Re: “Israeli rape victims ‘silenced twice'” [Dec. 7, Opinion]:
In US Consultant Pramila Jayapal’s latest interview on CNN, she provided a number of views on the Gaza battle which might be price constructive consideration. Amongst these have been help for continued negotiations with hostage-takers, situations positioned on continued army assist to Israel, and measurable steps that may be taken towards a two-state answer.
However Jayapal was useless mistaken in his response to the unforgivable crimes towards girls inflicted by Hamas on October 7. These embrace mutilation of an explicitly sexual nature dedicated both earlier than, throughout or after a first-degree homicide, usually recorded for celebratory posterity.
Mentioned Jayapal on CNN: “I feel that occurs in battle conditions” or “We’ve to be balanced” or “We won’t say that one battle crime deserves one other” or “I do not need this to be the hierarchy of oppression.”
Now how can Jayapal not know that Hamas seems to have adopted a predetermined (and possibly unwritten) coverage much like the atrocities dedicated by the armed forces of different illegitimate regimes in trendy historical past? The rape-murder campaigns of the Japanese Imperial Military within the Nineteen Thirties and Forties, together with the campaigns of Serbian forces in Bosnia within the Nineteen Nineties, are simply two examples.
In abstract: appalling.
John Mellana, Seattle