Israel is preparing legal action against The New York Times after the newspaper published an article describing the rapes of Palestinian prisoners in its custody.

The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) announced its decision to sue on X on Thursday, after the paper doubled down in its defence of the report.

“Nicholas Kristof’s deeply reported piece of opinion journalism starts with a proposition to readers: ‘Whatever our views of the Middle East conflict, we should be able to unite in condemning rape,'” a spokesperson for The New York Times said.

Kristof’s story contained harrowing testimonies of the rape of Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, which included accounts of prisoners being mounted by dogs, penetrated by carrots, and rectums torn by batons.

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      Israel is trying to figure out what victims snitched so they can kill them and their families. They’re not stupid enough to think they could win money, they just want discovery so they can teach those Palestinians a lesson for speaking to the media.

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    Is it possible for nations to sue individuals of different nations? Like what court would this be filed under?

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      Other newspapers should definitely report that Israel is suing the NYT for reporting about rape in Israeli prisons.

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        Yes, it’s been caught on camera.

        They have trained their dogs to do so as well, according to Palestinian testimony.

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    Remember they exonerated Israeli IDF rapists and then gave then Medals on live television and they are now celebrated figures in Israel.

    The entire culture is sick to the fucking core.

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      They were also celebrating with nooses in the parliament when they passed the death penalty law

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        People don’t like to hear it but Israel is just a young, technologically-accelerated America, with Christofascism swapped for Zionazism. American families used to have block parties underneath the lynched bodies of black people.

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    Just really shows you how fucking delusional these God damn ghouls in Israel are. The New York Times just carries their water. As is their history they always go to bat for fascist regimes and they love to cover up genocides they’ve been doing it for a century. Certainly they’ve been doing it for Israel. Still though, not enough for those God damn demons in the state of Israel.

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    It’s baffling how it’s been over twenty years at this point and still essentially no one with influence has ever heard of the Streisand effect before. Like they’re obviously delusional, but it’s like their brains are sucked into vacuums.

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    “We can rape anyone we want, and if you try to stop us we’ll destroy you.” -Israel

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      I mean, there are literally videos of these Nazis raping a prisoner, they went to trial, the that genocidal state let them off without any punishment. After they returned home to parades and a heros welcome. There were actual terrorist raping a prisoner caught on video - then hailed as heros. Really disgusting scums I can’t understand why they even sue. For what? Everyone knows your terrorist forces will rape people. You can go watch the video right now. Wild.

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    What the fuck is their standing? Reputational damage of a country? Libel against a country? That isn’t a thing.
    Hope NYT can SLAPP their asses.

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      That’s what I was thinking. In what country can a foreign country sue you in your own country?

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      I thought the same thing right away and it makes the whole thing seem like a dystopian dark comedy. What a nightmare.