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Article: Human Rights: The Corruption Creeps Into Annual State Department Human Rights Report on Israel

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HUMAN RIGHTS: The Corruption Creeps Into Annual State Department Human Rights Report on Israel

You can now mention in the Department of State's report on Human Rights in Israel the word "torture." That was a concession to the truth, but it took countless hours of discussion within the Department before it was decided to permit use of the term. You can mention Israel's use of torture, however, only as "alleged."

You also can mention the name of someone who claims to have been tortured. And you can give statistics on all sorts of practices in violation of human rights and civil rights in Israel in order to make the annual U.S. human rights report's authors feel good about being balanced.

But ...

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