A member of the Israeli Knesset has defended the idea of raping Palestinian prisoners after Israeli soldiers suspected of sexually torturing a detainee at the Sde Teiman detention facility were arrested.
The arrest took place on Monday, sparking protests from far-right activists, including several members of the Knesset and at least one minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition.
In a meeting of lawmakers on the day of the arrest, Hanoch Milwidsky, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, was asked if it was legitimate “to insert a stick into a person’s rectum?”
Milwidsky replied, “Yes! If he is a Nukhba [Hamas militant], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!”
According to Haaretz, the Palestinian prisoner who was raped suffered from a ruptured bowel, a severe injury to his anus, lung damage, and broken ribs and was taken to the hospital for an operation.
The Times of Israel reported that two out of the ten soldiers arrested for the rape were released on Wednesday and that they were not the main suspects. The report also said that Honenu, a legal aid organization representing four of the soldiers, claimed the soldiers were acting in self-defense when they forcibly sodomized the Palestinian prisoner.
The condition of the prisoner confirms some of the worst allegations made by Palestinians who were previously held in Sde Teiman. Younis al-Hamlawi, a senior nurse who was detained by Israeli forces in Gaza after he left Al-Shifa Hospital over allegations that he was tied to Hamas, told The New York Times that Israeli soldiers penetrated his rectum with a metal stick, causing him to bleed and leaving him in “unbearable pain.”
The Times report said a leaked report from the UN “cited a 41-year-old detainee who said that interrogators ‘made me sit on something like a hot metal stick and it felt like fire,’ and also said that another detainee ‘died after they put the electric stick up’ his anus.”
So many words and all of them would end up in forever moderation.
This is collective psychopathy. And who the F thinks “I have to defend my self and the only way to do that is to stick a rod up someone’s ass with a bunch of other guys”?
Do the average Israelis buy this shit? I mean, really?
They must buy it, that is why there is no need to deny and lie about it. And American Congress members admire and support them with standing ovations, telling Netanyahu all is clear he has their back, green light for limitless war crimes no matter how brutal and sadistic, have fun.
Nowadays they do.
Are the Zionists trying to imitate the Inquisition tactics, or even exceed them? Bastards. Evil bastards.
Looks like they already exceeded the Inquisition.
Yep!!!
I'm not sure Israel qualifies as Zionist anymore. It's less a homeland for Jewish people and more a second home for American colonists these days.
Does he have extensive experience? Has he done it recently? What about his family? Is he planning to add tbis item to the lists of the shared values?
Does US has iron clad assurances of protecting Israel from the ill effects of rape?
These are soulless people…and that is tragic. Israelis need to find Christ. They need to repent and pray for divine forgiveness.
I think "finding Christ" would be trading heroin for cocaine. What people EVERYWHERE need to find, is humanity. Their own, and that of everyone else.
If people need a book to suggest they not do awful things (or that it's okay to do awful things), they're Humaning wrong
But writing is a medium that humanity needs, isn't it? ⛺︎📐🧮💻⚡️🔥☂️
Oh, certainly. Writing, and weaseling out of things, is what separates humans from other animals. Except the weasel.
Simply that, if "not doing harm to others" needs to be enforced in a person by devotion to ancient folklore, that person lacks an innate degree of empathy our social genus has cultured over the past couple million years.
Further, if translations of translations of copies of translations can override and circumvent said empathy toward others, that's also a huge problem.
You speak ambiguously, with a forked tongue, like a secret service agent. A state, a society, a community is based on a social contract, a code of law, isn't it? 📚💼🐍🧰✂️🩻🪁
https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/cole-the-social-contract-and-discourses
https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2020/06/02/on-free-agreement/
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/alexei-borovoy-anarchism-and-law
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/legal-theory/article/rule-of-law-and-the-limits-of-anarchy/A72C7270D96B21F42BA1950196CD4F4C
"…. claimed the soldiers were acting in self-defense when they forcibly sodomized the Palestinian prisoner."
Self defense?! SICK
If you are an AntiZionist you are an antiSodomist!
I… don't know if that follows ? Right now I'm just amazed to see the Far Right in FAVOUR of "butt stuff" – even if unconsenting and WILDLY illegal.
Hanoch was bent over, his hand under the table as you could hear a swishing sound as he spoke
One can only imagine the volume of the howls of indignation from the Israeli government if captured IDF soldiers were anally raped by Hamas. I'm pretty sure the Israelis would accept the 'self defense' argument from Hamas as legitimate, though, right? RIGHT?
If someone does the same to this idiot, would he still rant this way…?!
