Those IDF Racists Won’t Even Rape Our Women

By Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority

The violations of dignity to which Israel subjects us Palestinians daily are hardly news. But perhaps pointing one one more humiliation will finally transform the world’s outrage into action: those Israeli soldiers are so racist they won’t even rape Palestinian women.

That’s right: we are so subhuman in their eyes that they won’t even consider forcing themselves upon our vulnerable girls and women in an act of unspeakable brutality. Behavior expected of every conquering or occupying army in history, they see as somehow beneath them when it comes to Palestinians. I ask you, what kind of “morality” is that? Will the world stand for such a flagrant display of prejudice?

Even those vile Nazis wouldn’t shrink from raping Jewish women before killing them. They even had brothels of Jewish women at Auschwitz for SS officers, for crying out loud. But you won’t find Israeli soldiers raping Palestinian women, I guess because we’re not good enough for them.

Lest you think it’s not specifically a racial thing, and that other Arabs under similar circumstances would indeed find themselves on the receiving end of IDF rapes, consider this: when the Israeli army occupied South Lebanon, they didn’t rape any Lebanese Arab women, either. It goes beyond anything specifically Palestinian, which isn’t even a race. But when you take into account the fact that those soldiers wouldn’t touch any Arab women, well, what other conclusion can you reach?

This entire phenomenon would be heinous enough on its own, but you also have to realize that those Israelis don’t even deem our children worthy of being killed intentionally – while we have no such compunctions about targeting theirs. Leave aside the obvious unfairness in the picture; for now let us focus solely on the fact that our precious children, whom we educate and train to hate, fear, and attack Israelis, do not even rate as combatants in the eyes of the Israeli military. It’s a galling insult to the efforts of our Ministry of Education and our courageous brethren in the various anti-Zionist militant organizations.

It comes to this: either the Israel Defense Forces leave our land and cease the humiliations, or start treating us the way we would treat them if the tables were reversed. If Israeli soldiers don’t begin raping our women, the world will have more conclusive proof of its immoral character.