The emphasis on hostages is only an incentive to take more hostages in the future. Israel’s emphasis should be on arming every Jew to assure no hostages are ever taken again. The corrosive liberal Jewish mind set will never allow anything rational to occur, and will never give peace through strength a chance. The cycle of Jews being their own worst enemy has been going on for 2,000 years. Jews are the only people that eat their own. Jews for Jews is the only answer. The Kapos must be eradicated and excommunicated. https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AN1BXVenj/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Hatred directed against Jews is one of the most overt symptoms of a deeper disease: a moral confusion fueled by emotional trauma and its accompanying self-hatred. People turn to Jew-hatred because they actually hate themselves for creating the unsatisfying lives that they have. Instead of accepting responsibility for their own realities and striving for self-improvement, they choose to obsess over centuries-old conspiracies about how 15.7 million nefarious people have orchestrated an elaborate scheme to sabotage them. Happy people, content with their lives and confident in themselves, do not need to find some external group to blame for their struggles. If I were you I would see somebody. Your obsession with Israel isn’t helping you. The civilian casualty rate in Gaza is the lowest in the history of urban warfare and should have been zero but sadly the Palestinians want the number to grow so the miserably braindead keep sending them money as they play victim. People like you never ask “why are we here””why are there still hostages” “why were there any hostages” they just simply blame Israel so they can scapegoat someone for their own miserable lives. Amazing how there are billions of people that hate Netanyahu but can’t name a single other world leader. We know why that is. The human mind is a horrible frailty. Now go drink your grape kool-aid. Remember-it’s “good for you.”
Fuck off with your shabby hasbara bullshit and self-pity. The Palestinians don't hate Israelis because they practice circumcision or wear tiny hats, they hate Israelis because they are thieving land grabbers and violent racists who have oppressed them for 70 years, killing their relatives for stolen land. Idiot 🙄
Well said. It endlessly frustrates me that Jews are unable to put themselves in their enemy's position for a minute. This is like playing chess under the assumption that your oponent won't respond to your moves or take your open pieces when available.
It's just insane to pretend that Hamas will give up the hostages - there's no outcome where they are better off without them.
EXCEPT. If the people of Gaza are getting obliterated by the tens of thousands each day then Hamas knows they are chosing between certain extinction and a chance to fight another day. That is the only scenario where they can release the hostages. And that probably requires killing 500k+ Gazans, not that the world will miss them.
I don’t think even then. The people of Germany were being obliterated by the millions yet the leadership of the Nazi party didn’t even consider surrender. Germany only surrendered after the entire leadership of the Nazi party died or fled, and it was basically the military that surrendered, not the government. Hamas is the same. They’d rather see every single Palestinian in the world dead than admit defeat.
Yes, it's even more bizzare to see people suggesting that a "ceasefire" is an appropriate way to end this. I don't understand the willfull blindness to the fact that the murders of October 7th were during another ceasefire.
It's this magical thinking that "this time it will be different". The Gazan Arabs say quite bluntly - "stop attacking us, let us rearm, we are sworn to repeat Oct 7th again, we have no contrition" - and so many foolish Jews say "Yes! Sold!"
And to your original point - we must take the Arabs seriously. When they had the power they killed HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS in the ME at a time when there weren't that many to kill in the first place. Once they get their hands on better weapons they will draw blood.
And lastly, Islam needs to be treated like child porn. Pedophiles murdered far fewer people than Islamics. We need to be honest about what the problem is here.
Do you see *this* as a problem? Those in glass houses shouldn't cast stones..Israel is known globally for it's rape culture, as evidenced by the astronomical per-capita assault figures, even within institutions such as the IDF, as well as recent revelations in Israeli press regarding the systemic rape of Palestinian detainees, as was displayed in a shocking film. Compounding the concern was a further video depicting an angry mob assaulting the guards to demand a release of the rapists, indicating their approval of such methods. Is there a whiff of hypocrisy here?
No, the Israelis who were arrested in international rape incidents were all Muslims. This is consistent with general Muslim acceptance of rape around the world.
Sexual assault in the Jewish population of Israel is below that of Europe and the US.
You probably feel proud of yourself that you found an article about sexual assault in Israel but this exists in all societies.
But Islam uniquely justifies and celebrates the rapes and murders of innocents. Remember that even as recently as in the mid-20th century the West had to force Islamic countries to stop their practices of slavery.
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Data on the Prevalence of Sexual Violence
What do we know about the scope and nature of sexual violence?
This page offers updated statistics from studies, surveys, and data from rape crisis centers, including context and sources.
One in every three women experiences sexual violence in her lifetime.
According to data from the World Health Organization, about 35% of women worldwide experience physical sexual violence at some point in their lives.(1)
According to estimates by the Israeli Ministry of National Security, one in three women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime—with 84,000 women assaulted each year. This means that an estimated 230 sexual assaults occur daily in Israel. According to the National Violence Index published by the ministry in 2014,(2) the rate of sexual violence offenses in Israel is 10% higher than the average rate in OECD countries.
In a 2009 study conducted by Dr. Abigail Moor on a sample of Israeli women and girls ages 16 to 28, it was found that 33% of respondents had experienced physical sexual assault in their lifetime.(3)
False, several rabbis were arrested and charged with rape just this week, as was reported in Times of Israel, etc, see the links on X...you have nothing but lies, and bigotry, and racism. You're a nazi, chump 🤡
Do some basic math. Out of a population of 10mm there will be people charged every day with assault. But Israel's over-all numbers are better than the developed world's.
