Latest Israeli Torture Techniques: Belly Dancers
Ma’an “reports”:
Beatings and sexual humiliation are among the torments suffered by Palestinian detainees at an Israeli prison located near the West Bank city of Ramallah, new testimony from prisoners indicates.
Twenty-one-year-old Ramallah resident Sultan Abdullah Sulieman was recently released from the Ofer Prison, officially known as Incarceration Facility 386. In interviews with lawyers from the Palestinian Prisoners Society, he said that he spent forty days in solitary confinement in the facility.
Sulieman said that during one interrogation session, Israeli soldiers brought an “Iraqi girl” called “Nora” into the room. “Nora” danced “seductively” in front of Suleiman, moving close to him before moving away, he said.
The Arabic version reported by Palestine Today teases out more lurid details:
Sultan Sulaiman Abdullah (21 years) from Ramallah that the Ofer prison warders in the new style used in the investigation, where the girl who came and entered the prisoner during interrogation, sitting semi-naked in front of the captive and begin issuing the voices and gestures for tempting him and was approaching the degree of contact with her body and then his body.
Of course, this one person goes on to mention lots of other examples of torture, each of which sound as plausible as this one.
This article from 2004 listing Palestinian Arab prisoner demands interestingly didn’t ask for a stop of such “torture.” Instead, they ask for computers in each cell, plus dozens of other amenities than most hotels don’t have.
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Okay. So he could hang himself from his own petard.
How much useless information did the media release today?
Oh, yeah. Abbas again threatens to quit. If “pieces” of Israel isn’t in his hands by the end of this year.
Bush is still an idiot.
And, what’s really worth discussing? This “VEXING” problem. Because the arabs have successfully exploited it, so far. And, that’s to ANNOY the Israelis. Hoping to provoke them “to go to war.” Since wars deplete a country’s economy. And, worse. Toss tourism out the perverbial window.
As to jails, let me tell ya, Israel has nothing on the USA! We house “special groups” … and this feeds the lawyers. And, law enforcement, too. Like schools, you’ve got to look at the economic aspect of it all.
While the media is no more selling their messages, than Bush was able to! You think the arabs in Saudi Arabia felt beholden to Bush’s requests? I kid you not. Bush flopped.
And, the democraps, here, think Obama wins the presidential election.
Such strange mishigas happens when politicians need a critical amount of votes to win in a race, where they could also lose.
Sure. Sometimes, I can see why people would like advance notice. Tea leaves, and searching astrologists, come up empty-handed.
Up ahead? You think we’ll be talking about Morris Talansky, and his attempt to bring down Olmert? Is he the Israeli version of Monica Lewinsky? Is Mazuz just Ken Starr, played as farce?
American soldiers at Guantanamo resort to similar tactics:
http://www.smh.com.au/news/Global-Terrorism/Revealed-sex-and-torture-inside-the-wire/2005/01/28/1106850089795.html
it’s shaming for a man to be aroused in such a situation. That shame is the torture. Not the arousal itself. If you take a beating you can prove yourself to be honorable, in control of the pain. It shows strength of spirit. If you become aroused (and if that arousal leads to a confession) it can be seen as a form of weakness by which the prisoner is shamed. What people perceive as torture, including what they find shaming or humiliating, is culturally conditioned. It might not work to torture you by bringing in a half-naked woman. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t traumatic for someone else. Some people have better coping mechanisms for physical pain, than for psychological damage.
Also, I’m willing to wager that using an online machine translator probably won’t get you the subtleties of the story.
The Ma’an story was in English.