Tuesday, April 6, 2010
No, there's no mistake in the headline. Why would an anti-Israel television show anger Palestinians? They're supposed to be into that, right? Big lies that show the Zionist apes in the worst possible light. Ahh! But the show has Arab women being raped by Israeli guards, and you know that rape is the woman's fault, right? So much at fault that a rape victim is in danger of being murdered by her own family in what's bizarrely called "honor killing": Anti-Israel TV show angers Palestinians
Even the Palestinians are opposed to an anti-Israel Turkish television series that is being aired these days on two popular Arab satellite networks.
The 13-episode Separation: Palestinian in Love and in War (Cry of Stones) is about a Palestinian family that leaves for a vacation to Jordan, only to return to a home that had been demolished by the IDF.
The drama, which was first broadcast on Turkey's state television last October, depicts IDF soldiers as cold-blooded murderers and rapists.
The Turkish drama, which has strained relations between Turkey and Israel, has also enraged many Palestinians, especially female prisoners held in Israeli jails.
The inmates are particularly outraged over scenes showing IDF soldiers "raping" a Palestinian women.
"This film defames the female prisoners and their struggles in occupation prisons," the prisoners said in a statement. "We call on the producer of this Turkish drama to apologize to the Palestinian people for the scene which shows Israeli soldiers raping a Palestinian female prisoner called Miriam."
The statement said that the scene has nothing to do with reality. They also condemned the scene where the family of the "rape victim" kills her upon her release from Israeli jail...
Robin Shepherd comments here: A tale of Israeli "rapists" that has enraged the Palestinians but won't make the BBC. He issues a challenge to the BBC:
...The Palestinian protest, of course, is most assuredly not directed against the despicable and racist portrayal of Israelis as rapists. The protest arises because they are concerned about their own reception back in Palestinian and Arab society if this particular calumny is widely believed.
Now, I know that some editors in the BBC read this website from time to time. So here is a challenge to them: Cover this story in the manner I have described. Place the Israelis-as-rapists allegations in the context of a wider culture in the region whose anti-Semitic rantings have no historic parallel outside Germany in the 1930s. Continue by using the story as an illustration of the region's appallingly sexist attitudes to women. And then show the hypocrisy of Palestinians who participate in this racist incitement and then find themselves hoist with their own petard due to the backwardness of important aspects of their very own culture.
I suspect it is already clear why the challenge I have issued will not be met...
I suspect it is already clear why the challenge I have issued will not be met...
Indeed. I think a quick check of Said's Orientalism will preclude any such coverage. But the video of Jewish rapers will be golden.