Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
Israel top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of soldiers’ abuse
“The incident in Sde Teiman caused immense damage to the image of the state of Israel and the IDF [Israel Defense Forces],” the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a statement on Sunday. “This is perhaps the most severe public relations attack that the state of Israel has experienced since its establishment.”
Telling the truth was the "most severe public relations attack that the state of Israel has experienced since its establishment".
Makes ya wonder huh?
In other words, Netanyahu admits the image of Israel is based on lies
Can't have people seeing what's behind the mask.
An actual genocide isn't a sever public relations attack, telling the truth is.
"let us not commit the sin of empathy"
She's a hero
Her job on every other day, is to provide fig leaf legal cover for IDF crimes on and off the battlefield. If Israel ‘investigates’ it own soldier’s conduct, it closes off international oversight and legal intervention. Doesn’t matter that the conviction rate is in the single digits, as long as there is some legal recourse, they can skirt their obligations under international law.
She leaked the video to further that coverup, not out of some righteous indignation or sense of justice. Otherwise she’d have done a mass dump of internal files to a dead-drop server hosted in Sweden or mailed a stack of documents to The Hague.
Where domestic legal proceedings fail to address human rights abuses, mechanisms and procedures for individual complaints or communications are available at the regional and international levels to help ensure that international human rights standards are indeed respected, implemented, and enforced at the local level.
"The victim was hospitalised with injuries including broken ribs, a punctured lung and rectal damage, according to the indictment, and Tomer-Yerushalmi launched an investigation."
Other accounts of rape:
"The New York Times documented an allegation of rape from a senior nurse who said two soldiers lifted him up and pressed his rectum against a metal stick fixed to the ground.
A report by the UN’s Palestinian relief agency Unrwa into abuse allegations at Sde Teiman provided a similar account of a detainee forced to “sit on something like a hot metal stick”, who said another detainee died after anal rape with an “electric stick”."
Fuckin barbaric
During the Iraq war, the Israelis taught the US military to use rape against Arab men because of the extreme shame it causes them. The US adopted it at Abu Ghraib.
Abuse occurs. Arrest made of the one who pointed it out. Cool?
Wow, there is at least one decent person in Israel.
Read more and you'll find out her motivations were not honorable.
Odds are in a population of millions that many people are nice/good
Fuck isreal
I'm going to hate the state of Israel for the rest of my life.
Israel is beyond redemption. It's a fascist country of religious fanatics.
Most Israelis aren't religious. The bigger problem is nationalism and paranoia. That's unsurprising in a colonialist garrison state. Move into someone's country, take their land, dispossess them, then whine about how you're surrounded by enemies.
It's embarrassing that leadership only cares about crimes once the public finds out about it. Otherwise they continue to commit war crimes and human rights violations daily.
Religion is a cancer on humanity. It needs to be cut out.
they could just not abuse people
Political arrest
These guys are obsessed with wearing women’s underwear and sticking stuff up peoples asses
I’d been wondering what Kyrsten Sinema was up to these days.
They're calling these soldiers who anally raped a prisoner "heroes". Fucking disgusting scumbags.