As a matter of fact. NH Dave, the US did not return Cuba and the Philippines to their original owner, Spain, so that example won't do. We never captured Japans main islands, only Okinawa which was returned by treaty. The Pacific Islands which we captured on the way north to Japan were, by and large, owned by our allies and had been occupied by the Japanese, so, while we "gave them back", in reality we had only liberated them for their former owners, our allies.
Little Hawk, when the Palestinians rant about driving the unbelievers from sacred Arab land and of how they are willing to die as martyrs for Islam and they name one of their terrorist groups for the El Aqsa Mosque, then it is -to me at least- a little bizarre to see them do something that is so much against the religion they claim to defend.
You cannot excuse barbaric behavior simply because there has been a breakdown of law and order. The fact that it could happen anywhere still does not make it ok.
It is my opinion that the suspected collaborators were murdered so the people who did it could feel that they were still in charge of something and still capable of striking a blow at their enemies. And there weren't just a few of them, there was a mob -as I recall- of several hundred people. That is a reasonably large sample on which to base an assumption. What I reported was a verifiable fact, based on an actual event,and the context of my reporting it was in answer to heresay stories of Israeli torture (which, if true, I deplore). It was not made to promote a "negative stereotype", it was to report a true,verifiable event to be used as a counter to a heresay story.
If you did not post the links on the Israeli torture stories to give negative impressions of the Israelis, Carol, why DID you post them?

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