Netanyahu is using Muslim women’s 'rights’ to justify his war. What hideous, hollow hypocrisy | Mona Eltahawy
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As his troops slaughter civilians in Gaza, he claims to be standing up for Iranian women’s autonomy. He is far from the first warmonger to do so, says author Mona Eltahawy

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has invoked the Iranian regime’s heinous women’s rights record to justify his heinous war on Iran. This is the man whose genocide of Palestinians in Gaza killed more women and children in its first year than the equivalent period of any other conflict over the past two decades.

“They’ve impoverished you, they’ve given you misery, they’ve given you death, they’ve given you terror, they shoot down your women, leaving this brave, unbelievable woman, Mahsa Amini, to bleed on the sidewalk for not covering her hair,” he told Iranians in an interview with Iran International.

It is incredible to hear Netanyahu call on the Iranian people to rise up against the very things he has subjected Palestinians to. But it is not surprising. I am all too familiar with the ways imperialists, occupiers and invaders weaponise Muslim women’s bodies and rights to justify their wars.

  • MonkeMischief@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    12 days ago

    This sounds just like all the ridiculously hollow propaganda Putin was dropping for justifying the attack on Ukraine.

    “We’re rescuing them from uh, really bad people, er… By invading them, yes. They wanna be Russian so bad!”

  • JacksonLamb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    This is like being in 2001 all over again. “Iraq Iran has Weapons of mass destruction nuclear weapons and we need to save its women”.

    Saving women by bombing them to death.

  • blattrules@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    12 days ago

    I saw a commercial yesterday that was Israel advertising for the war with Iran. Get that propaganda off my tv.

      • blattrules@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        12 days ago

        It was Netanyahu’s voice talking about reasons for striking Iran overlayed on top of images that were straight up propaganda. I’ll try to find the video somewhere and post it here if I do. It seemed like it was just trying to convince the American people that the strikes on Iran are necessary.

  • SapphironZA@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    12 days ago

    He is right for all the wrong reasons. There are only bad sides in this conflict.

    The world will be a lot better without both those authoritarian regimes.