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| Israeli Girls Are Warned Against ‘Sleeping With the Enemy’ | ||
 by Tamar Fox, February 3, 2010 |
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High school girls in the Israeli town of Kiryat Gat are being warned not to become romantically involved with Bedouins, via a program run by a social worker named Chaim Shalom. A 10-minute film called Sleeping With the Enemy cautions girls that Bedouins may shower them with gifts and then leave them pregnant and alone, or refuse to allow them to return to their families after ending the relationship. 
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Despite a message that smacks of racism, Bedouins seem happy to have the Jewish girls stay away. Bedouin mayor Talal al-Krenawi had this to say:
"It hurts our families just like it hurts the Jews. It causes a lot of difficult problems and internal conflicts which often end in violence…If there are children as a result of these relationships, it becomes a burden on our society. The difference is that we oppose this just like the Jews, but we never used racist expressions...a person is allowed to live with whomever he wants. In any case, one can oppose something without presenting racist opinions."
Classic case of bad spin? The Jews and Bedouins actually seem to agree on the issue, but somehow the Jews haven't been able to present their case in inoffensive terms. Here's an idea: Teach girls about unhealthy relationships in general, and offer them good skills for dealing with men and dating, instead of just saying, “don’t date Bedouins.” Need I remind people that not all Bedouins seduce girls and then leave them alone and pregnant?
Learn more about Bedouins in Israel here.
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Brian
Where are the hot Bedouin girls for Israeli men to impregnate and leave?
CWW
I don't imagine that bedouin men have the same 21st century sense of equality that is pretty common in Israel.
Besides, Israeli chicks don't take any shit. So, I doubt the whole premise.
Anonymous
CWW
Yeah, I try telling white girls to stay out of Latino neighborhoods and not date guys there. Some people think it's racist or something but it's just because I don't think Latinos treat women as well as white guys. I don't see what's racist about it. I'm glad you see where I'm coming from.
Anonymous
"I don't imagine that bedouin men have the same 21st century sense of equality that is pretty common in Israel."
CWW, you're a barbarian for thinking like that.
zeeev
Deleted scenes from 'Sleeping with the Enemy'...
[The unforgiving desert...a few beduin tents stand next to the highway. A billboard advertising "Israeli Cosmetics" is printed alongside a sing saying "Gas". Within one tent, a group of Beduin mechanics sit and daydream whilst working on their car-like camels (or camel-like cars)...
Beduin 1: UPTOWN GIRL...she's been living in her uptown world...I bet she never had a Beduin guy...I bet her momma never told her why...I'm gonna try for an UPTOWN GIRL
Roi Ben-Yehuda
Where can I find this video?
Anonymous
...this is absolute nonsense - if residents of Kiryat Gat heard that Bedouin filmmakers were making films warning their young women to stay away from the lassies of KG, there would be an outcry, so why not now?
I will go and investigate....
Archie Bunker
Me, I blame the blacks...
(Actually that's a Sarah Silverman joke).
ThorsProvoni
The Bedouin's probably wouldn't mind if Jews told the kids not to date Bedouins.
They probably objected to the title: Sleeping with the Enemy.
Richard Silverstein covers this story with clips from the video in Sleeping With the Enemy, Israel-Style.
Anonymous
<i>if residents of Kiryat Gat heard that Bedouin filmmakers were making
films warning their young women to stay away from the lassies of KG</i>
Um, no. There really wouldn't.
Maayan
Talal al-Krenawi says , "...a person is allowed to live with whomever he wants."
I wonder if he includes same-sex relationships in this idea.
And to the person above who tells girls to stay out of Latino neighborhoods, I would just hope girls stay away from you, you bigot!
ThorsProvoni
From Participating in an Obsolete Discourse.
Sexual identities represent social constructs. Western "gay-ness" does not really exist in Middle Eastern cultures except within Israel, which is really a transplanted mixed Central and Eastern European Jewish society. As a fundamentally alien entity in the ME, the Zionist state hosts sexual identities that were already well-developed among German Jews and Eastern European ethnic Ashkenazim by the early 20th century.
Both groups have been active proselytizers for regendering Western society according to Yiddish models for at least the last 90 years.
As Columbia Professor Joseph Massad points out in Desiring Arabs, non-Westernized (and many Westernized) Arabs that engage in homoeroticism have no interest in the Yiddish regenderization program and generally reject Western homosexual identity, which Massad calls the Gay International.
Anonymous
I lived in Sinai and Israel and I know that many women are attracted to the Bedouins because they are handsome and sweet and helpful. They are down-to-earth and "smart" in an altogether different way. There are women in Jordan who are European married to Bedouins and happily living in Bedouin camps, raising children and living the simple life. The Bedouin men have a real sexiness about them and they are free about it. They are not the most religious people I have ever known....not hard core Muslim....just Muslim. They don't even bother to pray like all the Muslims I've known. I enjoyed being with these people after living in the stress of Jerusalem and the Ultra-Orthodox. I was so happy to chill out with the Bedouins. I can see how this happens to the girls. I personally would not date them, but I did notice some really cute ones.....not like the guys in that photo!
Lesballlah
Yes yes, there are no muslim gays...Ahmadinejad and ThorsProvoni said so. Homosexuality is a Western concept that's why my lesbian behind is staying on this side of the world. Westernern culture is realy dangerous, the 3 years I lived in Belgium, one of the future Eurabian states, I dated a Marrocan girl, an Algerian girl and yes, an Iranian girl. I'm sure they were born to love penis and then all that Western stuff (a.k.a puberty) kicked in and they went lesbo on alllah.
Jlove
I heard about this, 200,000 of them going down to Egypt every year to get fucked by egyptians. All I can say is you got skanks in every tribe, and as long as I get mine when I get to Israel, I won't even care about them!!!
rosel
A friend who adopted a the baby of a negev bedouin girl who became pregnant out of wedlock told me the child will never be able to trace her background or meet her birthmother. all records were destroyed for the protection of the bedouin mother from honor killing by her family.
Robin Margolis
DearTamar Fox:
I am glad to see your article, as it is very important for American Jews to be aware that Israel has a huge number of negative laws, policies, and public discourse directed against members of interfaith and interracial families.
What is so crazy about the propaganda against the Bedouins is that they serve in the Israeli army. They are not enemies of the Israelis, so it is outrageous that the film is entitled, "Sleeping With the Enemy."
If Israeli Jews keep treating the Bedouin badly, they could become enemies of Israel.
Here is an essay I wrote about the poor treatment of interfaith and interracial families in Israel and the Diaspora:
http://www.jewcy.com/post/magenta_elephant_room_when_interfaith_people_v...
Thanks,Tamar!
Cordially,
Robin Margolis
www.half-jewish.net
www.inclusivistjudaism.wordpress.com
odna
This is somewhat awkward .
reandryck
Truthfully,the Israeli mafia funnels them into Israel,NOT Gaza.The Israelies have a higher demand for them. They have no laws against sex slavery under the definition, plus, they are very lenient on pimps,
Ultimate Acai Max