Shani Louk (the German woman whose body was videoed in the bed of a Hamas pickup) was an satanist-dabbling hippie, but obviously that detail is in the back seat considering the situation. Her legs were rotated 180 degrees on her body, it's pretty grotesque.
Setting aside the shocker title, settlers and anyone else in the settlements are being massacred. This will most likely make it hard for Palestinian allies to do PR. Rashida Tlaib hasn't tweeted and Ilhan Omar seems to be running with the "condemn atrocities then pivot to 'this raises our awareness of the plight of Gaza'" playbook.
However, Hamas 100% intended to do this from the beginning. This isn't a case of anyone going rogue, it's marauding Muslims given full permission to practice the traditions of their forefathers. Male IDF, for the most part, are being tortured and killed on the spot. Meanwhile, there is a widely broadcasted clip of what appears to be fighters shoving female civilians and IDF in the back of a truck, and we have only heard the beginning of the stories of rape, torture, and murder. This was their plan. But what is their goal? Push back the settlements? Maybe that will work - it's a confusing situation.
It's pretty superficial to equivocate between US military rape cases and what's happening in the settlements now, where raping and pillaging is the whole point.
Yes, soldiers have always been tempted to rape. They've also been tempted to loot goods and kill any civilian that looks at them sideways, but the point of an organized military is to restrain those impulses as much as possible so soldiers can be an effective tool, and the US has been more successful at that than most outfits in history (maybe all). If we let ourselves go to the Third World standard (or even the Soviet Russian standard), half the women in Iraq would be ran through.
Maybe the USA military wouldn't have such a hard time recruiting if they allowed more rape.
That's a thought!