Meanwhile, rape and incenst are prevalent in Arab societies. Honor killing, cousin marriages, etc. These numbers are well publicised.
That minimizes the no less than 24 massacres of Palestinians from 1937 up to Oct 07th 2023, and seems ignorant of the fact that no less than three admitted terrorists of the Irgun, Stern Gang, Haganah, Lehi, etc, went on to become Prime Ministers of Israel for their crimes.
However, attacks on Arabs (they didn’t call themselves Palestinian until the 1960s) by Jewish militias were literally in response to Arab violence. Every. Single. Time. And still is. “Massacre” is not an appropriate word either - not even the much vaunted Deir Yassin - proven not to be a “massacre” as made out to be by Arabs. I’ve got a list longer than my arm of Arab violence against Jews from 1920-present. They start the violence every time, and cry “victim” when Jews respond.
With great sadness, I agree with your view. It is virtually inconceivable that all the hostages will be returned alive. It is heartbreaking.
But, the only way to avoid this becoming worse and worse for Israel, is to thoroughly, painfully, and unequivocally, defeat Hamas - and subsequently annex Gaza. Of course the world will go madder than it already has. But you must do what you know is necessary, not surrender your rightful authority and restrict yourselves to what the world ‘allows’ you to do.
And then after that, claim Judea and Samaria and clean it from the nest of terrorism that live in the so called refugee camps and then change for ever the school curriculum for Arab children
I wholeheartedly agree Chrissy. And I not only believe it must happen; I believe it will. But, it will cost Isra’el dearly; in that which she values most, as well as in International affairs.
A universally applicable statement of Ayn Rand is particularly relevant in regard to these terrible dilemmas Isra’el now faces:
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
As a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, my worldview; my understanding of reality, is clearly and predominantly framed by what I see and understand from the Word of G-d.
The Bible’s overall message is that of mankind’s redemption, victory over evil and all that is tragically wrong in this world, with an unbelievably glorious future in store for all who respond to the call of G-d throughout this Epoch of human history. However, ‘The Book’ also contains many dark, disturbing, and lamentable pictures of inescapable reality that are generally very difficult to accept.
In fact, anyone who has the ‘right’ heart and understands them correctly would wish that many of those pictures could be ‘different’.
BUT (Behold the Underlying Truth) G-d…
But, G-d does not ‘sugar-coat’ the essential truths He communicates to mankind through His written Word.
Instead, He calls us to accept them, but recognize who He is, what He is doing and going to do (Isaiah 45:5-12), to look to Him for salvation (Isaiah 45:22-25), trust Him, no matter what (Job 13:15, Jeremiah 29:11, Habakkuk 2:2-4, Romans 8:28, Zechariah 12:1-3, Deuteronomy 31:6-8), Isaiah 55:11), and do what you know is right and needed, as G-d leads us through the challenges and joys of this world (Micah 6:8)…
So much to share, but I’ll end with this:
May the Lord bless and keep all who call upon and trust in His name in spirit and truth; may He give strength to the weak, courage to the faltering, wisdom and knowledge to those who seek such from Him, and victory over His enemies, both from without and within Israel.
Why do you pretend that Hamas hasn't offered to release ALL hostages on several occasions, firstly offered in exchange for the IDF to not enter Gaza? And more recently offered for a cessation of hostilities? You play at intellectual dishonesty, or you're the worst researcher, ever 🤣
Yes, because humanity abhors genocide, and Israelis are clearly genocidal. The nation will fall for its crimes, mark my words..the whole world has turned on Israel.
Really? You think the hostages were/are treated well? Did you read that or did you see what they actually looked like or heard their testimony and form your own opinion? Does it matter to you that Hamas executed a number of hostages in cold blood after starving them. Have you seen the footage.? Were the 20 or 30 dead hostages that Hamas is still holding treated well? Please share with us your analysis of the terms under which Hamas claims it was going to release hostages? Why are you so willing to accept anything Hamas says? Do you have any idea how foreign to your values they are? These are fundamentalist barbarians. Make no mistake about it, they want you dead too. If I may assume from your name, you may be Irish. No one understands why Ireland has decided to throw in its lot with Islamist militants. It will not end well as is already starting to show.
Wow, you have feelings, huh? Hamas held ceremonies when they released hostages, it was widely reported. The hostages were happy, thanked their captors..they even had gift bags and certificates 🤣 In one video, an Israeli man KISSED his Hamas handler on the forehead.
You live in a fearful, cowardly world of your own fevered creation.
Are you deranged? You don’t understand that these “ceremonies” were under duress? Do you think hostage videos praising the captors and criticizing Israel reflect how those hostages feel? Do you think the celebration of the return of the Bibas children in coffins was an appropriate celebration?
That's not what happened on camera, nobody forced that Israeli to suddenly kiss his captor. Contrast that to the broken, beaten and starved prisoners released by Israel. Get a better source of news.
I am ignorant because you didn't like the video? I'm ignorant because you're mad that Israeli hostages had praise for their captors? Or are you mad that I'm challenging the Holocaust Israel is perpetrating in your name?
I’m afraid that’s like asking Satan not to be wicked.
