Poverty and war have exacerbated the problem, says Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, a social work and criminology professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and an expert on violence against women.
"Men do not have any power except over women," she says.
The police said they couldn't get to the Qaoud home because of Israeli checkpoints.
Well, but you know, it's just the same as Christianity — when one out of forty-eight gazillion Christians might bomb a babykilling clinic and be instantly disowned and condemned by the other 47 gazillion-and-99999999999999 Christians.
< /scathing sarcasm >
Dan