A growing collection of Palestinian leaders are acknowledging thattherecentrise in “honor killings” and other horrific acts of violence being perpetrated against Palestinian women can only be stemmed by changing the Arabcultural and Islamicpropensity of violence toward women.
The latest victim of a Palestinian honor killing wasNancy Zaboun,a 27-year-old mother of three, who,moments after sheleft a divorce hearingin Bethlehem,was brutallymurderedby her husband.
Unfortunately, Nancy Zaboun’sattempt to flee herabusivemarriage caused such a stain on her husband’s familial honor that he stabbed hermultiple times,a death sentencewhichtragicallyhas beenshared by along andever-expanding list of Palestinian womenand girls....