. Eleven soldiers were charged with dereliction of duty, maltreatment, aggravated assault and battery."
Wow.. you actually very special to think only 17 were the one who caused Abu Ghraib.
You can't rape anyone, if you blow the civilian population up with a drone!
Drones kill a lot less civilians than shelling does. Russia and Israel are straight up shelling entire cities. US does not.
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/thank-you-us-deadly-drones
Well.
But overall the percent is around 7% to 15%, significantly lower than the 70%-80% for Israeli airstrikes.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._drone_strikes#:~:text=Taken%20together%2C%20independent%20estimates%20from,similar%20rate%20from%202017%E2%80%932019.
US drone strikes kill between 7% and 15% civilians. It's about 70%-80% for Israel.
Perhaps there is something between "do nothing" and "do a genocide" which might have actually been appropriate. Who knows.
Yup, that was exactly my point. If someone punches your mother, kill everyone in that person's neighborhood and anyone that looks like them. Eventually you will get the culprit.