Word: winternitz
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...reason for the change of heart was the allegation, stemming from a Harvard Magazine article he wrote in in their memory, believe that that horror gives them the right to inflict horror on others," he wrote. "Winternitz's account of the Shin Bet, the Israeli secret police, is eerily similar to the stories of the Nazi Gestapo... [with] arbitrary arrests in the middle of the night, imprisonment without trial, beatings, refined tortures, murder...
...March-April 1992 Harvard Magazine the University's alumni publication Marius authored a review of Helen Winternitz's book "A Season of Stone: Living in a Palestinian Village...
...Many Israelis, the Holocaust fresh in their memory, believe that that Horror gives them the right to inflict horror on others," he wrote. "Winternitz's account of the Shin Bet, the Israeli secret police, is eerily similar to the stories of the Nazi Gestapo, the Geheimstaatspolitzei in Nazi-occupied territories in World War II--arbitrary arrests in the middle of the night, imprisonment without trial, beatings, refined tortures, murder, punishment of the families of suspects...