Throwing up with the vomit entering his nostrils, losing consciousness and being given only salt-water to drink, relieving himself in his pants, not sleeping or resting - all of that for four consecutive days and nights.

What does the interrogator Maimon tell his children when he goes home? What do Eldad and Sagiv tell their wives about their daily labors before they turn in? That they tortured another helpless prisoner until they turned him into a cripple? That they beat this charming young man brutally and that at the end of the interrogation he was tried for only marginal offenses? And where is the Supreme Court, which in 1999 prohibited precisely the chain of torture that Luwaii Sati Ashqar, 30, who was married three years ago, underwent in the Kishon detention facility?

If one has to stoop this low to defend "freedom" then all is lost.

What's the difference between them and any other oppressor-God's on their side ? Thats what they all say. God has washed his hands of those who will not deny evil. If someone uses torture they will be tortured. If not in body then in spirit, by their own conscience and denial. Secrets like this are getting harder to keep and trust once lost is harder to regain. If they get desperate, how far are they prepared to go ? All for a strip of dirt. Whenever faith becomes political the right to live or die seems to become an executive decision.

Jesus wept.