Israeli journalist and activist Gideon Levy, who knows his people, says that Israeli society is beyond internal reform. It needs to be forced from the outside. That’s the only way.
You lost everyone at "activist Gideon Levy" who is in reality an Israel-hating propagandist. I encountered him in a back-and-forth email chat about 25 years ago where I asked why he quoted the Arab "victims" about an incident but got no input from the IDF members of the operation in his "news article"....his reply? "The truth is not important--getting the Palestinian Narrative out there is what is important." So he's an admitted liar and propagandist.
That's funny, when it turns out that every statement that the Israeli government has made since Oct 7th has turned out to be false, debunked, and bald-faced lies, like the recent slaughter of 15 ambulance attendants who were murdered and buried in a mass grave.
Do a little more unbiased research, if you’re capable. Terrorists were embedded with them, and the “shallow grave” is standard practice to keep animals from desecrating the bodies. The site was marked and the Red Crescent and UN were given geo-location to retrieve them. Peddling lies makes you complicit in Hamas’s terrorism.
Ah yes, Jonathan Cook, who says nothing bad happened on October 7th. Your sources say all that needs to be said about how you’ve been duped but don’t have the intelligence to even realize it. Your other comments reveal your deep inhumanity and insecurity. Pathetic.
Get the fuck outta here 🤣🤣 No fucking ZIONIST is going to lecture anyone on "inhumanity" and "security", nobody buys your hasbara bullshit anymore. Everything Isreal has claimed since Oct 7th has been proven as LIES, time and time again, the murder of 15 emergency workers is just the most recent lie but typical of everything the Israeli government says.
Yes, you're a pathetic little hasbara troll, and nobody believes you 🤣 Go cry about it, and remember that Iran can irradiate Israel for centuries by dropping hypersonic missiles on Dimona any day of the week. Smarten up, goof 🙄
Pure logic from you! Pure Islamic doctrine is that Jihad is forever, until the entire earth is Muslim. #2 That once a nation has become Muslim, any Christian reconquest (Spain) must be fought (Jihad) against it. Spain is getting the Hijrah Jihad same as rest of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijrah. Bin Laden himself bellyached about Spain's Christian / non-Muslim status.
Same applies to Israel, and is the crux of the problem. Islam's so called ummah goes Jihad crazy over Jews ruling a former Muslim land. This is why Hamas spent billions upon billions of donated money on tunnels, rockets and weaponry. Islam has a brain worm that whispers Jihad.
Not 70 years of occupation after a bloody round of ethnic cleansing that saw 700,000 Palestinians exiled to make Lebensraum for Eastern European Jews? You sure? 🤔
In the last 1400 years of Muslim colonialism & lebensraum, hundreds of millions have been offed for Allah. Read a few history books. Today's Jewish population of Israel is about 45% Ashkenazi Jewish. The other 55% is mostly Jews evicted from Arab nations. Iraq had 300,000+ Jews. Today none.
Yes, the evil of the Islamic world is breath-taking and strangely it is censored everywhere. I was reading an article recently on the Islamic rape of Yarmuk - it was like October 7th but the Islamics won and butchered everyone.
Wow, imagine that, Iraq's Jews left after 20 years of an illegal Israeli war perpetrated by the US that resulted in civil war for decades. That's the Israeli playbook, alright..Iraq, Libya, Syria..
Europe is getting Muslim lebensraum right now, aka the demographic Jihad, aka Hijrah. Muslims love Europe because it is green and fertile. Unlike their arid and desert homelands. Wastelands really, except that with their oil money they can import grains and food.
All those barren sandy expanses are intriguing & romantic, only in the movies - Lawrence of Arabia.
You're quite obsessed with Muslims, huh? You sound like an unhinged infant, afraid of monsters under his bed. What a cowardly and fearful life you must lead..
I am just here to agree with Mr. Lewis. We are (quite literally) our own worst enemy. Like you, I am a Soviet refugee, so I am hyper-aware of the dangers of antisemitic propaganda and appalled by the Jewish left's cavalier attitude toward seemingly existential threats. But I am also aware of my own limitations! How can I have any influence over people on the left whose views I cannot even begin to understand? Calling them stupid is certainly not the answer and it's not even true. I'd probably have the opinions if I'd lived their lives instead of my own! The best way to exert influence is to tell stories. I'd pivot back to narrative if I were you, and away from logic and insults.
Captain Obvious has entered the chat! Seriously, though, thank you for saying what needs to be said. Putting inestimable value on hostages only incentivizes more hostage raids in the future. You think they would have learned by now, but nope. Or else Bibi wants to delay his day in court as long as possible. Machiavelli may have been an asshole, but he was deadly accurate about strategy.
The divide this reveals in Israel is VERY familiar to us in the USA. It mimics the divide in the USA on crime and immigration. There are those who weep and wallow about “being nice”. Then there are those like me who believe we either vigorously enforce the core laws against violence and illegal entry, or we cease to be a nation.
For example: if, when I was a young man still on active duty in the US Army, I was injured or killed in combat, I am certain that it would not concern you at all. I don’t even get upset about that - war has terrible consequences and the civilians backing an army must continue to function even when that army takes losses. This is reality.
Hamas IS responsible for the Gazans under their care, DESPITE their Islamic doctrine leading them to purposefully place Gazans in harm’s way. Since Hamas voluntarily chose to go to war with Israel, AND they deliberately chose to make ZERO efforts to protect Gazans with bomb shelters, or by placing (Hamas’s) battle positions in farm land and orchards, away from the civilian population (these do exist in Gaza), then Hamas is deliberately choosing to see its civilians killed in the crossfire.
