Leave it to the Israelis to come up with this idea.
** #1 Way to Break a Hunger Strike is …
Having a Bar-B-Q right outside the hunger strikers’ cells!!! **
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel declared psychological war on hunger-striking Palestinian prisoners on Monday, saying it would barbecue meat outside their cells to try to break their spirit.
The biggest obstacle to success in breaking the hunger strike with this tactic is that every great Bar-B-Qist knows that the most succulent, tasty, aroma filled meat to cook outdoors is ** BABY BACK PORK RIBS !!! ** I don’t think any Rabbi is going to let the jewish guards even touch pork must less cook it.
Those Hebrew National All Beef Hot Dogs just aint going to cut it. Filafel or Bagels on the Bar B doesn’t sound too good either.
See, now we are making some progress, as the BBQ tenders and the prisoners will BE IN AGREEMENT that baby back ribs would be difficult to deal with.
As much as the CIA and the Mossad cooperate, I am sure they can find some guy from West Texas who will cook up something that would make your mouth water.....
In civilized places, this is called ‘torture’. In Israeli politics, it’s called pscyhological war.
Instead of barbecuing up a few baby back pork ribs, how about actually implementing the demands of these Palestinians. hmmm let’s see, what are they going on a hunger strike for? Their demands include for:
guards to stop conducting strip searches
more frequent contact with families; organisers say 40% of inmates are currently denied any visits
Sanitary conditions, more frequent contact with families, no humiliating strip searches, access to the outside world. wow. Sounds pretty reasonable to me. :eek:
Instead of flipping hotdogs outside the prisoners’ cells, the Israelis might have more rationally considered implementing the above (highly just and measured) demands. oops but no - that would be too much to expect from our “man of peace”.
Tell you what, I bet the Israeli's have a few demands too. Cease indiscriminate rocket attacks. Cease suicide bombs. Return the bodies of Israeli's that have been killed.
And, all things considered, I would rather be imprisoned by the Isreali's than the PA.
OhioGuy:
You’re making me homesick. How about a brisket as big as a door marinated for 24 hours in a bathtub. About a cord of Mesquite wood chopped and on hand. Char the brisket on both sides and then regulate the temperature of the closed but ventilated BAR-B-Q at about 185 degrees by adding and wetting the mesquite wood for about 12 to 14 hours. Apply sauce liberally with a paint brush periodically during the last 3 hours or so. That’s a Texas size Bar-B-Q and there is no one who could carry on a hunger strike with that aroma floating through the air for that long.
Nadia:
This has got to be the first time in recorded history that anyone would say that inviting prisoners to a BAR-B-Q is equivalent to torture. You’ve left me speechless.
If its a red neck BBQ i would consider the looking at the food torture. I never considered roadkill BBQ food. Or in this case road kill (the israeli soliders) cooking the food is not that appealing either.
See if I ever ask you over to my place for a Bar-B-Q when you visit sin city. You sound too much like some of my unwelcome guests. They complain about the sanitary conditions of my bathrooms. Kvetch that I won’t let them make long distance calls on my telephones. They always try to bring their families when I didn’t invite them. About the only thing they seem to enjoy is the strip search in the entryway.
"You’re making me homesick. How about a brisket as big as a door marinated for 24 hours in a bathtub. About a cord of Mesquite wood chopped and on hand. Char the brisket on both sides and then regulate the temperature of the closed but ventilated BAR-B-Q at about 185 degrees by adding and wetting the mesquite wood for about 12 to 14 hours. Apply sauce liberally with a paint brush periodically during the last 3 hours or so. That’s a Texas size Bar-B-Q and there is no one who could carry on a hunger strike with that aroma floating through the air for that long. "
Could baking, broiling, grilling succulent food in front of those who can not partake of it... bordering on torture?
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I think you are missing the point. You don't break a hunger strike by NOT allowing people to eat. You break a hunger strike by getting them to eat.
Thus, you bake, broil, and grill succulent food in front of them and let them fill their plates as high as they want. If you think it might border on torture to be invited to an all-you-can-eat BAR-B-Q chicken and brisket picnic, then torture me please.
Dude! You haven’t tasted the BBQ’d Billy-goat chops. It sure beats hands down any “ribs” out there. I think those Rabbis and them Mullahs will be mighty fine doing the goats’ BBQ
It certainly is not. After all look at this way. If someone gets pissed off with calling some other persons kid a pig and not upset the kid dies, it is no way related to the singing of praises going on in this thread about torture and as the US consitution says "cruel and inhuman treatment". These men dont even give a damn about their own constitution, so what would they know about morality. Heck one said it was ok to kill kids. Dont expect them to have values.
On one side of the scales we have the Israelis inviting Palestinian prisoners to a Bar-B-Q to break a hunger strike.
On the other side of the scales we’ve got Islamic butchers beheading people from all over the world to stop the rebuilding of Iraq.
And all you’ve got time to do is whine and cry about Israeli torture and yell “cruel and inhuman treatment.” Takes a lot of nerve to preach about values.