Tel-Chai Nation

A most repulsive sexual assault of a 7-year-old girl took place, committed by at least 3 Islamic culprits at Modiin Illit:

A rape of a seven-year-old Israeli girl by a Palestinian man earlier this year has turned into a political football, with right-wing politicians calling it a hate-motivated “terrorist attack.”

And what's that supposed to mean? That it wasn't, in its own way, a terror attack? The Jerusalem Post's going too far here, turning it into a political football themselves by avoiding the harder issues of hate crimes that took place.

The suspect, a resident of the West Bank town of Deir Qaddis near Modi’in Illit who was employed as a school cleaner in a settlement, was charged on Sunday for the alleged rape, assault and abduction of the child.

Police claim that the man met the child during his work as a school cleaner, offered her candy to inspire her trust in him, and eventually led her forcibly to a house near the school to assault her. The suspect claimed he didn’t commit the crime, and police have been unable to track down two other men who were allegedly present at the time of the attack.

The Military Advocate-General reported on Monday that there is no indication that the rape was motivated by nationalistic ideology, Maariv reported. However, the attorney for the family – which lives in the Binyamin area of the West Bank – from the Honenu National legal defense organization told Ynet that the suspect attacked the girl because she was Jewish.

The crime was “pure hate expressed by a group of scums who acted in defiance of all human values just because the victim was Jewish,” said the attorney, Haim Blaicher. Honenu issued a statement saying that the family was not making any statements about the case.

“This is not pedophilia, but plain terrorism,” Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman said on social media, arguing in favor of sentencing terrorists in such cases to death.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the crime “moves all of our hearts,” and called on the courts to punish the perpetrator to the full extent of the law.

If what they've quoted from Lieberman is accurate, he might want to consider that while it is an act of terrorism, it's still pedophilia at the same time. What Lieberman said was very sloppy, IMO.

Likud MK Ariel Kallner tweeted that the crime is “a terrorist attack, motivated by nationalistic ideology for all intents and purposes. We know the barbarism of our enemies for over a century.”

National Union chairman MK Bezalel Smotrich called for the death penalty against the rapist.

“There is no limit to the evil and cruelty,” Smotrich said. “If only we could impose the death penalty on this vile person. Nothing less. A monster like this doesn’t deserve to breathe air in our world.”

Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Avi Dichter took to Facebook to argue that the criminals “would not dare to drag and rape a Palestinian child... [they did it] because she is Jewish. Because she is a girl!”

Dichter further shared an historical anecdote about how in 1944 pre-state Palmach, fighters Yohai Ben-Non, Amos Horav and Yakovah Cohen castrated Araf Ahmed Shatawi, an Arab from Beisan who had raped several Jewish women in the Jordan Valley, as an example he feels should be followed. He called to “castrate their heads... and destroy their homes.”

Even in the US, there's states that have imposed death penalties for rape. And that's what should be done even here with rapists that horrific. It's exactly what should be campaigned for in the legal system.

Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, Israeli Arabs, jihad, Knesset, misogyny, terrorism