Go read about the battle for Manila in the Philippines at the very end of 1944 and for the first half of 1945. The civilians experienced horrendous casualties, in large part because the Americans used artillery and air strikes to dislodge Japanese units from buildings and blocks that they occupied in the city.
Fighting in built up areas causes civilian casualties in the same way that the rising sun warms the earth. If you don’t like civilian casualties, start screaming at Hamas to surrender OR depart the tunnels underneath the built up areas in Gaza. But they won’t because they DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN PEOPLE!
If you insist on "enforcing the law", then you must recognize 1) Under international law, the Palestinians are the Occupied People, and the Israelis are the Occupying Power. In law, the Occupying Power has NO right to defence from the people it occupies. That is law.
2) US domestic law, and the NPT, preclude USA from selling weapons to any nation in violation of nuclear proliferation...like Israel, with it's illegal nuclear arsenal comprised of stolen US tech and materials.
I couldn't care less of a flying fuck for the hostages and their families. If I was a hostage I'd prefer to die in an air strike. The Torah way is to flatten Gaza, expel all Muslims from Israel, and publicly execute all who support our enemies.
Israel is prepared to do whatever is necessary to defend itself. I applaud the resolve. Sadly, Israel has no control over what happens to the hostsges.
"Don't judge them, just put yourself in their shoes. And remember: they’re not less intelligent than you, they just have different values. Assuming your enemy is stupid is not good for your health. You launched an attack against Israel under several assumptions, the most important of which turned out to be false: that the world will stop Israel from destroying Gaza".
I don't think their assumption is that Israel would be stopped from destroying Gaza. Their assumption is that international opinion would turn against Israel after they destroyed Gaza (which is true). On 10/7 Hamas was making a long-term geopolitical play, not trying to win the war in the short term.
Israel's friends in the West have been reliable in the short term, sure, but that is being too short-sighted. Opinions of Israel in the US have dropped massively with a huge gap between younger and older generations. US support for Israel will probably evaporate within my lifetime. 33% of adults 18-29 sympathize more with Palestine than Israel with only 14% sympathizing with Israel more. Democrats as a whole polled 28% Palestine 15% Israel.
You can call that antisemitism but that doesn't change the underlying reality or mean you shouldn't take it into consideration.
This problem will only get worse as the Arab population increases. There is going to be Arab-funded propaganda and lobbying that pushes the United States more towards Palestine. Arabs are not rich people in general but lean much more wealthy in the US.
Israel needs to accept these realities and make compromises. It needs to worry about the looming threats of Egypt and Jordan in a post-US support world, not a terrorist organization that managed to successfully attack Israel in a complete fluke.
Cut a deal, take the hostages back, and hope your reputation can recover as soon as you're out of the headlines.
I think your assumptions are right. The Arab population will keep increasing in the US and abroad - and furthermore, eventually they will get their hands on heavy weapons.
But your conclusion is wrong - there is no concession that will appease them short of Islamic tyrany.
The correct conclusion is to strike now while Israel has power and eliminate as many of them as possible.
Unfortunately, you are absolutely right. The psychological war that the terrorists are waging with the hostages is really hard to bear! The pictures and videos they keep publishing are already heartbreaking for strangers, what must it be like for the families! Those who are in favor of toughness against Hamas must really be admired for their sense of reality and their resilience! But if the terrorists stay in power because they can use the hostages as leverage, they will try to kidnap more at every opportunity and this spiral will never end and bring more and more suffering!
The emphasis on hostages is only an incentive to take more hostages in the future. Israel’s emphasis should be on arming every Jew to assure no hostages are ever taken again. The corrosive liberal Jewish mind set will never allow anything rational to occur, and will never give peace through strength a chance. The cycle of Jews being their own worst enemy has been going on for 2,000 years. Jews are the only people that eat their own. Jews for Jews is the only answer. The Kapos must be eradicated and excommunicated. https://www.facebook.com/share/g/1AN1BXVenj/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Sounds like something someone said at the Wannsee Conference 🙄
Nobody attacked anyone at the Wannsee Conference. I’d suggest you try understanding history before attempting to use historical analogies.
Do you imagine that the events of Oct 7th are a justification for the war crimes committed in Gaza since?
Hatred directed against Jews is one of the most overt symptoms of a deeper disease: a moral confusion fueled by emotional trauma and its accompanying self-hatred. People turn to Jew-hatred because they actually hate themselves for creating the unsatisfying lives that they have. Instead of accepting responsibility for their own realities and striving for self-improvement, they choose to obsess over centuries-old conspiracies about how 15.7 million nefarious people have orchestrated an elaborate scheme to sabotage them. Happy people, content with their lives and confident in themselves, do not need to find some external group to blame for their struggles. If I were you I would see somebody. Your obsession with Israel isn’t helping you. The civilian casualty rate in Gaza is the lowest in the history of urban warfare and should have been zero but sadly the Palestinians want the number to grow so the miserably braindead keep sending them money as they play victim. People like you never ask “why are we here””why are there still hostages” “why were there any hostages” they just simply blame Israel so they can scapegoat someone for their own miserable lives. Amazing how there are billions of people that hate Netanyahu but can’t name a single other world leader. We know why that is. The human mind is a horrible frailty. Now go drink your grape kool-aid. Remember-it’s “good for you.”
