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Bombing Gaza Isn't Fighting Sexual Violence / Heidi Matthews & Tanya Serisier

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🗓️ 24 January 2024

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Joining us today in Hell are Heidi Matthews and Tanya Serisier, who co-wrote the CounterPunch article, "Bombing Gaza Isn’t Fighting Sexual Violence." A Moment of Truth with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out their article here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/01/16/bombing-gaza-isnt-fighting-sexual-violence/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0

Who knew Fleetwood Mac?

0:15.0

Segued so well into our intro. The This is hell.

0:37.0

your eyewitness. hell.

0:43.0

Your eyewitness to grief.

0:46.0

This is hell.

0:50.0

And is there anything that strikes grief in all of our hearts more than the misery, anguish, agony, pain and distress caused by sexual violence.

1:02.0

Society seems to have a special hatred for those who commit

1:04.8

sexual abuse and violence, especially rape. The deeper desire for vengeance,

1:09.5

the demand for the cruelest of punishments.

1:12.8

Rape and the way respond to it certainly gives the impression that it is the most

1:17.8

serious and exceptional of all crimes.

1:21.2

Understanding rape in this way, it makes sense that if a nation's leaders, if its government

1:26.0

was engaging in systemic rape of their people, those leaders in that government should be targeted

1:31.7

with reprisal from the outside world,

1:34.4

and harsh reprisal.

1:36.7

Not doing so could easily be misconstrued as somehow endorsing sexual violence, rape, and a rape state, if you will. Now that's

1:47.5

exactly what people like former Facebook and MetaC.O.O. Cheryl Sandberg, as well as Hillary Clinton are saying and doing when it comes to

1:57.2

Hamas, Israel, and the war in Gaza. The claim that's being made without any evidence, as so many claims have been made about the ongoing war,

2:06.0

is that Hamas is an organized rapist regime.

2:11.0

Therefore, from Israel's view and that of their supporters in government, the

2:15.1

private sector and media, if you are for a ceasefire, if you support an end to the

2:20.4

ongoing war, if you want peace, then you don't care if Jewish women are being raped.

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