Israel learns of a hidden shame

[dArKeR]

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 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.

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[IndianaGreen]

1. The most moral army in the world, and the only democracy in the ME

are just another thug and another shitty country in the ME.

We shouldn't go around thinking that we are somehow better, more blessed, and closer to Gawd than anyone else. It is called self-delusion, and it is a coping mechanism that prevents us from dealing with reality.

Are the culprits going to be prosecuted? I wonder if some of them are in high positions in the current government.

[Jim Sagle]

2. What nation are YOU from?

Tell me, so I can start dredging up all the dirt I can find.

And no matter where yer from, it won't be hard.

[DulceDecorum]

3. What no apopogy?

Just "I am still better than you" statements.

I suppose that girl "was asking for it" and "she had it coming" anyway.

If you had been at the side of King David, after the death of Uriah, and had said there and then, what you have said here .......
It is THIS type of attitude that caused Moses to cast down the tablets and smash them against the earth.

You are judged for what YOU have done,
and God does NOT grade on a curve.

Those soldiers deserve to burn in hell.
And it does not matter WHERE they were from.

[Lithos]

4. Locking

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