Fuck off with your shabby hasbara bullshit and self-pity. The Palestinians don't hate Israelis because they practice circumcision or wear tiny hats, they hate Israelis because they are thieving land grabbers and violent racists who have oppressed them for 70 years, killing their relatives for stolen land. Idiot 🙄
There's no emphasis on hostages because you have the Hannibal Doctrine, which was deployed on Oct 7th as confirmed by IDF sources.
Awwwww, it’s an adorable little Jew-hating drooling moron.
Imagine being so fucking dumb that you actually admit to supporting genocidal theocratic fascists like Hamxs
Well said. It endlessly frustrates me that Jews are unable to put themselves in their enemy's position for a minute. This is like playing chess under the assumption that your oponent won't respond to your moves or take your open pieces when available.
It's just insane to pretend that Hamas will give up the hostages - there's no outcome where they are better off without them.
EXCEPT. If the people of Gaza are getting obliterated by the tens of thousands each day then Hamas knows they are chosing between certain extinction and a chance to fight another day. That is the only scenario where they can release the hostages. And that probably requires killing 500k+ Gazans, not that the world will miss them.
I don’t think even then. The people of Germany were being obliterated by the millions yet the leadership of the Nazi party didn’t even consider surrender. Germany only surrendered after the entire leadership of the Nazi party died or fled, and it was basically the military that surrendered, not the government. Hamas is the same. They’d rather see every single Palestinian in the world dead than admit defeat.
Yes, it's even more bizzare to see people suggesting that a "ceasefire" is an appropriate way to end this. I don't understand the willfull blindness to the fact that the murders of October 7th were during another ceasefire.
It's this magical thinking that "this time it will be different". The Gazan Arabs say quite bluntly - "stop attacking us, let us rearm, we are sworn to repeat Oct 7th again, we have no contrition" - and so many foolish Jews say "Yes! Sold!"
And to your original point - we must take the Arabs seriously. When they had the power they killed HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS in the ME at a time when there weren't that many to kill in the first place. Once they get their hands on better weapons they will draw blood.
And lastly, Islam needs to be treated like child porn. Pedophiles murdered far fewer people than Islamics. We need to be honest about what the problem is here.
https://open.substack.com/pub/beeley/p/israel-girls-raped-in-ritual-ceremonies?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1pungh
Do you see *this* as a problem? Those in glass houses shouldn't cast stones..Israel is known globally for it's rape culture, as evidenced by the astronomical per-capita assault figures, even within institutions such as the IDF, as well as recent revelations in Israeli press regarding the systemic rape of Palestinian detainees, as was displayed in a shocking film. Compounding the concern was a further video depicting an angry mob assaulting the guards to demand a release of the rapists, indicating their approval of such methods. Is there a whiff of hypocrisy here?
No, the Israelis who were arrested in international rape incidents were all Muslims. This is consistent with general Muslim acceptance of rape around the world.
Sexual assault in the Jewish population of Israel is below that of Europe and the US.
You probably feel proud of yourself that you found an article about sexual assault in Israel but this exists in all societies.
But Islam uniquely justifies and celebrates the rapes and murders of innocents. Remember that even as recently as in the mid-20th century the West had to force Islamic countries to stop their practices of slavery.
https://open.substack.com/pub/palestinewillbefree/p/more-than-a-human-can-bear-un-report-how-israel-has-systematically-raped-and-sexually-abused-palestinians-since-october-7?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1pungh
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Data on the Prevalence of Sexual Violence
What do we know about the scope and nature of sexual violence?
This page offers updated statistics from studies, surveys, and data from rape crisis centers, including context and sources.
One in every three women experiences sexual violence in her lifetime.
According to data from the World Health Organization, about 35% of women worldwide experience physical sexual violence at some point in their lives.(1)
According to estimates by the Israeli Ministry of National Security, one in three women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime—with 84,000 women assaulted each year. This means that an estimated 230 sexual assaults occur daily in Israel. According to the National Violence Index published by the ministry in 2014,(2) the rate of sexual violence offenses in Israel is 10% higher than the average rate in OECD countries.
In a 2009 study conducted by Dr. Abigail Moor on a sample of Israeli women and girls ages 16 to 28, it was found that 33% of respondents had experienced physical sexual assault in their lifetime.(3)
https://www.1202.org.il/en/information-and-data/data/general/
False, several rabbis were arrested and charged with rape just this week, as was reported in Times of Israel, etc, see the links on X...you have nothing but lies, and bigotry, and racism. You're a nazi, chump 🤡
Do some basic math. Out of a population of 10mm there will be people charged every day with assault. But Israel's over-all numbers are better than the developed world's.
Meanwhile, rape and incenst are prevalent in Arab societies. Honor killing, cousin marriages, etc. These numbers are well publicised.
Look in the mirror, you idiot.
That minimizes the no less than 24 massacres of Palestinians from 1937 up to Oct 07th 2023, and seems ignorant of the fact that no less than three admitted terrorists of the Irgun, Stern Gang, Haganah, Lehi, etc, went on to become Prime Ministers of Israel for their crimes.
