• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Biden is orders of magnitude a better choice than Trump

    How Israel tortures Palestinians

    Israeli officers went on to teach one method of torture to American occupation forces in Iraq torturing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison.

    Dubbed “the Palestinian chair,” according to Eric Fair, a former American interrogator at the prison, the stress position has detainees crouch their bodies on the chair, with their weight centered on their thighs.

    “They call it the Palestinian chair,” Fair wrote in his memoir “Consequence,” referring to two American army sergeants.

    “They say the Israelis taught them how to build it during a joint training exercise. I assume it’s called the Palestinian chair because that’s who was forced to sit in it,” he wrote.

    “They say everyone breaks in the chair.”

    In his memoir, Fair describes the self-disgust he went on to live with having witnessed a detainee tortured in the Palestinian chair.

    “Witnessing a man being tortured in the Palestinian chair requires the witness to either seek justice or cover his face. … I’ll spend the rest of my life covering my face,” he wrote.

    “Having seen the Palestinian chair, it’s impossible to deny that it has all been wrong.”

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      8 months ago

      So we’re using Bush era torture to justify inaction against fascism? Idk man seems a little weird.

      I get voting isn’t enough and half the problem is people often limiting their involvement in society to a ballot once every four years, but I’d really like to prevent The Palestinian Chair from being used on anyone deemed an enemy of the state by a man who is talking about deporting 11 million people.