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Uncle Joe

(60,030 posts)
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 11:19 AM 3 hrs ago

'You live in a bubble': Gabor Mat answers question from Israeli audience member



"Does the average Jew know anything about the people of Palestine?"
Physician and trauma expert Dr. Gabor Maté answered an Israeli audience member asking how she could 'have compassion' for the 'animals' involved in last year's 7 October attacks.

Dr. Maté first corrected her recollection of 7 October before arguing that history did not begin on October 7th and comparing the treatment of indigenous Palestinians with that of indigenous communities in Canada and the US, receiving multiple rounds of applause from the rest of the audience.
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'You live in a bubble': Gabor Mat answers question from Israeli audience member (Original Post) Uncle Joe 3 hrs ago OP
Atrocity begats atrocity. Where does it stop? tetedur 3 hrs ago #1
Gabor Mate is excellent as always! Gaugamela 2 hrs ago #2
Thank you!!! For posting this Uncle Joe! Gabor is wise, empathetic and compassionate!!!!! Clouds Passing 2 hrs ago #3
At 50 seconds in he says there were no rapes. Mosby 2 hrs ago #4
Denials and deflections. Beastly Boy 2 hrs ago #5

Mosby

(17,320 posts)
4. At 50 seconds in he says there were no rapes.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 12:28 PM
2 hrs ago

Did you miss that?

"No evidence of mass, deliberate rapes".

That's what he fucking said.

Too bad we don't have community notes like X.






Beastly Boy

(11,043 posts)
5. Denials and deflections.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 12:37 PM
2 hrs ago

There WERE Israeli babies burned by Hamas on October 7 (https://themedialine.org/top-stories/evidence-on-display-at-israels-forensic-pathology-center-confirms-hamas-atrocities/) and there WERE scores of women raped, gang raped, sexually mutilated and tortured (https://news.un.org/en/sites/news.un.org.en/files/atoms/files/Mission_report_of_SRSG_SVC_to_Israel-oWB_29Jan_14_feb_2024.pdf)

How can a man who outright denies these indisputable facts claim any legitimacy to further comment on the subject, let alone deflect from the subject with arguments unrelated to the question asked?

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