West Bank Palestinians Stopped Torturing Hamas

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100103/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_palestinians_stopping_torture

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborationism

Among Palestinians

In Palestinian society, collaboration with Israel is viewed as a serious offence and social stain.[4] Suspects are often summarily killed:[5] in the few years preceding 2009, hundreds of suspected collaborators have been killed by fellow Palestinians.[6] In addition, during the period of 2007-2009, around 30 Palestinians have been sentenced to death in court on collaboration-related charges, although the sentences have not been carried out.[4]

In June 2009, Raed Sualha, a 15-year-old Palestinian boy, was brutally tortured and hanged by his family because they suspected him of collaborating with Israel. Palestinian authorities launched an investigation into the case and arrested the perpetrators.[6][7] Police said it was unlikely that such a young boy would have been recruited as an informer.[5]

During the Arab Uprising against British rule in Mandatory Palestine in 1936, a large number of the thousands of Arabs who died were accused of collaboration with Jews. These included people with contact with Jews, such as village elders, teachers, students, farm laborers, skilled laborers, nurses and businessmen. Many of those deemed pro-Jewish often retaliated, but more either left Palestine or ended contact with Jews out of fear for their lives. This ended not just a source of Arab-Jewish contacts, but forced Jewish residents to take on roles that they often left to Arabs (especially in field work, the docks at Haifa Bay and building trades).

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborationism

Among Palestinians

In Palestinian society, collaboration with Israel is viewed as a serious offence and social stain.[4] Suspects are often summarily killed:[5] in the few years preceding 2009, hundreds of suspected collaborators have been killed by fellow Palestinians.[6] In addition, during the pe ...[text shortened]... they often left to Arabs (especially in field work, the docks at Haifa Bay and building trades).

My problem is not that they're killing collaborators, but the extremely reactionary way that they choose who's a collaborator.