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This article is another example of how sometimes the title of a piece alone communicates precisely everything you need to know about an issue, in this case the reality that Israel is running illegal torture camps for Palestinian prisoners right out in the open - even if the Pig Empire media is curiously disinterested in talking about it:

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israel-prison-torture

Where Is the Mass Outrage Over Israel’s Abu Ghraib?

"In recent days, it has become all too clear that something comparable to Abu Ghraib—and very possibly worse—has been taking place in Israeli prisons since October 7 when the war on Gaza broke out.

This week, appalling leaked video footage captured Israeli soldiers sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee, just as a report from the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem highlighted the state’s policy of systematic prisoner abuse and torture since the start of the war.

The report, based on interviews with 55 Palestinians detained since the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on October 7, is distressing to read. It provides evidence of degrading treatment, arbitrary beatings, and sleep deprivation, as well as the “repeated use of sexual violence, in varying degrees of severity.”

As I've mentioned before while pursuing my own writing and research, I personally find the lack of mainstream reporting on Israeli atrocities against Palestinian prisoners (particularly at the notorious Sde Teiman prison) absolutely dumbfounding unless one simply accepts that it's clear evidence of the Pig Empire establishment's *active* attempts to cover up the crimes involved here on behalf of a MENA region ally; something that objectively runs counter to everything journalism is supposed to be about. What I hadn't considered however, was how much clearer the picture of an intentional cover up becomes when you compare the media response to these stories, and their reaction to the exposure of Iraq War-era abuses by American military personnel at the equally notorious Abu Ghraib prison just over two decades ago. In that context, the author's use of the term "omerta" to describe the intentional blanket of silence being placed over this story (and numerous other stories of Israeli human rights abuses just like it) is more than apt, and taken together makes it clear that the entire Pig Empire establishment, at both the state level and in for-profit media organizations, is actively complicit in those crimes in a very real, legally-defined sense of the word.