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trials"). Some were lynched by
angry crowds, and 44 "stool pi-
geons" were liquidated by fel-
low-prisoners in Israeli jails and
detention facilities.
Thus what began as a revolt
against Israeli authority soon
led to the collapse of law and or-
der within the Palestinian com-
munity itself. Most of the "shock
squads" — which go under such
names as the Black Panthers,
Fatah Hawks, and the Hamas
Iz a-Din al-Kassem — are iden-
tified with one of the Palestin-
ian organizations but do not
necessarily answer to their au-
thority.
Then again, their authority
was not always exerted. A num-
ber of local PLO activists, in-
cluding Haidar Abdel Shafi,
Faisal Husseini and Ziad Abu-
Zayyed, spoke out against the
wanton murders. But neither
the PLO headquarters in Tunis
nor the Hamas leaders in the
territories ever definitively de-
nounced them.
Even after the signing of the
Israeli-PLO peace accord, the
authors of the report could not
confirm that "the PLO leader-
ship in Tunis and the Fatah
headquarters have indeed or-
dered the squads... to cease at-
tacking suspected collabor-
ators."
Yet even if such directive
were issued, they add, "the lo-
cal groups have only partially
carried [them] out." In short, the
situation remains out of control.
Collaboration is a fact of life
under any occupation. But one
reason for the runaway revenge
in the territories is the startling
scope of the phenomenon there,
and it's impossible to ignore Is-
rael's responsibility for that.
Since 1967 the Israeli au-
thorities have recruited tens of
thousands of Palestinian col-
laborators (euphemistically
called "abettors"). Through
them, the Security Services
have infiltrated not just terror
organizations (which has saved
countless lives) but political
groups, social organizations,
economic institutions, religious
bodies, schools, newspapers,
even hospitals, with the aim of
intimidating the population by
planting "shtinkers" every-
where.
Why were so many people
willing to cooperate?
Some were hungry for pow-
er, others were moved by greed.
Yet the report finds that, on the
whole, the authorities exploit-
ed the heavy dependency of a
controlled population and "fre-
quently took resort to illegal
methods to recruit collabora-
tors," such as "pressure, threats,
extortion, and granting services
and permits only if the recipi-
ent agreed to assist the author-
ities."
The irony is that beyond be-
ing unsavory, this policy has
also proved to be short-sighted.
For what was once considered
a boon to the authorities has
now become a thorny problem:
how to solve the plight of these
tens of thousands of people as
the Israeli military government
gives way to Palestinians self-
rule?
The measures used for pro-
tecting many exposed collabo-
rators — arming them,
providing them with equipment
to summon help quickly, and re-
settling them in special pro-
tected villages — will not be
applicable in the future. The
government has spoken of mak-
ing amnesty for collaborators a
clause in its negotiations with
the Palestinians, but one way
or another they'll be on their
own once Israel's forces have
withdrawn.
The recommendation of a
special committee studying the
problem is to allow exposed col-
laborators to move to Israel.
Indeed, last December a
number of known collaborators
from the Gaza and Jericho ar-
eas were evacuated to Israel
with their families. But the
question of precisely who will
be offered this option remains
problematic, and the prospect
of resettling some 30,000-50,000
"threatened" Palestinians in Is-
rael seems both unlikely and
unreasonable.
Though not stated outright,
the broad message of the BTse-
lem report is a harsh one for
Palestinians and Israelis alike.
For the Palestinians and par-
ticularly the Palestinian lead-
ership, which has argued for so
long that all it wants is to take
control of its nation's destiny,
the report implies that after six
years of lawlessness in the ter-
ritories and of their diffidence
in confronting the gruesome
brutality inflicted by Palestini-
ans on their own, it will not be
easy for them to do so.
Excerpts from an interview
with Faisal Husseini, published
as an appendix to the report,
are not encouraging. Asked
whether he calls for the ab-
solute cessation of executions,
he replied: "If we can do that."
For Israelis, the unavoidable
message is that what Israel has
been engaged in the for the past
27 years is military occupation
— often self-serving and in its
crudest form — not some be-
nign guardianship that has en-
hanced the quality of
Palestinian lives.
Yet judging by the cool and
selective responses to the BTse-
lem report (both the Army
spokesman and the Justice
Ministry replied in writing but
neither addressed the key issue
of Israeli responsibility), it will
probably be quite a while before
most Israelis face up to that
simple if highly unflattering
truth.
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