{"id":153468,"date":"2023-11-26T07:30:40","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=153468"},"modified":"2023-11-26T07:41:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-26T15:41:22","slug":"rape-the-arab-israeli-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=153468","title":{"rendered":"Rape &#038; The Arab-Israeli Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the good things I&#8217;ve repeatedly heard about Israel&#8217;s armed forces is that they rarely rape, but according to this <A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/world\/israel-chases-an-elusive-horrific-enemy-rape-as-a-weapon-of-war\/ar-AA1kuStb\">Washington Post article<\/a>, Palestinians have rarely raped Israelis (until the <A HREF=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/2023_Hamas_attack_on_Israel\">October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Some forces in the Middle East, including those of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the Islamic State, have used systematic rape as a weapon. But many armed groups consider the act taboo, even in war. The practice has never been used systematically in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to experts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many pundits routinely proclaim the non-rapey nature of the IDF but I don&#8217;t recall any of them noting that Palestinians have largely abstained from this behavior as well in their battle against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>When I mention this to my Zionist friends (and I consider myself a Zionist), they tend to angrily deny it. <\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dXpg-uwq-vs\">Sam Vaknin claims<\/a> that the Hamas fighters who attacked Israel October 7 were disciplined, and that the rapes were committed by regular Gazans. <\/p>\n<p>My intuition says that higher IQ people are more capable of empathy and therefore are less likely to rape than lower IQ people. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the good things I&#8217;ve repeatedly heard about Israel&#8217;s armed forces is that they rarely rape, but according to this Washington Post article, Palestinians have rarely raped Israelis (until the October 7 Hamas attack on southern Israel). Some forces &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=153468\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-rape"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153468"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153476,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153468\/revisions\/153476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}