Israeli Professor Suggests Rape as 'Terror Deterrent

[ForgoTheConsequence]

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Source: The Jewish Daily Forward

(Haaretz) — “The only thing that can deter terrorists, like those who kidnapped the children and killed them, is the knowledge that their sister or their mother will be raped.” This assertion was made by Middle East scholar Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar-Ilan University on an Israel Radio program. “It sounds very bad, but that’s the Middle East,” added Kedar, of Bar-Ilan’s Department of Arabic.

The program “Hakol Diburim” (“It’s All Talk”) was broadcast on July 1, immediately after the discovery of the bodies of Gilad Shaar, Naftali Fraenkel and Eyal Yifrah, who were kidnapped and murdered in the West Bank. It dealt, among other things, with the question of how Hamas can be deterred.
“You have to understand the culture in which we live,” said Kedar. “The only thing that deters [Hamas leaders] is a threat to the connection between their heads and their shoulders.” When presenter Yossi Hadar asked if that “could filter down” the organization’s ranks, Kedar replied: “No, because lower down the considerations are entirely different. Terrorists like those who kidnapped the children and killed them — the only thing that deters them is if they know that their sister or their mother will be raped in the event that they are caught. What can you do, that’s the culture in which we live.”
When Hadar said, “We can’t take such steps, of course,” Kedar continued: “I’m not talking about what we should or shouldn’t do. I’m talking about the facts. The only thing that deters a suicide bomber is the knowledge that if he pulls the trigger or blows himself up, his sister will be raped. That’s all. That’s the only thing that will bring him back home, in order to preserve his sister’s honor.”




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Barbarians.

[KamaAina]

1. Has he been listening to "Blurred Lines" on a tape loop?!

[jakeXT]

2. Still good at predicting the future

Mossad chief's chillingly prescient kidnap prophecy

Ten days ago, Tamir Pardo outlined a scenario that was spookily similar to the kidnapping of three teens missing in the West Bank since Thursday.

Ten days ago, at a security cabinet meeting, Mossad Chief Tamir Pardo outlined a scenario spookily similar to the kidnapping of the three Israeli teens missing since Thursday night.

The meeting dealt with the report of the Shamgar Committee on prisoner exchanges and on the Habayit Hayehudi bill that prohibits granting pardons to terrorists.

..

"What will you do if in a week three 14-year-old girls will be kidnapped from one of the settlements?," he asked. "Will you say there is a law, and we don't release terrorists?"

Pardo did not convince the ministers, however. At the cabinet meeting three days later, the appeal of Science and Technology Minister Jacob Perry was rejected and the bill passed to a Knesset vote. By Wednesday, the bill passed its preliminary reading in the Knesset.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.598751

[bravenak]

3. The craziest thing have been said in the last few days.

Rape. Why? Why would anyone even consider this on our modern age, let alone say it out loud?

[cpwm17]

4. He's one asshole out of billions of people on this earth

We shouldn't really be that concerned unless his ideas catch on throughout Israel. I doubt they will. He should be fired though. I doubt he will

[ForgoTheConsequence]

7. He's a very well regarded and influential professor.

And his university is already backing him up.

[cpwm17]

9. I hear what you are saying

and he should be fired. That's unlikely in Israel.

Some people do have rather severe attitudes in Israel and its government sucks. I'm also not a big fan of going overboard on condemning an entire people based on the bad behavior of one individual. There are many sucky individuals in this world, in every nation, that have the potential of making us all look bad.

[iandhr]

5. To all my fellow men out there.

If you feel the urge to talk about rape and you feel the need to say anything except "it's a horrible crime" just don't talk.

[mbperrin]

6. Just when you think you've heard it all.

How does one earn an advanced degree without any ability to actually think through the consequences of their words?

[TygrBright]

8. Somewhere in hell a whole buttload of Nazi shitheads are grinning. n/t

[The Traveler]

10. I was just thinking the same thing, Tygr

Their methods live on.

Trav

[azurnoir]

11. Locking

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