Israel's Example

Authors

Sadiq Reza, Boston University School of LawFollow

Author granted license

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-14-2004

ISSN

0190-8286

Publisher

Fred Ryan

Language

en-US

Abstract

Is it ever right to torture a captured terrorist -- for instance to obtain information about a future attack that could result in the deaths of American civilians? While the public, the press and politicians debate this issue in light of recent disclosures about how the United States has interrogated captured Iraqis, Afghans and al Qaeda operatives, a look elsewhere in the Middle East is instructive. A few years ago Israel's High Court of Justice considered this question with respect to Palestinian terrorists and Israeli civilians. Its answer? Almost never.

Recommended Citation

Sadiq Reza, Israel's Example , in The Washington Post (2004).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/shorter_works/166

Publisher URL

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2004/06/14/israels-example/d48aa9f2-00db-4300-9e36-9b1a58b6b3c9/