re from israeli press torture in article igc apc org center for policy research cpr igc apc org writes from center for policy research cpr subject from israeli press torture written pm apr by cpr igc apc org in igc mideast forum from israeli press torture from the israeli press newspaper ma ariv date december author avi raz subject torture sigh farwell la donchin e the truth will out interrogative polygraphy lie detection with event related brain potentials psychophysiology the research reported here was supported in part by contract number f with the central intelligence agency preliminary reports were presented at the and meetings of the society for psychophysiological research donchin happens to be an israeli do you really think that israel needs something as primitive as torture when it has this as well as something brought over by a russian mathematician from the lenningrad military hospital in factor analysis of multiple unit activity of the brain surely you jest when israel sics trained dogs on arab prisoners the way it s commonly done on prison farms in mississippi or alabama then you have a right to protest against torture when israeli security personnel beat arab prisoners the way chicago police do then you have a right to complain since it does not practice physical torture in any way kindly refrain from using this word josh backon vms huji ac il title of article moderate physical pressure several times in the course of the long hours in the interrogation room in tulkarm prison during which he says he was humiliated beaten and tortured omar daoud jaber heard his interrogator a shabak agent captain louis chatting on the phone with his wife at those moments omar said i felt that he was like a humanbeing but right after he finished talking he would be beat me and say you listened to the conversation and enjoyed yourself and i understood that he was not really a human being in late october after days in detention at tulkarm prison omar jaber was released without charges among the jews as among the arabs there are good people and bad people he said after his release but there in tulkarm in the interrogations rooms you cannot find even one person about whom you can say that he is a human being although he left the detention installation in tulkarm bruised and humiliated i sat at home for ten days my hands shook from nerves one may consider omar jaber lucky he got out not so healthy but entire and even ultimately returned to normal functioning at the small solar heater plant he owns in contrast hassan bader al zbeidi for example was released seven weeks ago from detention in tulkarm after days in the shabak wing cut off from his surroundings he doesn t speak or react mustafa barakat aged only who was arrested in early august and was brought to the tulkarm detention installation left it one day later dead we have recently received an especially large number of testimonies concerning cruel tortures employed at the tulkarm detention installation by shabak interrogators noted dr niv gordon director of the association of israel and palestinian physicians for human rights the right to complain against the shabak does not excite anan saber makhlouf a year old student in fact he was extremely fearful about describing the manner in which he was interrogated in tulkarm prison in case the publication in the paper would return him to detention and lead to renewed mistreatment follow description of tortures omar a tall bearded man was silent i do not want to talk about it he finally said quietly some time later embarrased and ashamed he spoke sometimes he beats you and beats you until you ll kiss his hand and not only his hand even the hands of another interrogator and another whom he calls into the room and the last interrogator says now you are kissing my hand and later if i want you will kiss my ass these things take place in an israeli army detention installation located within the military government compound in tulkarm west bank but the shabak interrogation wing is a separate kingdom in early march the idf allowed representatives of b tselem the israeli information center for human rights in the territories to visit tulkarm prison but denied them access to the interrogation wing the interrogation wing is shabak property being solely under shabak responsibility all interrogations are performed by it said lieutnant sharon sho an the commander of the installation according to the internal report written by b tselem member yuval ginbar following the visit major david pe er governing commander of the prison system in the central command was quoted in the report there is an ethical problem here no one can enter the interrogation wing transl by i shahak
