Comments on: Essay: Rape of Palestinian Men By IDF & Israeli Security Forces: Habitual https://barelyablog.com/new-rape-of-palestinian-men-by-idf-israeli-security-forces-habitual/ by ilana mercer Fri, 21 Nov 2025 17:41:05 +0000 hourly 1 By: TROY GILCHRIST https://barelyablog.com/new-rape-of-palestinian-men-by-idf-israeli-security-forces-habitual/comment-page-1/#comment-56513 Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:43:38 +0000 https://barelyablog.com/?p=167366#comment-56513 Quite a moving post there, Ilana. I’ve listened to several narratives about Nazi and Soviet atrocities during the 20th century. This kind of dehumanized way of viewing other peoples enables the kind of savagery your article calls out. Both the Nazis and Soviets engaged in similar behavior in their invasions and occupations of other countries. The Soviets even did it to their own ethnic minorities during their push to turn back the German invasion in their Operation Barbarossa.

Such an old story. And I’m so disturbed to see the US government collaborating in such atrocities. Most Americans are completely clueless, especially those who approve it openly. The typical American adult is insular, provincial and myopic compared to those of us who have lived or were born abroad. Your being from Israel makes your journalistic perspective so much more compelling too in your reporting.

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