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https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/03/the-un-has-failed-the-7-october-rape-victims/

Nearly two years on from the 7 October pogrom, the United Nations has finally acknowledged Hamas as perpetrators of conflict-related sexual violence.

The UN’s belated acknowledgement of reality came in an annual report, published last month. It is both overdue and undersold. The UN has effectively failed Israeli women for the past 22 months. Its slow, mealy mouthed response captures the prevailing attitude among the world’s leaders towards these victims of terror, which ranges from indifference to disdain.

The sexual sadism of 7 October 2023 was one of the most horrific aspects of that terrible day. These were not acts born of the chaos of the battlefield. They were premeditated, designed to maximise the suffering of Israelis – and to revel in it.

Historically, sexual violence has been used during a conflict to humiliate and psychologically scar not only the victims, but also entire communities. It is a double weapon – wounding in the present and in perpetuity. In this case, the perpetrators compounded their cruelty by murdering most of their victims, thereby extinguishing any chance of justice. Worse still, they banked on the anti-Israel biases and moral evasions so evident in the West today to ensure that the crimes would never be taken seriously. The pain inflicted on Israel by Hamas’s savagery was compounded by the unforgivable global shrug that followed it.

There have been three main types of response to Hamas’s sexual violence. First, there has been the outright denial of those rejecting all the available evidence out of unshakeable bigotry. Worse still, some of these denialists accept the assaults took place, but deny that they were evil, insisting they were acts of ‘resistance’.

The second type of response has been equivocation. This has been the position taken by the morally superior fence-sitters, the ‘feminists’ who cannot condemn Hamas’s sexual violence without a prefacing ‘well…’. They cloak their evasions with talk of nuance, but a bigotry lurks not far beneath the surface.

The third type of response is active silence. This predominates among those paralysed by fear of offending political sensitivities. They opt not to condemn the sexual violence of 7 October so as not to provoke the wrath of anti-Israel ‘progressives’.

It seems that some victims of sexual violence are not deemed as worthy of support as others. Too many Western feminists allowed their loathing of Israel to trump their feminism. It was almost as if Jews were seen, at best, as slightly sub-human, and, at worst, as not human at all.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/the-west-plagues-israel-with-magical-thinking/

As Israel plans to finally end the decades of terrorist slaughter by Hamas, some Western nations––many functionally antisemitic––are plaguing Israel yet again with a plan to bring to the UN a resolution for creating a Palestinian state, thus rewarding Hamas and other jihadist terrorists for murdering Jews.

In addition to the blood-libels of Israelis –– like “starving” and wantonly “slaughtering” innocent Gazans that lard this “plan” –– there’s the stale reprise of diplomatic magical thinking to conjure a nation for a people who never had one in the ancient homeland of the Jews they want to murder and plunder

Of course, the Europeans and other oil-cringe geopolitical milquetoasts are relying on the UN, which has long supported the fancifully named “Palestinians” ––a propaganda tactic used to gull Westerners into believing that Israel sits on a sacred Palestinian “stolen” homeland. All freedom-loving nations, especially the U.S., should make every effort to stop the UN and feckless Nato Nations from recharging the Jew-haters for another attempt to repeat Hitler’s Holocaust.

Moreover, the UN for decades has lost any credibility when it comes to Israel by successfully convincing Western useful idiots to ignore history and morality, and to bully Israel into not just letting a sadistic enemy off the hook, but bestowing on them a Potemkin “state” that in fact would be a bigger platform for continuing the murder of Jews.

And don’t forget the malign role the UN has played in the vicious abuse of the only democratic state in the region. For example, General Assembly Resolution 2708 (1970) stated that the UN “reaffirms its recognition of the legitimacy of the struggle of the colonial peoples and peoples under alien domination to exercise self-determination and independence by all the necessary means at their disposal.” Notice how that phrase repeated the communist moral idiocy of “any means necessary,” and exempts not just the brutal violence of “national liberation” movements, but also legitimized terrorism from the codified restraints limiting armed conflict.

One of the most infamous crimes of the “diplomatic engagement” promoted by the UN were the Oslo Accords, two agreements between Israel and the terrorist PLO negotiated in 1993 and 1995. The pacts were marketed as the foundations for a peace treaty and a Palestinian state, with the creation of the Palestinian Authority awarded some self-government authority, including armed police powers, over the so-called “West Bank,” the Orwellian euphemism for the ancient Jewish territorial heartland of Judea and Samaria.

The folly of making deals with terrorists sworn to destroying Israel quickly became obvious. Terror attacks between 1994-1999 totaled 215, just about the same number as before the pact. Carnage continued to escalate in subsequent years. Proving his chronic bad faith, terrorist Yasser Arafat, the first leader of the PA, unleashed the “Second Intifada,” a series of vicious attacks which in five years murdered over a thousand Israelis, mostly civilians.