Who would believe the Israeli president raped me?

WAKE-UP · Feb 17, 2007

"I was scared. Who would believe the Israeli president raped me?"
- Marie Colvin â Sunday Times February 11, 2007

In a hotel room in Tel Aviv, a young assistant who worked in the office of Moshe Katsav, the Israeli president, is acting out the moves she claims he made when he raped her.

âI went into his office with a book I needed to put away,â she said. âHe was sitting at his desk and thereâs a big wall of books behind him. I was reaching up to put the book away when he came up behind me.â

She crosses her hands on her stomach and hunches. You can almost see the big arms trapping her hands under his.

âHe was behind me in a kind of hug,â she continued. âIt was like my hands were tied. He is not a big person but he is strong. I said: what are you doing?

âI donât know why I said that. I was shocked. He said, âI want you. I want you to love me. Why donât you love me? I want to have sex with youâ. I think I said again: what are you doing?â

Katsav pushed her onto the corner of his desk, she claims. She rises from her chair to demonstrate how her hips were allegedly forced on to the table as he turned her to face him.

âMy hands were on the table and his hands were over mine on the table. Iâm not weak. [But] I had this feeling I never felt before â you canât do anything.

âBefore I even understood, he opened his belt [she starts unbuckling hers to demonstrate] and he pulled up my skirt. I started saying: Iâm leaving, Iâm quitting. I was sure that he would stop.â

She draws on a cigarette and grimaces. âMaybe I didnât struggle enough,â she said. âI was shocked. I was thinking, what if people know, what if I donât have a job. He penetrated me.â The alleged attack lasted minutes, she said. âOne leg was out of my panties and I put it back in. And I pulled them up and I just went out of his office. I took my purse from my desk and I just went.â

She has been seeing a psycho-therapist for six months and says that it has given her a new perspective. âI didnât shout. But I did say no, strongly. I know I did. I said: donât touch me.â Afterwards, she says, he warned her: âDonât tell anyone.â

She went to a public garden nearby and sat for hours, she says, smoking one cigarette after another before taking a taxi home. It was sunny but windy. âI was thinking, why me? What did I do wrong? Did I do something wrong? I saw my life ruined in just one moment.â

Calls to her mobile went unanswered. âI took a shower and went to bed,â she said. âI wanted to wash away his touch. He was all over me.â

The young woman, who bears a resemblance to the actress Michelle Pfeiffer in Chanel tortoiseshell glasses, now divides her life into two parts: before and after the alleged rape.

Before, her interests were simple. She says she loved her job. She had a boyfriend and a car and she socialised when she could outside the long hours of the presidentâs office.

Now, she shies away from the company of all but good friends. âI donât listen to music any more, I donât go shopping. Iâm not the same person,â she said last week.

The president vigorously protests his innocence of her allegations, saying that years had gone by before she made them and vowing to fight until his last breath to clear his name. Nevertheless, he is facing indictments not only for rape but also for charges of sexual misconduct against three other women.

The young assistant, who cannot be named by law, is at the centre of a swirl of sexual and financial scandals in the Israeli government that have brought public confidence in the countryâs leaders to an all-time low.

Haim Ramon, the justice minister, was forced to step down last summer. Last month he was convicted of committing an indecent act by forcibly kissing a 20-year-old female soldier as he arrived at the prime ministerâs office for a meeting on the day when Israel decided to go to war against Hezbollah.

The prime minister himself, Ehud Olmert, faces inquiries into his alleged role in promoting the interests of two friends in the privatisation of a bank and also over claims of corruption in property deals.

However, it is the sex scandal surrounding 61-year-old Katsav that is gripping the nation.

In a speech broadcast live on Israeli television, he claimed that there was a conspiracy against him by the police, the prosecutors and the media. Then he got into a shouting match with a Channel 2 correspondent who had tried to ask him a question.

Katsavâs duties as president are largely ceremonial but he is a symbol of the nation. He beat Shimon Peres, the nationâs elder statesman, to the post in 2000 although he had held only second-rank posts in successive governments of the right-wing party Likud. One newspaper said that he ârose simply by being too dull to make enemiesâ.

Katsav, the first Israeli president from a Muslim country, was born in Yazd, Iran, and came to Israel at the age of six, joining the hundreds of thousands of Jews emigrating after the 1948 war that ended with the foundation of the Jewish state. At a modest bungalow in Kiryat Malachi, he and his wife Gila have raised five children.

The assistant joined Katsavâs staff soon after he became president and did menial work before rising to a more responsible job. She was young, naive, poorly educated and in awe of the president. Looking back, she claims that she can now see that his advances began gradually.

