The headline reads:
Palestinian women.
In PLO land — not even in a Muslim village in Israel (and there are many).
The women of “The Squad” rant and rave against Israel, calling it anti-feminist, apartheid, and more untruths.
The women of “The Squad” want the world to believe that everything in PLO-land, and Hamas-land, is a near utopia.
The only problems in either place come from Jerusalem and, with a pro-American president back in office, Washington D.C.
According to a Reuters dispatch, At least 18 Palestinian women have been killed this year by family members angered at perceived damage to their honor, which may involve fraternizing with men or any infringement of conservative values regarding women, according to the General Union of Palestinian Women and Feminist Institutions.
Honor killings are not limited to the PLO and Hamas-controlled areas. They are all too frequent in ALL Muslim-controlled states.
They are not common in Israel, even in Israeli Arab villages.
But, according to “The Squad,” only Israel is misogynistic.
Israel also is xenophobic and treats all Arabs as second class citizens, except for Dr. Shadan Salameh who is director of the Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus Emergency Medicine Department.2 Never mind that there are Muslim women, including some who are very anti-Israel, in the Knesset (parliament) and on the Supreme Court. There also are Muslims in the army and police.
“The Squad” would have the world believe differently in face of facts on the ground.
Question Would ANY Muslim country in the area offer women equal treatment?
She could have visited her aged grandmother when Israel granted her a transit visa to PLO-land on condition that she would control anti-Israel/pro-BDS rhetoric while in Israel. She agreed and then realized she would rather bash Israel than see granny. She still could have visited granny by flying to Jordan and arranging to have granny transported from her home in PLO-land through a short section of Israel and then across the bridge into Jordan. A short ride in a limo and a brief bus ride past Israeli and Jordanian check-points and there could have been a happy reunion.
That, however, would not have the political impact of her whining that Israel wanted her to forego Israel bashing for the short time it would have taken her to travel from Lod to PLO-land and granny’s home.
Crocodile tears.
Relevant?
Most first world countries allow, and in some cases, promote male circumcision.
Many so-called third world countries encourage male circumcision to reduce HIV transmission.
Female circumcision is largely practiced in Muslim-dominated countries.3 THAT never is discussed by “The Squad.”
It had been practiced in Israel among the Bedouin until about 30 years ago.4 It never was a practice among Jews anywhere or Israelis (Jews, Muslims, and others) in general.
Yet, “The Squad” contends that Israel is anti-feminist.
Like if or not, LGBTQ?s are protected in Israel. Are they protected in PLO or Hamas-controlled areas. In a word: No.
Yet Israel is a sexist, homophobic state according to “The Squad.”
Blacks, primarily from Ethiopia and a few from Europe and the U.S., are helped by the government to integrate into all aspects of Israeli society. But “The Squad” claims Israel is racist. (How are all the members of the self-proclaimed “Squad” “women of color”? See image below.)
Are the Muslims in the PLO and Hamas-controlled areas “people of color”? No more than many Israelis who came to Israel from North Africa, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, and those chased out of Jordan — but who did NOT get help from a special UN refugee group. In other words, why is “The Squad” playing a color card that applies only to two — Omar and Pressley?
Israelis obviously are xenophobic.
That’s why Israel is populated by people from Africa, Asia, and Europe.
That is why people from the PLO-controlled areas wanted to work in Israel (before BDS forced closure of Israeli companies such as SodaStream) and to shop in Israeli stores, or even to import Israeli goods for local sales. Hundreds cross into Israel every day to work on construction sites for wages far above what they would make in the PLO-controlled areas.
True, there are fences and walls.
Why? To reduce the amount of terror exported from the PLO and Hamas-controlled areas. Even Muslim Egypt closes its border to Hamas.
I’m not sure how “The Squad” can criticize Israel for treating Syrians and Lebanese wounded in internecine warfare, or for treating residents of the PLO and Hamas-controlled areas, but they certainly don’t give credit to Israel for its humanitarianism.
“The Squad” complains that Israel withholds electricity and fuel from the PLO and Hamas-controlled areas. The PLO failed to pay its electric bill; finally Israel had to write off a major portion of the debt.
When Hamas and its associates stop shelling Israeli civilians, Israel provides fuel as well as other materials. Had the PLO, then in control of Gaza, not destroyed the hothouses left behind by the Israelis forced out by Ariel Sharon, they might have enough food and flowers to export to Israel and Europe.
Will ‘The Squad” ever learn? Not a chance. I think Israel made a mistake by not inviting them to come and see the reality on the ground — to meet with Israeli Arabs and Jews, to visit the Knesset, then visit both the PLO and Hamas-controlled areas. See how the leadership lives and see how the working man lives. Talk to Muslim women — without chaperons — in the PLO and Hamas-controlled areas AND in Israel.
Then, if they continue their rants they will know they are lying — to themselves and to whomever listens to their idiocy.
Sources
1. http://tinyurl.com/y3aglxg3
2. http://tinyurl.com/y53ue8jm
3: http://tinyurl.com/pn9hlh9
4. Though Israel's Penal Law 5737-1977 (hereinafter: the "Penal Law") does not contain a specific offense of FGM, it provides that committing such an act constitutes a harm with aggravating intent according to Section 329(a)(1) of the Penal Law.
A person who commits the crime of harm with aggravating intent may be sentenced to up to twenty (20) years imprisonment. (PDF document)
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