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A lot of us were very willing to have a debate without heat, @stonewalluk, and the reason that never happened wasn't because gender critical feminists didn't want one.
While we were trying to get you to listen to our concerns, your former CEO was telling a BBC boss that gay people not wanting to include the opposite sex in their dating pool was 'sexual racism'. While we were pointing out the homophobia inherent in gender ideology, Stonewall ambassador Alex Drummond (a bearded, heterosexual man who'd had no surgery and taken no cross-sex hormones but liked wearing skirts), was going into schools to talk to students about his 'lesbian' identity. @BluskyeAllison, who actually is a lesbian, was subject to unlawful discrimination at her place of work for tweeting: ‘Stonewall recently hired Morgan Page, a male bodied person who ran workshops with the sole aim of coaching heterosexual men who identify as lesbians on how they can coerce young lesbians into having sex with them. Page called [it] “overcoming the cotton ceiling”.’
When the UK Supreme Court upheld women's right to single sex spaces, you issued a statement expressing your unhappiness about the ruling. In her report on your unhappy influence at the University of Essex, you were found by barrister @akuareindorf to have misrepresented the law as it related to women's rights: '[Stonewall have] stated the law as Stonewall would prefer it to be, rather than the law as it is’.
In 2018, you publicly advised schools to shred a research pack saying there were risks to puberty blockers, in spite of the fact that you aren't a medical charity and that there was already credible evidence that puberty blockers are neither irreversible nor harm-free. Meanwhile you produced your own educational packs, recommending a children's book, for ages 5-9, in which the parent 'is neither a man, nor a woman – they’re non-binary.' In July 2022, Stonewall sent out a tweet that read ‘Research suggests that children as young as two recognise their trans identity'.
@thetimes has reported how you've sought to control the language used by NHS trusts and government on their social-media accounts. Organisations would get points from you for replacing commonly understood words with ideologically approved terms, eg, 'birthing parent' instead of 'mother'. thetimes.com/uk/society/arti…
In short, you took a maximalist position on gender identity ideology, which you attempted to enforce by diktat. You refused to acknowledge that you'd hitched your wagon to a cause that, unlike civil rights, gay rights or women's rights, sought to strip rights from others. You sought to curtail everyone's right to freedom of speech and belief by controlling what it was permissible to think and say, through the management and political class. You have argued against women's and girl's rights to their own spaces, their sports and to assemble without men. Your former CEO tried to shame gay women/men into dating the opposite sex if the latter claimed to be female/male.
Your mantra was 'no debate' because, like all totalitarians, you preferred slogans, bullying and infiltration of powerful institutions to talking to opponents. You appear to have had no concern for the lowly people your ideology was harming: gender confused kids, female rape victims, female prisoners, regular people hounded and investigated at their places of work for refusing to accept the new mandates on sex and gender issued from on high.
Your 'activism' has been a disaster for those trans-identified people who really do just want to get on with their lives in peace. You have besmirched the name of an organisation many of us were once proud to donate to, the charity that was partly responsible for securing the legal right of gay people to marry, which a lot of us thought would never happen in our lifetimes. The milquetoast words quoted below do not erase a decade of gender activism that has been disastrous not only for individuals but for society as a whole.
There was once a debate to be had, but until you acknowledge the direct harm you've caused, it is no more possible to debate you than to persuade a person in the throes of a drug-induced psychosis that they are not, in fact, the reincarnated Christ.
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Q: "It's not just Trump, we also heard from Elon Musk saying Zelenskyy has gone too far. Why are they blaming you for the continuation of this war?"
Zelenskyy: "Because these people can't find a key to how to stop Putin. Because it's more difficult to stop Putin than to pressure others..."
The key to stopping Putin has always been the same: Russia’s ability to wage war must be destroyed, both economically and militarily. Right now, the US is doing the exact opposite.
Zelenskyy: "It’s simpler to talk about prices and connect them to Ukraine, when everyone in the world understands that prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz.
If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear the reality. Don’t play games with people."
Because Ukraine is in a vulnerable position, it is an easy scapegoat for everything.
We are under attack and depend on our partners for support. We are forced to perform true miracles of patience and diplomacy. But blaming Ukraine didn’t work for Orbán in Hungary, and it won’t work for Trump in the US.
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Na het komma-vonnis werd 'vol op de bek slaan' een oproep tot geweld.
