Avi Benlolo: How Palestinians weaponized rape on October 7 |
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Avi Benlolo: How Palestinians weaponized rape on October 7
The sexual crimes were heinous beyond comprehension
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Philosopher Hannah Arendt coined the infamous phrase, the “banality of evil,” to describe her observation of Adolf Eichmann during his trial in Jerusalem in 1961. She observed how ordinary Eichmann appeared, how disturbingly normal. A bureaucratic instrument in the killing of six million Jews, Eichmann was indeed evil, but he performed his part banally — like part of a machinery operating routinely. Killing was a strategy. There was no emotion.
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Similarly, what we learned this week with the timely release of Israel’s Civil Commission report on October 7 sexual violence, aptly titled “Silenced No More,” was eerily similar. The sexual crimes that were committed on that tragic day were implemented by fanatics and psychopaths but were pre-planned by Palestinian commanders much like the Nazi Eichmann. I refer to them as “Palestinian” and not as “Hamas” so as to strip away the mask we often use to pretend they are someone else........