:Rubbing head wearily: No, no, of *course* there's no organized bias against Israeli institutions.
You're just seeing things.
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Oh, this (via Protein Wisdom)? Just deconstructing* the narrative to find the inner truth, that's all.
Heb. U. Paper Finds: IDF Has Political Motives for Not Raping
by Hillel Fendel
(IsraelNN.com) 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.
The abstract of the paper, authored by doctoral candidate Tal Nitzan, notes that the paper shows that "the lack of organized military rape is an alternate way of realizing [particular] political goals."
The next sentence delineates the particular goals that are realized in this manner: "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.
Let me give you one other quote from the article:
Nitzan's paper did, however, give much space to the explanation that the Israeli soldiers refrained from rape out of demographic considerations.
[Bolding mine]
How fortunate are we to have people happy to explain to us how men not acting like beasts is proof that they were acting like even worse beasts all along...
Moe
PS: Yes, we here at RedState are aware of the news that Maryscott O'Connor's site has apparently come quite the Jew-hating hangout; it's just that, unlike the (honestly) distressed folks over at dKos, we're not particularly surprised that it happened.
*For those of you fortunate enough not to be English majors (unlike, say, myself**), literary deconstruction is the process by which a particular text's message is manipulated, adjusted, reinterpreted, folded, spindled, and mutilated until it matches the personal opinion of whoever it is that's grading your term paper.
**Actually, being a supermarket cashier isn't entirely a horrible job for somebody just graduating from college. You just have to get the overnight shift, which means that you get to read a lot.
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And if possible somebody should recommend a competent therapist to the author of the paper.
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"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
could explain a lot! Would be curious to see what's in the ashtray, too.
Why do you hate starving children? What have they ever done to you? Snatched your Snickers?
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When I was in Iraq, I didn't rape any of the women there because I was told that for every woman I raped, the US govt would save a starving child victim of Hurricane Katrina. I hate starving children.
*For those of you fortunate enough not to be English majors (unlike, say, myself**), literary deconstruction is the process by which a particular text's message is manipulated, adjusted, reinterpreted, folded, spindled, and mutilated until it matches the personal opinion of whoever it is that's grading your term paper.
After four years in college, I've come to the conclusion that for math and science there is one right answer. For philosophy and religion, there is no wrong answer. For English, there is no right answer.
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I have read on the Jews and there have been some pretty bad stories over the years....I will suggest that the author be shot because they are to stupid to walk the earth.
Freedom of Religion not Freedom from Religion
I love this line from the article - "the right-wing should not jump to the conclusion that this was simply another "secular, left-wing" generality." No, it's much worse than that.
That someday Israeli soldiers will look upon their Palestinian sisters as worthy of rape! I have a dream today!
I think Robbin Morgan might want to talk to Hillel Fendel. I'm sure we might be able to find some instance of an Israeli soldier raping a Palestinian woman using Robbin Morgan's criteria for judging rape.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
it's late, and I'm delirious. I'll reign it in a bit.
I must admit though, if it wasn't for the actuall links, I would have assumed this was a scrappleface work.
The Fuzzy Puppy of the VRWC. I've been usurped!
Are you a royal, that you get to "reign" things in? The rest of us have to make do with guiding horses with reins.
I meant Tal Nitzan not Hillel Fendel. Copy-pasted the wrong name.
"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."
I think this is the clearest example of "damned if you do and damned if you don't" that I've seen in the year 2007---even with Harry Reid and Nancy Pee-loosey making pronunciamentos from time to time.
Academicide will always produce the most flaming examples of sheer moronic stupidity anywhere, but this exertion actually WON A WRITERS' PRIZE!
I wonder what the other entries looked like....!
I can think of two.
One: the IDF is not made up of hyper-horny harem-hoarding Arab misogynists.
Two: Why risk increasing the Arab population explosion?
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"clarifies the inter-ethnic differences". Yaasss, indeed. Arabs would be raping everything with a convenient inlet in sight - goats, boys, women, sheep, pigs, each other - it's well known.
Israelis, not so much.
LOL
It looks like My Left Wing closed the hate diary, without so much as a [Closed, with annotations] and a funny video.