So, I'm reading through the headlines from al Jazeera this morning, when I stumble upon a headline that reads Israel jails Arab for 'deceit rape'. Wait, what? Well:
An Arab living in Israel has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for having consensual sex with an Israeli woman who apparently believed he was Jewish.
So, consensual sex is rape... if one person is a racist, and didn't realize that the person they freely chose to have sex with is of the race they're racist against.
The whole situation should be a case study that 'refutiates' racism. I mean, what better indictment of racism can there be? A racist likes someone enough to sleep with them, but then finds out the person's race, and somehow that makes the racist's emotions and intentions of having sex not real? And the most bizarre part is that the Jewish and Arab races are apparently so close that in this case, the woman couldn't even tell a difference by the man's appearance. I'm going to go out on a limb here. Perhaps it was the woman's racist viewpoint that is the root evil in all of this.
So, I guess the lesson here is not to lie to women to get them to sleep with you. Oh wait, you can still do that - just as long as it's about little stuff.
A rape conviction sentence could be upheld, the court ruled, when "a person lies does not tell the truth regarding critical matters to a reasonable woman".
Yeah. Critical matters. Like your race. To a reasonable woman. A racist. Awesome. Seems pretty cut and dry to me. Israel says racism is reasonable.
Of course, I'm sure things would play out in the same way had a Jewish man done this to an Arab woman.
Gideon Levy, a liberal columnist with the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, said the "rape by deception" law would have been applied differently if a Jewish man had sex with an Arab woman under false pretences.
"Would he have been convicted of rape?" Levy asked. "The answer is: of course not."
And this is just the tip of the iceberg regarding racism in Israel.
The Sunday Times reported in 2009 on a squad of "vigilantes" in the Jewish settlement of Pisgat Zeev. The group has patrolled the streets for more than a decade looking for mixed couples.
And in 2009, the town of Petah Tikva established a team of counsellors and psychologists to "rescue" Jewish women from relationships with Arab men.
The Israeli daily Maariv reported in February that Tel Aviv had launched a similar programme.
And that, my friends, is exactly why Israel has no right to exert any authority over the Palestinian people. Israel is hopelessly bias and discriminatory towards these people. The government does not care about the good of these people. And for that, Israel should be absolved of all its powers of governance over Palestinians.
It is as simple as that.