WASHINGTON POST PRAISES ISRAEL--WHEN IT SERVES THEIR PURPOSE. The editorial just cannot praise Israel enough:

No one would say that Israel is soft on terrorism, which makes it all the more fascinating that a country that essentially lives under siege provides so many legal accommodations to those it detains as unlawful combatants. It's a stark contrast to the Bush administration's approach and one the administration may be able to learn from.

That's essentially the point made by a handful of Israeli law professors and military law experts in a recently filed friend-of-the-court brief in Boumediene v. Bush. The U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case this fall to determine whether the administration has lawfully detained Mr. Boumediene as an enemy combatant.

I don't know--maybe the US does not want to become another country that "essentially lives under siege."

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