A very disturbing story by Gil Ronen over at Israel National News:
Two activists have exposed a disturbing phenomenon that they say is an open secret within the “peace camp”: female “peace” activists are routinely harassed and raped by the Arabs of Judea and Samaria with whom they have come to identify. They say the phenomenon has gotten worse lately and that many foreign women end up as wives of local Arabs against their will, but cannot escape their new homes.
Roni Aloni Sedovnik, a feminist activist, penned an article in News1 – an independent website run by respected investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak – under the heading “The Left’s Betrayal of Female Peace Activists Who were Sexually Assaulted.”
“A nauseous atrocity has been going on for a long time behind the scenes at the leftists’ demonstration at Bil’in, Naalin and Sheikh Jarrah [Shimon HaTzaddik],” she writes. “A dark secret that threatens to smash the basic ideological values upon which the demand to end the occupation of the Territories rests.”…
According to the story, this has been going on for a while – including some women who have been kept for quite some time as the “wives” of some Palestinian men…never allowed to leave and, of course, never allowed to tell their stories. The leftist activists who are in charge of getting non-Arab women in to the demonstrations ruthlessly cover up the crimes lest the world develope a negative attitude towards the Palestinian cause. The whole thing does make sense – leftist people are often like that; willing to sacrifice everything for the cause (one remembers a woman noted in Gulag Archipelago who falsely confessed to a crime in order to prevent her children from losing faith in communism).
But, still, a crime is a crime…and that the left is covering up these crimes is just another indicator that they are utterly inimical to to our civilization. These are people who might use the words “justice” and “liberty” but they simply do not mean the same thing as they do to the rest of us. In fact, one has to go entirely Orwellian with them – to the left, justice requires injustice and liberty really is slavery.
There’s not much we can do about this – if the left continues to cover up the crimes, they’ll never be stopped. But keep this story in mind when you read and hear things about the Arab world – without great care, you’ll never know what is truth and what is false. This also buttresses my argument that none of us – not even the Arab leaders – really knows what Arabs/Moslems want. You think its only a few western women who are being abused over there? For the locals, it is probably worse…and with no genuine mechanism for expressing desires either in politics or the market place, there is no way for any one to determine what is wanted.
The only approach we can take is with our objective truths – the self-evident truths as expressed in our sublime Declaration of Independence. If someone isn’t following those precepts then don’t let them off the hook over cultural differences – barbarians are barbarians. The people of Palestine are not, as yet, measuring up to our standards, and until they do their case for an independent State will remain weak…and as Israel does work to match our standards (no one ever will completely, not even us, of course…it is an aspiration more than a goal…but you have to keep trying), all our doubts should come down in favor of Israel.
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