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Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has warned that the phenomenon of illegal weapons in Israel goes far beyond the criminal sphere and poses a security threat. Speaking at a lecture on Thursday night, Bennett said that more than half a million illegal weapons are held by civilians, describing the situation as "a security threat of the highest order." Bennett claimed that illegal weapons are being transferred to terrorists in Judea and Samaria and to organized crime families in Israel. "This is an extremely dangerous ticking time bomb," he stressed. According to Bennett, "A security threat should and may be dealt...

TORTURE FOR DUMMIES: EXPLODING THE TICKING BOMB ARGUMENT What if you knew for sure that the cute little baby burbling and smiling at you from his stroller in the park was going to grow up to be another Hitler, responsible for a global cataclysm and millions of deaths? Would you be justified in picking up a rock and bashing his adorable head in? Wouldn't you be morally depraved if you didn't? Or what if a mad scientist developed a poison so strong that two drops in the water supply would kill everyone in Chicago? And you could destroy the poison,...

The Jerusalem District Court sentenced an Israeli border police officer to 14 months in jail Thursday for abusing a Palestinian man together with four of his comrades just outside the city four months ago. The border police officer, Nir Levy, 24, detained the Palestinian on suspicion of working in Israel without a permit on September 11, and then, together with his four partners, took him to an abandoned building in the West Bank village of Abu Dis, where they beat him, burnt cigarette stubs on his hands, made him jump out of a second floor window and drink their urine....