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The
Embarrassing Abuse of Women in Israel's War Against Men
By C. E. Carlson
The shocking June 5th
news told of another human bomber. A bigger, but still primitive,
hand-detonated bomb was hidden somewhere in a Palestinian's auto that
crashed into a bus near Meggido and burned it to charred metal. It was
reported that 16 persons and the bomber were killed and many were wounded.
Perhaps we have just seen the battle of Meggido.
What is different about
this incident is that, for once, the Israeli press admitted that the dead
included "military," and not just "persons." Much of
the US media, including the New York Times
and National Public Radio, left out the part about military deaths and only
talked about "people" or "bus passengers" being killed,
as has been the standard pattern in past bombings. The press began the day
by deliberately ignoring the presence of military, but before day's end,
they updated their tune to catch up with the facts. Soldiers, or Military,
had been killed.
This is the first time that the US press has admitted that bus bombings
kill military. According to our study of more than 60 bombings, buses have
been the number one target for body bombers for eight years. This is
because every bus is believed likely to have military on board. The Meggido
bus was reported to be packed with military, much like some I rode on in Israel, in which the aisles were filled
with standing, armed Israeli Defense Forces young men and women.
It is well known in Israel and to any visitor who, like myself,
has ridden the country's buses, that they are military transports. In Israel a bus is as much a military target
as a supply train or troop transport plane is in modern warfare. The
Palestinians wage primitive war with human bombs because they do not have
the means to fight any other way, but their targets are no different than
in any guerilla war. The statistics suggest they look for concentrations of
vulnerable military; this is clear from the targets they destroy.
We Hold These Truths
believes Israel and the American media told some of the truth about this
bombing only because the Meggido bus was so obviously a troop transport,
that it would have been propaganda suicide to deny it. This small step
toward candidness may also have been encouraged by WHTT's two recent
reports exposing the body bombers' targets. We have reason to believe the
Israeli propaganda machine saw our reports. But we are not finished with
this subject, as anyone who reads our reports knows.
Answering Critics About the
Body Bombers
Intelligent Bombs vs.
Smart Bombs
Only Half Of The Truth Is
On The Table:
Israel is covering up the unavoidable statistical fact that, among the dead
"soldiers," there have to have been some female soldiers, who
have been placed in battle conditions along with the males. The Israeli
propaganda machine, which we have dubbed the Ministry of Truth (MOT), is
showing its true colors by not telling us how many of those soldiers killed
were women.
Some might ask, why does
it matter? It matters because MOT does not want the world to know that it
is the most brutal and uncivilized military state on the face of the earth,
even toward its women. Israeli and American propaganda loves to color the
Palestinians--especially Muslims--as abusers of women and women's rights.
In fact, Israel treats its own teenage girls in the
most barbarous fashion of any nation on earth, perhaps on a par with the
near-dead Soviet
Union.
All women are drafted
into the IDF at the age of 19 for 1.5 years, and they serve in Israeli
territory and at checkpoints with the men. Young 19-year old female
soldiers (carrying rifles) were on every one of the four so-called civilian
buses on which I rode. There was not a single exception, nor did I see a
busload where armed females soldiers were not on board. Because females
serve only half as long as males, the number found on the street and in the
buses seemed to be about one in three.
By this admittedly
unscientific estimate, it is possible that four or five women could have
been killed and a dozen or more wounded on the Meggido bus. But we have not
heard a word about even one female IDF member being either killed or
wounded. Nor have we heard that all those killed were males, as we would
expect to be told, if it were so! This has the sound of more Israeli
doublespeak.
As we pointed out in
previous reports, not a single one of the sixty bombings resulted in even
one reported female military victim. Are we to think that women are immune
to the flying shrapnel that cut men's bodies into chunks? Are we to believe
the laws of heat exchange and fluid pressure do not apply to female
soldiers... that female body parts do not scorch, when the paint on a bus
burns off?
No. We are expected not
to notice that the MOT never admits to female military deaths in the
international press. The families, of course, must know different. We Hold
These Truths does not present the one-in-three statistic as an absolute,
but it is close enough for us to know we are being lied to, just as we have
been effectively lied to for years about only or primarily civilian
casualties on the buses that have been bombed.
Israel has shown its barbarism in the
treatment of Palestinian women in many documented cases. What it does to
its own women is equally shocking. It drafts and compels them to serve day and
night with men under too-familiar conditions; it trains and conditions them
to perform acts of brutality; it places them in harm's way, knowing they
are targets of men who have no choice but to treat them as hostiles; and it
lies about them when they die while on duty, denying their presence even in
death, in the interest of Israeli propaganda.
We Americans, by our
funding, support barbarism that we would not tolerate within the gates of
our own civilization. Our next issue explains which American Christian
leaders support it and why they do so.
Post script: Guilt
Admitted:
The last thing the writer did before releasing this article was to examine
the official Israeli
Website, and here is what we found:
On June 5 The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs (ministry of truth)
report was posted with only the following statement about the deaths of 17
"people" which remains there:
June 5: 17 people were
killed and 38 injured - 7 seriously - when a car packed with a large
quantity of explosives struck Egged commuter bus No. 830 traveling from
Tel-Aviv to Tiberias at the Megiddo junction near Afula, in northern Israel, at 7:15 on Wednesday morning. The bus, which
burst into flames, was completely destroyed. The terrorist, who drove the
car bomb, was killed in the blast. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility
for the attack."
And on June 6, 2002, after the western press had already
aired this generic people story, The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs
quietly posted the names and pictures of the dead. This list includes three
female soldiers. The death list was dutifully reported in major Israeli
papers, none of which calling any attention to deaths of women soldiers.
The names of the women killed were: Cpl. Liron Avitan, 19, of Hadera,
Afula, Sgt. Violetta
Hizgayev, 20, of Hadera, Sgt. Sivan Wiener, 19, of Holon.
Have you heard about the
dead Israeli soldier girls on CNN? Don't hold your breath for a
correction--unless you demand it!
-Editor
Truths Press P.O. Box
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