From The Economist:

THEY came for Omar Maswadeh at half-past midnight. They broke furniture at his home in the West Bank town of Hebron, blindfolded him, shoved him in a car. They kept him in solitary, hooded and with his hands tied, in the painful seated shabah position that Israeli courts have outlawed. Two days later they came for his brother Alaa and his cousin Yusri. After holding the young men for two to three weeks each, they charged them with membership in Hamas’s “executive force”, a militia that the Islamist party created in Gaza but never actually managed to form in the West Bank. Then they let them go.

AP

But the captors were Palestinian, not Israeli. The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been locking up suspected Hamas members and sympathisers all over the West Bank since June, when Hamas routed the secular Fatah’s forces in Gaza after months of factional strife. Yusri Maswadeh says he was suspended by his wrists, tied behind him, from window bars for hours—“worse than with the Israelis”. Fayyad Aghbar, a former head of the Awqaf (the Muslim authorities) in Nablus, the West Bank’s biggest town, was not tortured but describes a fellow prisoner who was forced to kneel with his hands tied and was hit if he sat back on his haunches. Again, it was “worse than the Israelis”.

Read the rest here. Also, why did The Economist have to water down their review of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book? There seems to be an unusual amount of ink spilled in reviews to dabble in the question of anti-Semitism, all for the sake of saying "well, we know they’re not, but since we’re getting so many letters to editorial from the Anti-Defamation League, we ought to spell it out slowly in the review." Curious. Though it’s hard to complain about this last line doozy:

At one point the authors complain that Israel and its supporters in America are now rewriting history “to absolve Israel of any responsibility for the Iraq disaster”. But it was not Israel that invaded Iraq. Their own book feels like an attempt to absolve America of responsibility for a decision it took by, and for, itself.

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