Friday, April 20, 2012
SMUT!
If you were going to point to smut, forget it, because Haaretz is
increasingly the newspaper of smut and yellow scandal sheet
"journalism" in Israel. If you were going to say that the National
Enquirer is not an openly treasonous newspaper, then I think you could
be on to something.
Two days ago Haaretz devoted almost its entire front page to a
sensationalist story about rape and "group sex" on a Tel Aviv beach.
The story in its electronic form can be read here:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-police-passers-by-ignored-reported-gang-rape-on-tel-aviv-beach-witness-says-1.424681
As you can see, "gang rape" features in the story and the headline.
The story is based upon a single complaint made a few weeks earlier to
the police by a woman who claimed to see a man and woman, er, ah,
"pillowing" in the surf in the broad light of day on a Tel Aviv beach.
That was enough for Haaretz to run the story as a banner page-one
headline. When the police sent a police car to check out the story,
they did not see anything at all going on. Haaretz suggests of course
that the police were not INTERESTED in arresting the perps. The
witness claims she tried to persuade the woman supposedly in the
center of the beach activity to leave, but the woman "victim" cursed
at the busybody. It did not occur to Haaretz that this pretty much
meant the story was NOT about "group rape."
Meanwhile, the story became the talk of the town, and dozens of
radical feminists took advantage of the opportunity to lecture the
patriarchal male chauvinists amongst us of how badly women are
oppressed in Israel and what Neanderthals we all are.
A facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/events/210161882420135/
was set up in Hebrew for enraged feminists and other to demand that
action be taken. For an hour or so after press time, Haaretz was
riding high on the crest of the wave of journalistic heroism.
Until the truth came out.
The next day stories in Israel Hayom, Maariv, and other newspapers
filled in the facts that Haaretz had conveniently overlooked.
First of all, the "gang rape" was not a rape at all and did not
involve any gang. The woman involved in the beach "incident" is a
professional prostitute who had the day off. She evidently decided to
give away some samples of her services as a publicity gimmick, a bit
like how supermarkets and department stores sometimes give away
merchandise as "teaser" marketing tactics.
Second, when the lass in question was interviewed by the press, after
being tracked down, she insisted there was no "group" at all involved
in her marketing campaign but merely her own boyfriend who was
sampling the delicacies in the surf, this being her day off from her
usual gainful employment as a hooker. Hebrew readers can see an
actual piece of journalism, as opposed to Haaretz smut, here at Israel
Hayom: http://www.israelhayom.co.il/site/newsletter_article.php?id=16361&newsletter=20.04.2012
There the young streetwalker claims the entire incident lasted 15
minutes, which does not really speak too well about the woman's
professional skills in her chosen line of industry, and was with her
own boyfriend.
The other great irony is that Israel's leftists and feminists have
long been campaigning to legalize prostitution because they see
prostitutes as "sex workers," and they want to impose fines and
penalties on the male customers of those "workers." They want the
hookers to be recognized as "professionals" in the "sex industry,"
complete with health benefits and a pension plan At the same time,
they claim that Israel is involved in "human trafficking," because
those same "sex workers" are equivalent to slaves, bough and sold in
the market. I guess I must have been out of the room when it was
decided that prostitution is "trafficking in humans."
Now I cannot testify in the first person as to the nature of this
market, in which I do not participate. But I do not believe there is
a single hooker in Israel who is a "slave" or who was turned into a
hooker by "human trafficking." Prostitution in this corner of the
world goes back to the Bible and every single prostitute in Israel is
a woman (or in same cases a man) who is attracted to the "profession"
by easy money or by the need to feed their drug habits. Few civilized
people are happy with the operation of this "industry," although I for
one regard the "working girls" as considerably more ethical and
productive than leftwing professors are.
Some of you older geezers may recall the Tom Lehrer song from the 60s
about "Smut." You can see the lyrics here:
http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Smut-lyrics-Tom-Lehrer/6AF3E9A2451F2F0548256A7D0025920C
A true classic.
I do not know about you, but these days I think it is far more
educational and satisfactory to read smut, such as in the National
Enquirer, than to read the daily doses of treason and unprofessional
pseudo-journalism in Haaretz.
