"As God, and you all, are our witnesses, we hereby cut off all ties (with Amal Kashua) for all eternity," it read.
Kashua's brother endorsed the attack on the couple. "If I could, I would eat them both raw and spit them out," he told Israeli television, his face obscured and first name withheld.
A leading Israeli feminist described Amal Kashua as the latest victim of "family-honor" violence seen among Israeli Arabs and other conservative Middle Eastern societies.
"With standard domestic violence, the husband attacks the wife, whereas in family-honor cases the woman perceived to have 'strayed' from the moral code is fair game to other men in the community," said Yael Dayan, a long-time member of Israel's parliamentary committee for the advancement of the status of women.
Around 10 Israeli Arab women are murdered each year because of family honor, she said, with countless others beaten or banished. [Reuters] How does an entire culture become so twisted that some abstract concept of "honor" takes precedence over the actual lives of ostensible "loved ones"? Why wouldn't the town, and especially the family, feel pity and shame for having allowed one of their own to fall into such a state that she would feel porn was her best option? Why didn't they care about her BEFORE she felt driven to porn? Why does this culture feel violence is the answer to every difference of opinion? What is this culture so afraid of? Who can defend any of this with a straight face?
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