He said nothing about his confession having been coerced, according to a transcript of the hearing.
The responsibility for Palestinian deaths is transferred to the Palestinians themselves; Israel is seen as blameless, guilt-free, angry at having been "coerced" into mass murder.
"Everything points to him having been coerced into not pressing charges at the ministry and being co-operative," wrote commentator Issandr el-Amrani.
The two sides differ on what caused the deepening conflicts in the years that followed, but in 1959, as the Chinese suppressed a major uprising by Tibetans in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, the 14th Dalai Lama fled to exile in India and repudiated the 1951 agreement as having been coerced.
It will also treat people with non-standard preferences or fears (say, a dire fear of being patted on the back) as having been "coerced" by threats to do what are, objectively speaking, trivial things (Feinberg 1986, 212).
Reports have also surfaced of one of the prosecution's witnesses allegedly having been coerced into testifying against him.
