Israeli soldiers raped her. Australian customs threatened her

A Gaza flotilla activist was raped and tortured by a foreign military; His own country searched his luggage and confiscated his phone and laptop. Andrew Brown With the story of Juliet Lamont.

Hold two images in your head at the same time.

First. An Australian citizen lies face down on the deck of an Israeli navy ship in international waters, cables are tied and chained, soldiers stand on his feet, a rifle butt hits his head every time he turns his face, water is thrown into his mouth and nose until it fills, and he is sure he is drowning. Water skiing without a board.

Then a darkened shipping container. Five soldiers. She was raped from behind and bent double while a soldier was tearing handfuls of hair from her scalp. He focused his mind on his boots and pushed everything behind him until it happened to a woman he could watch from somewhere else.

It was the only way to experience this.

Second image. An Australian citizen who served in the Israel Defense Forces got off the plane at Sydney Airport before the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide. No one can stop him. Nobody asks what you’re doing. He gets his coffee from Double Bay around noon.

Now guess which one the Australian Border Force detained, searched and threatened with arrest?

Juliet Lamont returned home after being raped and tortured by a foreign military, and her home country searched her luggage, seized her phone and laptop, and told her she would be arrested unless she handed over her passwords.

His government did not protect him. His government investigated him.

Planned and systematic. From the top right.

Call the crime by name. The seizure of 42 unarmed civilian boats carrying medicine and prostheses 270 nautical miles offshore in international waters is piracy.

An industrial process followed. 428 civilians from thirty countries were fed, one by one, from a container that survivors called the torture tunnel, by soldiers wearing balaclavas who hid their faces because they knew The Hague was coming.

They knew Lamont’s name. His is out of 428 people. “Welcome to Israel, Juliet,” an officer murmured. “You’ll really enjoy this.”

Weeks later, at a forensic examination at Tweed Valley Hospital, it was the nurses’ latex gloves that broke him. He’s seen them before. His rapists were wearing these. There is no DNA. There is no evidence of their crimes. The men who broke his coccyx had put on gloves before touching him, so the examination would be inconclusive.

This is not the soldiers losing control. This is planning and it comes from the top. Israel denied everything through a spokesman. An army’s denial that its soldiers wear gloves before rape is not a denial. This is a confession of method.

Violence followed the survivors into the desert. On the night of May 20, Lamont’s daughter Isla, a 25-year-old Australian youth worker, was dragged in chains from her Naqab prison cell into a room full of armed soldiers. Her own published words: “They pulled my trousers down to my ankles, where the shackles were, and they took off my panties, they took off my top, they unclasped my bra. At that moment there were four soldiers with a gun to my head.

He says they will shoot me if I don’t say I love Israel.

A loyalty oath taken at gunpoint from a stripped and chained Australian woman. His mother was somewhere in the same prison. Neither of them knew what was done to the other.

At every stage the product was fear. Lamont believed he would suffocate in captivity for twenty minutes. While Cable was tied up in tense positions for five hours in the midday heat, while the Israeli anthem played, he calmly concluded that they would all be lined up, shot and thrown into the ocean. A soldier wandered through the ranks saying, “I want to kill someone today, it will be one of you.”

A worthless passport

An Australian passport is supposed to mean the government has your back. Lamont carried his from the container, through Kesiot Prison, and all the way home, and at every point he was worth absolutely nothing. DFAT officials photographed survivors hugging for the website and denied every genuine request. Border Force later questioned him on his return home.

Meanwhile, nearly 800 Australians returned from IDF service without a single phone confiscated or a single question asked. Australia arrested citizens flying drones for its ally Ukraine. He sentenced people to ten years in prison just for talking about joining ISIS. Serving in a military facing accusations of genocide makes for a pleasant walk through customs.

Double standards are not a flaw of the system. This is the system.

When 34 Australian women were invasively searched at Doha airport in 2020, Canberra exploded in a matter of days. Flying rights were threatened, a major deal was canceled and no evidence was asked first. Qatar may be punished. Israel must be protected even from the testimonies of Australians who were raped.

Women’s advocate Penny Wong did not raise her eyes at the survivors in Parliament House, then called on the Israeli government to investigate her. Rapists will supervise the rapes. He offered to meet with some of the victims after 23:00. This never happened.

The media completed the abandonment. CNN And New York Times I found this story. SMH And Telegram couldn’t do it. And when ABCAt 7.30am, the morning that survivor Neve O’Connor touched down before Sarah Ferguson, Ferguson cross-examined her as a hostile witness.

The same interviewer was rightly hailed for the dignity of the Gisèle Pelicot interview. The difference wasn’t the reliability of the women. This was the identity of the perpetrators.

make your cost

The demands of the survivors are the minimum demands of a self-respecting nation. Deport the Israeli ambassador. An independent investigation, not a self-policing of the perpetrator. End the two-way arms trade. Sanctions. Dual citizens are barred from IDF services. They are all ignored and will be completely ignored unless there are consequences for ignoring them.

So make the cost. Call your federal MP and ask a question. Do you believe Juliet Lamont? For the record, because every evasion is also an answer. Say your name. Say Isla’s. Call it Neve O’Connor’s. The lobby’s entire strategy is silence and

silence cannot be produced without your cooperation.

The purpose of the gloves was to wipe away evidence. They cannot delete the witness. No glove was ever made that fit a story.

Believe him. So make sure Canberra behaves the way it should.

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Andrew Brown is a Sydney businessman, former Deputy Mayor of Mosman and Palestine peace activist who works in the healthcare industry.