- Israeli inspiration for Abu Ghraib
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- Missing from all US press accounts of Abu Ghraib prison
is the fact that the procedures used there nearly completely mimic the
treatment of Palestinian prisoners developed over the last several decades
by the Israeli government.
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- A secret classified detention center closed off from
Red Cross access was recently uncovered in Israel:
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- http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5251751/
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- Related stories from Brasscheck
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- "Seymour's snow job" - May 16, 2004
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- Excerpt:
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- "It's all in Joe Sacco's graphic novel "Palestine"
published in 2002 and inspired by a trip he took to the West Bank and Gaza
ten years ago.
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- The Israeli treatment of Palestinian detainees - many
of them entirely innocent people arrested and held on the flimsiest of
evidence - is so close to standard operating procedure at Abu Ghraib it
might as well be a training manual."
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- Speaking of snow jobs...
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- I haven't seen Michael Moore's film yet, but apparently,
like Seymour Hersh, he's managed to 'spill the beans' while entirely avoiding
the subject of Israeli influence on Bush and US policy in the Middle East.
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- However, Israeli enemy Saudi Arabia gets a good, albeit
well deserved, shellacking in Moore's film.
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- Chalk up another triumph for Israeli control over the
US media.
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- You can be a progressive, alternative journalist in this
country - as long as you don't look to closely at the current Israeli power
structure...
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