Here is another short and terse one not needing any comments. One reader wrote: "Here is a little item I found on the AP wire . . . and we are supposed to be the bad guys. . . ?" This November 14 article, which has since been sent to me from several other sources, includes this footer: "Copyright 1996 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed." How am I going to tell you, then, what it contains? That Israel's secret police are allowed, according to an Israeli Supreme Court ruling, "to use force" to extract information from political prisoners who are "believed to have information that could prevent a terrorist attack. . . "? The criterion is "moderate physical force." Sleep deprivation is allowed, as is the practice of tying up a prisoner "in painful positions." In cases where these tactics are not deemed sufficient, "the interrogators are given greater leeway." That "leeway" might include "shaking detainees." One prisoner has already been shaken to death, but this is not significant, according to Israeli's legislator Gideon Ezra, a former deputy chief of the Shin Bet, who praised the court's ruling. "This is not to take revenge or to punish,'' claims Ezra. "It is to achieve results.'' I have nothing to add. You are left with your own thoughts on this one. Ingrid