U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that Hamas had repeatedly raped women and mutilated their bodies during its Oct.7 assault on southern Israel, citing survivors and witnesses of the attacks.
  • filoria@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3324·
    10 months ago

    Just like how Biden saw pictures of beheaded babies, right?

  • Kusimulkku@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Well yeah I’d be surprised if that didn’t happen. Let a bunch of people with guns loose on the civilians and that’ll happen.

    • interceder270@lemmy.worldEnglish
      52·
      10 months ago

      Everytime they get caught in a lie, more people have to realize they’ve been duped.

      Imagine shouting from the rooftops “beheaded babies!” and then it turns out to be false. Hopefully that will put things into perspective for some.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    10 months ago

    Oh man, that’s awful. I hope Israel responded by working with their regional partners and the UN to free the hostages and isolate and discredit Hamas. With a measured response and a little diplomacy, they could probably get the hostages returned safely and show the whole world that Hamas is illegitimate and needs to be defunded and dismantled. Even Gazans are sick of their shit. Hamas got like 40% in an election 18 years ago and haven’t held an election or done shit for ordinary people since.

    • Melkath@kbin.social
      01·
      10 months ago

      But if they did that, how would Biden subsidize the military industrial complex by giving billions and billions of dollars to Israel so they can buy American weapons and ammunition to continue the same oppressive slaughter of Palestine?

      The guns and ammunition need to be spent on someone, might as well be spent on the brown people half the world away, like every American “war” after the Civil one.

      And just to note, this abject dependence on the military industrial complex to enrich the 1% has not caused a consistent and constant slide to the right of the entire US Federal government. All 2 sides.

      And we couldn’t have done this for Ukraine at the same level because if we did, we wouldn’t be within sucking distance of Putin’s tiny shriveled peen.

      /s

      • Lividpeon@kbin.social
        0·
        10 months ago

        Mexican American War, killing brown people close to home for practice before doing it abroad. Our country fucking loves killing people as much as Kanye loooooovesss hitler

  • Silverseren@kbin.social
    69·
    10 months ago

    This was already well known within a week of October 7th and was reported on extensively then. But continually bringing it up in this long drawn out process seems like an attempt to downplay or deflect from the ongoing atrocities being committed by Israel.

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@kbin.social
      76·
      10 months ago

      Actually apparently the evidence it happened is apparently pretty weak. At least no credible source reported on it happening on a large scale as fact.

      • interceder270@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        10 months ago

        Yes, the only ‘evidence’ I’ve seen so far are Israeli testimonies.

        History has shown they’re not a reliable source of information on the middle east, so I don’t take their words at face-value.

        Maybe zionists should read the boy who cried wolf, lol. You behave like Russia, you get treated like Russia 🤷

  • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
    811·
    10 months ago

    Yes? We all know this and have since the first day.

    Why bring this back up a month later, has something changed or is he simply pushing for an emotional response to a complicated situation?

    Is this simply another hollow justification for Israel’s crimes against humanity?

    • blargerer@kbin.social
      74·
      10 months ago

      Returned hostages have had time to be debriefed and interviewed now, so their experiences are getting a news cycle.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1217·
    10 months ago

    Yeah this has already been debunked. There is zero evidence of any rape. If there was we would have seen it by now.

    Joe “40 beheaded babies” Biden repeating IDF propaganda isn’t news.

  • ShroOmeric@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1219·
    10 months ago

    Biden should pay someone to verify all the bushit he catches around… seems like a teenager that just got internet access…