Whether or not a peace agreement is signed, the Palestinian Authority made possible by Israel under Rabin-Peres is headed toward worldwide recognition as an independent state, whatever Israel might call it. And it will be one more Mideast racist despotism on Israel's borders. Time and again, and purposefully, the Arafat Authority has shown where it is going. It jails political critics, makes deals with terrorists, talks repeatedly in their language of incitement and jihad. As I began writing this, I became aware of the U.N.'s Geneva meeting and the New York Times article from Jerusalem on torture of Palestinians by Israeli interrogators.
Torture is wrong and unacceptable, any place, any time.
Friends of Israel understand the terrorist danger in which it lives perpetually. They know that torture of Arabs by Arab governments is unspeakably worse. For these regimes, it is routine, always was. But Israel is different. But I will not allow the coincidence of the torture reports to prevent me from calling attention to the execution policy and what it should tell us all.