Intentie telt niet. Mogelijk verkeerd interpreteren wel.
Rechterlijke keuzes hebben gevolgen. Ook in Nederland.
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I do. It's actually a really simple answer.
Kids can understand it. I'll tell you the story now so you can be ready when you finally have grandkids, Mario Awful.
For decades, Israelis tried to work with the Gazans, believing the impossible: that people who have declared that they want nothing more than to have Israel destroyed and Jews killed might be able to be persuaded to be friends by giving them land, money, resources, opportunities, and an infinite amount of patience.
During those decades, huge amounts of humanitarian aid was sent to the Gaza Strip, which they used to militarize and to spend many years planning a savage surprise attack against the people helping them. Almost everyone in the world took up their cause, even many Israelis who lived right next door, even though the Gazans were taking advantage of all that help.
They were offered everything but wouldn't accept it because all they wanted was Israel to be destroyed and Jews to be driven out or, preferably, dead. They were so fixated on that goal that nothing else mattered, and nothing else was good enough. They even used water pipes to build rockets and dug terror tunnels under their city and deep into Israeli territory to prepare for a surprise war.
On an important Jewish holiday and their sabbath, the Gazans sprung their surprise attack. That was October 7, 2023. They launched over a thousand rockets at 6:30 am. The Israelis heard the sirens and knew they only had seconds to hide in their shelters from these attacks. By the way, every Israeli house has a bomb shelter in it because these kinds of attacks are so frequent. Also, every Israeli adult and child, little boys and little girls, knows from as soon as they can walk that when the sirens sound to go to the shelter because it is so important and so common.
As the Israelis went, exhausted and sleepy, to their shelters to hide from the rocket attack, the Gazans sent a large armed force across the fence into Israel to do the most heinous things to the Israelis that you can imagine. Over a thousand were murdered. Things so horrible you cannot describe them to children happened everywhere. The Gazans celebrated and filmed themselves and put it on the internet, bragging and boasting about unimaginable horrors and murders. They dragged Israelis, including women, children, and babies and dead bodies, into their terror city and terror tunnels and started abusing and killing them slowly, using them and their corpses as collateral against the Israeli people and military. This lasted for over two years, with the last hostage's remains returned at the end of January 2026 after being taken in October 2023.
The scale and nature of this attack is so horrific that it cannot be described politely, but its true evil wasn't just in the barbarity of its forces, which did unspeakable things to completely innocent men, women, and children everywhere they went, including many who openly supported them for years, but in how they took advantage of the trust and help they were given to do it.
Gazans had spent years exploiting the goodwill of Israelis in the Gaza Envelope to gather intelligence, working as gardeners, housekeepers, taxi drivers, etc., to gather detailed intelligence of the neighborhoods and homes they would systematically attack starting on October 7. So many Israelis were betrayed at their trust and goodwill toward the Gazans, and by it. While they hid from those rockets in their shelters, Hamas terrorists systematically went through the carefully mapped streets of their neighborhoods, broke into houses, and shot them dead through the doors of their shelters, or crashed in through the walls from the outside using their own farming equipment to do it. Hamas terrorists knew the Israelis would be hiding from the rockets and knew where they'd be hiding, and they murdered them while they hid, deliberately, planned out in advance and for years.
These people weren't just Israelis or Jews. They were innocents. In fact, as far as it goes, many of them were the greatest champions for the Gazans in Israel. Didn't matter. They were Israelis. They were Jews. They had to die in the most horrible ways you can think of. They had to be desecrated. They had to be taken hostage. It all had to be celebrated on video streamed live onto the internet to excite their radical friends around the region and the world. The horror is actually incomprehensible.
Had this happened to Americans in the United States from one of its neighbors, the response Americans would have demanded cannot actually be comprehended. I stand in awe at how restrained and cautious and decent and good the Israelis have been, and it is to my slight embarrassment knowing that our own people, our own forces, wouldn't have managed a fraction of that decency, however much we would match the unparalleled effectiveness of these operations. That is, Mario Awful, I don't f*cking want to hear it, and neither do your grandkids. Respect them enough not to soil their minds with these lies, which are so evil that Hell itself would be slightly embarrassed to spread them.
