Why in the World Are IDF Soldiers Not Raping Anyone? - Tsvi Sadan ISRAEL TODAY

Why in the World Are IDF Soldiers Not Raping Anyone?

Tuesday, March 08, 2016 |  Tsvi Sadan  ISRAEL TODAY

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In light of what is happening to non-Muslim women in the Islamic State, where a single captive Yazidi or Christian woman often becomes the sex slave of an entire ISIS platoon, the absence of war-related rapes among IDF soldiers is a source of frustration for Palestinians and their supporters. 

Two years ago, a young Israeli student at Hebrew University attempted to address this issue in her thesis. 

The student's conclusion was that IDF soldiers don't rape because they are racists. "It is impossible to rape someone who is not human," she wrote. This young woman's perverted determination was that "just as Serbians formed their identity by publicly gang-banging Bosnian women, Jewish men define their unique identity as non-rapists … rape and non-rape are two sides of the same coin."

Confusing the issue, some take the opposite approach. In a lecture to students at Oranim College a month ago, Israeli Arab teacher Naila Awad, who runs the organization "Women Against Violence," claimed that Israeli soldiers are sexually abusing Palestinian women. 

When asked where she had gotten this information, Awad insisted, without referring to any specific documentation, that "there are many studies that prove that IDF soldiers are sexually abusing and raping Palestinian women in the West Bank." In unprecedented disciplinary action, Awad was suspended following a loud student outcry.

Awad responded with a weird reference to the Bible. "During war," she said, "[Jewish] men can take women," implying that Jews are actually encouraged to rape the women of the enemy. This same argument surfaced about two weeks ago in "Days of Palestine," an online Palestine publication claiming to specialize in providing first-hand news.

The website regurgitated a 2012 article entitled "Israeli rabbi: Israeli soldiers can rape Palestinian women" by radical Israeli blogger Yossi Gurvitz, who himself had dug up some religious discussion that took place nine years earlier (so much for "first-hand news"). 

Days of Palestine then claimed that "Israeli Rabbi Col. Eyal Qarim of the Israeli Military Rabbinate had permitted Israeli Jewish soldiers to rape Palestinian women." 

The obvious question that should follow is, why then, despite this permission, are Israeli soldiers not raping anyone? Like the deranged Hebrew U. "scholar," detractors would probably answer that Palestinian women disgust the racist Israeli soldiers. Bizarre as it is, in this argument Palestinians are actually taking offense at their women being undesirable to the enemy. 

Either way, Israel is damned if it does, and damned if it doesn't.

Following Gurvitz's insidious allegations, a senior Military Rabbinate official issued a short response, which was promptly ignored by those perpetuating the notion that non-rape is rape. "Basic human morality," he said, to state the obvious, "as well as Torah, Halacha and army policy prohibit rape and denounce this vile phenomenon."

Awad's biblical reference deals with the rules of war concerning captive women (Deuteronomy 21:10-11). One does not have to be particularly bright to ascertain that the full passage, in complete contrast to the violence and degradation involved in rape, commands Israeli soldiers to show restraint and treat captive women with utter respect.

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MIDDLE EASTNovember 5, 2015

Freed Yezidi Teen Tells Of Life As ISIS Sex Slave - II&ET

E RBIL, Kurdistan Region – A young Kurdish Yezidi woman who became pregnant while being held as a sex slave of the so-called Islamic State, or ISIS, for more than three months tells her story.

The woman, 15, is originally from Shingal. Her name has been changed to Hind in this account to preserve her safety. She was abducted when ISIS fighters overran the Yezidi’s ancestral homeland.

“On August 3 at 2am, the war started in Shingal. The fight lasted until 9am and then the Yezidis and Peshmerga were defeated. I left with my brother’s wife to my uncle’s house. I had my little sisters with me and my aunts had their daughters, and we managed to find a car. My father and mother along with my uncle walked to the mountain. Those who walked towards the mountain managed to escape but those who took a car were stuck and ISIS caught them,” she told Rudaw.

Hind said she distrusted some local Arabs and suspected they had waited for this moment to attack the Yezidis.

She said most of the families who failed to escape were caught on the Syrian border and then taken to a camp in Khansor.

