Rape and the State of Israel
or, 'The Orgy of Supremacy'
There’s no getting away from it – Israelis have a very casual relationship with rape.
Consider the leaked video evidence that appeared last year of Israeli soldiers gang raping an inmate at the Sde Teiman prison. The video shows a group of soldiers selecting one prisoner from among dozens lying face down on the concrete at the notorious torture site, leading him to a back wall where a half dozen soldiers raise their shields to provide cover for one of their own as he rapes the male prisoner.
But this is perhaps not even the most disturbing aspect of the story. After this video was aired on Israeli television, the accused soldier was invited onto national talk shows – first masked but later with his face showing – where he soon became a media sensation, lauded as a hero by many of those he spoke with. On one chat show, his host tells the rapist:
“I put myself in your place, in your situation. You stand in front of these people, really, the most despicable people one can imagine, who did the most horrible things to our people, our brothers and sisters – I think that if I was there and I had the chance, I would go all out on these people.”
This is not an isolated opinion. There are many in Israel who support the right of Israeli soldiers to do any sadistic thing they please to the Palestinians they have abducted. And the incidents are not isolated either.
The UN has found widespread evidence of the use of rape against Palestinians. Chris Sodoti, who led a Commission of Inquiry into gender-based violence in Palestine, states that,
“…the frequency, prevalence and severity of sexual and gender-based crimes perpetrated across the OPT leads the Commission to conclude that sexual and gender-based violence is increasingly used as a method of war by Israel to destabilize, dominate, oppress and destroy the Palestinian people.”
The IDF’s chief rabbi, Col. Eyal Karim, has said it is perfectly acceptable to rape in times of war:
“Although intercourse with a female gentile is very grave, it was permitted during wartime (under the conditions it stipulated) out of consideration for the soldiers’ difficulties. And since our concern is the success of the collective in the war, the Torah permitted [soldiers] to satisfy the evil urge under the conditions it stipulated for the sake of the collective’s success.”
The above UN report goes on to tell us that ‘other forms of sexual and gender-based violence, including rape and violence to the genitals, were committed either under explicit orders or with implicit encouragement by Israel’s top civilian and military leadership.’ There are even claims that Adnan al-Bursh, a hugely respected Gaza surgeon and by all accounts a beautiful human being, was raped to death while under Israeli detention.
In Israel, rape is systemic, part of a structure of terror reliant upon keeping Palestinians subjected through dehumanisation, ritual humiliation, abuse, torture and murder. This behaviour is intrinsic, in the very DNA of Israeli supremacy. Zionism is a supremacist political ideology based on racial superiority, and the rape, torture, humiliation and slaughter of Palestinians is nothing more than ‘instances of a program of racial hate elevated to the level of state policy and efficiently executed by the official apparatus of the state.’[1]
I submit that any man who can move to another country which is not his own, see a person indigenous to that country kicked out of their home, then move without any moral qualms into that home – that man is preternaturally disposed to the rape of another human being.
In other words, settlers make good rapists.
Only last month, the daughter of the Minister for Israeli Settlements, having fled the country, accused her parents and one brother of sexually abusing her since she was a child. She claims that three younger brothers were also abused. The government in Israel promptly issued a gag order, preventing details of the case being released to the public. In a country where a soldier rapist is elevated to the status of national hero, is it the case that discretion is necessary only when the victim being raped is Jewish?
The State of Israel itself was born from an act of mass rape, literally and figuratively. If you have the stomach for it, watch the documentary Tantura, where you can see Israeli terrorists gleefully recount tales of rape and slaughter, and even the cutting of children from their mothers’ wombs.
When Palestine was ethnically cleansed in 1948, it was done so with the widespread application of mass rape against Palestinian women. That mass rape is still applied today, even as Palestinians – men and women alike – have been deprived of all freedom and are held against their will without charge in Israeli torture and rape centres.
This is what happens when you are indoctrinated into a culture of racial supremacy, when you believe you are entitled, based on ancient biblical texts, to claim a land you have no ethnic ties to, when you feel you have a moral and ethical duty to dehumanise another human being in order to establish by force cruel dialectics of power, when you believe you are God’s chosen people who have a right to rule over all others, and that everything you do to bring about a mystical biblical ‘promised land’ is justified.
Yes, rape comes easy to such a people.
[1] https://www.freedomarchives.org/Documents/Finder/DOC12_scans/12.zionist.colonialism.palestine.1965.pdf