An Israeli newspaper managed to get the court to release the woman's sealed testimony. She turns out to have been abused by her father from childhood, and currently to be in a home for abused women. According to her testimony, she was really raped (in the normal sense of the word) and beaten by the defendant. However, because of some problems with her testimony, including the fact that she had worked as a prostitute, the idiots in the prosecutor's office thought that they would have a hard time convincing the court that she had been raped, and came up with an alternative strategy....
The men, as is almost usual, stood up and with one voice protected the man accused of rape. In this case, an Arab man is suddenly accorded a higher place because he symbolizes the right of a man to unlimited sex without consequences; because the complaint against him symbolizes the worsening conditions of men due to the laws against sexual harassment and rape. Suddenly they would risk their heads for the Arab man who on any other day they would easily consider a traitor. Israel is really a racist state, and we must protest its racism. But we capitulated in the face of the accusation of racism - and also got into the same boat as the righteous men who are fighting racism - and we repressed the first part of the story.
Suddenly they would risk their heads for the Arab man who on any other day they would easily consider a traitor.
Israel is really a racist state, and we must protest its racism. But we capitulated in the face of the accusation of racism - and also got into the same boat as the righteous men who are fighting racism - and we repressed the first part of the story.