âThe president would call me on my private line,â she said. âHe would stop by my desk and say, âYou look prettyâ, or âI like your skirtâ.â

It was flattering to have the attention of such a powerful man, but matters soon became uncomfortable. âHe would stand too close or seek out my company too much. I thought, well, itâs only talk. What can I say? I didnât want to lose my job. My father is not a Rothschild.â

Katsavâs questions became increasingly personal. She once walked out of his office when he asked what she liked to do in bed, she claims, but she says she could not confront him.

Her days grew longer. She would start at 8:30am, meeting the president when he came back from early morning prayers at the synagogue next door. Sometimes she would stay in the office until 11pm at his request.

Katsav, she said, would go upstairs at the end of the working day and return in a tracksuit, asking her to sit and watch the news with him. âI didnât know if it was part of the job,â she said.

âI was dating someone and it ruined that a lot, because I didnât have so much time.â

He constantly rang her on her mobile phone, she claims, sometimes starting at 7.30am as she headed into work and finishing late at night.

Sometimes he would discuss colleagues in intimate terms, for instance, telling her that one of them was gay. At other times he berated her for incompetence.

âIt made me nervous,â she said. One day, she alleges, he crossed the line of acceptable behaviour. She was sitting in front of his desk taking instructions, when he walked around and stood next to her.

âHe said, âStand for a secondâ. And I donât know, instinctively I stood up. He put his hand on my breast, like this,â she said, dem-onstrating a cupping motion. âI said: what are you doing? And I froze.â

She left and stayed away for two days. âHe kept calling and saying, âItâs okay, Iâm not going to touch you, if you donât like it thatâs okayâ. I was confused. I couldnât really know what happened. But I started thinking that I need to think about another job.â

Now she believes she should have done precisely that. Just a few weeks later she went into his office to return the book, with all the consequences that she says have changed her life.

She knows it seems suspicious that she walked out for 10 days after the alleged rape and then came back to work for a month before fleeing the country.

She struggles to explain herself, but says she had resolved to put the rape behind her and try to survive in a situation that had overwhelmed her.

Asked why she did not report the rape, she ponders for a moment. Then the words come pouring out.

âI thought, who would believe me? I was scared, ashamed. I didnât want anyone to know. He was calling and threatening me, saying, âDonât tell anyone. If you do, you will never even work as a waitress againâ.

âThen he would call and say, âI donât have an assistant. Where is your professional responsibility?â

âI worked there again knowing I was going to leave,â she said. âI had to prepare my parents, sell my car. I had a life to cut off.â She added: âIf nothing bad happened to me like they say, why would I leave my dream job?â She stayed away from Israel for several months. The manner of her return has raised further questions about her account.

She says she contacted Katsav because she needed a reference and in return he asked her to write a letter of appreciation for her time in his office. He then offered to set up three job interviews for her.

âI knew it was not a good solution,â she said. âHe could never fix what he did to me, but I thought if he wants to do this little thing, I will accept it. I need a job.â

A confrontation with Katsav followed in his office when he had failed to arrange a single interview after four months: âI was excited. I could have killed him at that moment. It felt like he was still driving into my body.â

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That's what you get when you are hanging out with Talmud reading psychos. No pitty.

FanOfFridays · Feb 21, 2007

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Wait a minute...you are complaining about perversion and at the same time you are saying that the true victim in a pedophilic rape is the rapist because he might go to jail and if he does, he becomes a victim, and that pedophilia is 'much hoo-ha about nothing'?
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I acually agree with that, yes, I do not believe that those who rape children are always completely guilty. I believe that many of those are victims of the system, which brought them to their deed. Not everyone can handle the constant bombardment of sex and titillation on television and on the internet. There will always be people who get frustrated to a point where they go out and commit rape. If children where taught that reproduction with the opposite sex is a duty rather than a choice, and that attraction to the same sex can be understandable but something that should be considered as a handicap with which one can should learn to live
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Now with the above in mind, let us ask, Is pedophilia a True Crime? The answer, I think, is clearly No. No one has ever shown that pedophilia AS SUCH harms anyone, and all claims of harm are purely speculative. Yes, the way in which an act of pedophilia is carried out may be harmful -- rape, for example -- but pedophilia is not rape except perhaps in the legal sense ('statutory rape'). There is, however, one way in which pedophilia is frequently harmful, namely, that it causes the perpetrators to spend substantial time behind bars where they are almost invariably the subject of rape and where they are taught the pleasures of homosexual perversion. And of course where their lives are ruined.
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