The Arabist

The Arabist

By Issandr El Amrani and friends.

Israel's new Gulag

Ynet reported Israel is building a new prison, where detained members of the Lebanese resistance group Hizbollah are to be held. You can find the report here.
Nazareth-based British journalist Jonathan Cook had written three years ago a good story on an Israeli secret prison, Facility 1391, where Lebanese and Arab prisoners were reportedly incarcerated and tortured. Newsweek also ran a feature on that facility.
Israel's interrogation tactics were largely copied by the US forces in Iraq.