Let's talk about Israel and Palestine...

[Undertoad]

I haven't posted any of the many, many stories about "collaborators" being executed by Hamas because they have all been in Israeli newspapers. Finally it is hitting the Times. This story is the tip of the iceberg. It says 18 is the largest number. Israeli newspapers are reporting hundreds, including many who worked on digging tunnels, since once they worked on tunnels they knew where the tunnels were, can't have that.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/23/wo...rael-gaza.html

Palestinians Suspected of Collaborating With Israel Are Executed in Gaza Strip

As many as 18 Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel were fatally shot in public on Friday, according to local news agencies and two witnesses, the largest number of such executions reported since the onset of this summer’s battle between Israel and militants in the Gaza Strip.

Journalists, human-rights workers and a witness said that either 9 or 11 people, including two women, were killed Friday morning in a public park and a bus stop near Al Azhar University in Gaza City, not far from the central prison where they were believed to have been held. Seven others, their hands tied behind their backs, were killed outside Al Omri mosque downtown after noon prayer, another witness said, leaving bloodstains on the ground that bystanders photographed with their mobile phones.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

I haven't posted any of the many, many stories about "collaborators" being executed by Hamas because they have all been in Israeli newspapers. Finally it is hitting the Times. This story is the tip of the iceberg. It says 18 is the largest number. Israeli newspapers are reporting hundreds, including many who worked on digging tunnels, since once they worked on tunnels they knew where the tunnels were, can't have that.

Yep. Hamas are not the most pleasant people in the world. Killing the poor sods who dug the tunnels is ridiculous. And, one wuold think entirely counter productive? Wtf is going to be willing to do that work in the future?

Killing actual collaborators: wrong, definitely wrong. But also something that has been done by occupied peoples the world over, pretty much throughout the whole of human history. Plenty of French collaborators lost their lives to the resistance. The IRA killed and maimed a fair few people they considered 'collaborators'. Still wrong - but not at all unusual. I'd honestly be more surprised to find that Hamas hadn't killed people suspected of being collaborators.