Rape by Israeli Soldiers:
Damned If They Do, and Now Damned If They Don't!
Damned If They Do, and Now Damned If They Don't!
How does NOT raping women de-humanize them? Or how does it mean that the women are already de-humanized in the eyes of the soldiers? Beats me. From Israel National News [h/t to Acad Ronin]:
A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers' committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose.A better explanation might be that the soldiers recognize that rape is wrong. It might also point out that Israeli soldiers know very well there would be negative repercussions for their entire country if they were to rape Arab women.
..."In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it can be seen that the lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences - just as organized military rape would have done."
The paper further theorizes that Arab women in Judea and Samaria are not raped by IDF soldiers because the women are de-humanized in the soldiers' eyes.
Category: Israel Posted on
Friday, December 28, 2007 at 12:36pm
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This is of course sort of nonsense.