Arafat ask again for international protection from Israel brutality...

[keithyboy]

this should have been done 8 years ago when he asked for international monitors. I just don't understand why the world just watches this happen. Are they are in some kind of holocaust guilt mode? For Christ's sake, the Palestinians had nothing to do with Hitler!

http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage

[Jim Sagle]

1. Your title doesn't match the title at the link.

[Tinoire]

2. This isn't I/P, not LBN- that rule does not apply. Sheesh

or is your intent to get this moved to I/P so that special rules can suffocate & snuff out this thread?

[Tinoire]

3. I don't understand it either and hope the EU steps in to protect the

Palestinians. The Israeli Right wing is totally OUT OF CONTROL and someone must stop them.

It is SHAMEFUL that this goes on.

If I'm going to yell about US abuses, you can bet your ass I won't sit silently about Israeli abuses committed with my money either!



Iraq?

Nope. Think again.... Israel, February 2000

Wednesday, 9 February, 2000, 22:46 GMT
Israel admits torture

An actor demonstrates a technique called the banana

An official Israeli report has acknowledged for the first time that the Israeli security service tortured detainees during the Palestinian uprising, the Intifada, between 1988 and 1992.

The report, written five years ago but kept secret until now, said the leadership of the security service Shin Bet knew about the torture but did nothing to stop it.

The report did not detail the torture methods used, but human rights organisations say some detainees died or were left paralysed.

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Human rights groups in Israel maintain that the practices authorised by the Landau commission - keeping prisoners in excruciatingly uncomfortable postures, covering their heads with filthy and malodorous sacks and depriving them of sleep - amount to torture.

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'Holy work'

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/637293.stm
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Facility 1391: Israel's secret prison

It has been removed from maps and airbrushed from aerial photographs. But Facility 1391 certainly exists - you just have to ask the Palestinians and Lebanese who have been imprisoned and tortured there. Chris McGreal reports

Friday November 14, 2003
The Guardian

The men under the black hoods all have the same question once the blindfolds and manacles are off: Where am I? A voice filtering through a narrow slit in the steel door told Sameer Jadala he was "in Honolulu", Raab Bader that he was "in a submarine" and "outside the borders of Israel", Bashar Jadala that he was "on the moon". None of them imagined it at the time, because only a handful of the political and security establishment knew such a thing existed, but they were prisoners in Israel's Guantanamo: Facility 1391.
"I was barefoot in my pyjamas when they arrested me and it was really cold," says Sameer Jadala, a Palestinian school bus driver. "When I got to that place, they told me to strip and gave me a blue uniform. Then they gave me a black sack. They told me: 'This is your sack. You need to keep it with you. Any time someone comes to your cell, you must put it on your head. Any time they deliver the food, you must put it on your head. You must never see the soldiers' faces. You do not want to know what will happen if you take it off.' Sometimes I thought I would die in that place and no one would ever know."

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"Our main conclusion is that it exists to make torture possible - a particular kind of torture that creates progressive states of dread, dependency, debility," says Manal Hazzan, a human rights lawyer who helped expose the prison's existence. "The law gives the army enough authority already to hide prisoners, so why do they need a secret facility?"

Unlike any other Israeli prison, the International Red Cross, lawyers and members of the Israeli parliament have been refused access. One leftwing MP, Zahava Gal-On, describes Facility 1391 as "one of the signs of totalitarian regimes and of the third world". The Israeli government declines to discuss the secret prison other than to issue a standard response: "Facility 1391 is situated on a secret military base. The base is used by the security services for various classified activities and thus its location is kept confidential."

But it is not just human rights lawyers and leftwing MPs who have a problem. Ami Ayalon is a former head of Israel's intelligence service, the Shin Bet. He was told about 1391 but says he refused to have anything to do with it. "I knew there was a facility not under the responsibility of the Shin Bet, but under the responsibility of the military. I didn't think then, and I don't think today, that such an institution should exist in a democracy," he says.

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Mustafa Dirani, the primary target of the abductions, had been the head of security in the Shi'ite movement Amal, and held Arad for about two years, at times driving around with the Israeli colonel in the boot of his car. Dirani was questioned for five weeks around the clock. Freed from Facility 1391 eight years later but locked up in another Israeli prison, he filed a lawsuit in the Israeli courts alleging that he was sodomised by his Israeli interrogators. The legal action names a "Major George" who, Dirani alleges, ordered a soldier to rape him. On another occasion, the Lebanese prisoner accuses the major of thrusting a stick up his rectum. Other former prisoners at 1391 have described how they were stripped naked for interrogation, blindfolded and handcuffed, and a stick was pressed against their buttocks as they were threatened with rape.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,1084796,00.html

[Must_B_Free]

4. Is Arafat the new Jesus,

the next murder to be committed in the name of Israeli "peace"?

[Darranar]

5. Direct link...

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9579B5D6-D6F9-4B3F-9AFA-754A809EDB4F.htm