Some of these guys in the Knesset will eventually get the same treatment once the Axis of Resistance gets their hands on them.
That isn't "rape". Torture, maybe, but a machine that inserts a hot metal rod up a man's anus is routinely used by Syria on prisoners. Par for the course in the Middle East.
Torture "MAYBE"? Did you lose your brain somewhere?
And we call for regime change in Syria. Israel will get billions, bombs and shipments of hot metal rods.
They need The Rods of God!
An invention, a vision, a narrative to steer the masses, isn't it? 🏮☢️☀️☽🌐🌱🍋
Hi Andrew,
Torture and humiliation are or can be prevalent on all sides, during war.
and you know this how? Personal experience?
What a bunch of primitive Neanderthals those uncivilized Israeli!
They are lucky that they wrote themselves a 'holy' book in which they reserve for themselves the 'right' to kill, maim, rape, steal!
Sooner or later, however, if there is any justice, a Day of Judgment will come.
Hey, it also includes instructions on obtaining & keeping slaves; and admonitions against women teaching or having authority over men. So, I mean, it's pretty comprehensively an instruction manual for male supremacy.
Israeli Zionists have always been torturing prisoners. Nothing new.
Just part of the "shared values" with the US government.
The MP's statements violate public national and public international law. Please compare:
https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/Pages/BasicLaws.aspx
https://main.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/documents/BasicLawsPDF/BasicLawLiberty.pdf
https://versa.cardozo.yu.edu/viewpoints/recent-developments-israeli-law-0 The lawfulness of the IDF’s rules of engagement during the recent events on the Gaza border (HCJ 3003/18)
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/national-practice/public-committee-against-torture-israel-et-al-v-government-israel-et-al-supreme
https://docstore.ohchr.org/SelfServices/FilesHandler.ashx?enc=6QkG1d%2FPPRiCAqhKb7yhsmnLaL1heVxTXwNKiYwX557AH9dyoHY%2Fs0mRa6RZa%2BJgw9daAuFpuI2Xvq%2BYyp3cMIXlab5JIiRbzrmPYIu06kQKDAv0bit4mmIzZAk8vhXG Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-united-nations-convention-against-torture-and-its-optional-protocol-9780198846178?cc=gb&lang=en&
https://fdslive.oup.com/www.oup.com/academic/pdf/openaccess/9780198846178.pdf The United Nations Convention Against Torture and its Optional Protocol – A Commentary
https://www.ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodies/cat
https://www.timesofisrael.com/torture-abuse-unfit-conditions-the-allegations-over-sde-teiman-and-its-guards/
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/05/israel-un-expert-calls-probe-allegations-torture-and-mistreatment-against
https://www.btselem.org/topic/torture
https://hamoked.org
https://stoptorture.org.il/en/
http://gazaeng.blogspot.com
https://www.freedomfromtorture.org/news/freedom-from-tortures-statement-on-israel-and-the-occupied-palestinian-territories
https://english.wafa.ps/Regions/Details/3 Prisoners
https://www.addameer.org Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association
http://www.palestinercs.org/en/Category/48/humanitarian-response-reports
https://english.palinfo.com/reports/2024/07/28/322777/ Gaza without electricity for 10 months
https://www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/user_upload/ipcinfo/docs/IPC_Gaza_Strip_Acute_Food_Insecurity_Feb_July2024_Special_Brief.pdf
http://www.auphr.org/index.php/resources/historic-documents
https://www.nad.ps/en/publication-resources/agreements/israeli-palestinian-interim-agreement-west-bank-and-gaza-strip
https://law4palestine.org/category/un-resolutions-about-palestine/
https://unsco.unmissions.org/key-un-resolutions-0
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/palestinian-authority
https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192 Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip
https://www.icc-cpi.int/palestine
https://www.un.org/unispal/
https://www.un.org/unispal/un-system/
https://www.un.org/unispal/committee/
https://www.un.org/unispal/data-collection/security-council/
https://untso.unmissions.org
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-procedures/sr-palestine
I know where I want a stick shoved.
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Vaseline?…
The abuse committed by Israelis and Americans on prisoners mimics the very worst fascists committed in the 20th century.
Every time I think Israel can't get any worse, it does. When the world finally rises up and treats it as it has treated its neighbors, who will mourn?
Isn't it amazing that when someone says that raping someone is legitimate that they can be outdone by someone saying that raping someone is a form of self-defense? Is there an ongoing "sickest motherfucker" contest in Israel? If so, the prize money must be significant since there are so many worthy contestants.
Even if there is a contest for that and even if Netanyahu didn't participate, he would still be tough to beat.