Posted on 12/09/2008 12:13:58 PM PST by forkinsocket
They may falsely say your comrades gave confessions implicating you. They may bug your cell. They may deprive you of sleep, force you to sit in contorted postures for hours, even blindfold and beat you.
Such warnings about Israeli interrogators from the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service are usually sounded among jailed Palestinians. But this time, they appear in a Hebrew-language pamphlet written for Jewish settlers and their sympathizers.
With friction building in the occupied West Bank over the prospect -- albeit distant -- of a Palestinian state, the Shin Bet is quietly knuckling down on Jews who might turn to violence to try to wreck any future peace accord. Militant settler leaders report increased efforts by the Shin Bet's Division for Countering State Subversion, also known as the "Jewish Division," to garner tip-offs about possible plots to kill Arabs or assassinate an Israeli government figure.
"There's a real sense of Shin Bet-phobia nowadays," said Noam Federman, the pamphlet's author and a firebrand settler from Kiryat Arba, near the West Bank town of Hebron.
Yet given a recent spree of settler rampages in the West Bank, doubts have been raised in Israel over whether the Shin Bet, criticized internationally for a two-fisted approach to Arab suspects, tends to treat Jews with kid gloves.
"Having won the fight against Palestinian terror, the Shin Bet is losing to the far-right," opined Israel's Maariv daily.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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