Boo(m) Hoo!
Ma’an News has a “sob” story about female palestinian terrorists who, after being released from Israeli jails, find men aren’t exactly beating down their doors to be with them.
Despite the warm reception and celebrations female prisoners receive in Gaza after being released from Israeli jails, many face social and familial difficulties upon returning to normal life.
In many cases, ex-female prisoners either get divorced or remain single into old age if unmarried.
Wafaa al-Bis, an ex-prisoner from Gaza, was detained in 2005 and sentenced to 12 years for allegedly planning an operation against Israel.
She was released after seven years and told Ma’an she suffers from marginalization, exclusion and degrading treatment.
“Our society views freed female prisoners as women who were raped. My question is whether they think female prisoners were raped willingly or raped while their hands were cuffed!” she told Ma’an.
Wafaa has third degree burns from a past accident and complains that it is hard for her to get medical treatment due to her status as an ex-prisoner.
“I can’t obtain the very basic rights of getting appropriate treatment as a freed prisoner,” she said. She has contacted several Palestinian officials, but to no avail.
When Fatima al-Ziq began taking part in resistance activities she was married and had eight children.
She was arrested while pregnant, and gave birth in jail. Upon her release, she said all doors were closed on her and she had to beg for her rights.
“We do not seek anybody’s gratitude and praise even though we spent the prime of our youth in jail defending our homeland. However, we hope doors will not be shut to us as stragglers who fought on the front-lines.”
Zahiyya Nofal was imprisoned for three years on charges of possessing weapons and helping resistance fighters. She was arrested when she was only 16, and upon being released her parents arranged for her to marry a Bedouin man.
Despite giving birth to two children, when her husband learned that she had been in jail he began to assault her on a daily basis and called her a “terrorist.”
He filed for divorce and denied her access to her children, she said.
Given the attitude by many towards ex-female prisoners, Ruab Rajoubi decided to abstain from marriage. She was jailed for three years on charges of assisting fighters in 1996.
She said many families are “embarrassed” that their female relatives were in jail.
Dala Abu Qamar agrees that life is difficult after leaving jail. She agreed to be a second wife after she was freed in 1982. She was affiliated to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
“Nobody will propose to a freed prisoner, due to the degrading view. I paid a heavy toll for the sacrifices I made toward my homeland. I was divorced after I gave birth to two children.”
The question is does the society look down on the woman for being in jail because of what they did to get in to jail, or because of what were not able to do before getting caught.
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The best part of this story is that the girl who tried to blow up the doctors & nurses who were treating her, is now angry that she’s not being provided with doctors and nurses to treat her.
The only people who have ever been kind to Wafaa al-Bis are Israeli Jews. There’s not an Arab in all Gaza who has treated her with even basic humanity. Her own people have been very clear, they’d prefer she was dead.
A lot of BDS is made up of haters who want to hate, but there are well-meaning people who think they know that Israelis are the bad guys and Palestinians are the underdogs. I wish they could read about even just a single life story like this.
That was the very first thing that struck me, too.
So the idiots falsely claim to be raped by the Israeli Prison officers and then complain that no man wants them because they believe the rape accusation. The Irony is painful.
Considering the Bedouin Community good standing in Israel and their military service this sounds like a plot to plant a spy for the Palestinian terrorist. I would divorce too If I discovered a monster on my bed.
If only those darned Israelis let her kill more babies … she would have had an HAREM OF MEN!
Maybe the problem is Palestinian society including Wafaa al-Bis herself think some women are willingly raped.
Or it could be that Palestinian men see a woman who has been raped as “soiled” or “expired goods” rather than a human being.
It is probably a view of women as “soiled goods”, deeply disrespectful to women.
YOu can’t be “willingly” raped.
You can “willingly” have sex, but rape is by definition against your will.
What confused morons these terrorists be!!
Salon.com will no doubt pick this up and blame the Jews for ‘rape.’
boo hoo…your lives are over….kill yourselves
i will provide the means
stupid muzzie hos
Their society looks down on them because they only believe there is honour for women who “join resistance” if they are martyred. I read somewhere that the way they recruited Al-Bis to become a terrorist was because of her injuries, which rendered her less able to find a husband. They said that she wouldn’t find a husband, and wouldn’t fulfill her womanly duties. Instead, as a martyr she would be useful and get her place in heaven. Now she’s blaming Israel for poor marriage prospects?
Why should we be surprised when Islam treats women as a lower order of humans?
She could blame it on whatever she wants but c’mon not exactly Bond Girl materiel is she?
I see a business opportunity for an enterprising Palestinian computer start up. J-Date (as in jihad) for terrorists.
Jihad Date? Could work. The first date is the last–forever!
Spread the word: she’s sexually servicing goats in hell right now.