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The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet but not make them
die of hunger."
- Israeli Prime Ministerial adviser Dov
Weisglass
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.
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