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Israel is the most evil nation on Earth, and every government who allows them to keep doing this is just as evil.
Every country has both a moral and legal obligation to be bombing Israel. Every country that isn’t bombing, blockading, or invading Israel is in violation of international law
That's why they kept fabricating all these stories about sexual assault on Oct 7th, and sensationalizing it.
Every accusation is a confession
and why western media ignored it when the videos of the soldiers r*ping a Palestinian came out, the subsequent zionist riots in favor of the "right" to r*pe detainees, and how iirc the commanding officer r*pist became a star on zionist television
you can barely find any mention of these stories in western media
(EDIT: search for "Teiman" here on hexbear to find stories about the Sde Teiman torture prison for sources)
I would be pro-nuking israel but the Palestinians deserve their land back.
If all of earth's countries completely cut ties with pissrael it would have a similar effect but without the radiation, they are a tumor on the levant fed mostly by amerikkka.
Out of 654 Thai foreign workers questioned, all of them said they had been exposed to sexual assault. However, with more than 25,000 Thai migrant workers said to be working in Israel and supplying the majority of the labour for Israel's agriculture industry, the number of workers suffering sexual abuse is likely to be much higher.
Israel literally lives off sexual assault. Just imagine, they can't even eat anything there without supporting sexual violence. I just took a bite of an apple. If I was a setter in Israel, I would have become accomplice to some horrible evil with that single bite.
I wonder if anything changed after that 2021 study? For the worse, I'm sure.
I mean, you’d more than likely be an accomplice to an evil against the people who harvested the apple unless you did it yourself. Agriculture is a nasty business.
But I think 100% sexual assault is in a class of its own.
Every foreign agricultural worker was sexually assaulted in Israel
Uhhh wow. When I think Israel had sunk to its lowest they come up with something new that keeps dropping the bar
Same
Sexual abuse, killing and exploitation truly make up the main pillars of their society and culture.
Israel, try not to be comic book villainy challenge: impossible