Hind had said she and two of her sisters were taken to Baaj and then transferred to Tal Afar. After Tal Afar, they were taken to Badoosh prison where they stayed for 25 days

“They took us again to Tal Afar and we stayed in a school. They separated the families with the young girls. We were around 700 girls,” she said.

She said she stayed at a three-storey house in Mosul and one day one an ISIS emir came and took her and one of her friends.

“At 3am he raped me. That ugly monster,” she told Rudaw. “For more than three months, I cried myself from the morning until the night.”

Hind and her friends never lost hope. They tried to escape but they were caught by the militants and taken to base where hundreds of other Yezidi girls were held as hostage.

“My friend and I were taken to a basement and stayed there for one week with no water and food,” she said.

Hind and her friend were continuously transferred between places. She said they were even taken to Syria and then returned to the basement.

“I still live in fear and have nightmares every night,” she said.

“The first one who raped me was tall and had a long beard. He was originally from Syria,” she told Rudaw.

Hind said she was sold once for $200 and once given as a gift from one ISIS fighter to another.

Finally, she was forced to marry an ISIS member who eventually took her to a Christian house.

“We managed to find a cell phone and gave the phone to my friends and they charged it. I talked with my family and they helped us find a smuggler who was secretly working to buy the girls who were in ISIS captivity,” she said.

“At 3am, my friends and I jumped from the second floor. A car arrived and took us to a house in Mosul. We stayed there for three days. Another smuggler came to take us to Jazira near Mosul,” she said.

Hind managed to return back to the Kurdistan region in November 2014. Four of her siblings are still held by ISIS.

“I would look them in the eye and ask, ‘Why are you doing this? Don’t you fear God?’ I told them, ‘We are the same age as your daughters. There is no mercy in your hearts. You hit me. You rape me’.”

She said the ISIS fighters would say, “Islam allows it and we will do it.”

“They forced me to read Quran and pray in front of them. And I had no choice but to obey,”

Hind said most ISIS members are foreigners and some spoke English. She said some were from Egypt, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, the United States, China and other countries. She said the foreigners mostly stayed in Syria and did not come to Iraq.

During her captivity, she noticed that the militants were eager to pray and fast. She said they frequently mentioned heaven.

Hind said that some ISIS members drank alcohol, but only in secret because it is not allowed in Islam.

Hind said some of the foreign women who joined ISIS were very happy. She said a woman from the UK told her, “ISIS is very good. They provide us with everything: money, houses and guards.”

Hind said went to school and learned how to read and write, but after what ISIS did to her she remembers nothing.

“I was raped by three different ISIS members with different nationalities. I had no idea I was pregnant. I felt sick all the time and one day I started to bleed. I was taken to the doctor and they told me I was pregnant. I lost the child because the child was threatening my life,” said the woman.

“I am just happy that I did not carry an ISIS child into this world,” she said.

Hind was also left heartbroken and ashamed.

“Before ISIS attack, I was in love with a guy. After I returned, he told me that he is not interested in me anymore because I was raped,” she said.

Hind said that she has no desire to get married.

Hind now lives at a camp with her family in Erbil.

“Life at the camp is very hard, “ she said.

“Soon, I will leave to Europe and will never come back, even if this place becomes a heaven on earth.”

General Jeremy Boykin (Ret.): Green Beret 'a Hero' for Beating Child Rapist

Gen. Jerry Boykin (Ret.)

Boykin: Green Beret 'a Hero' for Beating Child Rapist

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Tuesday, September 29, 2015

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A Green Beret is about to be kicked out of the Army for beating up an Afghan police commander who used a young boy as a sex slave.

The Blaze reports Sgt. 1st  Class Charles Martland and his team leader confronted the police commander. He said the commander admitted to repeatedly raping the child and laughed it off.

Martland said he body-slammed the man to the ground several times and kicked him in the ribs. The beating lasted about five minutes until the man ran away.

Now, Martland faces military justice and involuntary separation from the Army.

Retired Army Gen. Jerry Boykin said Martland is a hero and any soldier who does not defend a child from a rapist should be brought up on charges.

He spoke to CBN News about this case. Click below to  watch.

Watch interview: Green Beret - Jeremy Boykin