You don't need to look at
the resolution against Israel in UN report on the Status of Women to understand this.
You need to look at that list which I gave you, or create your own list, of all the abuses and restrictions against women in all places in the world and weigh and compare them.
I'm not diminishing the plight of the Palestinian women. As an ardent defender of women's rights (which are, after all, only human rights), I defend their rights as well as others. However, to single out Israel as both the cause and the epitome of human rights abuses against women is both ridiculous and indefensible. The only way to understand is it through the lens of an international antisemitism.
There are women in the world -- girls -- who are being held and kept as SEXUAL SLAVES.
There are women in the world who are being physically punished and KILLED because they "caused" themselves to get raped.
There are women in the world who are BURNED with acid or with gasoline and then set alight because they "dishonored" their husbands. Perhaps by looking at a man in public.
There are women in the world who can not leave their homes without a MALE ESCORT.
There are girls in the world who are BRUTALLY MURDERED for going to school.
There are girls in the world (133 million of them) who have their sexual organs sliced off so that they can feel no pleasure and have their LABIA SEWN CLOSED and then brutally RIPPED OPEN during their first sexual encounter.
There are infant girls in the world -- less than a year old -- who are RAPED by men in an effort to cure them of disease.
Nothing in Israel is anywhere close to this level of hostility and mistreatment and abuse of women. (Though G-d knows there are some ultra-orthodox who commit grave violations against women).
And the Palestinians HAVE THEIR OWN GOVERNMENTS who are responsible for the treatment of women.
I apologize for all the screaming, but this inflames me. The abuses of women everywhere in the world needs improving, even here in Canada, but the place to start is most certainly not ISRAEL.