However, attacks on Arabs (they didn’t call themselves Palestinian until the 1960s) by Jewish militias were literally in response to Arab violence. Every. Single. Time. And still is. “Massacre” is not an appropriate word either - not even the much vaunted Deir Yassin - proven not to be a “massacre” as made out to be by Arabs. I’ve got a list longer than my arm of Arab violence against Jews from 1920-present. They start the violence every time, and cry “victim” when Jews respond.
With great sadness, I agree with your view. It is virtually inconceivable that all the hostages will be returned alive. It is heartbreaking.
But, the only way to avoid this becoming worse and worse for Israel, is to thoroughly, painfully, and unequivocally, defeat Hamas - and subsequently annex Gaza. Of course the world will go madder than it already has. But you must do what you know is necessary, not surrender your rightful authority and restrict yourselves to what the world ‘allows’ you to do.
And then after that, claim Judea and Samaria and clean it from the nest of terrorism that live in the so called refugee camps and then change for ever the school curriculum for Arab children
I wholeheartedly agree Chrissy. And I not only believe it must happen; I believe it will. But, it will cost Isra’el dearly; in that which she values most, as well as in International affairs.
A universally applicable statement of Ayn Rand is particularly relevant in regard to these terrible dilemmas Isra’el now faces:
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
As a Bible-believing Christian Zionist, my worldview; my understanding of reality, is clearly and predominantly framed by what I see and understand from the Word of G-d.
The Bible’s overall message is that of mankind’s redemption, victory over evil and all that is tragically wrong in this world, with an unbelievably glorious future in store for all who respond to the call of G-d throughout this Epoch of human history. However, ‘The Book’ also contains many dark, disturbing, and lamentable pictures of inescapable reality that are generally very difficult to accept.
In fact, anyone who has the ‘right’ heart and understands them correctly would wish that many of those pictures could be ‘different’.
BUT (Behold the Underlying Truth) G-d…
But, G-d does not ‘sugar-coat’ the essential truths He communicates to mankind through His written Word.
Instead, He calls us to accept them, but recognize who He is, what He is doing and going to do (Isaiah 45:5-12), to look to Him for salvation (Isaiah 45:22-25), trust Him, no matter what (Job 13:15, Jeremiah 29:11, Habakkuk 2:2-4, Romans 8:28, Zechariah 12:1-3, Deuteronomy 31:6-8), Isaiah 55:11), and do what you know is right and needed, as G-d leads us through the challenges and joys of this world (Micah 6:8)…
So much to share, but I’ll end with this:
May the Lord bless and keep all who call upon and trust in His name in spirit and truth; may He give strength to the weak, courage to the faltering, wisdom and knowledge to those who seek such from Him, and victory over His enemies, both from without and within Israel.
Am Israel Chai!
I think it's clear that the only way to get all the hostages back is to terminate Hamas, hasta baagala uvizman kariv. Looking forward to part 2.
Even if you do this, you won’t get all the hostages back. This won’t happen. We must stop abusing ourselves with this impossible dream.
And we can't lose 100 soldiers trying to get back 20 hostages. We are better off napalming the entire place.
Why do you pretend that Hamas hasn't offered to release ALL hostages on several occasions, firstly offered in exchange for the IDF to not enter Gaza? And more recently offered for a cessation of hostilities? You play at intellectual dishonesty, or you're the worst researcher, ever 🤣
Really? 🤔 What are their conditions? What is their current offer? Be specific.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_vMJ9Nc3yo
Yes, because humanity abhors genocide, and Israelis are clearly genocidal. The nation will fall for its crimes, mark my words..the whole world has turned on Israel.
The living hostages released by Hamas praised them for their kindness and support. You're a lying clown.
Really? You think the hostages were/are treated well? Did you read that or did you see what they actually looked like or heard their testimony and form your own opinion? Does it matter to you that Hamas executed a number of hostages in cold blood after starving them. Have you seen the footage.? Were the 20 or 30 dead hostages that Hamas is still holding treated well? Please share with us your analysis of the terms under which Hamas claims it was going to release hostages? Why are you so willing to accept anything Hamas says? Do you have any idea how foreign to your values they are? These are fundamentalist barbarians. Make no mistake about it, they want you dead too. If I may assume from your name, you may be Irish. No one understands why Ireland has decided to throw in its lot with Islamist militants. It will not end well as is already starting to show.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3_vMJ9Nc3yo
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_YfQITQdgQ0&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD
Wow, you have feelings, huh? Hamas held ceremonies when they released hostages, it was widely reported. The hostages were happy, thanked their captors..they even had gift bags and certificates 🤣 In one video, an Israeli man KISSED his Hamas handler on the forehead.
You live in a fearful, cowardly world of your own fevered creation.
Are you deranged? You don’t understand that these “ceremonies” were under duress? Do you think hostage videos praising the captors and criticizing Israel reflect how those hostages feel? Do you think the celebration of the return of the Bibas children in coffins was an appropriate celebration?
That's not what happened on camera, nobody forced that Israeli to suddenly kiss his captor. Contrast that to the broken, beaten and starved prisoners released by Israel. Get a better source of news.
I am ignorant because you didn't like the video? I'm ignorant because you're mad that Israeli hostages had praise for their captors? Or are you mad that I'm challenging the Holocaust Israel is perpetrating in your name?
Hamas has offered on MULTIPLE occasions to release all the hostages, Israel has refused the terms.
You are insane.
I’m afraid that’s like asking Satan not to be wicked.
