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Its one of the worst things that can happen to a person after they’ve been raped – that you’re not believed.  That’s why I’m so shocked and really appalled by the reaction of the international women’s organizations.  Here are a few articles:

Women believe rape allegations from other women – with one exception (ynetnews.com)

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hjhumxb4t?utm_source=taboola&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=internal

 

I wasn’t going to talk about it either, because the subject is physically painful to me, but when I looked it up on Google, there was almost nothing outside of Israel.  Little girls, old ladies, and all the women in between were raped in their beds or while they were at a party and murdered, sometimes in reverse order, documented by the rapists themselves and we don’t even talk about it.  What amazing hypocrisy! 

Someone is shutting them up.

It’s like I was told at college that if I reported it, the fraternity would bring dozens of boys to swear that I did it for a living.  

So I shut up.

 

 

 

 

after rape – nov 22, 2023 Read Post »

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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.

 

 

rape – nov 20, 2023 Read Post »