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!”
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.
Why are people like this?
Yea, like I get that part. But what part of the human psyche actually makes us act this way so often?
Some people really desire hierarchy and they lack empathy, they feel better when others suffer even if it doesn’t make them any better off. Then they join right wing political parties with each other and come into power.
shouting angrily at colleagues questioning the alleged behavior that anything was legitimate to do to “terrorists” in custody.
We need to remember this, when calling for retributive “justice.” That’s not justice. That’s revenge, and it’s not just, for us, the Israelis, Palestinians, and closer to home, Dems, Reps, Libertarians, Tankies, Fascists.
Justice is balancing the scales: removing conditions of despair, as best we can, rather than finding new and more cruel ways to create more despair.
Simple. Not easy.
Well it isn’t rape… according to Israeli law. It only qualifies as rape if it’s against Jewish women. Sorry, Christian women. You’re fair game. It’s like that old adage, “if we’re running from a bear, I don’t need to outrun the bear”…
