otheadp said:PreacherX:
in '48 when they refused the UN plan and tried to steal the Israeli half of the partition,
Israel is the best in the Middle East? Well, yes. OK. You're right. They are the best at obtaining information and confessions. Indeed, they are good at what they do and have a strong work ethic, you must respect that you know.otheadp said:Tell that to the non-Jews that live there in fear and repression
you have a funny way of looking at things, Travis
Israel is the best in the middle east, yet that's not good enough
people live in fear and repression in America too
Blacks, Natives, peaceful Muslims, etc.
does that make America so bad?
how old are you Travis? did they build you at ANSWER?
you sound like a clone to me, boy
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Israeli experts in torture have taken part in the torture of the Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib Jail
According to the Al-Manar report which was published on the first page of its edition number 673, The American forces killed 1400 Iraqi prisoner since they occupied Iraq and buried most of them in the desert, far away in the countryside. These prisoners died during torture sessions made by the torture teams, who cut parts of the prisoners bodies.
Al-Manar says that there are over 30,000 Iraqi prisoners spread in different American jails. There is 2100 women and girls among the prisoners, some of them are minors. All the women prisoners have passed through terrible torture sessions, some of them were raped.
Al-Manar points out that the torture instructions were sent in written to the jail guards and to the interrogators. The torture experts were following these instructions and this led to abuse of the the Iraqi prisoners. There torture team seriously harmed 37 children under the age of 13.
Al-Manars sources confirmed that there are Israeli experts of torture taking part in the torture of the Iraqi prisoners. The Israeli torture experts team has transferred to the country of Israel some of the Iraqi political prisoners and military officers to continue the investigation sessions there.
Ashraf Nasrallah was forced during these periods to sit on a small sloping chair about 30 centimetres high, a technique which can cause extreme pains. His hands and his legs were shackled behind him. A sack was kept over his head and loud music was played continuously. On several occasions GSS interrogators forced Ashraf Nasrallah to squat balancing on his toes. Whenever he tried to stand up, his interrogators would force him to return to the position.
otheadp said:...it's amazing that Israel has yet to resort to real torture.
The ruling has been hailed as a landmark by human rights groups which lodged petitions with the court arguing that Shin Bet practices constituted legalized torture.
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Interrogations also routinely include threats against prisoners, and so-called Shabach - hooding them with urine-soaked sacks and blasting them with loud music.
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Shabach was described as "harming the suspect and his (human) image. It degrades him. It causes him to lose sight of time and place. It suffocates him".
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Apart from the long-term physical and mental damage to prisoners subjected to "moderate pressure", human rights groups say 10 Palestinians have died during interrogation.
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Israel ratified the United Nations Convention against Torture but successive administrations argued that Shin Bet's practices were permissible under the circumstances and, furthermore, did not amount to torture.
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Human rights groups point out that the Convention allows "no exceptional circumstances whatsoever as a justification of torture".
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The UN Committee against Torture has in the past found Israel's authorisation of "moderate physical pressure" to be "completely unacceptable", expressing concern at the "large number of heavily-documented cases of ill-treatment" of prisoners.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/439554.stm
The methods to be reviewed include extremely violent shaking (still used despite causing the death of a detainee in 1995); sleep deprivation for periods of up to several days; forcing detainees to remain in painful positions for hours on end; forcing detainees to listen to incessant screeching music; prolonged squatting; confinement to cupboard-sized rooms and exposure to heat and cold
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Israel uses the excuse that "torture might be necessary to save a roomful of people from a ticking bomb". However, under international law torture is always prohibited. Article 2 (2) of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which Israel ratified in 1991, states that: "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political in stability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture." [/b]
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In addition, torture is used systematically against hundreds of Palestinians every year, even in situations where no "ticking bomb" is involved. The mockery of this argument is shown by the fact that in the majority of cases interrogators take weekends off, using interrogation methods constituting torture only from Sunday to Thursday.
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The United Nations Committee against Torture, a committee of international experts which reviews countries' application of the United Nations Convention against Torture, stated in 1997 and 1998 that Israel's interrogation methods constituted torture or ill-treatment banned by the convention.
http://web.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGMDE150051999
goofyfish said:Well, not as far as we know anyway.
:m: Peace.