Israel / Palestine

Tweet from Norman Finkelstein:

UN Special Representative Pramila Patten states in her report that her mission viewed fully 5,000 photographs and 50 hours of footage of the October 7 attack supplied to her by the Israeli government and available in open sources. This digital evidence, from every conceivable angle and by every conceivable electronic device (bodycams, dashcams, individual cellphones, CCTV, and traffic surveillance cameras) DIDN'T YIELD ONE SINGLE IMAGE OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE. The report also states that it COULDN'T LOCATE ANY FORENSIC EVIDENCE of sexual violence. The report also states that it was UNABLE TO MEET A SINGLE SURVIVOR of sexual violence on October 7. What does Patten then conclude? "There are reasonable grounds to believe that multiple incidents of rape, including gang rape, occurred." Isn't it time for UN Secretary-General Guterres to appoint a Special Representative to investigate Pramila Patten?

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Can we finally stop uncritically parroting mostly pro-Israeli Western outlets with their BS now? Or at the very least, back up any such claims with credible sources? I mean if the UN couldn't find an iota of proof in 5,000 images and 50 hours of footage, then I think it's fair to put to bed yet another Israeli lie or gross exaggeration (of which their are too many to count) - at the very least until something to substantiate it actually surfaces.

Spreading such propaganda detracts our attention from the real focus and subject of criticism. Clue: The terrorist entity that has been systematically ethnically cleansing, illegally settling and more pertinently - beheading babies and raping since 1947.