Monday, July 14, 2008

Violence against Women

Your insinuation that the presence of shelters for women is a negative mark on the society is outrageously stupid!

Protection of women is a positive sign in society. Just because there are no such shelters in the West Bank does not mean Palestinian women are not getting beaten, raped and killed - it simply means they have no options but to accept their abuse.

Similarly, the Israeli statistics you site have been demanded by Israeli society as a metric for how to deal with the problem. Imagine getting accurate statistics on abuse of women in the West Bank, where they have NO protection under the law - civil or tribal. How many Palestinians even WANT to know what the statistics are in their community for spousal abuse?! In many Palestinian villages, beating your wife is a perfectly natural event that no one would even think twice of.

The point is not that violence does not happen against women, whether in Israel or in the West Bank or in Chicago.

The point is: you don't care about violence against women in the West Bank and Gaza. You don't care about this violence because you see nothing particularly wrong with it; at best, it is an inconvenient distraction to your war against the Jews.

Once again, you've demonstrated your genuine hypocrisy on human rights. Once again, you have demonstrated a lack of credibility to speak of human rights with authority and moral clarity.

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