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added.
The army spokesman's office
did not respond to this.
A parade of Palestinians re-en-
acted how they were chained,
beaten, choked, threatened. Some
were convicted of belonging to ter-
rorist organizations, some were
released without being charged.
Hassan Zebeideh, a grocer and
father of four, was shown sitting
limply in his West Bank living
room, staring at his daughter. He
couldn't talk because he was left
catatonic after being interrogat-
ed in late 1992, ostensibly for be-
ing a member of Hamas. After 33
days, he was released without
charges, according to the TV re-
port.
The army and Shin Bet denied
all the allegations: The prisoners
had been shackled to prevent
them from attacking interroga-
tors or committing suicide, the
complaints had been investigat-
ed thoroughly and no laws had
been violated, the said.
Against the claims by human
rights organizations that 20-30

"When you get the
signal, you give it to
him," the soldier
said. "With the club,
with your hand; if
he's at the stage
where he's fallen
from the chair to the
floor, you kick him."

Palestinian prisoners had died
during the intifada as a direct or
indirect result of their interroga-
tions, the army said there had
been only "isolated" deaths by sui-
cide or illness, none from torture.
Two Shin Bet agents had been
convicted of causing one prison-
er's "death by negligence." (They
were each sentenced to six
months in jail.)
With some 109,000 Palestini-
ans arrested from 1988-93, only
26 soldiers had been punished for
mistreating prisoners, and most
had gone to jail for it, the army
spokesman added. "From these
statistics, it can be seen that the
treatment of prisoners and army
investigations are not as shown
in this film," the spokesman said.
The day after the documentary
aired,. the U.S.-based Human
Rights Watch/Middle East pub-
lished a 300-page report on Is-
raeli torture that essentially
made the same findings as other
human rights organizations, Is-
raeli, Palestinian and foreign:
that Israeli security forces prac-

tice a "conveyor-belt quality" of
prisoner abuse and torture.
But again, there was some-

thing new here: of the 36 former
Palestinian prisoners interviewed
for the report (four Israeli soldiers
also gave evidence), 10 said they
had been subjected to severe
abuse in interrogations that took
place after the Sept. 13, 1993 Is-
rael-PLO peace accord.
"The peace process, we found,
has yet to trickle into the inter-
rogation roomE," the report stat-
ed.
"The army categorically denies
the claims made by Human
Rights Watch," the army
spokesman said. "Any use of tor-
ture or violence on a suspect is
forbidden by law." The army
keeps a close eye on interroga-
tions, and any prisoner who has
a complaint can bring it before
a judge, the spokesman said,
adding, "the number of com-
plaints of this sort is small."
Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres made light of the report
when asked about it by reporters
during a visit to the Ukraine. "I'm
confident that these are very old
accusations," he said. And, look-
ing toward a hopefully brighter
future, Mr. Peres added: "I'm sure
that with the new [Israel-PLO]
agreement, human rights prob-
lems will disappear."
And that was about it. There
were a few stories in the news-
papers, but on the whole, there
was no echo at all in Israel from
this prime-time documentary and
the latest book-length report in-
dicting Israeli morality. 'This si-
lence," wrote Ha'aretz columnist
Gideon Levy, "is no less chilling
than the screams of the tortured
in the interrogation rooms." LI

Spy Loses
Release Appeal

Tel Aviv (JTA) — After serving
11 years in prison, an Israeli con-
victed of spying for the former So-
viet Union has lost an appeal for
early release.
Professor Marcus Klingberg,
76, formerly a prominent biolo-
gist, was convicted in a closed-
door trial in 1983 for passing
information about germ warfare
to Moscow.
Mr. Klingberg recently suf-
fered two strokes, and his attor-
ney, Avigdor Feldman, has been
campaigning for his release.
But at a hearing at the
Ashkelon prison, a prison review
panel upheld a request by state
prosecutors to reject the appeal,
stating that Mr. Klingberg "still
represents a threat to state se-
curity."
Mr. Klingberg immigrated to
Israel in 1948, shortly after the
establishment of the State of Is-
rael. After studying medicine, he
was appointed a professor of epi-
demiology and subsequently rose
to the post of deputy head of the
Biological Institute in Ness Ziona,
near Rehovot.

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