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Satire for Sanity
Israel has been actively covering up a Shin Bet sex crime for years
A Palestinian woman filed a complaint after being subjected to an intimate search. Her story reveals the tip of an iceberg of Israeli misconduct, excuses, and cover-ups at the highest levels of the security and justice establishment.
In recent weeks, the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz has been reporting on a disturbing case opened in 2018 by the Israeli State Prosecutor’s Office. The story reveals Israel’s official complicity with the intimate body search of at least one Palestinian woman, and Israel’s investigative agency’s unwillingness to police its own.
Israel has a long history of strip searching women and children, first revealed by If Americans Knew in 2007 (see this and this) and in number of additional reports since.
Following is a recent egregious example, and complicity at the highest levels of the Israeli security and justice establishment.
The context
Israel has earned a reputation for lying to cover up its crimes, conducting “investigations” that whitewash its actions, disregarding international law (including the injunction against apartheid), going easy on the few Israelis whose actions can’t escape notice, and going hard on Palestinians who are innocent.
Both the Shin Bet and the Israeli military and police are known for their widespread use of torture on Palestinian prisoners (including child prisoners and Americans), as first reported by journalist Grace Halsell in the 1970s.
Over 1,000 complaints have been lodged regarding Shin Bet conduct, but until this incident, every one had been dismissed.
The American mainstream media is, by failing to report on this incident (and Israel’s overall incompetence in providing justice for the Palestinians under its control) is complicit in oppression.
The US government is at least equally at fault for its refusal to hold Israel accountable.
Americans need to speak out about these and other Israeli atrocities – otherwise, $10 million a day of our tax dollars make us complicit too.
https://israelpalestinenews.org/com...lJl7HkqIGTuRcFgSOpGeZ7TN6WYUdxVbjlyfzH4az-bdY
Those of us capable of free-thought know that power corrupts- and that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
We know that it's not uncommon for police in the West to arrest women in order to rape them- sometimes to rape and murder them
Imagine what it's like in a state wherein the perpetrators of rape and murder are virtually immune from prosecution and sometimes even rewarded by the Israeli state as part of the cover-up processes.
We hear of the Israeli army setting up check-points all over the Palestinian country that they illegally occupy. We don't hear so often that some of them are ' rape-points '. We often hear of ' knife-wielding ' young Palestinian women being shot dead ' to protect Israeli soldiers '.
You see the last line in that report ?
Americans need to speak out about these and other Israeli atrocities – otherwise, $10 million a day of our tax dollars make us complicit too.
If you don't want to be complicit- do not vote for anybody that supports Israeli fascism. Surely, there are still clean politicians in America ?