Netanyahu says prison abuse leak caused ‘enormous reputational damage to Israel,’ calls for inquiry
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the leak of footage showing ostensible abuse of a Palestinian prisoner at Sde Teiman “caused enormous reputational damage to Israel, to the IDF, and to our soldiers.”
“It is perhaps the most serious public-relations attack Israel has experienced since its founding — I cannot recall one so concentrated and intense,” he continues.
Note: the soldiers are accused, including in statements from medical staff, of gang raping a Palestinian prisoner with a knife.
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It is funny (in a tragic way) that people in power always seem to want to kill the messenger, if there were nothing bad to leak, then the leak would not have happened. It is as simple as that.
If you don't want bad PR about your country doing horrible stuff, don't do horrible stuff.
It's just "people", sadly. Recently in a small town here in France, a gay school principal killed herself after several years of anonymous harassment. She received no support from the ministry of education, nor the mayor. Reactions from the townspeople, before and after the suicide, amounted to "yeah yeah this is very sad, but have you thought about the damage this will do to the town's reputation?"
Netanyahu thinks THIS has caused significant reputational damage?Somebody have a time machine to show him this is just more of the same / expected BS in the past 2+ years?
I mean they did anally rape the guy with a knife and curbstomp him in the chest, soooo the optics are not great.
These people are every bit as bad as the Nazis and all one has to do to see the truth is listen to them in their own words 🤷
They also killed ~100.000 innocent people. That is since October 2023...
Probably at least triple that, since the last reliable estimate was as much as 186000 almost a year and a half ago and things have only gotten WORSE since then.
And there are still a lot of people trying to weasel out of using the genocide label. Including higher ups at wikipedia! Makes me very angry.
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
I've seen that wisdom cut the wrong way sometimes, but in this case it's true.
If it's cut by the truth it deserves to be cut.
Israel is like my abusive ex girlfriend Krista who like, when I’d walk in the room and find her snooping through my phone and I’d be like “hey why are you snooping through my phone?” and she’d start screaming at me and then she’d commit some genocide and war crimes
She was just defending herself.
I fuckin' hate when that happens
Maybe if it didn't happen on the first place, this wouldn't be the result.
Netanyahu was less than a month away from spending his life in prison on corruption charges before he declared martial law.
Never forget that.
He should be in a cell.
After all the people he's killed to stay out of prison, he now deserves to be flayed alive and tossed into the ocean.
I feel like there need to be a few steps first, but I'm down for them all to involve rock salt.
Being submerged in salt water is the most painful thing I can think of after taking the skin off
You ever tried to sip a margarita after your gf bites your lip?
In the dead sea.
True, but just to add he didn't "declare martial law;" the Israeli PM doesn't have that kind of power. The Israeli justice system and so-called liberal Zionists just refuse to go after him for his corruption for fear of impeding the genocide.
The Zionist party Zionist party was given totalitarian control by the rest of the parties after the Oct 7th attack
Netanyahu then declared martial law and has been dictator since, he will be dictator as long as he keeps the war going
It's how he is avoiding accountability
Nice fanfiction but no. Literally none of that happened. Hell, Netanyahu's trial is still technically ongoing, though at a snail's pace.
That's literally what happened, don't know what to tell you.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I'd argue that having gang rapes within the IDF is the cause for the "reputation loss", but leave it to Bibi to rewrite both history and the true meaning of words.
Netanyahu, the IDF and the ruling right-wing government of Israel have caused enormous reputational damage to Israel by slaughtering scores of Palestinian men, women and children.
Scores? Try hundreds of thousands!
The whole world knew about israel terrorism for decades. Western countries no longer can ignore them anymore that's all
Always the victim...
Netanyahu's actions here harm Israel's reputation more than gang raping a defenseless prisoner. The video shows Israeli soldiers committing war crimes, but those are just lowly soldiers
When Netanyahu continues to allow that to happen and only works to prevent more video leaking, it's clear this is Israeli military culture coming from the top
The authoritarian playbook bears striking resemblance to the spoiled toddler playbook
Israel is the Republican State of the middle east. Scream about a leak making them look bad, hunt for the leak, whine about how it makes them look, and keep doing the shitty things anyway.
Not the genocide? I'm shocked!
Netanyahu is a war criminal and should spend the rest of his days in disgrace in a jail cell.
The crimes hec committed are so bad at this point that he should have life long solitary confinement. No visits from family.either, let him rot
The throw people in jail for stealing groceries to survive het this insect is still running a country
LOCK HIM UP!
Nobody who owns a jail cell isn't on his side.
He runs the lab9ratory of oppression, and they all profit from his innovations.
Prison "rape" leak.
I’m 100% sure that’s not the thing that made Israel look bad
The Jewish Israeli official is a Hamas antisemite, y'all.
Reputational damage.
The remaining 0.00000152% of people for whom genocide is just dandy, but raping prisoners with truncheons is an absolute red line are totally livid now, and will never forgive Israel.
Absolutely not okay.
The knife rape was fine though. Knife play is just hot.
It's crazy to think that telling the truth is hurting your reputation.
Well it is for a specific type of person.
Now imagine saying it like: if it isn't known then it isn't a big deal...
Psycopaths.
"Public relations attack"
journalist terrorism
whistle-blower massacre
newspaper papercut
evidence of genocide