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Israel ‘Coerces’ UN Workers – By Outright Torturing Them
Every time one thinks that the depravity of Zionist fanatics has finally reached a limit they will proudly present even worse behavior.
UNRWA report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas links – Reuters, Mar 9 2024
The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.
Coerced, pressured, … Maybe they had a harsh talk?
No. They outright tortured, Abu Graibh like, these UN workers. Some of them to their death:
The document said several UNRWA Palestinian staffers had been detained by the Israeli army, and added that the ill-treatment and abuse they said they had experienced included severe physical beatings, waterboarding, and threats of harm to family members.
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In addition to the alleged abuse endured by UNRWA staff members, Palestinian detainees more broadly described allegations of abuse, including beatings, humiliation, threats, dog attacks, sexual violence, and deaths of detainees denied medical treatment, the UNRWA report said.
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Reuters could not independently confirm the accounts of coercion of UNRWA staff and mistreatment of detainees, although the allegations of ill-treatment accord with descriptions by Palestinians freed from detention in December, February and March reported by Reuters and other news media.
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Remi Brulin @RBrulin – 0:44 UTC · Mar 9, 2024
“We tortured some folks” is pretty bad
“We tortured some folk so we could destroy a huge relief organization that’s indispensable in dealing with a huge humanitarian crisis that we created in the first place” is…. something else
What are civilized people supposed to do with these miscreants?
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 10 2024 3:24 utc | 193
Well yes, but reflections on the nature of culpability grapple with this. Sophocles’ OT is the foundation and no end of modern interpretations howl at the idea that Oedipus could be guilty when ‘he did not know’. Liberal individualism wants a heroic individual who owes no obligation to other humans, and for whom there is no link, known or otherwise, between himself and his historical situation. But Oedipus did know or at least he was willfully blind to his historical situation. He was after all ‘magically’ tossed into an autocrat’s seat—best not to ask how that comes about… yet, our hand in crimes is there whether we know it or not. If Oedipus is innocent, then whose blood is it on his hands? And by extension, how can I not be guilty of the deracination of the aboriginal people of Australia when I live on their land, enjoy the fruits of the conquest and continue to push them out of sight and mind?
This passage is worth reading:
“Do you think”, I finally asked—it had become very late— “that that time in Poland taught you anything?”
“Yes,” he said, his voice once again calm and pensive—the increasing abruptness of these repeated metamorphoses becoming ever more disconcerting: “That everything human has its origin in human weakness.”
“You said before that you thought perhaps the Jews were ‘meant’ to have this ‘enormous jolt’: when you say ‘meant to’ – are you speaking of God?”
“Yes.” —“But what is God?”
“God is everything higher which I cannot understand but only believe.”
The awful distortion in his thinking had shown up time after time as we had talked. And now here it was again, as we came to the end of these talks… “Was God in Treblinka?
“Yes,” he said. “Otherwise, how could it have happened?”
“But isn’t God good?”
“No,” he said slowly, “I wouldn’t say that. He is good and bad. But then, laws are made by men; and faith in God too depends on men—so that doesn’t prove much of anything, does it? The only thing is, there are things which are inexplicable by science, so there must be something beyond man. Tell me though, if a man has a goal he calls God, what can he do to achieve it? Do you know?”
“Don’t you think it differs for each man? In your case, could it be to seek truth?”
“Truth?”
“Well, to face up to yourself? Perhaps as a start, just about what you have been trying to do in these past weeks?”
His immediate response was automatic, and automatically unyielding: “My conscience is clear about what I did, myself,” he said, in the same stiffly spoken words he had used countless times at his trial, and in the past weeks, when we had always come back to this subject, over and over again. But this time I said nothing. He paused and waited, but the room remained silent. “I have never intentionally hurt anyone, myself,” he said, with a different, less incisive emphasis, and waited again—for a long time. For the first time, in all these many days, I had given him no help. There was no more time. He gripped the table with both hands as if he was holding on to it. “But I was there,” he said then, in a curiously dry and tired tone of resignation. These few sentences had taken almost half an hour to pronounce. “So yes,” he said finally, very quietly, “in reality I share the guilt… Because my guilt… my guilt… only now in these talks… now that I have talked about it all for the first time…” He stopped. He had pronounced the words “my guilt”: but more than the words, the finality of it was in the sagging of his body, and on his face. After more than a minute he started again, a half-hearted attempt, in a dull voice. “My guilt,” he said, “is that I am still here. That is my guilt.”
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Stangl died nineteen hours later, just after noon the next day, Monday, of heart failure. He had seen no one since I left him except a prison officer who had taken the food trolley around… He had not committed suicide. His heart was weak and he would no doubt have died quite soon anyway. But I think he died when he did because he had finally, however briefly, faced himself and told the truth; it was a monumental effort to reach that fleeting moment when he became the man he should have been.
Gitta Sereny, Into That Darkness: A Study in Conscience (New York, 1974), 363-6
Posted by: Patroklos | Mar 10 2024 4:08 utc | 199
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