The appeal court reduced their sentences, saying: "At the time there was a general feeling of contempt for the life of Arabs ... and sometimes wanton events occurred in this sphere. All this helped create an atmosphere of 'anything goes'....More
14.2.09
A girl's story and the rape of Palestine
Israel's early history. Not much different from the present.
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Your clever headline suggests that Israelis raped Palestinian girls. But in fact, this has never happened. So you have to make up crimes and clever headlines in order to make Israel guilty of crimes it did not commit.
Anon:
The crime of which this Guardian article speaks wasn't made up: it really did happen. The most significant passage of the article is perhaps:
He was acquitted of rape but convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The judges likened his stated willingness "to murder even women and children in cold blood" to "Hitler's methods in France".
Nineteen other soldiers received light sentences of between one and three years, mostly for "negligence in preventing a crime".
The appeal court reduced their sentences, saying: "At the time there was a general feeling of contempt for the life of Arabs ... and sometimes wanton events occurred in this sphere. All this helped create an atmosphere of 'anything goes'.
"We are convinced that this atmosphere existed at the Nirim outpost, too."
The contempt for Arabs was back then as it is now more than just metaphorical. But it's a valid metaphor for the rape of Palestine: theft of its land and abuse of its People, over and over and over again. Like that Bedouin girl's fate...
Good post.
watch this, if you haven't already
i applaud Israel's decision to link opening the Gaza borders to freeing Gilad Shalit. Hamas has kept Shalit in the worst conditions possible. No one can visit him. No one knows if he is alive or dead. Hamas uses him as a tool to torture his parents and all Jewish parents. The world sees that Hamas wants children to be martyrs, but they should stick to their own martyrs - do not make Gilad Shalit into a martyr!
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