Hamas claims success in crackdown on 'Israeli collaborators' in Gaza

[oberliner]

Excerpt:

Despite the promises of leniency, at least one alleged collaborator has been sentenced to death following the crackdown. The Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights said that an unnamed 48 year old man was sentenced to death by a military court last week after being convicted of spying for Israel, adding that it was “extremely concerned” about the use of the death penalty in Palestinian areas.

Those passing on information to Israel have undermined Hamas in Gaza. The so-called collaborators are paid modest amounts of money in return for details about the whereabouts of individuals, and other snippets of intelligence.

During the eight-day war between Hamas and Israel last November a number of those accused of collaborating were publicly executed, with the body of at least one man – thought to be Ribhi Badawi – dragged through the streets of Gaza tried to the back of motorcycles.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/hamas-claims-success-in-crackdown-on-israeli-collaborators-in-gaza-8614362.html

[jessie04]

1. "Extremely concerned!" ?

I'm sure that will scare them.

[delrem]

2. It isn't uncommon that the price of treason in time of war is death.

Palestinians in Gaza live under the most difficult condition for civilians in time of war, short of death - a condition of sustained and indefinite siege where the people are deliberately kept, for decades and indefinitely, in a state of poverty and desperation while the victors pillage and take their country. Statistics w.r.t. the emotional state of Gazan children are not good. This is not a situation of health and bounty. It's a situation designed to produce "kapos", and worse, because desperate people do desperate things and it becomes easy to bait the weakest of them to act against their comrades, especially if you're in charge of weakening them and you have, now, several generations of practice.

But a Palestinian who gives the IDF information on the whereabouts of IDF targets, in an Israeli blitz -- in what the Israelis might think of as nothing more than a flick of the stick, to demonstrate a point -- is in fact directly acting as executioner of those targets. I can't see a happy ending for those people, regardless of the rewards.

The situation, the cycle, has gone on so long now that there are people who think the whole PA, from Abbas on down, are nothing more than Israeli employees, not capable of leading the Palestinian people anywhere. Collaborators who'd do anything they're paid to do. Some of *those* people think that this is the natural product of a generations-long project of adapting the Palestinian people to the fact that their very existence is determined by collaboration; and in recognizing that their land, their country belongs to the Jewish State of Israel.

[oberliner]

3. It isn't uncommon for fascist regimes to falsely accuse political enemies of treason

In fact, it's been a fairly common tactic over the years.

[shira]

4. Hamas would consider you a collaborator for expressing progressive/liberal views....

...for daring to question Hamas' treatment of gays, women, non-muslims, and seculars. Imagine if you argued loudly that Jews were humans too and that Hamas should come to some peaceful resolution with them rather than call for their annihilation. That they should stop the rockets, give peace a chance...

They'd drag you through the streets.

And some idiot online would argue you had it coming, being that you're just some lowly zionist stooge working for Israel.

[delrem]

6. your imagination is exceeded only by your venom.

[shira]

7. your ignorance is second only to your arrogance.

[jessie04]

8. You have to admit that he's probably right.

I understand the Palestinian plight but Hamas would kill you and anyone else who didn't agree with them.

That has to ring true to you.

[jessie04]

5. This is funny

You forgot to add....... "but I'm basically against this"