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of both “Sharon the Murderer” and “Begin the Murderer.”

As previously documented, two years before the petition was circulated the Israeli Supreme Court outlawed the use of all physical pressure in eliciting information from potential terrorists. Israel is the only country in the Middle East to have abolished any kind of torture, in fact as well as in law. Jordan and Egypt, both of which receive substan

And forty-two years after he had arrived in Palestine, David Ben-Gurion stood at the podium under an enormous portrait of the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl.

On September 28, 1978, at roughly three A.M., after hours of acrimonious debate, the Knesset voted 84 in favor, 19 opposed, and 17 abstentions; the Camp David peace agreement was approved. Begin had the beginning of his peace with Egypt. The man the British had once called terrorist number one had made peace with Israel’s most powerful enemy.

Il nous est aujourd’hui facile, à nous qui avons rayé depuis longtemps de notre vocabulaire le mot « sécurité », tenue pour une chimère, de railler l’illusion optimiste de cette génération aveuglée par un idéalisme lui faisant croire que le progrès technique de l’humanité devait fatalement entraîner une ascension morale aussi rapide.

In other words, Israel was prepared to risk the lives of its own civilians in order to spare the lives of Palestinian civilians, including the wife of a major terrorist.

A few days after he arrived in Salonica, Ben-Gurion received a piece of advice: under no circumstances should he reveal to his Jewish landlady that he was Ashkenazi. There were many Jews in the city, and nearly all of them were Sephardim. Young Ashkenazi men like Ben-Gurion were thought to be involved in trafficking women.31 From time to time he ha

Pourquoi les États sont-ils à ce point sensibles aux provocations terroristes ? Les États ont du mal à résister à ces provocations parce que la légitimité de l’État moderne repose sur sa promesse de préserver la sphère publique des violences politiques. Un régime peut résister à de terribles catastrophes, voire les ignorer, du moment que sa légitim