Since the beginning of the war in Gaza I’ve been watching Israeli television, usually a show on Channel 14 there, which is a right-wing alternative to Israel’s hard-left media monoculture. The show is called HaPatriotim, The Patriots, yet another borrow word from English that disturbs the flow of me trying to think in Hebrew. It’s a panel discussion with regulars from the nationalist Israeli commentariat, with a studio audience. There’s a lot of screaming, even when they agree. It’s a very Israeli show.
I also watch some of their news shows. In particular I think their political correspondent, Tamir Morag, and their Arab affairs expert, Baruch Yadid know their stuff. Yadid is fluent in Arabic and frequently reports on news from Arab media.
Yesterday, Yadid had a report wherein he claimed Mohammed Sinwar, the brother of Yahya Sinwar, the head of Hamas in Gaza, and himself a high ranking Hamas official, has been raping boys for decades, with his brother covering it up. Yadid further intimated that Yahya Sinwar himself has some issues regarding sex. as he didn’t marry until he was 49 years old (he’s 61 now). Sinwar was imprisoned by Israel in 1989 at the age of 27 for the murder of two Israelis and a dozen Palestinians. When he was released in 2011 as part of the deal for Israeli hostage Gilad Shalit, he married a 31 year old woman who was said to be a student of sharia, Islamic law.
My Hebrew isn’t perfect so I’m sure I missed a few details, but Yadid reported it as factual, not speculation. It could be disinformation by Israel’s intelligence establishment. Yadid says that they know about the rapes, including, apparently prison rapes in Palestinian jails, but that they haven’t revealed the information because they were using it for greater intelligence concerns. I’m presuming that means that someone in the Shin Bet, Israeli’s internal security agency, leaked the information to Yadid.
#1 : there's nothing wrong with being gay if it's your choice .
That being said anyone who's ever had contact wit muslims knows that having anal sex with young boys against their will is almost a rite of passage for muslim males .
-Nate