Is it not true that Hamas is funded and armed by Iran? Sources in Iran told me some years ago that if a woman is in an Iranian prison awaiting execution, prison guards will rape her before she is killed. Their purpose is to prevent her from being welcomed into paradise after death, since the rape will transform her from a “virgin” into a…
Is it not true that Hamas is funded and armed by Iran? Sources in Iran told me some years ago that if a woman is in an Iranian prison awaiting execution, prison guards will rape her before she is killed. Their purpose is to prevent her from being welcomed into paradise after death, since the rape will transform her from a “virgin” into a “whore.” What kind of society thinks it can control the gates of heaven? I suggest that what the Hamas terrorists were doing to Israeli women was-- raping western, liberal values via the bodies of actual young women. If Hamas ever “wins”, whatever that means, they will import sharia law and a culture that believes women are little better than animals, to be controlled absolutely by men. I cannot believe any woman, let alone a feminist, would find any justification for the rape and murder of women, children and the elderly. That was not a military uprising, it was an act of revenge.
The people of Palestine have been subject to decades of violence of all forms. Israel is a colonial project. It is well-documented by Israeli historians. Taking up a battle for feminism, cherry-picked all because you ignored the many rapes commited by the IDF and others, does not make yours a feminist statement. It makes it highly selective: the rape of Palestinian women, ok; Israeli women, not ok. You cannot gloss over history because you turned on the news Saturday.
I condemn all violence. It’s not a feminist project to sit in the bleachers as two patriarchies brutalize each other and cheer on either side, surely? Especially when -- as always happens -- they use the bodies of women to score their points.
This is why it is important that any self-described feminist understand that there the dead bodies of many more Palestinians (women and men, does it matter?) are the raison d'être for this resistance. Israel is the aggressor, not the oppressed.
Is it not true that Hamas is funded and armed by Iran? Sources in Iran told me some years ago that if a woman is in an Iranian prison awaiting execution, prison guards will rape her before she is killed. Their purpose is to prevent her from being welcomed into paradise after death, since the rape will transform her from a “virgin” into a “whore.” What kind of society thinks it can control the gates of heaven? I suggest that what the Hamas terrorists were doing to Israeli women was-- raping western, liberal values via the bodies of actual young women. If Hamas ever “wins”, whatever that means, they will import sharia law and a culture that believes women are little better than animals, to be controlled absolutely by men. I cannot believe any woman, let alone a feminist, would find any justification for the rape and murder of women, children and the elderly. That was not a military uprising, it was an act of revenge.
The people of Palestine have been subject to decades of violence of all forms. Israel is a colonial project. It is well-documented by Israeli historians. Taking up a battle for feminism, cherry-picked all because you ignored the many rapes commited by the IDF and others, does not make yours a feminist statement. It makes it highly selective: the rape of Palestinian women, ok; Israeli women, not ok. You cannot gloss over history because you turned on the news Saturday.
I condemn all violence. It’s not a feminist project to sit in the bleachers as two patriarchies brutalize each other and cheer on either side, surely? Especially when -- as always happens -- they use the bodies of women to score their points.
This is why it is important that any self-described feminist understand that there the dead bodies of many more Palestinians (women and men, does it matter?) are the raison d'être for this resistance. Israel is the aggressor, not the oppressed.