Monday, July 18, 2016

Ruthie Blum: Where is the Outcry (From Western Feminists?)

"Yes, honor killing is alive and well in the Palestinian Authority, whose leaders traipse around the United Nations in Armani suits to bemoan Israeli injustices."

"To “launder” their inevitable end, many Palestinian girls opt to go out with a literal bang and become “martyrs.” Some, Argaman said, are encouraged to do so – even driven to the site of the terrorist attacks they are told to commit – by their parents. If the girls are put to death for dishonoring their families, the stain remains. If, on the other hand, they are killed in the process of maiming Jews, their parents are guaranteed adulation and a hefty monthly stipend from the coffers of the PA, filled regularly by the United States and Europe. You know, continents where women are still yammering about glass ceilings at corporations and harassment by drunken boys on campus trying to cop a feel."

"There is no greater tool by which to measure which side in this case stands for progress: the one that honors its women, not slaughters them for dishonoring their men. Yet where is the outcry from Western feminists? Directed at Israel, of course."