Sieveplayer - Sieve's

I read that entire intercept article and that is something for the history books bc I went in there possibly expecting to come away with at least one source corroborating a rape or rapes but nothing more. Instead, there was no secondary sources no forensic evidence that was used to corroborate any of the "witness testimony" instead the use of the word "screams" in the title of the infamous NYT article itself is from a guy who claims to have seen multiple rapes but backtracked to one rape and then backtracked again and said he only heard but was looking away.

I think palestinian journalists like Ali Abunimah and palestinians, in general, were treated with such vehemence for picking apart these articles. I remember when they first came out, there were literal quotes premising the onslaught of "first hand accounts" that "no forensic evidence has been provided" when journalists asked the Israeli first responders for the evidence. And for pointing that out, we were called unfathomably cruel and naive for believing rape didn't occur when that was not our main critique. The "story" was the alleged claim that Hamas militants used rape as a weapon of war which there is no evidence for. Their objective was to retrieve hostages to go into army bases and retrieve weapons. There is no evidence of an "order" to use rape as a tool of terror. We had an israeli woman say in an interview that when hamas militants entered her home they said something like "we are Muslims we won't hurt you" in English and then asked for a banana and left. These are rehearsed statements that offer more evidence that there was no such instruction to "allow" rape to be use in fact, the opposite.

And it truly is amazing to me that Palestinian sources are treated with such skepticism. And palestinian journalists are not "real journalists" because of their inexperience as if being on the ground experiencing the genocide in real time is not evidence enough, but a real journalist treated a story that requires a serious and impartial investigation like she was manifesting the evidence to come to her and demanding therapists whose relationships with patients require confidentiality to give her "proof" that rapes occurred in mass amounts

She's just trying to pay her student loans

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Today America has elected the first Oompa-Loompa American as President.

90% of my day is me being nervous

Borzoi White Mohair with zipper (box for pajamas), glass eyes

when I was a kid for some reason I thought Lola Bunny's last name was "Rabbit" and that she was actually Jessica and Roger's daughter. And the reason she wasn't in the original Loony Tunes is just that she wasn't born yet

I mean can you blame me. Look them and look at her. She's got a good blend of both of their features.

ftr I am forever going to be bitter that the post I wanted to be "let's talk about extinct ecosystems and how cool they are!" got derailed into yet another post just talking about a single taxon like the millions of other posts on palaeoblr