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Notes from the Unrepenitentiary
In the last months of 1996, the court system in Israel legalized torture. Preventing "terrorist attacks" makes it necessary, the courts ruled, to use physical torture to extract information from Arab "suspects."
Fifty years ago the nazis used similar rationales to justify the dehumanization of Jews and other "threats" to ...
Fifty years ago the nazis used similar rationales to justify the dehumanization of Jews and other "threats" to ...
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