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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. | |
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