Israeli journalist and activist Gideon Levy, who knows his people, says that Israeli society is beyond internal reform. It needs to be forced from the outside. That’s the only way.
This article is sick Zionist bullshit.
You lost everyone at "activist Gideon Levy" who is in reality an Israel-hating propagandist. I encountered him in a back-and-forth email chat about 25 years ago where I asked why he quoted the Arab "victims" about an incident but got no input from the IDF members of the operation in his "news article"....his reply? "The truth is not important--getting the Palestinian Narrative out there is what is important." So he's an admitted liar and propagandist.
That's funny, when it turns out that every statement that the Israeli government has made since Oct 7th has turned out to be false, debunked, and bald-faced lies, like the recent slaughter of 15 ambulance attendants who were murdered and buried in a mass grave.
Do a little more unbiased research, if you’re capable. Terrorists were embedded with them, and the “shallow grave” is standard practice to keep animals from desecrating the bodies. The site was marked and the Red Crescent and UN were given geo-location to retrieve them. Peddling lies makes you complicit in Hamas’s terrorism.
https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/how-is-the-media-still-getting-the?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=1pungh
Ah yes, Jonathan Cook, who says nothing bad happened on October 7th. Your sources say all that needs to be said about how you’ve been duped but don’t have the intelligence to even realize it. Your other comments reveal your deep inhumanity and insecurity. Pathetic.
https://substack.com/@jonathancook/note/p-162118351?r=1pungh
Cook never said that "nothing bad happened Oct 7th", but he did reveal this lie quite clearly, as did Israeli media.
Get the fuck outta here 🤣🤣 No fucking ZIONIST is going to lecture anyone on "inhumanity" and "security", nobody buys your hasbara bullshit anymore. Everything Isreal has claimed since Oct 7th has been proven as LIES, time and time again, the murder of 15 emergency workers is just the most recent lie but typical of everything the Israeli government says.
You're dumber than a sack of rocks, bud...nobody on this planet believes that bullshit, and now everyone reading this is laughing at you 🙄
Oh boo hoo. Pathetic reponse belying a lack of intellect. You’re childish. Stick to your own kind on TikTok.
Yes, you're a pathetic little hasbara troll, and nobody believes you 🤣 Go cry about it, and remember that Iran can irradiate Israel for centuries by dropping hypersonic missiles on Dimona any day of the week. Smarten up, goof 🙄
Your little hat is on too tight, friend.
I guess it was the bigotry and racism that made you look fat and stupid, my bad.
So what does that day about Israeli hasbara farms?
Pure logic from you! Pure Islamic doctrine is that Jihad is forever, until the entire earth is Muslim. #2 That once a nation has become Muslim, any Christian reconquest (Spain) must be fought (Jihad) against it. Spain is getting the Hijrah Jihad same as rest of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hijrah. Bin Laden himself bellyached about Spain's Christian / non-Muslim status.
Same applies to Israel, and is the crux of the problem. Islam's so called ummah goes Jihad crazy over Jews ruling a former Muslim land. This is why Hamas spent billions upon billions of donated money on tunnels, rockets and weaponry. Islam has a brain worm that whispers Jihad.
Not 70 years of occupation after a bloody round of ethnic cleansing that saw 700,000 Palestinians exiled to make Lebensraum for Eastern European Jews? You sure? 🤔
In the last 1400 years of Muslim colonialism & lebensraum, hundreds of millions have been offed for Allah. Read a few history books. Today's Jewish population of Israel is about 45% Ashkenazi Jewish. The other 55% is mostly Jews evicted from Arab nations. Iraq had 300,000+ Jews. Today none.
Yes, the evil of the Islamic world is breath-taking and strangely it is censored everywhere. I was reading an article recently on the Islamic rape of Yarmuk - it was like October 7th but the Islamics won and butchered everyone.
Wow, imagine that, Iraq's Jews left after 20 years of an illegal Israeli war perpetrated by the US that resulted in civil war for decades. That's the Israeli playbook, alright..Iraq, Libya, Syria..
Europe is getting Muslim lebensraum right now, aka the demographic Jihad, aka Hijrah. Muslims love Europe because it is green and fertile. Unlike their arid and desert homelands. Wastelands really, except that with their oil money they can import grains and food.
All those barren sandy expanses are intriguing & romantic, only in the movies - Lawrence of Arabia.
You're quite obsessed with Muslims, huh? You sound like an unhinged infant, afraid of monsters under his bed. What a cowardly and fearful life you must lead..
Sorry, but...who cares? History is past, there is a genocide today.
No, there isn’t, you dumb cunt
Israelis aren’t idiots. They’re evil. There’s a difference.
Oh, a forehead dent has something to say!
How long did it take you to think of this clever one?
LOL
I am just here to agree with Mr. Lewis. We are (quite literally) our own worst enemy. Like you, I am a Soviet refugee, so I am hyper-aware of the dangers of antisemitic propaganda and appalled by the Jewish left's cavalier attitude toward seemingly existential threats. But I am also aware of my own limitations! How can I have any influence over people on the left whose views I cannot even begin to understand? Calling them stupid is certainly not the answer and it's not even true. I'd probably have the opinions if I'd lived their lives instead of my own! The best way to exert influence is to tell stories. I'd pivot back to narrative if I were you, and away from logic and insults.
