Quotes for the Day

On the use of violence in interrogations by the Israeli Secret Service.

This is the destiny of democracy, as not all means are acceptable to it and not all practices employed by its enemies are open before it.

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Although a democracy must often fight with one hand tied behind its back, it nonetheless has the upper hand.

Aharon Barak, president of the Israeli Supreme Court, 1999

Source, When Israel Confronted and Rejected Torture, by Serge Schmemann, NY Times 4/30/2009

Even the government of a country that has at times been bombarded by daily attacks of terrorism has enough courage not to go down that dark path. The naked malevolence of Dick Cheney and the moral cowardice of George W. Bush cannot be more apparent than when compared to the position of the Israeli government.