So, when Israel realized what had happened to them, what was still happening to them, how their trust, support, and patience had been taken advantage of in the nastiest and cruelest way human beings can possibly imagine, for zero good reasons and only unbelievably evil ones, they set out to make sure it would never happen again. They started a war of rescue and to end the military capacities of the Gazans, who were and still are governed by a radical terrorist group that even has in their charter that they want every Israeli driven out and every Jew that can be killed dead.
Israel waged a patient war with the highest accuracy rate of any in the entire history of urban warfare, taking great pains and many casualties to spare innocent life, even when that innocent life openly supports the terror regime that governs them and wants them dead. The Gazans, however, had spent decades turning their entire city into a hidden military fortress, hiding weapons, entrances to terror tunnels, command centers, and every conceivable military target within civilian neighborhoods, including even homes, schools, hospitals, and houses of worship. Israel did what it had to do as carefully as it could be done. The devastation you see is the result of the evil of Hamas and the Gazans who support it having spent decades organizing their city to become a vast, sprawling military installation.
The Gazans and their terrorist leaders took this organizational approach specifically for two reasons. One was to deter Israel from ever attacking or disabling their military installations at all. Even when the devastation seen here, that remained the case. Israel took great pains to minimize, including casualties, including complicated legal approvals, including warning both civilians and combatants in Gaza of incoming attacks against the installations, trying to save all innocent (and a lot of not-so-innocent) life. Another was to produce this propaganda, which Mario Awful, after having his account built to giant size by @elonmusk himself, spreads and promotes with foolish emotion-driven emojis and devastating lies of omission of these facts.
Even as Israel dismantled the entire military capacity of Gaza bit by bit (which is what you see in the video here), they sent aid: more food, medicine, and other supplies than have ever been sent to a population controlled by an enemy military in the history of warfare, period. The terrorist leaders leveraged every bit of it against them, stealing it and starving their own people, creating propaganda campaigns about genocide and forced starvation, and even building more rockets out of raw materials including water pipes, which they then fired at Israel.
Bit by bit, Israel dismantled as much of their military apparatus as they could and rescued or recovered all of their hostages, including among them Americans. The result is what you see. The result you see below is the most painstakingly moderate response a decent human being of even the slightest comprehension could possibly imagine, and yet that's what the Israelis have accomplished in Gaza.
And they accomplished it while the world hated them for it, scrutinized everything not just for any legitimate breaches of perfection but for a litany of illegitimate accusations of things so voluminous that they could not even be recorded, except that they were in the relentless propaganda of social media, the global enemy propaganda channels, and even the mainstream press, almost all amplified and repeated by even allegedly good, decent conservatives who found these lies a perfect reason either to reveal their underlying but hidden hatred for Jews or to turn to that evil on false pretenses you are promoting, even now, even today.
So when you sit down to tell your grandkids how humanity allowed Gaza to happen, tell them the real story.
Humanity allowed Gaza to become a terrorist militarized city openly dedicated to the destruction of Israel and the murder and desecration of Jews and Jewish bodies by believing in some asinine humanitarian concept that defies all logic. It happened by creating a global political situation that, for reasons of Communist political correctness and soft-hearted and softer-headed compassion, refused to believe the simple reality of the situation. It happened because this delusion and misplaced trust persisted for decades while Hamas and its supporters turned Gaza into a terrorist military outpost that would simply have to be destroyed sooner or later, and then they pulled that trigger on themselves in the most obvious way possible on October 7, 2023, which stands as one of the darkest days of the last century.
Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it wouldn't take Hamas at its word. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it lied to itself for decades about the nature of the Islamic currents that motivate Hamas and "Palestinianism" more broadly. Humanity allowed Gaza to happen because it wouldn't address a problem correctly from the beginning, not least because it was terrified of being called racist and refused, nobly but stupidly, that human beings could be led by ideology and religion to the depths of evil and depravity that had captured the Gazans.
Humanity allowed Gaza to happen, that is, because it refused to take Gazans at their word.
Israel, starting in late 2023, finally woke up in the worst way possible to the need to STOP LETTING GAZA HAPPEN, the result of which your video depicts and the truth and moral of which you, like a demon, invert.
Years from now, my grandkids will ask me how humanity allowed Gaza to happen. I still don’t have an answer for them 💔 xitter.gq/mhmd_s09/status/209257…
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Because X has recently begun labeling some of my content, I want to write something here that I hope you will share.
