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Gideon Levy said in his column in Haaretz that the report:B'TselemThe Israeli rights group published this week under the title “Welcome to Hell” is not just a report on what is happening in Israeli prison facilities, it is a report on Israel itself, and anyone who wants to know what it is should read it. Israel To read it before any other document on Israeli democracy.
Anyone who wants to get a sense of the spirit of the times in Israel, the writer says, should notice how most of the media ignored the report that was supposed to provoke outrage and shock, and how Guy Peleg, who presented the documentation of the gang rape on Israel’s Channel 12 News, described the victim of the brutal rape as a “terrorist,” even though he had revealed a moment earlier that the victim was neither an elite nor a company commander, but an ordinary police officer in the anti-narcotics unit in Jabalia.
The victim was pulled from among dozens of detainees who were lying handcuffed on the ground, perhaps at random because he was the last person in line, but the image of his body trembling in pain was supposed to torment every conscience, but not the conscience of most Israelis.
Report that will make you lose sleep
In this context, the Israeli Supreme Court session that discussed the petition to close the torture facility was boycotted.Sadi Teman) Because of the crowd's cries of “The people are masters” when the mob shouted at the Supreme Court judges: Soon there will be lynchings in the city squares.
When you read the 94 pages of B'Tselem's report – which makes you lose sleep – you understand that this was not an exceptional incident, but rather routine torture that has become a policy. Unlike the torture practiced by Shin Bet While it is assumed that it was for a security purpose such as extracting information, torture here is only intended to satisfy the darkest and most sick sadistic desires.
Thus, the soldiers quietly approach to carry out their malicious intentions, and there are dozens of other soldiers who saw and knew and remained silent, perhaps because they participated in similar sex parties, based on dozens of testimonies provided by the B'Tselem report.
The writer concluded that indifference to all these matters is what determines what is happening. He compared what is happening in the prison Guantanamo -In which 9 prisoners were killed in 20 years- and what is happening in Israel, where 60 prisoners were killed in 10 months.
