Spying on Jews challenges Israel's secret service

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KIRYAT ARBA, West Bank (Reuters) - They may falsely say your comrades gave confessions implicating you. They may bug your cell. They may deprive you of sleep, force you to sit in contorted postures for hours, even blindfold and beat you.

Such warnings about Israeli interrogators from the Shin Bet domestic intelligence service are usually sounded among jailed Palestinians. But this time, they appear in a Hebrew-language pamphlet written for Jewish settlers and their sympathizers.

With friction building in the occupied West Bank over the prospect -- albeit distant -- of a Palestinian state, the Shin Bet is quietly knuckling down on Jews who might turn to violence to try to wreck any future peace accord. Militant settler leaders report increased efforts by the Shin Bet's Division for Countering State Subversion, also known as the "Jewish Division," to garner tip-offs about possible plots to kill Arabs or assassinate an Israeli government figure.

"There's a real sense of Shin Bet-phobia nowadays," said Noam Federman, the pamphlet's author and a firebrand settler from Kiryat Arba, near the West Bank town of Hebron.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4B834320081209

[amdezurik]

1. I bet thise 'settlers" used to giggle

about those methods being used on Palestinians, but now they feel it is going to far when used on them...

[Crunchy Frog]

2. I don't understand why settlers should be treated any differently than Palestinians.

Actually, nobody should be treated that way, but since it's been going on with non-citizens, I'm not surprised that it's eventually rubbed off. I wouldn't be surprised if our own behaviors at Gitmo eventually rub off domestically.

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3. It seems the settlers have pushed their luck as it were

I guess it is not wise to attack IDF no matter who you are. Perhaps seeing as how a number of these radical settlers are American in origin the problem could be stopped before it starts with cooperation between the governments, we really do not need them here either but they can not do as much harm here.

Note I just "boggled" my self but there it is.