tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post2701152693181293785..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: Working WomenYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-48906962652543939892010-09-15T12:07:34.680+02:002010-09-15T12:07:34.680+02:00Looks like Fisk is having a "Fidel moment&quo...Looks like Fisk is having a "Fidel moment".<br /><br />But he is a fair-minded man; so stay tuned for some intense Israel bashing!! (One must, despite some occasional lapses, do one's best to keep the readership happy.)Barry Meislinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04795125774426217113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-3074593838342566412010-09-15T00:34:29.059+02:002010-09-15T00:34:29.059+02:00OT
but as it is about women so be it
I've ju...OT<br />but as it is about women so be it<br /><br />I've just been through the strangest text in a long time:<br /><br />Robert Fisk from the Independent yes "the" Robert Fisk raises the alarm about honour killings of women and a few men and he doesn't have one whiff of apology in the piece. There seem to be altogether 5 pieces of it. Below's the link to the first one and what he says about Gaza and the West-Bank.<br /><br />Silke<br /><br /><i>n "Palestine" itself, Human Rights Watch has long blamed the Palestinian police and justice system for the near-total failure to protect women in Gaza and the West Bank from "honour" killings. Take, for example, the 17-year-old girl who was strangled by her older brother in 2005 for becoming pregnant – by her own father.<br /><br />He was present during her murder. She had earlier reported her father to the police. They neither arrested nor interrogated him. In the same year, masked Hamas gunmen shot dead a 20-year-old, Yusra Azzami, for "immoral behaviour" as she spent a day out with her fiancée. Azzami was a Hamas member, her husband-to-be a member of Fatah. Hamas tried to apologise and called the dead woman a "martyr" – to the outrage of her family. Yet only last year, long after Hamas won the Palestinian elections and took over the Gaza Strip, a Gaza man was detained for bludgeoning his daughter to death with an iron chain because he discovered she owned a mobile phone on which he feared she was talking to a man outside the family. He was later released.</i><br /><br />http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-the-crimewave-that-shames-the-world-2072201.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com