Hearsay is a problem because you can’t examine the actual source of the claim. A professional team interviewing the witnesses directly, and then trying to verify the stories, and then writing down their findings, is not hearsay.
The report talks about non-Hamas civilians being part of the attack, and say that there is no way to know which individual it was that committed any particular act of sexual assault. Maybe that means that I shouldn’t say “Hamas” is responsible for the violence. To me, that doesn’t suddenly make the indications of sexual assault by the people who executed the attack suddenly evaporate.
“Israeli plants,” to me, is fantasy. The Israeli government clearly allowed the attack to happen to further their own goals in Palestine, yes, and you can blame them for that (along with the backdrop of fifty years of oppression and genocide). What’s your source for there being Israeli plants as part of the attack?
Israel has gangs and agents in the Gaza Strip, it is not a secret. Plus professional teams can be lied to. I cited Haaretz reporting that nothing was ever substantiated, and no physical evidence of sexual assault found on any of the bodies.
Anyways arguing this is pointless. All we know for certain that Hamas didn’t commit any sexual violence and doesn’t have a policy of committing sexual violence. Whether any other Palestinian group might have and whether that group is an Israeli plant can be debated forever.
My main concern is Hamas which is the elected government of Palestine. Proof of their innocence from this claim, is in how the prisoners were treated all this time, versus how Israel treated Palestinian prisoners with actually documented cases of rape, and rape as a policy promoted from the religious and political establishments, and publicly defended in Israeli media.
Hearsay is a problem because you can’t examine the actual source of the claim. A professional team interviewing the witnesses directly, and then trying to verify the stories, and then writing down their findings, is not hearsay.
The report talks about non-Hamas civilians being part of the attack, and say that there is no way to know which individual it was that committed any particular act of sexual assault. Maybe that means that I shouldn’t say “Hamas” is responsible for the violence. To me, that doesn’t suddenly make the indications of sexual assault by the people who executed the attack suddenly evaporate.
“Israeli plants,” to me, is fantasy. The Israeli government clearly allowed the attack to happen to further their own goals in Palestine, yes, and you can blame them for that (along with the backdrop of fifty years of oppression and genocide). What’s your source for there being Israeli plants as part of the attack?
Israel has gangs and agents in the Gaza Strip, it is not a secret. Plus professional teams can be lied to. I cited Haaretz reporting that nothing was ever substantiated, and no physical evidence of sexual assault found on any of the bodies.
Anyways arguing this is pointless. All we know for certain that Hamas didn’t commit any sexual violence and doesn’t have a policy of committing sexual violence. Whether any other Palestinian group might have and whether that group is an Israeli plant can be debated forever.
My main concern is Hamas which is the elected government of Palestine. Proof of their innocence from this claim, is in how the prisoners were treated all this time, versus how Israel treated Palestinian prisoners with actually documented cases of rape, and rape as a policy promoted from the religious and political establishments, and publicly defended in Israeli media.
I’m not trying to debate it with you, no, so I’ll leave it alone. I think I’ve said what I wanted to say at this point.