The Israeli military said it is dropping charges against five soldiers accused of sexually abusing a Palestinian detainee in an encounter partially caught on camera.
A video of the alleged assault, which was aired by Israeli news, shows soldiers taking a detainee into an area they cordoned off with shields in an apparent attempt to hide their actions. The indictment said the soldiers assaulted the Palestinian prisoner and sodomized him with a knife, causing multiple injuries.
A medical staffer familiar with the case who spoke on condition of anonymity out of fear for his safety said the detainee arrived at a civilian hospital in life-threatening condition with blunt trauma to the abdomen and the chest and fractured ribs.
What do Jews Israelis like to call themselves? God’s “Chosen People”…?
Those poor people in Palestine being victimized by folks not being specific enough about exactly which subset of Jewish culture is raping them to death.
Zionism began as an evangelical Christian concept and later an active project. It appeared as a religious appeal to the faithful both to aid and be prepared for the ‘return of the Jews’ to Palestine and the establishment of a Jewish state there as the fulfilment of God’s will. But soon after, the Christians involved in this campaign politicised this ‘theology of return’, once they realised that a similar notion had begun to emerge among European Jews, who despaired of finding a solution to the never-ending anti-Semitism on the continent. The Christian desire to see a Jewish Palestine coincided with a similar European Jewish vision in the late nineteenth century.
But the Zionist lobby didn’t confine itself to Christian evangelicals. Jews, looking for a solution to seemingly intractable oppression in Europe, started to rally around the idea of a state of their own – with visions ranging from a socialist Utopia on Palestinian soil to a modern state in alliance with the Western imperial powers.
What do
JewsIsraelis like to call themselves? God’s “Chosen People”…?We’re talking about Israelis. I’m a Jew and I find these crimes to be completely disgusting and unacceptable.
Your casual conflation helps no one, especially the Palestinian victims of genocide and these particular crimes against humanity.
Those poor people in Palestine being victimized by folks not being specific enough about exactly which subset of Jewish culture is raping them to death.
Fair.
However the harm here is caused by Israelis (and their gov) completely owning the brand, sorry for the spill over
I sincerely doubt generalizations are a real cause of concerns for Palestinian people at the moment
Conflating Judaism and Zionism is a Zionist design, to deflect criticism of Israel as antisemitic and also foment actual antisemitic sentiment
since the times of the Bible it seems…
No, since Theodor Herzl
This is what I am talking about
Ilan Pappe: Zionism began as a Christian project