From The Palestinian Department Of Wishful Thinking
You just can’t make this stuff up.
Unless you’re palestinian (hat tip: EoZ).
Palestinian labourers working in Israel are at a high risk of sexual harassment by Israeli women, according to a recent field study conducted by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The study found that 77 per cent of the Palestinian labourers in Israel had been subject to sexual harassment by Israeli women.
In an interview with Gulf News, Shaher Saad, the President of the Union of the Palestinian Labourer Federations, said the Palestinians face a real problem with the labourers who work in Israel on permits other than the official legal work permits.
He stressed that the problem increased further with the illegal labourers who are smuggled into Israel and spend days and weeks there for work. He said those labourers usually are blackmailed, harassed and forced to get involved in illicit and intimate affairs.
“There are about 55,000 Palestinian labourers who enter Israel for work through illegal and unacceptable methods,” he said. “The real focus needs to go to those illegal labourers who get sexually harassed.”
According to Israeli law, labourers who hold official work permits are more than 35 years of age with at least two children and clear security history. “We believe that those labourers are safe and to a large extent are not targets of sexual harassment as they enjoy some judicial rights,” he said. “In cases in which those labourers are subject to any kind of physical harassment, they can report it to the Israeli police which will handle such violations.”
Saad said his union has come up with extensive programmes to raise the awareness of the Palestinian labourers, mainly targeting illegal workers. “Aids is a key enemy fought by the union,” he said.
He said Palestinian labourers should be extremely careful inside Israel knowing that some Israelis will take advantage of the labourers and harm them. “The Israelis only care for their joy and interests and pay no attention or consider judicial consequences when they handle Palestinian labourers,” he said.
Meanwhile, Saad said the minimum Palestinian wage imposed by the Palestinian Government has made the already bad situation even worse.
The Palestinian government has approved 1,450 Shekels (Dh1,383) as the minimum wage level, a level which was refused by the union and other Palestinian official public welfare organisations.
Saad said this minimum wage scheme has motivated more Palestinian labourers to run to Israel and West Bank colonies for work.
“Palestinian labourers cannot survive on this wage in the West Bank at all,” he said. “The consequences of imposing this minimum wage were clearly been explained to the government but it did not take them into account.”
“We are forcing Palestinian labourers outside the West Bank in searches for better work place and Israel is the ideal destination,” he said.
So far, the Palestinian authorities have failed to imposed an HIV test for labourers who have worked in Israel, especially before they marry. An increasing number of HIV patients have been reported by Palestinian medical authorities. “This is an alarm and this issue should be taken in a more serious way,” Saad said.
But I’m confused. Shouldn’t this supposed “sexual harassment” serve to show Israeli women do not dehumanize the palestinian men?
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I would no more allow a single Palestinian to enter and work in Israel then I would any citizen of Nazi Germany into this country to work from 1939 – 45.
Not even the article claims that somebody is putting a gun to the heads of Arab laborers to force them to work in Israel illegally. They might try the Gulf area, which is under Arab rule. … Oh, I forgot. Laborers there are treated like serfs.
With respect to the sexual restraint of the IDF, has the thought ever occurred to these professorial goofballs that Israeli soldiers might find their own women more attractive? I mean, who would you rather sleep with, Bar Refaeli or Hanan Ashrawi?
Both are ugly.
Okay, then, here is the reason Israeli soldiers are uninterested in molesting Arab women. Sometimes, words are unnecessary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKymPfiDsjM
That’s another common point about Marxists and Islamic imperialists: If you want to know their plan for you and yours, just search for the evil deeds they attribute to you.
Expel all the Arab colonists from the entirety of the Land of Israel; the Jews are the only nation with an inherent and not happenstance connection to this land. Arab settlers out!
As long as Jews are dumb enough to allow them into Knesset and to expel fellow Jews from their land, nothing will change.
Yeah, right. Bottom of the barrel reporting.
Why don’t they just go home to their Arab/ Islamic countries?
Tell the BDStards to demand they be expelled under the rules of boycott.