RAPE IN ISRAEL
Panic...by Benjamin Heine
DesertPeace
October 18, 2006
For the past few weeks there has been little more on the front pages of the Israeli press except the alleged rapes committed by the President of the state, Moshe Katsav. Soon he will be indicted which surely will mean a 'second season' for the latest Israeli soap opera...
BUT... there is another rape in progress that has been going on for almost 60 years.... the rape of Palestine. No one dares to call it that in the Israeli press.... but is there any other way to describe the brutal occupation that Palestinians are living under?
The word rape originates from the Latin verb rapere: to seize or take by force. The Latin term for the act of rape itself is raptus. The term is sometimes used by analogy to refer to any act of serious violation of the person, and in a non-sexual sense referring to acts of invasive destructiveness. Is this not what is happening in Palestine today?
It is not only Israel that is guilty of this horrendous crime.... the entire western world is. The victim has been screaming out for help for decades, yet no one is coming to their rescue. This complicity has to end.... Israel on it's own will not stop, they have proven that. They must be stopped forcibly if need be... NOW!
The CHARGE of rape against one man is a serious one..... the PROOF that a nation is guilty of raping another nation is more serious... a crime that must not go unpunished.
Going through past issues of CounterPunch I found THIS article by William Cook that is quite fitting for this post. It is worth reading as it raises many points proving my accusations.
There was a progressive poet in Israel named Yehuda Amichai, he wrote the following poem which says alot if read carefully... >>>cont
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DesertPeace
October 18, 2006
For the past few weeks there has been little more on the front pages of the Israeli press except the alleged rapes committed by the President of the state, Moshe Katsav. Soon he will be indicted which surely will mean a 'second season' for the latest Israeli soap opera...
BUT... there is another rape in progress that has been going on for almost 60 years.... the rape of Palestine. No one dares to call it that in the Israeli press.... but is there any other way to describe the brutal occupation that Palestinians are living under?
The word rape originates from the Latin verb rapere: to seize or take by force. The Latin term for the act of rape itself is raptus. The term is sometimes used by analogy to refer to any act of serious violation of the person, and in a non-sexual sense referring to acts of invasive destructiveness. Is this not what is happening in Palestine today?
It is not only Israel that is guilty of this horrendous crime.... the entire western world is. The victim has been screaming out for help for decades, yet no one is coming to their rescue. This complicity has to end.... Israel on it's own will not stop, they have proven that. They must be stopped forcibly if need be... NOW!
The CHARGE of rape against one man is a serious one..... the PROOF that a nation is guilty of raping another nation is more serious... a crime that must not go unpunished.
Going through past issues of CounterPunch I found THIS article by William Cook that is quite fitting for this post. It is worth reading as it raises many points proving my accusations.
There was a progressive poet in Israel named Yehuda Amichai, he wrote the following poem which says alot if read carefully... >>>cont
continua / continued
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