The only surprise in this article is that it took a whole week for JihadTV to come up with a way to blame the Iraqi prisoner abuse on Israel: Israeli lessons for the US in Iraq. (Hat tip: Quodlibetarian.)

Hisham Abd al-Razzaq is a Palestinian Authority minister in charge of overseeing and catering for more than 7000 Palestinian prisoners in Israel, many of them interned without charge or trial.

He believes that what the Americans are doing to the Iraqis amounts to a “carbon copy” of what the Israelis have been doing to the Palestinians.

“I am inclined to think that the Americans copied the Israeli techniques. I can’t prove it in an objective manner, but the striking similarities are overwhelming.”