Israel is setting up a complex system of checkpoints that will prevent men of “military age” from fleeing Rafah in preparation for its offensive on the southern Gaza border city, a senior western official familiar with Israel’s plans has told Middle East Eye on condition of anonymity.
The creation of gender-based checkpoints around Rafah would put a spotlight back on Israel’s practice of stripping and forcibly detaining male Palestinian men and children, as it faces rising scrutiny in the West of its conduct in the war.
@theacharnian
of course not these ones I guess! Now do you think that Germans ought not to have been caught in Western Europe because they did not do the war-crimes of their colleagues in Eastern Europe?! I don’t know on which planet you live, but surely not mine. Unless your’re a Pharisee, of course.
You are making a spurious equivalency between German soldiers who were prisoners of war (who by the way were not treated like this) in different fronts of an actual war with the arbitrary detainment and mistreatment of male civilians in the context of an insurgency. You are further making the spurious equivalency between WW2 Germans and the Palestinians of today. You are also talking about the feelings of these particular men first but then moving the goalposts to some other men, asserting without evidence that those other men are these men’s colleagues.
I am no Pharisee, but I’m capable of spotting bad faith lazy argumentation where I see it.