A member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud party, speaking Monday at a meeting of lawmakers, justified the rape and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, shouting angrily at colleagues questioning the alleged behavior that anything was legitimate to do to "terrorists" in custody.

Lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky was asked as he defended the alleged abuse whether it was legitimate, "to insert a stick into a person's rectum?"

"Yes!" he shouted in reply to his fellow parliamentarian. "If he is a Nukhba [Hamas militant], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!"

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 54 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sometimes it feels like certain parts of humanity just didn't really learn all the lessons that they should have from the Holocaust about dehumanizing people.

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Seems a bunch learned which side of the gun to be on

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

There's a reason that countries started agreeing on a set of laws of war, and it wasn't the goodness of their hearts. It means if your own soldiers get captured by an enemy working under the same rules, they should ideally be treated with at least a minimal standard of care. But every incident like this or Abu Ghraib weakens those protections and norms.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 months ago

Correct.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Exactly, you get it. And I'd like you to go on a speaking tour where you help these knuckle-draggers get it.

[+] Maeve@kbin.earth -10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io 6 points 3 months ago

Word salad

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Nah, I'm pretty sure if I put a hole in somebody that wants to see me reduced to either prison slavery or a chalk outline for no other reason than the color of my skin, the texture of my hair, or who I'd side my solidarity with other than a morass of the people who oppress my community, then that's one less colonizer I have to deal with.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth -3 points 3 months ago

May work out for you, may not. At any rate, the US defense department thought having drone operators in rooms far away from war would prevent PTSD (shell shock) by physically removing then from the atrocities of war. You can do your research to see how it worked out. If you care.

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

I have a core belief that people are essentially good but prone to circumstances that make them conform to do awful things, including upbringing and mental disorders, trauma, bad teaching, bad role models etc.

But this guy is really testing my faith in that belief here.