Israeli sadistic treatment of Hamas prisoners will be directed against Israeli citizens tomorrow
“Is inserting a stick up a person’s rectum legitimate?” — “Yes. If he is from Hamas’ Nukhba, it is legitimate to do anything to him. Anything.” It is permissible to give them electric shocks in the testicles, or pull out their nails. For what purpose? For the purpose of enjoying their suffering, of course. What other purpose could there be?
By Rogel Alpher • Translated by Sol Salbe
MK Hanoch Milwidsky informed the Knesset Finance Committee Chair Moshe Gafni that he could not “continue as usual.” Something has happened. An “insane event has occurred and was still ongoing. It turns out that the Military Advocate General corps thinks “that soldiers can be arrested for things they do to Nukhba [Hamas strike force] terrorists.
“Things I did to the Nukhba Terrorists” sounds like a good title for a memoir that will soon be published by one of the reservists guarding those detained and interrogated in Sde Teiman. What are they suspected of? “Is inserting a stick up a person’s rectum legitimate?” wondered MK Ahmad Tibi.
Milwidsky did not deny for a moment that nine reservists were suspected of inserting a stick into the rectum of a Nukhba terrorist. Because Dr Tibi is an Arab, the first thing Milwidsky said to him in response to his question about the legitimacy of inserting a stick into a person’s rectum was: “Shut up!” Then, because he is an Arab, he shouted at him again: “Shut up!” and then replied emphatically: “Yes. If he is Nukhba, it is legitimate to do anything to him.” And suppose you ask: absolutely anything? Well, Milwidsky anticipated such a question in advance, and clarified: “Anything, Anything, Anything.” It is permissible to give them electric shocks in the testicles, or pull out their nails. For what purpose? For the purpose of enjoying their suffering, of course. What other purpose could there be? The Nukhbas in Sde Teiman are not ticking bombs [which would make it legal to torture them under Israeli law -tr]. They already blew up, ten months ago.
Not only does Milwidsky exclude Nukhba from the rule of law protection — and excludes reservist prison guards from subordination to the rule of law — he openly encourages violent sadism toward Nukhba terrorists. He thinks it would be good for Arabs to keep quiet and for Jews to be sadists. He wants sadism towards Nukhba terrorists to be legal in Israel. And what justifies it, in his opinion? “These people,” slammed Tibi the Arab, “do you know what they did?” If that’s the criterion, why did Eichmann’s guards in Israel refrain from shoving a stick up his rectum? Because you do know what he did, right? Will Milwidsky take it upon himself to prepare a kind of ready reckoner to sadism in an Israeli prison? For example, a high-ranking cog in the Nazi extermination machine — a stick up the rectum twice a day, medium depth. That’s what kind of a country Milwidsky wants. A country where “things are done” — out of sight, in solitary confinement cells. A barbaric country.
And this is kind of country that the Kahanist MKs from Otzma Yehudit and the Likud, and the unruly mob that broke into Sde Teiman with them and besieged the base in Beit Lid want. The pictures from there on the news programs were very tangible images of the civil war that has been raging here for some time in a slow and steady increasing pace. Ten reservists who together enjoy shoving a stick in the rectum of a Nukhba worry me much more than an imprisoned Nukhba. Today it’s the Nukbas, tomorrow, this sadism will be directed against a military advocate general, journalists, Kaplan Street demonstrators. It could be felt in the air in reports from Sde Teiman and from Beit Lid: simmering unrestrained violence, hatred for anyone who dared to try to prevent them from discharging the violence that stirs their blood with delight.
