Courtesy Of: Desert Peace
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
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On the 18th of October I posted the following regarding the impending rape charges against the President of Israel. He was indicted this afternoon on those charges, but after rereading my earlier post, I felt there was nothing to add except this short introduction. So, for those of you that missed the original posting, here it is again...
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.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
http://desertpeace.blogspot.com
On the 18th of October I posted the following regarding the impending rape charges against the President of Israel. He was indicted this afternoon on those charges, but after rereading my earlier post, I felt there was nothing to add except this short introduction. So, for those of you that missed the original posting, here it is again...
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...
Temporary Poem Of My Time by Yehuda Amichai
To read the poem, please click on the link:
http://desertpeace.blogspot.com/2007/01/rape-crisis-in-israel.html
STOP THROWING STONES AT EACH OTHER AND
START BUILDING TOGETHER INSTEAD.
STOP THE RAPE OF PALESTINE!
STOP THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS!
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