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Recently the White House issued a Fact Sheet providing what was supposed to be a comprehensive list of sexual assaults carried out in “conflict zones” all over the world. This Fact Sheet did indeed include a great many places where mass rapes have occurred, including sexual assault victims in Ukraine, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Iraq, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria. But one place was unaccountably, and unacceptably, left out: Israel, where on October 7, 3,000 Hamas operatives from Gaza smashed through the border into the country’s south and proceeded to rape, torture, mutilate, and kill Israeli men, women, and children. A total of 1,200 Israelis were killed, and 260 were kidnapped and taken back to Gaza on the backs of pickup trucks, in cars, and slung over the shoulders of motorcyclists. The sexual assaults were sadistic in nature. Many consisted of mass rapes, followed by mutilation of the sexual organs of the victims, who only then were killed. In some cases, the breasts of women were sliced off and thrown about in a ghoulish game. Men, too, were subject to sexual assault and mutilation, including having their genitalia cut off. The Hamas perpetrators were having a high old time of it — what fun to rape, torture, and murder helpless Yahudim — and they proudly filmed their exploits, so as to be able to show their relatives and friends back in Gaza.
This horrifying assault became known at once all over the world. It certainly made a deep impression in Washington. Yet for reasons we do not know, when at the end of June, the U.S. government released its Fact Sheet on sexual assaults in conflict zones around the world, it left out any mention of the rapes, tortures, and murders of Israeli girls and women by Hamas.
More on this inexcusable lapsus can be found here: “White House Adds Oct. 7 Rape Victims to Fact Sheet on War Zone Sexual Violence After Backlash From Jewish Dems,” by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, June 28, 2024:
The White House has added references to the rampant sexual assault perpetrated by Hamas terrorists during their Oct. 7 onslaught across southern Israel to a fact sheet it recently released on sexual violence in conflict zones following widespread outcry for making no mention of the Israeli rape victims.
The Biden administration updated the fact sheet to include references to Hamas, the Oct. 7 massacre, and the Palestinian terrorist group’s Israeli victims after Jewish Democratic Reps. Adam Schiff (CA) and Dan Goldman (NY) sent a letter to US President Joe Biden criticizing the omission.
On Wednesday, Schiff and Goldman sent a letter to Biden sharing their “deepest concern” that the Israeli girls and women raped and otherwise sexually brutalized by Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists were not mentioned in the initial version of the fact sheet. The original version mentioned sexual assault victims in Ukraine, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Haiti, Iraq, South Sudan, Sudan, and Syria….
After receiving the letter from the Jewish lawmakers, the White House swiftly updated the fact sheet to include detailed references of the sexual violence committed against Israeli women on Oct. 7.
The new iteration of the fact sheet mentions the Oct. 7 sexual assaults in the first paragraph and outlines the various ways in which the administration has recognized them….
Congressmen Adam Schiff and Dan Goldman were right to express their astonishment, and deep dismay, at the original version of the Fact List: how could the Israeli victims of mass rape have been completely ignored by those who compiled that list? As soon as their letter was received, the White House, without explaining how such an omission could have occurred, quickly added to the Fact Sheet a reference to the mass rapes, tortures, mutilations, and murders of Israeli girls and women.
That could be the end of the matter. But should it? Many of us would like to know who was in charge of compiling that original Fact Sheet that was made public by the White House. Was the omission of the Israeli victims indeed an innocent oversight? That seems improbable. Was someone hoping to tamp down attention given to Israeli victims of rape — the way the UN Commission on the Status of Women took a long time to react to the stories of Hamas’ rapes and murders? A number of people on the White House staff are known for their deep antipathy toward the Jewish state. Among them is Tyler Cherry, who has been the Associate Communications Director at the White House for the past month, during which time the Fact Sheet was compiled. Did he have a hand in its compilation? Some congressman, or intrepid investigative journalist, should find out And if Tyler Cherry did compile the original Fact Sheet, leaving out the Israeli victims, then wouldn’t that be one more reason — there are several already — for firing him?
Allan Goldstein says
Wow!
Adam Schiff actually did something good!
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Of course. If he hadn’t spent all his energies going after Trump, this corrective action wouldn’t have been necessary in the first place.
SPURWING PLOVER says
Less Fact and more leftists Propaganda
Mo de Profit says
This illustrates two things, one, that the establishment doesn’t actually believe that the islamic cowards committed the atrocities. And two, they only care about writing reports and not if anyone actually reads them.
Beth Ferejohn says
Inexcusable! I want the reason they were left off the list. Congressional hearing!
KenPF says
“All sexual assault victims are equal – but some are less equal than others.” That’s not quite the way Orwell wrote in Animal Farm, but it’s the reality of anti-semitism in the Democrat Party. Schiff and Goldman may be entitled to “deep dismay”, but “astonishment”?
Not hardly.
Alkflaeda says
I have come to the conclusion that moderate Islam is almost as recent an invention as the “ancient” Palestinian people. Islam is like the Venus Fly Trap – fine if you happen not to be a fly. Or, in this instance, undisposed to collude with the notion that a medium and a prophet are the same thing.
sanjac1836 says
“Jewish Dems”? Isn’t that kinda like fudgepackers for Palestine?
Kasandra says
I worked for the federal government in D.C. for forty years. Without knowing how this happened I can assure you that it was not an accident. The main questions are: 1) where along the line did this happen; and, 2) who made the decision to exclude Israel.
RS says
Crimes against humanity, and a peaceful people. Islam will reap what it sews. The pieces of the Ezekiel prophecy in 38 and 39 are moving into place. The Hamas massacre on October 7, 2023, serve as a type of prophetic shift of gears. Iran has unleashed its proxies known as the Axis of Resistance.
Russia’s relations. with Israel have sunk to an all-time low as Russia has sided with Hamas. Turkey’s President REcep Tayyip Erdogan is an outspoken supporter of Hamas and has instituted economic measures against Israel. We already see the players of an invasion lining up. Israel should never trust leaders that want to align with Hamas and Iran. Israel needs to be continually on top of things.
PAUL VAN WAMBEKE says
Replay the assault on the Southern border, how and why did this happen? Their clothing. the weapon. the cell phone usage the vehicles they used for the attack. Something really smells about the entire situation and the destructive War and annihilation of Innocent Christians that has been set in Place we have a minimal death toll of 180K. Just a little lopsided retribution.! land confiscation mineral right confiscation under emanate domain “was this a set up”? was the collateral damage that took place Planned, again! take a close look at the mercenaries’ that were used, and the Joke of an attack fleet used as an air-born attack craft. (Disney world setting) . Where was the follow up on their purchase and the training to facilitate their use? How did this planned attack ever become possible in the war stance climate and protective guarded covert footing the Israelis have in Place? Why are the Jews privy to all the sophisticated weapons of WAR why are they allowed to have nuclear weaponry?