This would be funny if it didn't result in someone getting jail time.
A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after having consensual sex with a woman who had believed him to be a fellow Jew.
Sabbar Kashur, 30, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday after the court ruled that he was guilty of rape by deception. According to the complaint filed by the woman with the Jerusalem district court, the two met in downtown Jerusalem in September 2008 where Kashur, an Arab from East Jerusalem, introduced himself as a Jewish bachelor seeking a serious relationship. The two then had consensual sex in a nearby building before Kashur left.
When she later found out that he was not Jewish but an Arab, she filed a criminal complaint for rape and indecent assault.
Whole story here.
Men have been lying to get women to sleep with them from the dawn of time. Yes, Unga, I really AM chief of the Red Cave tribe. If we are going to start locking men up for telling lies in order to get women to lay down for them, the jails are going to start overflowing.
Everyone knows I'm pro-Israeli, but honestly, is anyone in the country aware of how bad this looks?
Handing down the verdict, Tzvi Segal, one of three judges on the case, acknowledged that sex had been consensual but said that although not "a classical rape by force," the woman would not have consented if she had not believed Kashur was Jewish.
Okay, so she's just admitted that she's prejudiced - that's her whole defense. She was prepared to sleep with someone that she didn't know for more than a few minutes and her virtue has been compromised because he's an Arab? She can't even claim that he got her to violate some Jewish religious law because I'm sure that the Rabbi would frown on a woman banging a stranger they just met.
Segal said: "The court is obliged to protect the public interest from sophisticated, smooth-tongued criminals who can deceive innocent victims at an unbearable price – the sanctity of their bodies and souls. When the very basis of trust between human beings drops, especially when the matters at hand are so intimate, sensitive and fateful, the court is required to stand firmly at the side of the victims – actual and potential – to protect their wellbeing. Otherwise, they will be used, manipulated and misled, while paying only a tolerable and symbolic price."
Gag - her body was so sanctified that she was prepared to offer it up to the first rake who came along.
Gideon Levy, a liberal Israeli commentator, was quoted as saying: "I would like to raise only one question with the judge. What if this guy had been a Jew who pretended to be a Muslim and had sex with a Muslim woman?
"Would he have been convicted of rape? The answer is: of course not."
No, probably not. But if it had happened in some Arab countries, the woman and the man would have probably both been honor-killed.
Really, someone needs to fire the judge and that woman needs to stop having sex at the drop of a hat if she's going to complain about the integrity of her sex partners.
Update:
Partially Impartial found other cases of this that involved other forms of lying to women to get them in bed:
In 2008, the High Court of Justice set a precedent on rape by deception, rejecting an appeal of the rape conviction by Zvi Sleiman, who impersonated a senior official in the Housing Ministry whose wife worked in the National Insurance Institute. Sleiman told women he would get them an apartment and increased NII payments if they would sleep with him.
High Court Justice Elyakim Rubinstein said a conviction of rape should be imposed any time a "person does not tell the truth regarding critical matters to a reasonable woman, and as a result of misrepresentation she has sexual relations with him."
Rubinstein said the question was also whether an ordinary person would expect such a woman to have sex with a man without the false identity he created.
In the past, men who misrepresented themselves in this way were convicted of fraud.
One such case was that of Eran Ben-Avraham, who told a woman he was a neurosurgeon after which she had sex with him, and was convicted of three counts of fraud.
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Some people also complained about my vulgar language and said that I sounded sexist. I think getting someone thrown in jail for consensual sex is a vulgar act and I don't mind using crude language to show how I feel about it, but just so I am clear, I don't think much of lying to women to get them to sleep with you and the man was as much of a slut as she was for hopping right to it.