The silence on Gaza from countries with feminist foreign policies ‘is deafening and deeply troubling’

www.middleeastmonitor.com Just a moment...

UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, Reem Alsalem, says countries who advocate women’s rights must ‘walk the talk’, applying their principles consistently and without selective advocacy by avoiding arms transfers that facilitate the killing of Palestinian women by Israel.

Pregnant women, mothers and young girls are particularly vulnerable, she explains, as they face a sharp increase in miscarriages, malnutrition, and severe dehydration due to the dire circumstances.

“Mothers and would-be mothers have been targeted by the genocidal machine,” explains Alsalem. “They cannot even feed their newborn kids, not to mention the terror and desperation they feel because of the constant need to flee seeking safety in a place where there is no safety, the bombardments, the constant attack, the arbitrary executions, destruction of their families, family homes and with it the photos and items commemorating their family lives.”

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Makes sense.
Islam is discriminating towards women, and is a problem in large parts of the world.
Israel is "only" a problem in a small local area.
That said, I do not condone Israels actions in Palestine, as I see it, Israel has violated the international trust that was the basis for allowing the state to be formed, and Israel as a whole is basically an illegal state.
- Oh look the result of the one sided media coverage and brainwashing this post is talking about.
  
  Be gone historically-unread beast.
  
  Just an example from today.
  https://lemmy.world/post/18585784?scrollToComments=true
  There is no doubt Muslims discriminate against women more than other cultures based on their faith. Saying otherwise is moronic.
  Of course there are good Muslims too, but they are not because of their religion, but despite of it.
  
  Reading this comment in the thread proves my point.
  https://lemmy.world/comment/11739726
  Everyone would ve really upset if you replaced the word Muslim with Jew in your comment.
  But it is okay because Americans have been brainwashed into believing they need to free all women wearing a hijab by bombing their country to rubble.
  
  Replacing the word Muslim (Islam) with Jew in my original comment would make it false.
  And just because there's a weird comment to the story I linked, doesn't make the situation the story describes less discriminating against women, which is typical for Muslim countries.
  I have met Muslims that pride themselves for putting women "in their place", for speaking while they were talking with their husband.
  It's disgusting when muslim men behave like that, and that were muslims living in a country where women have equal rights by law, and it's illegal to discriminate against them.
  So they are traitors to their new country, which is an all to common thing among Muslims.
  If they love the oppression of their home country so much, they should stay there.
  
  And in your infinite racism you have classified the actions of those men as what Islam prescribes without ever having done any research.
  If they love the oppression of their home country so much, they should stay there.
  Most of them fled because America destroyed their country. A culture of death and oppression glorifying its military at every step.
  "The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion […] but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do."
  Samuel P. Huntington,
  
  Most of them fled because America destroyed their country.
  Ah yes Americans made the Muslims discriminate against women. Several Muslim countries have not been in conflict with the west for decades, and they've had no progress in that time. Iran got clearly worse when they introduced their own sovereign rule. Turkey has gone backwards the past decade, Saudi Arabia and UAE are decidedly hellholes, clearly by their own choice. Absolutely zero to do with influence from the west.
  Islam sucks, I've never met people more discriminating against women than Muslims. And I've met a lot of them. Also this is not anecdotal, we can see it by the regulations of Muslim countries.
  So stop whining and accept reality.
  
  There's far more folks who claim to be Jewish going to a foreign country to kill brown people and colonize their land.You must have never seen them.
  Oh wait. When it comes to them you suddenly are able to differentiate. For Muslims you can't. Because you're simply a racist brainwashed by American media into believing the people that have been mass murdered for the past 50 years are actually the aggressors.
  If you were Chinese you'd be advocating to throw Uyghurs in concentration camps.
  
  Oh wait. When it comes to them you suddenly are able to differentiate.
  I've known Muslims from Iraq, Marocco, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and a few I don't now which country are from. I can differentiate between them just fine.
  the people that have been mass murdered for the past 50 years are actually the aggressors.
  I never mentioned anything about them being the aggressors, that doesn't change that muslims discriminate against women more than mostly anybody else.
  Also I'm not from USA, so it seems like the one here who is prejudiced without reason is you more than me.
  
  It is amazing you know so many Muslims and still cannot differentiate between a generic American propaganda image and what Islam actually prescribes.
  Here's a video of one of those terrifying Muslamic Imams spreading his extremist terror in the UK a few days ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23FuOgGZqkM
  
  I never in any way condoned terrorism against mosques or Muslims, or claimed Muslims can't be good people.
  Yes absolutely the Muslims are often the victims as we see in Palestine and UK.
  But why do you continue to argue a straw man, that has zero to do with what I claimed?
  You haven't even denied that discrimination against women is widespread among Muslims.
  And obviously any feminist will have some problems defending an Islamic regime. How is that strange to you?
  
  So why are the men so happily putting women in trash bags
  
  Women like wearing that so creepy atheist dudes stop talking about how big their ass is when they walk outside.
- Good thing the we never overthrow the government in any country to install a dictatorship which oppresses women in favor of a more moderate government. All the fault of those brown people not wanting to be enlightened like us Westerners.
  Biden Lifts Ban on Offensive Weapons Sales to Saudi Arabia
  
  Please do tell us about the dictatorship Luxembourg installed. Since this is about "us Westerners."
  
  Are you sad you can't ban me from this community for posting about Yemeni kids being slaughtered with American weapons?
  Also a quick google search reveals how amazing Luxembourgh exported their enlightenment of civilization
  Colonial complicity - Luxembourgers and the Belgian Congo - part one
  
  So no dictatorships installed by Luxembourg? I guess your claim was a lie.
  And you were banned for defending the recruitment of child soldiers, which is a war crime. I'm not sure why you're lying about that either. People can check the modlogs.
  
  You lying in the mod logs about things that never happened does not make it true.
  I edited my previous comment with a link for you about Luxembourg have fun reading.
  
  It absolutely happened. This is such a silly lie. You were also warned multiple times that you would be banned if you didn't stop defending the Houthis from recruiting child soldiers.
  And now you're lying that you never defended them? You can't even be consistent in your political beliefs?
  
  Can you quote the part where I defended the Houthis using child soldiers? Oh wait you can't because that never happened you just make things up.
  According to this logic if someone says they like Joe Biden forgiving student loans that means they are supporting the Genocide in Gaza.
  But of course it doesn't, because you only separate the action from the actor when the actor is a white liberal. Suddenly you discover nuance and all colors of gray.
  
  Tell you what, you agree with this factual statement and I'll unban you:
  The Houthis are child-killing war criminals.
  
  That comment is factually correct.
  But I still support the Houthi's blockading the Red Sea.
  
  If you had only said that before, you would not have been banned in the first place. You were given multiple chances to say that. I will, however, unban you.
  I expect your next thing will be to insult me for doing that too, so go for it.
  
  I think you should join them, so you can block the red sea together. I am pretty sure you would enjoy life in Yemen.

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