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No one in Israel is beating women.

But of course they are. Women are beaten everywhere.

There's certainly nothing special about Israel in this regard.

At vastly different rates. You’re talking about an extremely rare and legally and socially heavily discouraged behavior.

One could just as easily say “women kill their young children in every country”, because some mentally ill women sometimes do so. That’s not the same as societal acceptance of the practice.

Or we could generalize any negative behavior to any group that has members that do that behavior, which would obviously be an incorrect generalization.

Of course there's extra detail, and one can parse out all sort of things based on what the commenter might otherwise have said.

I just find the choice of phrasing -- "No one in Israel is beating women" -- to be weirdly idealizing.

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