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24 Jul, 2014

Israeli academic calls for campaign of rape | GulfNews.com

Dubai: An Israeli academic and former intelligence officer in the regime’s military has called for the use of rape as a deterrent against Palestinian resistance fighters.

Mordechai Kedar, a fluent Arabic speaker and lecturer on Arabic literature at Bar Ilan University, said in a radio interview earlier this month that the nature of Arab culture left Israel with few options other than resorting to measures such as rape to deter Palestinian resistance operations against its occupation.

The interview, conducted in Hebrew, was recently translated into English and has since made news in Israel’s left wing publications and in alternative news sites abroad.

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