Story of How Israeli Soldiers RAPED and KILLED Arab girl.

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Story of How Israeli Soldiers RAPED and KILLED Arab girl.
by capt_ayhab
16-Feb-2009
 

For 54 years the fate of a young Bedouin girl who disappeared in the Negev desert was relegated to rumour and a single entry in the diary of David Ben-Gurion, the prime minister of the fledgling Israeli state.

"It was decided and carried out: they washed her, cut her hair, raped her and killed her," he wrote.

After that the case became one of the state's earliest secrets, and no more than hearsay passed between soldiers.

Now
the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz has used previously classified army
documents to reveal the full story of what Mr Ben-Gurion called a
"horrific atrocity".

In August 1949, an army unit stationed at
Nirim in the Negev shot an Arab man and captured a Bedouin girl with him. Her name and age remain unknown, but she was probably in her mid-teens.

In the following hours she was taken from the hut
and forced to shower naked in full view of the soldiers. Three of the men then raped her.

After the Sabbath meal the platoon commander, identified by Ha'aretz as a man called Moshe who had served in the British army during the second world war, proposed a vote on what should be done with her.

One option was to put her to work in the outpost's kitchen.

Most of the 20 or so soldiers present voted for the alternative by chanting: "We want to fuck". The commander organized a rota for groups of his men to gang rape the girl over the next three days. Moshe and one of his sergeants went first, leaving the girl unconscious. Next morning, she complicated matters by protesting about her treatment. Moshe told one of his sergeants to kill her.

She was forced into a patrol vehicle with several soldiers, two carrying shovels, and they drove off into the dunes. When the girl realised what was about to happen she tried to run, but only made it a few paces before she was shot by a Sergeant Michael.

Her body was buried in a grave less than a foot deep.

A few days later the battalion commander, Yehuda Drexler, asked Moshe if he had carried out an order to return the girl to her village.

"They killed her," replied Moshe. "It was a shame to waste the petrol." He was ordered to write a report. Ha'aretz has obtained a copy.

It said: "In my patrol on 12.8.49 I encountered Arabs in the territory under my command, one of them armed. I killed the armed Arab on the spot and took his weapon. I took the Arab female captive. On the first night the soldiers abused her and the next day I saw fit to remove her from the world."

He and most of the soldiers at the outpost were tried in secret. Some said they were carrying out their commander's orders. The military judges rejected that line of defense. Moshe denied rape. "Morally speaking, it was impossible to sleep with such a dirty girl," he told the court.

He was acquitted of rape but convicted of murder and sentenced to 15 years in prison. The judges likened his stated willingness "to murder even women and children in cold blood" to "Hitler's methods in France".

Nineteen other soldiers received light sentences of between one and three years, mostly for "negligence in preventing a crime".

The appeal court reduced their sentences, saying: "At the time there was a general feeling of contempt for the life of Arabs ... and sometimes wanton events occurred in this sphere. All this helped create an atmosphere of 'anything goes'.

"We are convinced that this atmosphere existed at the Nirim outpost, too."

But the government and army understood the shame that would fall on the armed forces if the girl's fate became known to wider Israeli society, so the murder and trial were classified as secret.

The case was briefly resurrected at the trial in 1956 of Israeli soldiers and police officers who murdered 43 Arab civilians in Kafr Qassem, to help establish the precedent that there is no defence in obeying illegal orders.

Then it disappeared from view again.

Several years later members of a kibbutz near the Nirim base noticed that the wind had uncovered a small hand.

 

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by Mehdi Mazloom on

thanks for the excellent and poignant input. The funny thing is, these heinous crimes performed by Muhammad and his followers almost 1400 years ago, are STILL studied today. Boasted by Muslims as "holy deeds", held as model to be followed and emulated  by true followers of Islam.

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Mehdi Mazloom

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by Mehdi Mazloom on

Here is another one of your mindless ****. Lean on one incident happaned in by gone era to make a case against Israel..

Now  read this

Meir Har-Zion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search

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Even if true, Once such

by pedramkhan (not verified) on

Even if true, Once such incidence during 60 years of Israeli rule is not that many. During Saddam's rule in baghdad many Iraqi women where raped every single day. During Iran Iraq war many Iranian women in Abadan and Khorram shahr were subject to rape by Iraqi soldiers. During American occupation of Iraq several such incidences occured but I don't think one can say the whole American army is bad just because of a few incidences.

Such incidences have also occured during the Arab history .

According to the site below:

//www.faithfreedom.org/challenge/rapist.htm

Muhammad allowed his men to rape the women captured in raids. However, after capturing the women, Muslims faced a dilemma. They wanted to have sex with them but also wanted to return them for ransom and therefore did not want to make them pregnant. Some of these women were already married. Their husbands had managed to escape when taken by surprise and were still alive. The raiders considered the possibility of coitus interruptus (withdrawing from intercourse prior to ejaculation). Unsure of the best course of action, they went to Muhammad for counsel. Bukhari reports:

Abu Saeed said: “We went out with Allâh's Apostle for the Ghazwa of Banu Al-Mustaliq and we received captives from among the Arab captives and we desired women and celibacy became hard on us and we loved to do coitus interruptus. So when we intended to do coitus interruptus, we said, 'How can we do coitus interruptus before asking Allâh's Apostle who is present among us?" We asked (him) about it and he said, 'It is better for you not to do so, for if any soul (till the Day of Resurrection) is predestined to exist, it will exist." [1]

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//www.faithfreedom.org/Articles/sin...

Ali Sina claims prophet Mohammed massacred the Jewish tribe of Banu Quraiza. There is also a Hadith in refence to that incident.( Sunan Abu-Dawud Book 38, Number 4390)

It's recorded in the ahadiths:

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DW Duke

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by DW Duke on

Thanks Ayhab.  I couldn't locate a copy of the Mishneh Torah on line, which contains Rambam's comments.   Essentially, the question pertains to the treatment of female captives of war and an interpretation of the Torah.  Rambam (Rabbi Maimonides) maintained that a soldier could have sex with a female captive if he took her to his home.  He then had to marry her or set her free.  He has been interpreted to mean forced sex is permissable if he takes her to his home.  I do not agree with this interpretation but believe it was only consensual sex that was permitted after which he had to marry her or set her free. 

What may have translated in this case was a belief that forced sex was permissable according to Rambam and therefore gang rape was permissable.  The fact that they took a vote tells me this was some form of deliberate act which they were trying to justify in their minds. 

Here is a verse from the Mishneh Torah (Rambam's writing) that addresses this:

8:2:  "A soldier may have sexual relations with a woman while she is a gentile if his passion overcomes him.  However, he may not have sexual relations with her then take off.  Rather he must bring her into his house . . . and he may not have sex with her a second time until he marries her."

This has all been rendered moot by the Geneva Convention that requires special treatment for female prisoners to assure their safety.  Israel is, of course, a signatory to the Geneva Conventions.

 

 


capt_ayhab

Mr. Duke

by capt_ayhab on

The story originally was published on guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 4 November 2003, by Chris McGreal.

However when I followed the link from Current.com to Guardian, in the address link does not provide the url.

Kindly go to //current.com/items/89817104/israel_learns_of... and follow the link and you will see what I am speaking of.

BTW, can you please provide link to your thread regarding Rabbi Mainmonides? I would be grateful.

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Capt. Ayhab,

Were you by chance able to find a link to the actual Haaretz article? 

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I would like to find more information on this case.  It would be an important account for an article I am writing on extremist behavior in religions.