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  • Calling them the Olympic gold winner is comparing them with all other countries. Hence this is not whataboutism.

    Reports of using rape as a weapon of war usually talk about other countries. A quick Google search suggests the wars in Haiti, Ukraine and Ethiopia. But that is from a few years ago.

    Let’s be clear here: Israel is at least accused by reputable media to use rape systematically as a weapon of war. But the world is much more harrowing than you would hope.

    https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165650 South Sudan was particularly terrible last year to name a concrete example.

    Edit: individual Stories are compelling but in no way shape or form suitable to establish a pattern of systematic behavior. They are deeply manipulative as you tend to emphasize deeply with the victims and discount the amount of suffering in the world.