Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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MESS Report / Are the Palestinians silencing the attempted rape of U.S. peace activist? - 'The story of the Palestinian popular protest against Israel in several West Bank villages has recently garnered worldwide praise. However, as with any other massive movement, the popular protest too has its darker sides. The Palestinian Authority, as well as the leaders of the Palestinian popular protests in villages such as Bil'in, Na'alim, Umm Salmuna, have been trying to keep the following story away from both public knowledge and the media's eye: One of the more prominent Umm Salmuna activists - a village south of Bethlehem, long entrenched in a battle against the West Bank separation fence - is suspected of the attempted rape of an American peace activist who had been residing in the village as part of her support of the local protest. Omar Aladdin, who had been arrested three months ago over suspicions he had attempted to rape the U.S. citizen, was subsequently released after agreeing to apologize to the young woman. However, Haaretz had learned that representatives of both the popular protest movement and the PA have since applied pressure on the American peace activist as to prevent her from making the story public...'
People who abuse their own kids by strapping suicide vests on them have no problem abusing other people's kids. The useful idiot "internationals" who volunteer for them are easy marks. If the ISM doesn't manage to turn them into martyrs by deliberately placing them in harm's way—Rachel Corrie has been far more useful to them posthumously as a martyr than she ever was alive as flag-burning activist—then they're liable to be hit on or play into someone's power trips.
The denial—What attempted rape? The incident was marginal but normal.—is quickly followed by blaming the victim. These "peace activists" must be asking for it.
What's to misinterpret? They're obviously loose women. What else could it mean when a bunch of young, single women are living together other than it must be a bordello?Why did this poor girl withdraw her complaint? Did she drink so much Kool-Aid that she is willing to accept her attempted rape as part of her sacrifice for the cause? Was she afrai? Unable to get out of Umm Salmuna? Did she succumb to the pressure to recant in order to save her skin? What if Aladdin had succeeded in his attempt at rape? Would she, as a Muslim, have been liable for honor killing?
Another young woman narrowly escaped a similar fate last month. Rhiannon Stacey, from down under is traveling alone in the Middle East and is currently studying Arabic in Egypt. She'd planned on volunteering at the Deheishe "refugee camp" for a while en route to Egypt. She doesn't note that they're not refugees in any meaningful sense but does observe that it's certainly not a camp; the apartments comparing favorably with what she experienced in Damascus. Thankfully, she listened tot he good advice her father gave her by phone. Rhiannon had her wits about her, stood her ground and got her ass out of there.
How many more have been raped but whose stories never made the papers?