Tel-Chai Nation

The United Nations has turned to their umpteenth classic blame-game tactics:

(IsraelNN.com) Violence against women has long been common in Gaza: a Palestinian Women’s Information and Media Center study found that between half and three-quarters of Gaza women are subjected to physical violence from male relatives.

A recent report created by IRIN, which provides “humanitarian analysis” in coordination with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, quotes Gaza women in putting the blame for the high rates of violence on Israel. “Widespread unemployment was one of the biggest contributors to household stress, and in turn male violence against women,” the article said in the name of a Gaza women's center worker. The worker accused Israel of causing high unemployment with an "economic blockade."

IRIN also quotes the UN Commission on the Status of Women, which last week drafted a resolution expressing concern over “the grave situation of Palestinian women in the occupied Palestinian territory... resulting from the severe impact of the ongoing illegal Israeli occupation and all its manifestations.”

First, make no mistake here, whoever these women are in Gaza whom they're alluding to are not blaming Israel for actually abandoning them. That too is either mindless placement of the blame, or they're being forced by the males to do so. But the next paragraph is certainly telling: This IRIN is claiming that Israel's alleged "occupation" is what caused this unjustified violence to take place. The tactics they're using are very similar to a certain Swedish newspaper's claim that Israel harvests the organs of palestinians. No doubt they're either willing to - or most certainly are - blaming Israel for encouraging something that just so happens to take place in many more parts of the Islamic world.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, misogyny, UN corruption