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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
Western media has failed to accurately describe events at the heart of an Israeli military scandal, after the country’s top military lawyer was arrested for leaking footage of IDF soldiers allegedly gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner in a detention centre.
The attack was so brutal that the man was hospitalised with a ruptured bowel and intestines, severe anal and lung injuries and broken ribs. He needed multiple surgical operations for his injuries. The soldiers “inserted a sharp object into [his] anus and ripped his rectum apart”, according to Mondoweiss.
However, Western mainstream media outlets including Sky News, the BBC, Channel 4, The Guardian, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Times, The Telegraph and The Independent have failed to use the word ‘rape’ in their headlines when reporting on the story. The incident has been largely referred to as ‘abuse’.
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.
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.
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.
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
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