Lynching and mobbing of people seen as collaborators is likely to happen in the wake of any occupation, in all sorts of countries. France, Italy, Ireland, the USA.

That doesn't make it right, but to see it as something that is peculiar to Palestinians is wrong headed.

In a country where the whole structure of civil administration and communal life has just been devastated, it's hardly realistic to expect too much in the way of law and order.