The Press got one thing right. Israel is "tolerant" ... of torture, that is. As Louis Frankenthaler of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel wrote earlier this year, Israel "continues to use torture. ... One may choose to believe that torture has been 'abolished in Israel' but it continues with impunity." A 2006 scientific poll for the BBC in 25 countries found: "The largest percentage endorsing torture was found in Israel. ... A majority of Jewish respondents (53%) favor allowing governments to use torture ... In contrast, Muslims in Israel ... are overwhelmingly (87%) against any use of torture." Maybe Israeli tolerance for torture is what inspired the Press to torture the truth so viciously when they criticized the TAAN and my article.
The result is a total, hermetic, impenetrable and unconditional protection that envelops the GSS system of torture, and enables it to continue undisturbed, with no supervision or scrutiny to speak of. The achievements of the HCJ ruling of 1999, which was to have put an end to large-scale torture and ill-treatment, limiting it to lone cases of 'ticking bombs,' have worn thin. The 'defense of necessity' has also become no more than a veneer. From the research undertaken by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, it is clear that torture is carried out in an orderly and institutional fashion. We know that cases termed 'ticking bombs,' do not involve a lone interrogator improvising "in the face of an unforeseen event," as the High Court stipulated. Interrogators appeal to their supe...
... that use of measures of self-defense against armed attacks by non-state actors is permissible u...The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has recognized that such n... accountability under law." Richard Falk, Torture, War, and the Limits of Liberal Legality, in THE U...Breaches of neutrality by public or private actors are international crimes under c...
There were red faces in Ottawa on January 18, when a Canadian Foreign Affairs document became public, listing the U.S. and Israel among countries using torture. Amnesty International (AT) obtained the report as disclosure in connection with its suit challenging Canada's transferring Afghan prisoners to Afghan authorities. Justice Department Canada tried to get the report back, saying that it was released in error, but of course Amnesty International refused. Foreign Affairs immediately went into damage control, saying that the document "does not reflect the views or policies of the government." Meanwhile, U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins found the charge against the U.S. to be "offensive. Among the U.S. techniques mentioned were blindfolding, isolation, sleep deprivation, and forced nudit...
..., they persist, according to the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. An official Israeli rep...
FOR PUBLICATION. UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS. FOR THE ... been clearly established for decades that torture of an American citizen violates the Constitution, ..., Estela Lebron, filed this civil action against John Yoo, in his individual capacity, on January 4... States of America to the United Nations Committee Against Torture ¶¶ 6, 49, 112, U.N. Doc. CAT/C/2...
... Jewish descent would dare to criticize publicly. They are afraid of being accused of "anti-semitis... it has been all but impossible to cry out against the Israeli state without being smeared as an anti... for Human Rights (18) and the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (19) and many Israeli jo...
Mercenaries, however, are unlawful combatants if they do not act at the behest of a recognized government.\n Somewhere in the interface between this nation's domestic and foreign affairs since September 11, 2001, a little piece of land on a small island a few hundred miles away in the Caribbean-Guantanamo-emerged as a symbol of the Bush administration's drive to chisel away at our historic laws and statutes, to rebalance this country's tripartite system of governing, and to commit military aggression against populations abroad.
..., CUBA, ANDOFISSUES THAT have come into the public discourse because of it, in the over five years si... the State Department delegation to the Committee Against Torture, which presented the First U.S. Re...
... to the ratification of the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Trea... to the ICCPR, the Human Rights Committee has gone so far as expressly to reject the proposa... or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official cap...
... view in the legal literature on the fight against terrorism is that the current structure of interna...According to the International Committee of the Red Cross ("ICRC"), the law of non-internat...In Public Committee Against Torture in Israel v. Government ...
... Economics in which I gave a comprehensive public explanation of our legal views and policy decision... protections include the prohibition against torture and cruel, humiliating and degrading treat..., earlier this year the Foreign Affairs Committee of the UK House of Commons wrote that the Geneva C...
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