Morris concluded that “because neither the victims nor the rapists liked to report these events, we have to assume that the dozen cases of rape that were reported, which I found, are not the whole story. They are just the tip of the iceberg.”
This quote from Morris’s interview refers to the atrocities committed by Israeli forces during the 1948 war, some of which involved rape. The main point of this quote is that the number of 12 is unreliable because the reported cases are not even the entire story. Morris argues that because of the typical pattern of underreporting sexual assault, the number must be higher. He uses the metaphor of the iceberg to reveal the hidden realities of sexual violence. Morris’s quote shows that the Israeli “acts of massacre” and wrongdoings are more than the ones documented.