Some of you are new and may not know me. My name is Noa Magid, and since 2013 I have been documenting and reporting on terror attacks in my country, Israel.
On the morning of October 7, having already seen difficult things throughout my years of work, I took it upon myself to collect and preserve the footage and material that began appearing in the very first minutes of the day that changed my life forever.
Some of that material was sent directly to me by people documenting events on the ground, security personnel, and rescue teams who also understood, in real time, the magnitude of what was happening and the importance of preserving the evidence.
Over the years, I have added a great deal more material through ongoing research that continues to this day.
I have been preserving and making this material accessible ever since. A significant amount of the October 7 footage circulating around the world today comes from material I collected, edited, preserved, and republished after much of it began disappearing from social media in the first days after the massacre, at the direction of Hamas and other hostile actors.
I know how difficult this footage is to watch. But what has been published so far is only a fraction of an enormous archive containing thousands of minutes of material, carefully reviewed and selected out of respect for the victims and their families.
As we approach the third anniversary of October 7, I want to direct you to my posts from the first weeks after the massacre, where you will find much more documentation. You can also search for the_slaughter710.
Over the past three years, I have dealt with account restrictions, locks, and many other obstacles. Despite this, @X became a home for my work because, unlike other platforms such as Facebook, which removed much of this material almost immediately, I was usually able to publish even difficult documentation here relatively freely.
At the same time, I have watched pro-jihadist accounts publish terrorist material freely without facing the same level of scrutiny. Unfortunately, X has recently begun labeling some of my content as well.
I want to make one thing clear: all of the material I publish is authentic. It is the result of an unbearable amount of work that has taken a heavy psychological toll on me. But I knew what I was taking on, and I chose to make this my life's mission.
I watch with pride as people around the world continue sharing the material I published that survived here, sometimes reaching millions of people. I hope it continues to travel far beyond my account.
And I promise you: what you have seen is not even 50 percent of the most difficult material that actually exists.
I only hope @XCreators will not begin classifying this documentation as "non-original content." For this purpose, I explicitly give permission for the October 7 massacre material I have published to be downloaded and republished. As far as I am concerned, sharing this documentation is not copying. It is part of preserving it and making sure it continues to be seen.
As with the Holocaust, documentation is essential if we want future generations to remember what happened and understand the evidence that was left behind.
These videos, photographs, testimonies, and records are historical documents of the massacre committed against us by terrorists. They are also factual, undeniable evidence for anyone who dares to question what happened to us or tries to turn the victims into the aggressors.
We preserve them so the truth can never be erased - and history can never be rewritten.
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Where the fuck was the music industry’s big brave defence of artistic freedom when I got arrested, blacklisted and deplatformed for saying a woman is an adult human female?? Same when they piled on @roisinmurphy over puberty blockers. Same when they hounded @MrWinMarshall out of his own band over a book. They were busy pouring petrol on the fire. Now Macklemore’s on Ed Sheeran’s tour banging on about Palestine and suddenly they’re all clutching their pearls about free speech and solidarity. Give over!! 😂 Funny how the principle only turns up once the approved sacred cow slogan is on the setlist. The rest of the time they’re first in the queue with the matches!!
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This week’s guest on Beyond Gender, journalist Nick Wallis (@nickwallis), is one of my favourite voices in the gender debate.
After his exceptional coverage of the UK’s Post Office scandal, Nick turned his attention to the scandal of gender affirming care and the madness of the wider trans movement.
In this episode, we covered a wide range of topics, from the Post office throwing innocent people in prison, the lies and false promises of gender medicine, the media beclowning itself on the altar of trans activism, and of course, why Canada insists on being so stupid.
🎧Premiering now
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The very sad truth is that once trusted institutions like the BBC, the UN or elite universities have ideological agendas, created by the members and employees of those institutions. So no, they cannot be trusted to tell unbiased truth. Their agenda leads the narrative.
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She got the abuse after one tweet. Then she published a gentle essay explaining what she meant, and saying that she supported trans people. The tsunami of hate followed *that.* Not years of campaigning. No campaign was needed. The smear was so complete that the NY Times referred to Rowling as "known for her transphobic remarks." Although they didn't repeat any, because they couldn't, on account of her not making any.
I have seen how so-called cancellation (what a soft phrase) affects people mentally, and I have marveled over the years at the way Rowling didn't crack, and the way a lot of her tweets are darkly humorous. Nobody makes it through the online mob untouched, but she's come the closest to retaining basic equilibrium -- though it has clearly hardened her.
