Two Metro Vancouver women say they were threatened by two men who were seen carrying Palestinian flags on Monday night.
The friends had just left a vigil to honour Israel’s dead, and had no idea they were being followed until they were confronted.
“You could see the hate in his eyes,” one of them told CTV News.
They’ve agreed to share their story, provided CTV News doesn’t reveal their identities, because they fear for their safety.
When they were confronted, the woman told the men to “go away.”
But they didn’t, and yelled at the women in Arabic.
“They told me that he will rape me, and my pants will bleed, and I would remember it for a very long time,” one recalled calmly.
“The younger one, he said that he would slice me,” she said.
If the Palestinians didn’t want to be associated with Hamas then they should stop supporting them.
These kinds of generalizations do not help the cause on either side. It’s only going to help fan the flames. Plenty of Palestinians are just regular citizens who live under the tyrannical rule of Hamas, but would much rather prefer peace. May I ask, do you have personal involvement in this conflict at all? Do you see comments like this helping Israelis, Jews, or Palestinians reaching peace and stability?
I do not have a personal stake or involvement in any of this. What I do know is that the point of my comment is to help… fan the flames to flare it up.
Maybe they should ask the people raping, murdering, and pillaging, if they’d be so kind as to leave.
Who wants to try first?
Maybe they shouldn’t have voted for people who are now raping, murdering, and pillaging to be their elected government.
Hamas were voted into power 17 years ago with no subsequent elections, and won with only ~44% of the vote. The current median age in Palestine is 19.6 years old. Therefore, at most ~44% of Palestinians aged over 35 voted for Hamas, which would make up far less than a quarter of the total population - probably less than 20% of all Palestinians.
If we were talking about an elected democracy with elections every 4 years… I might be inclined to agree, but the last time the people of Palestine got to vote on their government, was in 2005.
They haven’t been able to elect a new leader since 2008.
And I imagine they aren’t too keen right now to hold an election.
Solid argument, can’t see an issue with that.