From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Wed Aug 07 2002 - 17:11:17 MDT
On 7 Aug 2002 at 16:35, Hermit wrote:
>
> [Joe Dees] But the Palestinians kill suspected collaborators all the
> time.
>
> [Hermit] Another unsubstantiated and unsubstantiable opinion and
> another attempted equation of harms.
>
Bullus shittus majoris. Go to:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/980221/1998022128.html
or read below.
Story of a Palestinian collaborator
Palestine, Culture, 2/21/1998
Nasri is his alias, or nom de guerre. His story tells a lot about how
bad it is for Palestinians who become collaborators with the
Israeli secret services, Mossad.
The was Nasri started his contacts with the Shin Bet was typical
of many other collaborators. An "innocent chat", an offer to help
or a request for aid are the most simple means of recruiting
collaborators from within the Palestinian community.
During the seven-year Palestinian uprising against the Israeli
occupation, at least 1,200 Palestinians were killed, almost half of
them by fellow Palestinians who suspected they were
collaborators with the Israeli military government. During those
years of the intifada, between 1987 and 1994, many collaborators
ran away from their villages and lived inside Israel. Some
complained they were treated badly by their recruiters. Others
looked for ways to assimilate with Israeli society.
In 1991, the Israeli military government issued orders to demolish
a number of houses in Nasri's home village near Jenin. The houses
were demolished, yet rebuilt by the owners who said they had no
other choice but to build a place for them and for their families to
stay. But the military government issued another order to
demolish all those houses and Nasri went to seek help from the
village Mukhtar (a community leader in Arab villages). The
Mukhtar said he couldn't do much and suggested that Nasri go to
another Mukhtar in the same village. "I never figured out that my
visit to the Mukhtar would be my first step toward becoming a
collaborator with the Israeli occupation," he said.
Nasri and the Mukhtar agreed to meet at the military government
headquarters in Jenin. Nasri was there on time. The Mukhtar
never showed up. Instead, Nasri met a soldier at the building and
asked for his help to stop the demolition of his house. The soldier
said he could not intervene in civil issues because he was from the
Shin Bet (Hebrew acronym for the Israeli General Security
Services). It was a bit strange that a man in Israel, any man, would
introduce himself as a Shin Bet agent because Shin Bet staff and
officers maintain covert life and activities and their identities are
not published. The identity of the Shin Bet head was only recently
made publishable in Israel. Yet, the short encounter between
Nasri and the soldier ended with the former expressing readiness
to collaborate with the Shin Bet in return for favors and services
he would get back from the organization.
Nasri returned to his village and started to collect intelligence
information on a number of people. Political activities,
underground anti-Israel groupings of local residents in the village
and general information of certain people were all part of the data
Nasri was asked to collect and pass on to the Shin Bet through a
liaison, the Mukhtar of a neighboring village who later escaped
and sought refuge in the Mediterranean coastal city of Acre in
Israel.
Nasri asked for the cancellation of the demolition orders but was
told by his recruiters in the Shin Bet that all they could do was to
freeze the implementation of the orders. He worked with the Shin
Bet for some time and was given a special permit to go to Tel
Aviv for work. In Tel Aviv, he worked for six months, during
which time he met a number of collaborators and was shocked at
the kind of life they had. "They had no control whatsoever. They
carried out dirty actions both socially and culturally and I decided
it was about time for me to return to my own people and stop all
links with the Shin Bet," he said.
After the Palestinian National Authority was proclaimed in parts
of the West Bank and Gaza in 1994, Nasri gave himself over to
the Palestinian Security Services and confessed to his links with
the Shin Bet. "I voluntarily told them everything I knew on the
Shin Beth and the network of agents it had. They did not beat me
and I was not tortured. I was held for two months during which
time I disclosed everything I knew about the Shin Beth."
But Nasri's clean return did not last for long. After a quarrel in his
village, he was summoned by the Palestinian police. His friends,
as he said, advised him to run away for he could be put to death
by the Palestinians because of his past. He ran away to Tel Aviv
but again was deterred by actions of fellow collaborators and
decided to distance himself from them. He went to an Arab city in
northern Israel where his sister has been living for years after she
got married.
His sister, he found out, was married to another collaborator who
personally took part in faking land documents and was
responsible for selling vast areas of Arab lands to Jewish settlers.
He also found out that his sister had received a sum of US
$100,000 in return for her signature on documents relevant to
their mother's land. Nasri was furious to find that the property of
his mother was illegally sold to Israelis and threatened to go to
court, but he did not have enough documents to prove that the
deals were fraudulent.
Nasri later obtained documents he needed to prove the land deals
were all counterfeit. He returned to his home village, met with
Palestinian security officers and explained to them all he had gone
through. Now, he said, he is living peacefully in his home village
with "a clean conscience" after he had finally distanced himself
from the collaborators and returned to his patriotic field.
"I might have been lucky enough to survive all this ordeal and
return home safely," said Nasri, "but I think luck is not always
waiting at the first corner. We all need to be careful not to fall in
traps of collaboration with the enemy because some of those traps
are deadly."
> [Hermit] How are the mighty fallen.
>
Yep, you fell flat on your ass on this one - yet again. What part of
During the seven-year Palestinian uprising against the Israeli
occupation, at least 1,200 Palestinians were killed, almost half of
them by fellow Palestinians who suspected they were
collaborators with the Israeli military government.
don't you understand?
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