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Naar aanleiding van de cartoon van Peter de Wit / Sigmund in de Volkskrant dit weekend, schreef Jessica Roitman het volgende aan de krant. Het werd niet geplaatst, dus ik deel het hier met permissie:
Voor de tweede keer in drie weken tekent Peter de Wit in deze krant een strip die niet gaat over wat Israël doet, maar over wat voor mensen Israëliërs zijn. Op 27 juli waren zij "smeerlappen" die hun eigen verdedigers in de rug schieten. Nu zijn zij "blije mensen", vijf figuren die opgewekt vertellen hoeveel plezier zij beleven aan het verjagen, bombarderen en zien creperen van Palestijnen.
Wat u ook van die eerste vier figuren vindt, het onderschrift maakt er een uitspraak over een volk van. De serie heet "blije mensen" en de aflevering van deze week heet Israël.
De vijfde figuur gaat nog verder. Die man draagt geen uniform en geen helm. Hij heeft een zwarte hoed, een baard, peies en een ronde bril, hij zegt dat God aan zijn kant staat, en vervolgens moedigt hij God aan. Dat is geen soldaat en geen minister. Dat is een jood, getekend in een beeldtaal met een zeer lange Europese geschiedenis, en de pointe is dat zijn geloof het moorden toestaat en er vrolijk van wordt. Die beschuldiging is eeuwen ouder dan de staat Israël.
Zou deze krant een strip plaatsen die eindigt met een imam die "Goed zo, Allah!" roept, onder de kop "blije mensen: de moslims"? Graag hoor ik wat de redactie hiervan vindt.
Jessica V. Roitman
Hoogleraar Joodse Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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My response to ABC Journo Chris Da Silva's crack at Sophie Cunningham;
This ABC article is actually a perfect example of the problem women have been talking about for years.
Sophie Cunningham says girls shouldn't have to compete against biological males & that women's sport should remain protected.
The ABC doesn't really interrogate that argument. Instead, we're told she's speaking “under the guise” of protecting women's sport, her position is “problematic”, supporters are “gatecrashing” the WNBA, and apparently she “opened the door” to an “attack” on the league.
Sorry, but since when did protecting the female sporting category become the controversial position???
The ABC tells us the WNBA prides itself on being a “safe space for the trans community”.
Great. Why can't women's sport be a protected space for women? That's the question they continually avoid to answer.
Women's sport exists separately because biological sex matters in sport. This simple unemotional fact is not not hatred, discrimination or some bizarre right-wing conspiracy.
Apparently Sophie Cunningham's position is so ‘problematic’ that the International Olympic Committee has now adopted a policy specifically called the ‘Protection of the Female Category’. World Athletics, World Aquatics and World Boxing have all moved toward sex-based protections too, and the WTA has just introduced genetic sex testing. These organisations have recognised that inclusion doesn't automatically override fairness, safety and sporting integrity for women (finally). Yet somehow the ABC treats a female basketballer expressing essentially the same concern as the problem?
And the argument that there aren't currently any trans players in the WNBA is a moot point. That's exactly when you SHOULD establish the rules — before you're dealing with an individual athlete and the whole thing becomes very personal.
Cunningham was also talking about young girls coming through sport, something the ABC rather conveniently skates past.
What annoys me most about pieces like this is the assumption that “inclusion” automatically wins every competing argument.
What about fairness to girls?
What about their safety in contact sports?
Their scholarships, selections, records and podium places?
Why is it apparently unthinkable that women might have boundaries too?
You can absolutely advocate for better outcomes for transgender people - housing, healthcare, employment, mental-health support, protection from violence and discrimination - WITHOUT demanding access to every female space and category.
Women aren't preventing anybody from building better outcomes for their own community.
But women are increasingly being told that our boundaries are the obstacle to THOSE PEOPLE achieving them.
And when women object, apparently we're the problem - and cue the male from the ABC to tell us.
Perhaps the ABC could answer the question it conspicuously avoided:
Why must inclusion for one group require women and girls to give something up?
Oh look! It's a male journo at the ABC having a crack at Sophie Cunningham for saying women and girls need their own sports teams and comps. How surprising!
abc.net.au/news/2026-08-13/s…
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What if the medical pioneers who developed lobotomies later admitted there was no science to support their brutal surgical procedure—only their opinion that it might have been a good idea?
