According to the Jerusalem Post, Jane Fonda is in Israel right now to protest violence against women. This is an interesting choice. Those who support Palestinian statehood should consider that in PA controlled territories, as in other Arab states where democracy and liberty prevail, the leading cause of unnatural death for women of all ages is "honour killing", in which women who are no longer virgins or married women who have had sex with men other than their husbands are horribly killed. Note especially that it is irrelevant whether or not that sex was consensual.
Also noteworthy is that Israel boasts one of the world's best neurosurgeons specializing in foreign-object removal from the brain. He gained this experience operating on adult women from Arab and Beduin communities in Israel, who came to his hospital seeking help for chronic head pain. The cause turned out to be metal needles that had been pushed into the brains of the infant girls, to try and rid the family of an unwanted daughter, and had remained there for years or decades.
Of course, Fonda concerns herself primarily with the evils perpetrated by that tool of European imperialists, Israel. She's not tiring herself out, though; she found time to attend a performance of the Vagina Monologues.
Posted by Clio at December 21, 2002 05:47 PM