I didn't call people on the left stupid. I explicitly stated that this stupid idea is commonplace among both leftist and rightist Israelis.
Captain Obvious has entered the chat! Seriously, though, thank you for saying what needs to be said. Putting inestimable value on hostages only incentivizes more hostage raids in the future. You think they would have learned by now, but nope. Or else Bibi wants to delay his day in court as long as possible. Machiavelli may have been an asshole, but he was deadly accurate about strategy.
The divide this reveals in Israel is VERY familiar to us in the USA. It mimics the divide in the USA on crime and immigration. There are those who weep and wallow about “being nice”. Then there are those like me who believe we either vigorously enforce the core laws against violence and illegal entry, or we cease to be a nation.
Are you genuinely comparing deporting illegal immigrants to killing 10s of thousands of civilians in the hopes that you also kill some bad guys
Stop with the fake compassion.
For example: if, when I was a young man still on active duty in the US Army, I was injured or killed in combat, I am certain that it would not concern you at all. I don’t even get upset about that - war has terrible consequences and the civilians backing an army must continue to function even when that army takes losses. This is reality.
Hamas IS responsible for the Gazans under their care, DESPITE their Islamic doctrine leading them to purposefully place Gazans in harm’s way. Since Hamas voluntarily chose to go to war with Israel, AND they deliberately chose to make ZERO efforts to protect Gazans with bomb shelters, or by placing (Hamas’s) battle positions in farm land and orchards, away from the civilian population (these do exist in Gaza), then Hamas is deliberately choosing to see its civilians killed in the crossfire.
Go read about the battle for Manila in the Philippines at the very end of 1944 and for the first half of 1945. The civilians experienced horrendous casualties, in large part because the Americans used artillery and air strikes to dislodge Japanese units from buildings and blocks that they occupied in the city.
Fighting in built up areas causes civilian casualties in the same way that the rising sun warms the earth. If you don’t like civilian casualties, start screaming at Hamas to surrender OR depart the tunnels underneath the built up areas in Gaza. But they won’t because they DO NOT CARE ABOUT THEIR OWN PEOPLE!
If you insist on "enforcing the law", then you must recognize 1) Under international law, the Palestinians are the Occupied People, and the Israelis are the Occupying Power. In law, the Occupying Power has NO right to defence from the people it occupies. That is law.
2) US domestic law, and the NPT, preclude USA from selling weapons to any nation in violation of nuclear proliferation...like Israel, with it's illegal nuclear arsenal comprised of stolen US tech and materials.
So, are you a law-abiding man?
Are you any sort of man?
Sadly you're not wrong, and I fully agree with your excellent article
I couldn't care less of a flying fuck for the hostages and their families. If I was a hostage I'd prefer to die in an air strike. The Torah way is to flatten Gaza, expel all Muslims from Israel, and publicly execute all who support our enemies.
This is a very logical and methodical post, which of course means it's going to get an immense amount of criticism.
Israel is prepared to do whatever is necessary to defend itself. I applaud the resolve. Sadly, Israel has no control over what happens to the hostsges.
"Don't judge them, just put yourself in their shoes. And remember: they’re not less intelligent than you, they just have different values. Assuming your enemy is stupid is not good for your health. You launched an attack against Israel under several assumptions, the most important of which turned out to be false: that the world will stop Israel from destroying Gaza".
I don't think their assumption is that Israel would be stopped from destroying Gaza. Their assumption is that international opinion would turn against Israel after they destroyed Gaza (which is true). On 10/7 Hamas was making a long-term geopolitical play, not trying to win the war in the short term.
Israel's friends in the West have been reliable in the short term, sure, but that is being too short-sighted. Opinions of Israel in the US have dropped massively with a huge gap between younger and older generations. US support for Israel will probably evaporate within my lifetime. 33% of adults 18-29 sympathize more with Palestine than Israel with only 14% sympathizing with Israel more. Democrats as a whole polled 28% Palestine 15% Israel.
You can call that antisemitism but that doesn't change the underlying reality or mean you shouldn't take it into consideration.
This problem will only get worse as the Arab population increases. There is going to be Arab-funded propaganda and lobbying that pushes the United States more towards Palestine. Arabs are not rich people in general but lean much more wealthy in the US.
Israel needs to accept these realities and make compromises. It needs to worry about the looming threats of Egypt and Jordan in a post-US support world, not a terrorist organization that managed to successfully attack Israel in a complete fluke.
Cut a deal, take the hostages back, and hope your reputation can recover as soon as you're out of the headlines.
I think your assumptions are right. The Arab population will keep increasing in the US and abroad - and furthermore, eventually they will get their hands on heavy weapons.
But your conclusion is wrong - there is no concession that will appease them short of Islamic tyrany.
The correct conclusion is to strike now while Israel has power and eliminate as many of them as possible.
Agreed: “cut a deal”? So they can do it again as they’ve sworn to do?
unfortunately they will not let go of their "combatants and civilians" post modern ideology, so they will never win
Unfortunately, you are absolutely right. The psychological war that the terrorists are waging with the hostages is really hard to bear! The pictures and videos they keep publishing are already heartbreaking for strangers, what must it be like for the families! Those who are in favor of toughness against Hamas must really be admired for their sense of reality and their resilience! But if the terrorists stay in power because they can use the hostages as leverage, they will try to kidnap more at every opportunity and this spiral will never end and bring more and more suffering!