That is what just happened with pediatric “gender-affirming” treatments.
It is hard to overstate the importance of this court admission from WPATH, the most influential transgender medical association whose guidelines are still cited by governments and medical groups worldwide as the progressive standard of care. In a Texas federal filing, WPATH now concedes its Standards of Care are merely its opinion—what it claims is one side of a debate marked by “medical and scientific uncertainty.”
Clinicians and organizations that treat them as binding standards of care, WPATH says, bear “independent responsibility.”
In 2024, I helped break the scandal of the internal WPATH Files, along with @shellenberger and @_CryMiaRiver. The leaked documents exposed that the organization already knew—and hid—the irreversible adverse effects of the very standards they were promoting. They had even removed minimum age limits on surgeries for children.
My reporting at the time in the NY Post: nypost.com/2024/03/04/opinio…
Now in litigation, WPATH admits the guidelines were never science-based. Tell that to the thousands of children who have been permanently maimed in pursuit of an online contagion that convinced them they would be happier in another body—and to the growing number trying to detransition.
I hope the key figures behind the WPATH scandal are eventually held accountable.
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Dear corporate PR teams:
You were told backing women who defend women's rights would destroy your brand.
Instead, Sophie Cunningham's Adidas release sold out in under 24hrs.
Turns out the loudest people on Twitter aren't your customers. Women are. Maybe it's time you remembered that.
Loud in pink.
The Sophie Cunningham Crazy Energy PE is available now.
🔗 Shop here: adidas.com/us/crazy-energy-s…
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Dat ben ik, ja. En nee, ik ben ook beslist geen voorstander van de lijn van Netanyahu met idioten als Ben Gvir.
Tegelijkertijd sta ik versteld hoe de enige democratie in het Midden-Oosten boksbal is voor allerlei individuen met een westerse roze bril die vanuit hun luie stoel dat piepkleine land wel even denken te vertellen hoe te handelen. Terwijl er juist een toenadering is tussen bijvoorbeeld de Libanese regering en Jeruzalem. Uit het succes van de Abrahamakkoorden blijkt dat diverse omringende Arabische landen tegenwoordig meer begrijpen van de gigantische uitdagingen waar Israël voor staat dan voormalige politici met hun opgeheven dominee- vingertjes. Alle ballen op dat land, vlak voor het congres. Geen enkele empathie. Beken gewoon kleur en word lid van D66. En ik ben even nieuwsgierig, wanneer stak jij voor het laatst je licht op in het land zelf?
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Het is niet altijd makkelijk om een cultuur goed te omschrijven als je onderdeel bent van die cultuur. Wat helpt is om te beschrijven wat het NIET is: vrouwen zonder rechten, afkeer van homoseksualiteit, kindbruidjes, FGM, onderdrukking, gedwongen worden te doen alsof je de staatsreligie aanhangt enz.
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Israel doesn't train dogs to rape Palestinian inmates. That's a vicious, stupid lie pushed by a slimy little propagandist. But this newest blood libel is meant to distract you from the latest released evidence- including video recordings that *no credible person says are fake* of Palestinians doing the most sadistic, grotesque things imaginable on Oct 7- raping corpses while they are mutilating and murdering them, lighting genitals on fire, shooting out the eyes and genitals of helpless victims, forcing husbands to watch as their wives and children are raped and murdered-
And Palestinians did this on the *orders of their elected government* with months of planning to do exactly what they did. It wasn't spontaneous. The monstrous cruelty, the sexual degradation was the point. They knew Oct 7 wasn't going to win a war, or gain any territory. It was just an orgy of Jew hate and violence. The Palestinians were mass murdering, child rapist terrorists who did all this and were gleeful about it. They made phone calls boasting to their family members.
Did anyone in the Hamas government express remorse or regret about any of this? Or anywhere in Gaza? Of course not. They ordered it. They delighted in the extreme pain and cruelty of the Oct 7 operation against Jews.
So now some Americans, including ones who claim to be conservative, are taking the side of Hamas and claiming this was a genocide?
What do these people really think Israel was supposed to do in response to Oct 7?
Fight an imaginary "gentle" war?
No response at all?
Give up?
Childish thinking. Absurd moral preening. War is hell, but Hamas brought that hell upon Gaza.