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SMZ's avatar

I keep asking myself—how could this happen? How could anyone allow it? What could possibly be gained by letting this go on? What is so precious that it must be preserved at this unbearable cost?

To the victims, I wish the only true comfort that exists: the comfort God alone can offer. I want to say I’m sorry—for living in ease while you endure the vilest forms of cruelty.

This could have been any of us. Anyone reading this. It could have been you. Open your eyes. Open your heart. Ask yourself: what virtue do you think spared you from a rape dungeon? What made you safe?

This conflict has shattered me. The victims may never read these words, but the only solace I find is knowing God witnessed it all. And so, I turn to Him with my grief. There’s nowhere else for it to go.

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Kory Clement's avatar

Excellent article. Thank you for bringing light to these horrific abuses.

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Rossini  Silveira's avatar

The media silence over this makes me so so angry….when I think of how they all highlighted and amplified the fake rape allegations of Oct 7th… which none of them have taken steps to retract. The stench of hypocrisy emanates from our media!!

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RSV's avatar

The media is owned by Zionists so no one should be surprised at the censorship and propaganda spewed from their journalists and editors.

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Ivory Lynn Wildflower's avatar

Thank you for reporting this. Please keep shining a light into this incredible darkness.

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Abdulaziz A.'s avatar

Can you stop calling it Western media and call it what it is, Zionist media.

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Eileen Gibson's avatar

These war crimes need to be reported. Thank you for your reporting.

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KR's avatar

So disgusting.

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Muhammad Noor's avatar

Ive seen the reports, how horrible and devastating. They are committing the same crimes as did Pharaoh and the Nazis commited against their own.

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Frank Landis's avatar

I wonder if the trauma suffered by European Jewish people throughout history (but especially through the Holocaust) has been passed down as transgenerational trauma among current Israelis and somehow transmuted in their role as settler colonists into repeating with a misdirected vengeance genocidal acts upon indigenous Palestinians.

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RSV's avatar

Zionism predated Nazism. The Zionists planned to ethnically cleanse Palestinians as early as late 19th century- see Theodore Herzl’s writings on the subject. The Zionists are religious fanatics not unlike White Christian Nationalists. They use “Jewish trauma” as one tool to justify their genocidal pedigree.

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Sarah Olson's avatar

It’s disgusting how lightly Westerners take rape when it’s brown women and men. Having your body violated in this way, is the most sadistic form of torture. These rapes have been documented even videotaped by IOF, and still Zionists remain silent. I’m so sickened and Hope and pray that the Palestinian people will find the peace they deserve.

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laurie miller's avatar

Its not neccesarily Zionist media. Its that Jewish politicians and workers in media world wide are blindly protective of Israel. And non Jewish persons let it ride, from years of listening to

Poor me, Poor Me. Ive been through a holocaust.

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mal's avatar

From now on any mention of Holocaust will have to be preceded by the word Genocide. Nearly everyone ( those who deny also know) would know we mean Genocide in Gaza by Israel while America and most Western leaders (beholden to Zionism)cheered them on with the autographed 2000 pound bombs.

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Pamela J Detwiler's avatar

This is horrifying! As I was listening, I had to remind myself that mainstream media hasn't reported this because it doesn't suit their narrative. But, how can anyone ignore this atrocity??? I ask, as our federal government is disappearing people who speak out against Israel.

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Magnus's avatar

The Israelis and global zionists who support them in these atrocities are demons wearing human skin. They will be punished for their crimes, if not in this life then, God willing, they will suffer for eternity in the next.

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Caroline's avatar

I read Minor Detail by Adania Shibli and can never get it out of my mind. This article reminds me of that. Here is a summary of the book:

True story of Israeli soldiers, in 1949, capture, torture and rape a young Palestinian girl, and kill and bury her in the sand. Many years later, a woman in Ramallah becomes fascinated to the point of obsession with this 'minor detail' of history.

Even Haaretz have written articles of these rapes by soldiers occurring since the inception of Israel found in Israel's archives.

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Valerie Howell's avatar

Fantastic reporting as always from Fatima Bhutto. This is the first time I've come across any reporting of this which just shows how people in the West are so betrayed by their mainstream media outlets. Thank you Fatima. Another reason I love Zeteo.

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Senor Fix's avatar

What a sick, brainwashed mass of individuals.

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CC's avatar

This is well documented to continue to occur but the US doesn’t care. It’s sticking with this Israel train until it goes bankrupt

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