I read this and just had to translate it. It beautifully illustrates the meaning of another foreign word: CHUTZPAH.
From today's L'Orient le Jour:
- An Israeli ex-officer accused of rape by a former Hezbollah prisoner demands damages and interest
OLJ/Agences | 23/01/2012
Israel: "Captain George" complains that he can no longer find work.
Last Sunday, a former Israeli officer accused of abusing and raping Mustafa Dirani, a Lebanese member of Hezbullah, during interrogations, claimed $1.4 million in damages plus interest from the state, according to the media.
According to Israel's privately-owned Channel 2, the officer nicknamed "Captain George", whose real name has not been made public, was discharged from the army some years ago, notably because of the methods he had used in interrogating Mustafa Dirani. Last Sunday, Israeli television aired some segments of a video filmed during Mustafa Dirani's interrogation, showing the Israeli interrogators ordering him to undress.
Mustafa Dirani, a leading member of Hezbollah, was kidnapped in southern Lebanon on May 21, 1994, for use as currency in exchange for information on the fate of the Israeli pilot Ron Arad, captured during an air raid on Lebanon in 1986. In January 2004, shortly before his release, he testified before a Tel Aviv tribunal and described the sexual and other physical abuse he had endured during interrogations.
His lawyer demanded reparations in the amount of $1.3 million, but no Israeli court ruled on the admissibility of his lawsuit. Mustafa Dirani had specifically singled out the man known as George, whom he described as a sadistic and brutal torturer, for sodomizing him with a police baton.
Recently questioned by Israel's Channel 2 with his face covered, "Captain George" denied having tortured Mustafa Dirani and insisted that he had always acted upon the orders of his superior officers. "My superior officers have abandoned me, I've been treated as a scapegoat, and since I'm no longer in the army, I haven't been able to find work," he stated, to justify his claim for damages and interest from the Israeli army and the Ministry of Defense.
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