Sadly, tragically, frustratingly, the pro-Israel side is being led by its opponents like an obedient, trained pony into the most self-defeating position possible.
All of a sudden, the entire narrative about October 7 has become about whether anybody was raped. Rape accusations are notoriously the hardest to get victims to testify and to find proof. In a situation where many people were murdered, where there’s a pile of uncontroverted dead bodies, why is it necessary to argue about rape? Is rape worse than murder? Obviously not. Murder is the worst thing that can happen. And nobody can deny it happened in Israel on October 7.
Anti-Israel propagandists around the world have seized on the rape narrative because it offers them an easy way out. You can drown in discussions of why rape victims don’t want to come forward.
But guess who doesn’t have this problem?
The dead.
The dead are not worried about being harassed on social media by overheated Hamas fanboys. That’s why the Hamas crowd so joyfully pounds on the rapes. The rape debate allows them to avoid the subject of the dead.
In propaganda wars, there are some basic rules. If you don’t follow them, you’ll be controlled and bled by your opponent.
One such rule is: stay on point and don’t debate minutia. If a mass murder of a thousand unarmed people was perpetrated, that’s the message that has to be repeated on every screen and every electric appliance. And by the way, I just realized that I have no idea how many people were murdered on October 7. I’m completely on Israel’s side and it would be helpful to know the number to continue getting out the message about the horror that was perpetrated. Instead, I see on social media endless debates about rape as if the existence or lack thereof of those rapes somehow made the murders less or more terrible.
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