I'm still absolutely disgusted with this post so I'm putting this here. Its an extract from a HRW report into sexual violence in Palestinian society. I can provide the full link if you wish- its on another thread on here.
I think you only care about Palestinian women in as much as you can use them as an argument to hate Israel with.
Theres a conversation to be had around the issues raised on this thread- but we're not actually having it are we?
And finally- Palestinian men for Gods sake consider pulling out.
"As noted at the start of this chapter, a Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics survey published in early 2006 found that 23.3 percent of married women in the West Bank and Gaza said that they had been victims of domestic violence in 2005 while 61.7 percent reported that they were victims of psychological violence during the same year.101 Several Palestinian women’s organizations have also reported a rise in already high levels of violence against women following the second intifada. According to a 2002 poll by the Refugee Women’s Resource Project, close to 90 percent of respondents stated that violence against women had “significantly or somewhat increased as a result of changing political, economic, and social conditions in the Palestinian Territories.”102 There is also evidence that marital rape is prevalent in the OPT. A survey on violence against women in Gaza conducted by the Women’s Affairs Center in 2001 revealed that 46.7 percent of the 670 women interviewed reported that their husbands used “force and brutality” during sexual intercourse; 17.4 percent reported that their husbands beat them to have sex; and 35.9 percent said that their husbands threatened and intimidated them into submission..."