No such sentences would ever been given to Israelis if the victims were Palestinians

Watch them make Hamas' list of demands for Gilad. They aren't as horrible as some of the others on that list, and that's saying something.

Jewish men do not routinely rape Palestinian women. If you believe otherwise, you are a fool.

That's what a farmer's daughter gets when she is duped by allowing herself to use her emotions instead of using her mind . While the Palestinian problem is a political problem outsiders , including the ISM volunteers, had better use their minds instead of being influenced emotionally ! Palestinians , just like everybody else , are no angels ... !

#1 is sick in the head

Can you prove your allegation of a case where Israelis broke into a home and brutally raped a Palestinian and? I mean, some leftist actually wrote a thesis claiming IDF soldiers must be "racist" because they DON'T rape Palestinian women. You could ask what kind of sentences would be given to Muslims if the victims are Spaniards.

Have you ever been to the Middle East or Israel or Palestine? All you know is what you hear on the news. If you ever went there you would see that Israel is a country with laws unlike most of the countries that surround it. Plus one thing has nothing to do with the other. Anybody who does such a disgusting thing should be punished harshly. Israelis don't go around raping 60 yr old Palestinian women anyhow. We are far from perfect but we have some shame.

I challenge you to find a similar case where Israelis were the perpetrators of such a savage act of gang-rape. Not against Palestinians, nor anyone else. It isn't part of our culture. As for you Spaniards, I love your food, love your art, but you are fast becoming a nation of anti-Semites and hypocrites, how sad. I bet any amount of money you have never set foot here in Israel and prefer to base your opinions on propaganda and spin, instead of reality. A shame.

how do you know that, all the way from Spain_ Don't you know that Israel is a democratic state with functioning legal system? Do you have any proof of your absurd hypothesis, or do you just enjoy to slander because it's so hard for you to find Israel did something RIGHT?

Israeli or Palestinian is not the point, he raped her, sodomized, tortured a 60 years old woman and NOT 1 but 4 men. 14 years is not enough!!! It doesn't matter because if this happened in another country you wouldn't say that but it is Israel so you will criticize anyway.

First of all, you are wrong, Israelis have been convicted when they committed misconduct in the PA against Palestinians. For example, during the Gaza War, an Israeli was convicted for steeling a Palestinians credit card. However, what you won't find is really any cases of Israelis raping Palestinians because our army is the most moral army in the entire world. In fact, some anti-Israel activist from Hebrew University once wrote a paper that admitted the truth, that Israelis don't rape Palestinians, but claimed that this was evidence that we were racists. However, while she was correct in observing that we don't rape Palestinian women, she was wrong in concluding that the reason for this is that we are racist. No, such barbaric rapes are more common in Arab society than Israeli society.

Horrible. But there has also been several IDF elite troops recently charged with rape. The Pals raped a 60 year old woman, which is especially horrible. But at least one of the IDF'ers raped girls as young as 12-13, which is even more horrible. The Pals do not claim to have "the most moral army in the world". But the Israeli's do. I think that both the Pal's fighters and the Israeli fighters have way too many few bad apples to win the "most moral" prize, especially the Israelis. Blind-folding, handcuffing and shooting a civlian in the foot? Breaking a civilians leg during "questioning"? Shooting two women waving white flags? Using a civlian as a human shield to inspect Pal buildings? Stealing and using credit cards of civlians whose homes you are occupying? Wiping your feces on the walls of a home you are occupying? Firing phosphorous shells and dropping cluster bombs on civilians?

In the Muslim culture an indecently dressed woman (pants, uncovered head) without a male companion is a criminal. In Arab countries she would be tried for adultery and her four victims would be freed.

You may be referring to the case of the IDF officer who raped a young boy in Hebron in the month of August 1997. This IDF officer got off without so much as a slap on the wrist as the whole thing was hushed up....

If after they are found guilty they are still living and breathing the sentence wasn't fair. I don't care who they are or where they come from. They should be treated like rabid dogs. I have more sympathy for the dog because the dog didn't have a choice.

be civil enough to understand that such a crime is repulsive to the human race not only to a political or religious group. I am Palestinian and grateful to the Israeli police and law enforcement for apprehending and punishing these scumbags.

A while back, there was an op-ed piece that made a splash on the Web because it argued that Israelis are racist because they DON'T rape Palestinian women. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Rachel from Be'ersheva beat me to it. That's precisely the article I was thinking of.

... of the state of discussion surrounding Middle East politics. Here we have an objective news article about a court's decision to sentence three young Arab men for a brutal crime committed against a Norwegian... And what the comment thread immediately turned into was Israelis and Israel supporters having to insist, in a defensive tone, that Israeli men don't routinely go around raping Palestinian women. This shows you just how serious and widespread the hatred of Israel is.

He'll only be 34 when he gets out, they should castrate the guy too. Any guess out there as to what Muslims believe will happen to the raped victim after she dies? Look it up I because I wouldn't want to get censored.

50 years to life would be appropriate.

You know which button I mean. These four sickos do not deserve to be alive.

incidents of Israelis raping Pals have been reported by Pal women. But either the IDF or the Israeli prosecutor ends up ruling that there is not enough evidence. Kind of like the IDF dismissed charges against the two IDF'ers who blindfolded, handcuffed and shot a Pal civilian in the foot. Only that time, there was video tape evidence that forced the IDF to reopen the case and convict the soldiers. Kind of like the fox guarding the chicken coop, right?

Israel is at war. war is not pretty. most of what you claim is not based on fact. Idf may use human shields. a trick learned from the palis. wiping some crap on the wall-oh me oh my. bombs are part of war against people who shot 8000 rockets at civilians. using a credit card? not nice but nothing like hamas throwing fatah guys off of the roof and torturing them. no the army cannot be a bunch of boyscouts but they have shown more restraint than any army in the world. their moral standing is intact and is a matter of record. pali civilians who are injured are done due to the actions of their own people-not the moral Israelis.

>For example, during the Gaza War, an Israeli was convicted for steeling a Palestinians credit card< Wow, 400 innocent children lost their lives and one IDF soldier was convicted for credit card theft ;) What about this dude ? http://www.ifamericansknew.org/cur_sit/tovej.html

Judging from recent developments in your country, could we assume that their actions would be blamed on the "occupation" and the three of them would be released and paid compensation by Spanish taxpayers for their obviously illegal incarceration? Then, of course, would you support the firing of the prosecutors and policemen who arrested and charged these Palestinians? No doubt they were simply expressing their "legitimate right to resist the occupation" and this illegal foreign national was part of the Zionist conspiracy against them. Do all Spanish like you have such low standards?

where they used to rape, then burn victim alive with petrol. or like, there was this student girl i knew, went to paris, met an arab guy, got raped, and subsequenttly wanted to be all friends with jews(s). when asked why she went with this not-deprived person she replied, oh they are downtrodden by the jews/israelis (this is what they learn at university, at home), and you were doing your bit? yes she said. and you still believe everything you read in the papers, your teachers? your parents? silence....never wanted to speak to her again, and have not.

Could you kindly give us the reference to this so we Posters won't just conclude that you are just "blowing smoke" in order to bash our country? Can't do it? I thought not.

I have a great sympathy to this unfortunate young lady, to her maltreated friends, and I deeply sorry for the lost lives of others misguided and canned by Arab propaganda students. They are not mentally ready to come to the war line and to witness the conflict. In the war there are no winners. The website that you referred is obviously will never publish these photos and video clips: http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001127.html There are many naive and blinded by hateful stereotypes people in this world. But you won't find a big audience on ynet.com