Real smooth Israel. I'm tempted to draw some racial purity comparisons with a certain universally loathed regime which had similar, erm... anti-deception legislation, but really, the article by itself paints a pretty clear picture.Vancouver Sun quoting the Daily Telegraph wrote:A Palestinian man has been convicted of rape after consensual sexual intercourse with an Israeli woman who believed he was Jewish because he introduced himself as "Daniel". An Israeli court made international legal history by jailing Sabbar Kashur, from East Jerusalem, for 18 months.
The 30 year-old delivery man was convicted of "rape by deception" after a criminal trial that drew criticism from across Israel.
Kashur was accused of misleading the woman, whose identity has not been disclosed, by introducing himself with the traditionally Jewish name when they met on a street in central Jerusalem in 2008. After striking up a conversation, they went into a nearby office block and engaged in a sexual encounter, after which Kashur quickly left.
The woman discovered his true racial background later, lawyers said.
Although conceding that the sexual intercourse was consensual, Tzvi Segal, the district court judge, concluded that the law had a duty to protect women from "smooth-tongued criminals who can deceive innocent victims at an unbearable price".
She said: "If she hadn't thought the accused was a Jewish bachelor interested in a serious romantic relationship, she would not have co-operated."
A conviction for rape by deception on the grounds of racial misrepresentation is believed to be internationally unprecedented, according to British legal experts.
The charge is rarely used in the West. In 2007, a Syrian pilot walked free from a court in Swansea after being accused of tricking a woman into intercourse by saying it could cure a sexually transmitted disease. While forced sexual intercourse by deception is an offence under Israeli law, experts say it is a charge used sparingly in cases involving protracted deceit and a promise of marriage.
Adnan Aladdin, Kashur's lawyer, said he had filed an appeal to ensure the verdict was not considered to be setting a precedent, adding that otherwise "many men would find themselves in jail".
Israeli legal experts said they found the verdict disquieting. "It puts the law in the position of what could loosely be described as discrimination. I would feel intuitively uncomfortable about prosecuting someone for something like that," said a former senior justice ministry official.
Gideon Levy, a leading liberal commentator, said: "What if this guy had been a Jew who pretended to be a Muslim and had sex with a Muslim woman? Would he have been convicted of rape? The answer is: of course not."
The prosecutor was unavailable for comment. District attorney officials declined to discuss the case.
Oh, and to nobody's surprise, the US media are making sure to suck Israeli cock spin the news focus on the important bit: how this will deter "cads" who prey on single women. Because, obviously, that is the important part of this news. Observe:
LA Times wrote:ISRAEL: Arab man convicted of rape after posing as Jew to seduce woman
July 20, 2010 | 7:12 am
In a ruling that could strike fear in the hearts of cads everywhere, a Jerusalem court has ruled that lying to a woman to get her into bed is a form of rape.
Sabbar Kashur, 30, an Arab resident of Jerusalem, pretended to be a Jewish bachelor looking for a relationship. He met a Jewish woman and they went to a nearby building to have consensual sex, according the account in the Haaretz newspaper. He split before she'd finished putting her clothes back on.
She filed a criminal complaint for rape and indecent assault, which authorities took seriously.
Sure, it wasn't "classic rape by force," reasoned Jerusalem District Court Judge Tzvi Segal, but if the woman "hadn't thought the accused was a Jewish bachelor ... she would not have cooperated."
The court rejected a plea bargain to serve community service and sentenced Kashur to 18 months in prison.
Although the article makes it sound like she just met a man on the street and agreed to have sex with him after talking a bit. Excuse my massive ignorance of sex, but is this common, because I was under the influence people generally had to display caring and spend tend with each other before they had sex and decided to marry.
