With so many massive cruelties that have been visited on the people of Israel over the past few years, the blaming of the victims of terrorism, it shouldn’t be surprising that the victims of brutal rape should be ignored, almost forgotten.  

It’s like a second rape, this dismissal of the brutalization of the women on Oct 7.  Perhaps because most of the women were dismembered and will not carry their shame into the future that we can close the chapter, perhaps because it is embarassing to talk about such subjects, an admission of weakness. 

But I have to admit I’m totally shocked by the silence of American women’s organizations.  The evidence is everywhere – on the go-pros of the rapists and murderers, in testimonies of witnesses.  How is it that organizations for women’s rights around the world are sanctioning this unspeakable behavior?

It doesn’t matter now, does it?  We’ve been shamed enough by the invasion and slaughter.  The dead are dead.  Still, imagine your own last moments in such degradation. Or imagine living with the memory.  The horror.