On 10 Aug 2002 at 18:50, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> [rhinoceros 1]
> If you don't spend some time to be informed of what a collaborator is
> in this context and how they come about, then it will seem perfectly
> logical to you -- by analogy -- that there should be such a thing as
> "Israeli collaboarators".
>
> If you don't spend some time to be informed of how collaborators
> affect the lives of ordinary people, then it is perfectly logical to
> assume that only psychopaths or animals would hang someone from a
> streetlight.
>
> [Joe Dees 2]
> We'll see what happens to the Israelis, some of them soldiers, who
> were apprehended selling ammunitition to Palestinian militants. I'll
> bet they don't get necklaced or hung from streetlights.
>
>
> [rhinoceros 3]
> A good thing to bring this up. While selling ammunition to the enemy
> is a legit practice in the modern world, honored by the biggest and
> most respected countries, because it permits everyone to participate
> in the big game, I would agree that Israel is too small for that.
>
> It helps to empathize with the Israeli people too. Here is a rather
> pro-israeli link on this subject, which I found after some time and
> effort.
>
> http://www.stratfor.com/standard/analysis_view.php?ID=205389
>
> Now, although those Israeli soldiers selling ammunitions to the enemy
> are not exactly collaborators -- they are rather at police-report
> level -- it is natural that they would be hated by the people. May I
> suggest that the fact that their actions are considered illegal by the
> authorities, and they are arrested at once when discovered, helps a
> little bit to calm down the people?
>
It also prevents them from obtaining more weapons for and selling more
weapons to Tanzim. I have to consider this, the obvious reason to
arrest them, to also be the most likely.
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