WORLD : Israeli Military Bans ‘Hamlet’
JERUSALEM — The army has banned William Shakespeare’s classic play “Hamlet†from a detention camp for prisoners arrested during the Palestinian uprising, an Israeli human rights group said today.
The army bans books from Ketziot prison camp in the Negev Desert if it believes they could incite violence or contain a subversive message.
In Hamlet’s famous “To be or not to be†soliloquy, the Prince of Denmark weighs whether to take up arms or suffer in silence.
But military sources said the decision to bar the play appeared to be an error in judgment and would be reviewed.
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