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Anna Katharina Pondelik's avatar

Justice for the assaulted.

But also justice for Palestine.

If they don't follow up the warrants for Netanjahu, this will reek of vested interest...

B J Sutherland's avatar

I think these women's accusations sound credible. This does nothing to take away from the legitimacy of the judgement the ICC has made against Benjamin Netanyahu and the State of Israel.

Pratik's avatar

How is any of this being tolerated? How is no one freaking out and losing their mind? The amount of threat, intimidation, and coercion by Israel is mind boggling

Jose's avatar

of course, israel has nothing to do with the accusations. oy vey.

MissAnneThrope's avatar

I smell Mossad. Such convenient timing. The weaponization of sexual misconduct accusations has long been a tool used by the enemy. Women have every right to be free from unwanted advances, in the work place or anywhere, if life were fair. That said: let's not pretend that women can't be a party to a trap. Mossad ain't just male. Neither is the CIA. Tale as old as time.

Wes's avatar

It’s entirely possible that he did these things while simultaneously doing good work on those investigations. The fact that he may be a shitty abusive person doesn’t mean he’s bad at his job.

That being said, this is 100% going to be weaponized. It’s why you can’t let folks like this is positions of power. It’s why you have to create safety for folks to come forward. It’s why you have to take accusations seriously until you can confirm or clear them.

This is why Graham Platner isn’t the nominee anymore: mostly good politics, not a good person.

Fran Carbonaro's avatar

IMHO, Platner was "f*cked over" by both the DNC & RepugniKans. If you tell a vet who suffers from PTSD and is drunk out of his mind that your "glute is tight" . . . well, I think you get it. We'll never know how the conversation ACTUALLY unfolded.

Wes's avatar

Fran, I love you like a sister. It’s tru that he and everyone and their grandma coming for his neck. That’s why we were all skeptical of that first accusation that wasn’t really much of an accusation. This woman was far from a political operative or someone even opposed to his politics.

Your statement there might border on an explanation, but it doesn’t excuse anything. I pulled hard for the issue dude. I wanted him to be a great example for all the toxic dudes in my life that, see? You can still have done shitty things and do the work to be better. Caring about people don’t make you weak.

At a certain point though, you gotta stop excusing stuff. The conversations around the text messages border on something akin to “well, what was she wearing.”

Final thing I’ll say is I’ll tell you what I tell all vets - your PTSD ain’t a get outta trouble free card. It ain’t special, you’re fucked in the head just like everyone else with combat experience. Not all of them go on to be drunk or abusive to regular folk. And trust me, I’ve seen one too many guys try and pull this card and it don't fly with me.

There’s no universe in which someone is “just asking for it.”

Fran Carbonaro's avatar

I grew up with men like this in my Sicilian-American family and the military had nothing to do with it. PTSD can be the result of domestic violence, as well… I don’t excuse expressions of misogyny but women need to “get” that toxic masculinity is PART OF OUR CULTURE and act accordingly! In other words: protect yourselves.

Fran Carbonaro's avatar

How convenient that accusations of sexual misconduct can be used to silence those who would hold genocidal IsRaHell AND the US accountable while a convicted rapist sits in the WH and Sec of War Hogsbreath wants to inject more testosterone into the military.

Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto’s View Of Affordability: The Billionaire Solution And The Great Gatsby

According to Cheeto affordability is not a big deal. If you’re a billionaire like Cheeto, or his close circle allies like Kushner, Witkoff, Muskrat, Theil are all billionaires, and many of his corporate clowns are billionaires. So if you’re a billionaire, like Cheeto, he doesn’t really care about affordability in other words inflation. Why should one care about affordability, inflation, gas prices, grocery prices, insurance rates etc, when you’re already wealthy?

if you’re a billionaire, why should one care about the cost of living when Americans are having trouble making ends meet? Cheeto essentially says f**k off. Affordability is a hoax.

The Nazi Republicans worked a bipartisan deal to help themselves with the midterms coming up and would partially address the affordability problem. So classic for billionaire Cheeto, he refused to sign the bill that would help the Nazis in midterms. Is that what working for WE the People looks like?

And invincible narcissist Cheeto isn’t concerned about elections since he believes he can manipulate them anyway(bit.ly/44H5dng). Throughout 2024, Trump repeatedly told rally attendees that he didn’t need their votes because he already had all the votes he needed. He’s counting on his billionaire friends like Muskrat and those he’s protecting from Epstein investigation to come through for him again. What do WE hear from Democrats? Crickets.

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Call on Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. He can go to Gaza right now, and insist aid be allowed in. Then on to the West Bank to end the occupation and apartheid.

Is there anything more important in today's world than this?

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Please sign the petition and share widely.

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

More important than ever that the search for justice continues! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing to track down and bring Israeli criminals to justice is one that is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable.  Let us hope they will also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.

Find out what they’re doing here:

https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org

The least we can do is donate to help them:

Support the Hind Rajab Foundation

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Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

I suspect, my position may be unpopular with many people, whose stance I do not fully understand. Are there, should there be moral hierarchies? I don't know what happened or who, if anyone, is telling the truth. What I do know is someone made a choice to go public at that particular, which worked to benefit those opposing the work of the prosecutor in the case against the genocidal state of Israel.

As with a number of similar cases, why now? How was it OK to not say something up to that point? What changed? From the outside, the only thing that seems to have changed, at that moment was the political. Did anyone notice that the prosecutor in Ecuador was murdered just the other day? There are serious issues going on. How does undermining the prosecutor help in any way?

No's avatar

Sooo the two complaints “are plausible” which is not proof! Strange timing! Why not accuse at first encounter? Oh! Other things are “too important.” How convenient! How is it that one person’s word is more true than anyone else’s word. An accusation is exactly that, an accusation! What/where is proof?

However the ceo of the usa is an adjudicated felon and rapist and has been accused of rape by some of the victims! MThe partners in the trump/epstein human trafficking ring have/were never treated in the same manner as any other person(s) of any other socioeconomic group would have been treated but maybe whiteness was a big factor. The victims of the trump/epstein world wide human trafficking ring were and continue to be used as pawns in that international ring coverup. The perpetrators remain closed mouthed and are not at all interested in what is moral and right as they are morally bankrupt. Moral bankruptcy seems to be the status quo for those in power in the usa and israel!

It all comes down to money and power!

Mendacity is the name of their game!

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SickOf Zio-Nazis's avatar

The Zionist Jews are behind this too. They trum up fake charges against anyone who speaks against them and get them fired from their jobs. The satanic Jews are here to create wars, destruction and carry out genocides everywhere and to make profits. Nuke Israel: peace ✌️

No's avatar

The zionazis will NEVER submit to anyone, let alone the pope! They are and have ever been interested only in occupying the ENTIRE Middle East and they will stop at nothing to commit genocide in every middle eastern country to attain their hearts desire!