It has long been impossible for Israel to assert the moral high ground - some would argue never, since its founding - but a new report from the United Nations Human Rights office makes public plenty of evidence of Israeli torture of Palestinian detainees.
Waterboarding, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, dog attacks, and other forms of torture and mistreatment have routinely been inflicted on some of the 9,400 "security detainees" Israel has hidden away in its jails, with no access to lawyers or respect for their legal rights.
It's an embarrassing and damning report, and one that will take some explaining to Israel's rapidly diminishing coterie of friends.
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