The State Department on Tuesday refused to label Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian prisoners as a war crime.
Said Arikat, a reporter for Al Quds, asked State Department spokesman Vedant Patel about the Israeli soldiers who were detained for raping a Palestinian prisoner at the notorious Sde Teiman detention facility. The Palestinian was transferred to a hospital with damage to his rectum that was so severe he could not walk.
The condition of the prisoner confirms some of the worst allegations about conditions in Sde Teiman. Both Israeli whistleblowers and former Palestinian prisoners have detailed torture and widespread abuse carried out by Israeli soldiers at the facility.
“Apparently rape and killing and torture and all this thing – it happens regularly in Israeli detention camps. Does that constitute a war crime to you?” Arikat asked Patel.
Patel replied, “So the reports of abuse are deeply concerning, and we have been clear and consistent with Israel and the IDF that they need to treat all detainees humanely and with dignity in accordance with humanitarian law.” He added that the US was going to let “due process” play out in the case against the Israeli soldiers.
Arikat followed up, asking, “Now, if proven to be true, that does constitute a war crime, doesn’t it?”
Patel said, “I am not a legal expert, Said. Certainly I imagine it would be inconsistent with Israeli law.”
In contrast, the US government was quick to label Russian actions in Ukraine as war crimes, and President Biden even declared as early as March 2022, less than one month into the invasion, that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a “war criminal.”
The arrest of the Israeli soldiers suspected of rape sparked protests involving far-right activists and members of the Israeli Knesset, and one member of the coalition government. Protesters stormed Sde Teiman and one other military base in defense of the Israeli soldiers.
Dual morality.
Cognitive dissonance.
The question with regard to war crimes is whether a criminal act has been committed against a prisoner of war?
https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/07/un-report-palestinian-detainees-held-arbitrarily-and-secretly-subjected
https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-protesters-back-troops-accused-of-abuse-a-debate-erupts-on-military-morality-in-war/
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gc-pow-1929 Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 27 July 1929
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/gciii-1949 Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949
https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/ihl-treaties/api-1977 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), 8 June 1977 Part III Article 35-47
They want to be bad assed and scare their prisoners. The Zionists are different than Nazis in name only!!!
Could it be that their true selves were revealed?
Well when it comes to torture I guess the Americans don't have much of a standing to be lecturing others. And of course they are going to cover Israel for this, they are actually helping, enthusiastically if not fanatically, with a genocide, including creating famine and conducting biological warfare against a defenseless and emaciated people half of them children. This Patel character is part of that. They just don't take responsibility for their actions.
So this cartoonish display of hypocrisy to this sick warcriminal is most likely him trying to be generously lenient. It is beyond me that there are people in those pressrooms that don't just involuntarily empty their stomaches on the floor each time these sicko's open their mouths.
I keep trying to adjust my definition of "the most disgusting sicko." I have decided to use pictures instead. This guy's picture? …no, I take it back, Kirby's? …wait!? No. …It's … Forget it. We must have "the most disgusting sickos" in the entire world.
The entire f*cking administration and 99% of congress.
The US ruling class is complete shit!
Fact. In Vietnam it took two American soldiers to accompany one captured VC to HQ. In a small platoon, there were times when there were too many captured, and the platoon commander had to make a decision. In some cases, captured VC were shot on the spot because the platoon leader did not want to sacrifice losing manpower for the next "objective".
Accusations against Russians are based on lies. Accusations against Israelis are based on proven facts. That is the difference. The other point is: U.S. rulers differentiate exceptional people from ordinary people and those who, according to them, are below ordinary. That is a pure Nazism, and that's how they planned to build their global empire.
That's "Unprovoked!" That's "Unjustified!"
Truth defines who we are, as a country.
Lies?…. Let us know, who we truly are. (Not a democracy.)
Democracy also can be evil. If majority of the people are evil than the democratically elected governors also would be evil. What is even more important than democracy, is the upbringing of children in Christian tradition of love and unselfishness. The greed and evil inclinations should be suppressed rather than encouraged, it'll give us hope the next generation can be better than ours. Then we may have a chance to save our planet for the future generations.
Why does the x/twitter link lead to a sign in prompt? Some embeds go directly to the quote, but this does not.
It works fine for me, no log in needed that I notice.
You clicked on the twitter post?
Greatest sin of humanity; Rules for thee and yours but not for me and mine
Let's send Patel to Israel to be raped by the IDF and see if he's still unsure if a crime was committed. (Better do some homework first, though- he may be into that sort of thing.)
As fishes rot first at their heads, so does the American empire rots at its head.
Idiot. He forgot to argue the definition of "is."
Bill Clinton would have done a better job.
Epstein could have made him do anything though.
Of course it won't be called a war crime when we or one of our protectees does it – it's called the "rules based order", e.g., we 100% GOOD, and anyone we don't agree with is 100% EVIL.
Super Hypocrisy and Coward-ness Combined…!
Patel replied, “So the reports of abuse are deeply concerning, and we have been clear and consistent with Israel and the IDF that they need to treat all detainees humanely and with dignity in accordance with humanitarian law.” He added that the US was going to let “due process” play out in the case against the Israeli soldiers.
The only thing "clear and consistent" is, and has been, we won't do a fucking thing. Billions and bombs are still going to be sent no matter what "due process" produces.
"America the beautiful". F*ck this place called America. I am ashamed of my country of birth. "Truth justice, the American way". All just b.s.
Makes me think "We The U,S. & Israel" Have given up on trying to win hearts & minds: Just stuff this GENOCIDE down the Worlds throat & KICK THEM UNTIL THEY SWALLOW…. Perhaps it's a leftover treat from the Modi/Netanyahu Muslim Hate Feast
The US ruling class is incredibly arrogant. They don't think there's anything anyone can do about it.
The State Dept is shit.
End all US aid to Israel!
Feckless nation with a backbone thats made in Israel to keep it malleable to any direction that Israel finds most suitable to any given point. Its then becomes comfortably easy to twirl it like a finger .
American iron-clad devotion and promises to do everything for Israel each time it engages into the most atrocious behaviors that undercut the road map pushed by America itself ,empower the wrong people in Israel . Israel faces no downside .It knows that US will pull the chestnut out of the fire each time it potentailly puts itself into the most vile criminally dangerous situation in order to satisfy its burning hatred for everything that the world stands for .
This nation manufcatured the sex crime of 7 th Oct. People fell for it .But this – https://www.972mag.com/sde-teiman-prisoners-lawyer-mahajneh/ shows the real face of this deviant nation .
Mistreatment of prisoners is a war crime.
Collective Punishment is Illegal
Laws Violated: Geneva Conventions IV, Article 33 (1949); Geneva Conventions (Protocol I), Article 75(2d) (1977).
Art. 12
The wounded and sick shall not be
murdered, exterminated or subjected to
torture or biological experiments.