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...report, to air Sunday in the United States and on Monday in Europe, details how Israel's security services detained an American of Arab origin for forty days in 1998. After his release, he claimed both that he was tortured and that the United States Consulate General in Jerusalem, charged with the protection of American citizens in other countries, did nothing to prevent it. The American, Anwar Mohammed of Orlando, Fla., accuses American consular officials of ignoring the physical evidence of his mistreatment and of not attending the Israeli military court that authorized the security services to hold...
...Time" investigated Mohammed's allegations. It found a pattern of official indifference to the treatment of U.S. citizens of Arab origin in Israel. Mohammed told "CNN & Time" he was advised on his release to remain quiet. However, he and two other Arab-Americans have presented signed affidavits to the State Department alleging serious mistreatment by Israeli interrogators...
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...among the citizens of the Jewish state. Iraqi-born Rabbi Yosef is also the spiritual leader of Israel's third largest party, Shas, an ultra-Orthodox party representing Sephardic Jews, who immigrated to Israel from Arab countries and suffered racist treatment at the hands of the Ashkenazi (of European origin) elite...
...Ultra-Orthodox Jews of both Sephardic and Ashkenazi origin have theological difficulties explaining the Holocaust, because it appears to challenge the notion that the Jews are God's chosen people. For the most part, they prefer not to talk about it, and on Israel's annual Shoah day - when the nation is called to observe two minutes of remembrance for those who died - the ultra-Orthodox go about their business even as the majority stop what they're doing and stand in silence. But it remains a cause of considerable discomfort for ultra-Orthodox theologians, not least because so many...