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Jewish case against torture
Christian Century, Dec 12, 2006
JEWISH CASE AGAINST TORTURE: In 1999 the Israeli Supreme Court outlawed the use of torture. A previous commission had allowed its use in some cases, but security services used the exemption to apply torture more broadly. Living daily with the threat of terrorism, Supreme Court judges recognized that they were tying the hands of the Israeli government, yet this is what their consciences told them they must do, they said.
This ruling fits with a key principle of Jewish law, according to Rabbi Edward Feld, which is "the need to honor all living beings." Says Feld: "What is being argued for here is the sacredness of the life of the suspected criminal." Indeed, "the treatment of the criminal becomes the norm of how we treat everyone" (Theology Today, October).
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