The politics of the non raping soldiers of Israel

Israel National News:

A research paper that won a Hebrew University teachers' committee prize finds that the lack of IDF rapes of Palestinian women is designed to serve a political purpose.

The abstract of the paper, authored by doctoral candidate Tal Nitzan, notes that the paper shows that "the lack of organized military rape is an alternate way of realizing [particular] political goals."

The next sentence delineates the particular goals that are realized in this manner: "In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it can be seen that the lack of military rape merely strengthens the ethnic boundaries and clarifies the inter-ethnic differences - just as organized military rape would have done."

The paper further theorizes that Arab women in Judea and Samaria are not raped by IDF soldiers because the women are de-humanized in the soldiers' eyes.

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When asked whether "Israeli soldiers come from a culture that very much condemns rape?" the response was "that observers do not have the right to demand a particular explanation to a given phenomenon...."

This paper may go down as one of the most ignorant "academic" studies of all times. Highly disciplined military forces recognize how disruptive it would be to permit rape and what a hostile reaction it would cause if allowed. On top of that most western countries and Israel have a moral code that finds rape by its troops morally repugnant. This is unlike some Muslim forces who use rape as a matter of war policy to demoralize their victims and humiliate them and their spouse. Hat tip James Taranto.

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