News That Doesn't Fit the Narrative

Following a 17-day visit to Israel, the UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict reported on Monday that she and a team of experts had found “clear and convincing information” of rape, and sexualized torture being committed against hostages seized during the 7 October terror attacks.

Pramila Patten added in a press release issued along with the report, that there are also reasonable grounds to believe that such violence, which includes other “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment”, may be continuing against those still being held by Hamas and other extremists in the Gaza Strip.

The report from her Office, arose from an official visit to Israel at the invitation of the Government, which included a visit to the occupied West Bank, between 29 January and 14 February.

In the context of the coordinated attack by Hamas and others of 7 October, the UN mission team found that there are reasonable grounds to believe that conflict-related sexual violence occurred in multiple locations, including rape and gang rape in at least three locations in southern Israel.

The team also found a pattern of victims, mostly women, found fully or partially naked, bound and shot across multiple locations which “may be indicative of some forms of sexual violence”.

I am not minimizing what Israel is has done and is doing in Gaza. Far from it.

Americans, though, should keep this in mind. Following 9-11, we invaded and occupied a country that had nothing to do with 9-11. A completely fictitious case was made to support that invasion. A million people in that country, give or take, were killed. Several million were displaced from their homes. Instability still goes on there. Terrorists took over part of the country, for a time.

Americans committed war crimes, large and small. And has anybody been held to account for that? No one, other than some junior enlisted prison guards. All of the architects of that invasion have been enjoying their cushy retirements.

When adjusted for the relative sizes of the two countries, Israel took a far harder punch on 10-7 than America did on 9-11, to which was added the lagniappe of sexual violence perpetrated by the terrorists. Americans who can't understand why Israel may have lost its collective mind after October 7th are demonstrating blatant hypocrisy. (And so are those countries who sent troops to help America trash the aforementioned country, including, but by no means limited to, Great Britain, Australia, Italy, Poland, Spain, Holland, and so on.)