One Survivor's Story > Emotional Account of a young woman who survived becoming a hostage on Oct 7th, '23

 

The video picks up at the end of a debate on Palestine. The woman explains reality to the young man who supports Palestinians.

Young Israeli Woman Powerfully Delivers

Tearful Account Of Life As a Hamas Hostage

written by Phil Schneider November 20, 2024 2.5K views

What is life like as an Israeli woman in captivity in Gaza? Hell squared. Well, that is not the most powerful point of this powerful message. What is life like for Arab women in Gaza? Do women in Gaza have rights? Or are they actually imprisoned by the norms of radical Arab society? The truth hurts, but the fact is that the largest human rights issue in the world is the manner in which women are treated in many Arab countries.  

Take the general attitude of Arabs in Gaza to women, and couple that with the general attitude of Arabs in Gaza towards all Jews. That adds up to the event of the most vile treatment of women in modern history. The rape, torture and killing of Israeli women who lived outside of the Gaza Strip, most of whom were strong supporters of coexistence and peace agreements with Arabs, came as a total surprise to most of these Israeli women. To a large part of Israeli society, it was not a surprise at all.

The facts are that there has never been any form of sustained peace and tranquility in the Land of Israel over the last 100+ years. The largely empty Land of Israel was resettled by young Zionist pioneers in the 1880’s, early 1900’s and especially post World War I and World War II. But these pioneers were building on the ancient settling of the Land that had gone on over the centuries of Jews returning to their ancestral Homeland. There really was never a time of sustained calm. It was always a tenuous existence, and the Ottoman/Turkish authorities were never the most wonderful or reliable hosts. 

But as the Jewish return picked up steam at the turn of the 20th century, new economic opportunities drove many Arabs from Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia to look for economic advancement and they moved north, south, and West to also settle in the Land of Israel. The economic incentives were many. But the Arabs who came to Israel were also religious people and there were always groups of Arabs who attacked Jewish enclaves as long as the Jewish settlement existed.

What happened on October 7th was not an exception as much as a continuation of what has occurred in the Land of Israel over the last hundred years.

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