Israel is a very dangerous place for tourists. Not only do they have to worry about persistent acts of resistance by the colonized indigenous Palestinians against the foreign colonial authorities, but they also have to be aware that there is a high rate of crimes committed by the Israeli colonial settlers, which include murder, gang raids, arson, house demolitions, uprooting of olive orchards, pickpocketing and rapes of credulous international tourists, particularly those tourists who are not Jewish.
Long before Donald Dumb sent his ICE-Gestapo and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) into the streets to sow terror among communities that are not white, Israeli police and army have long been agents of terror and fear against those who are not Jewish, including Christian Armenians, black African migrants, and of course, the native indigenous Palestinians who have been tormented by 80 years of apartheid, discrimination, and exclusion, and in more recent months by deliberate violence against Palestinian civilians.
There is a credible suspicion by much of the international community that the Israeli colonial settlers are intent on de-Palestinizing Palestine with every method of colonial brutality that the world has seen since European colonialism began its "civilizing" mission some 500 years ago. But while all colonialism began to be dismantled after World War II, only one colonial usurper of land, killer of indigenous populations, and exploiter of indigneous culture was allowed to take root in Palestine.
Virtually all objective unbiased international institutions that have resisted bullying by Americans, eager to protect their "Israeli" colony and military beachhead on the Mediterranean, have declared the Jewish colony in Palestine an apartheid racist genocidal entity.
Given this highly unusual set of circumstances that allows a brutal colonial rapist to continue its rape and violence, Israel is not a safe place to visit. Bouts of violence can erupt at any time, usually an act of resistance followed by reprisals or sometimes an act of "pre-emptive" state violence against arbitrarily-designed Palestinian threats to the colonial settlers or authorities, which is a typical process that history has witnessed in all colonial entreprises from Algeria to Vietnam, from South Africa to Latin America.
Three Israeli football players have been accused of rape by a 29-year-old US tourist during her stay in Tel Aviv. The tourist reported that she was raped at the beginning of the month at a hostel in Tel Aviv (new Zionist colonial name for the original Palestinian city of Jaffa). The three Jewish Israeli rapists - all in their 20s - are from Netanya and were arrested by the colonial police on Monday evening. The American rape victim reported the assault to the police on November 1, stating that she had been raped during a night out in Tel Aviv whose streets are notorious for their criminality.
Like all rapists, the suspected Israeli criminals claim that the rape was consensual, but the victim says she was drugged unconscious during the encounter with one of the rapists, who later called his two fellow rapists to join him in the hotel room where the rape continued.
Unfortunately, Israel has a solid reputation of never holding Jewish Israelis guilty of their crimes. In fact, thousands of crimes against foreigners and indigenous Palestinians are never prosecuted because the police and authorities promise investigations that are never carried out or that lead to a manufactured deadend or a claim of judicial technical problems. Israel has indeed served as a haven for Jewish criminals from all over the world who escape there and are never extradited because Israel grants automatic citizenship and protection on strictly religious grounds to any Jewish person, regardless of their history, recent conversion, or criminal background.
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