[JOHN ADAMS]

And if a girl were killed for that reason, Israel has police, and it laws against murder, and a government, and courts, and prosecutors, and defense lawyers. And they work as well as they work in any other country whose guiding principles are those of Western civilization.

None of that happens in territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

[Eleutheria5]

Nor in the more backward regions of the Islamic world. But her chances of survival would be better even in the “occupied” territories than in the hinterlands of the Sudan or Yemen.

[grey_whiskers]

And if a girl were killed for that reason, Israel has police, and it laws against murder, and a government, and courts, and prosecutors, and defense lawyers. And they work as well as they work in any other country whose guiding principles are those of Western civilization.

None of that happens in territory controlled by the Palestinian Authority.

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“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.” -- General Sir Charles Napier