Weinglass' concept is very much akin to the American government's idea of torture, i.e., actions which are the equivalent of organ failure or which cause "significant psychological harm of significant duration, e.g., lasting for months or even years." Anything less, according to the U.S. government, is perfectly acceptable treatment and not torture.

And now the Israeli government (and, we may add, the U.S. government as well) publicly espouses the equivalent treatment of the Palestinian people (not that this is anything new). And, as I write this, although this quote appears in more than 1000 news sources, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and CNN are not among them.

Just in passing, I note that it is undeniable that tens of thousands of Palestinian children (not to mention adults) are suffering "significant psychological harm of significant duration, e.g., lasting for months or even years." Which, even according to John "Torture" Yoo, amounts to torture.