STRAIGHT FROM THE CBS MOUTH: Israeli lawmaker defends alleged rape of Hamas prisoner as far-right protesters rage over IDF troops’ detention
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Stop calling the brutal and often lethal torture of impalement in any form, by inserting a stick, a hook, or any other object into a person's anus or any other cavity, "sodomy" or "rape". Such usage is misleading, prissy, and manipulative. Yes, the violent insertion of a dangerous object—a stick, a police baton, a piece of iron, a knife—into a person's most sensitive cavities goes well beyond "rape" in the usual sexual connotation, and it actually degrades the pain inflicted on the victim. Yet this cowardly usage to describe this type of aggression is ubiquitous in the hypocritical but always "politically correct" and proudly "Woke" Anglo-Saxon world, and is now (regrettably) spreading like a subversive infection across its sphere of influence. Even the Germans and the French, and possibly the Spaniards, who used to know better, and other vassals in the EU, have adopted such linguistic affectations. This CBS report, while journalistically valuable, and certainly unusual considering that CBS, like the rest of the US corporate media, has always gone out of its way to whitewash Israel, is somewhat marred by yielding to such dishonest linguistic conceits.
Israeli lawmaker defends alleged rape of Hamas prisoner as far-right protesters rage over IDF troops' detention
Ultra-right-wing Israeli nationalists stormed two military facilities late Monday, protesting the detention and questioning of nine Israel Defense Forces reservists suspected of raping and abusing a Palestinian prisoner whose injuries were so bad he had to be hospitalized. Social media videos show guards at the Sde Teiman military base and prison, near Beersheba in southern Israel, shouting at and pushing military police who'd arrived to question the reservists, seemingly in defense of the suspects.
The Sde Teiman facility is known to hold Palestinians arrested in Gaza since Israel launched its war on the territory's Hamas rulers, in response to the group's gruesome Oct. 7 terrorist attack.
The soldiers suspected of the abuse have been held for questioning, which is rare in Israel during an ongoing conflict, and it has drawn a furious reaction from far-right Israelis, including some senior government officials. On Monday evening, a group of Israelis attempted to storm another military facility, with one protester threatening an uprising against the government if the suspects remain in custody.
The nine Israeli soldiers suspected of the abuse were to appear before a military court Tuesday. Israelis have been rattled by the events, which have highlighted the deep political divisions in the country.
A member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, speaking Monday at a meeting of lawmakers, justified the rape and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, shouting angrily at colleagues questioning the alleged behavior that anything was legitimate to do to "terrorists" in custody.
Lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky was asked as he defended the alleged abuse whether it was legitimate, "to insert a stick into a person's rectum?"
"Yes!" he shouted in reply to his fellow parliamentarian. "If he is a Nukhba [Hamas militant], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!"
Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who's drawn U.S. reprimands with his provocative actions since the war started, wrote in a post on social media: "Take your hands off the reservists."
Other senior Israeli officials, however, including Netanyahu and army commander Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi, condemned the attack on the army base by the far-right protesters.
"Breaking into a military base and disturbing the order there is severe behavior that is not acceptable in any way," Halevi said in a statement, adding: "We are in the midst of a war and actions of this type endanger the security of the state."
Netanyahu called for calm, adding his own strong condemnation of the protesters for attempting to break into the IDF base, while Defense Minister Yoav Gallant warned that "even in difficult times, the law applies to anyone — nobody may trespass into IDF bases or violate the laws of the state of Israel."
United Nations agencies and human rights organizations, along with officials in Hamas-run Gaza and former prisoners interviewed by international news agencies, have all alleged abuse of Palestinians in Israeli detention facilities.
Israel's military insists that its detention centers are run in accordance with international law.
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Hard-right Israeli MPs stormed an army base on Tuesday in protest at the arrest of nine soldiers over the alleged abuse of a Palestinian inmate. The MPs from Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition broke through the gate of Sde Teiman detention facility in the Negev desert alongside dozens of activists. The detention site has been at the centre of controversy in recent months after reports of severe physical abuse of Palestinian prisoners since October 7.
Israel’s Torture & Rape of Palestinian Prisoners Defended by Knesset Members, Far-Right Mobs
Aug 1, 2024 Latest Shows Unrest continues to brew in Israel after a right-wing mob including members of the Knesset broke into two Israeli military bases in an effort to prevent Israeli military police from detaining nine soldiers who were under investigation for gang-raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman facility. +972 Magazine's Oren Ziv, who was at one of the bases reporting on the events, says that the support of Israeli political leaders, including some members of the Knesset who participated in the riots, and the apathy of the military police all indicate that those protesting against the soldiers' charges are “the face of the state,” expressing what are “mainstream” views in Israeli society. We also speak to Diana Buttu, a Palestinian human rights attorney who has interviewed some of the torture victims and says the extent of their abuse is “appalling.” She calls Sde Teiman a “concentration camp” that the entirety of Israeli society and the international community are “complicit” in.
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