Lynching, mobbing, and abuse of bodies happens in the absence of a well-organized and strong law enforcement system...and it can happen among any population which is experiencing a temporary state of partial or complete anarchy, as McGrath indicated above.

North American Indians did horrific things to prisoners in wartime. Whites did horrific things to the Indians. They both thought of themselves as good, decent people and of the others as vicious barbarians.

Obviously, this is a very subjective type of judgement, based on emotional responses and viewpoints particular to each person's background.

The Israelis have a well-organized society with an intact and higly effective police and armed forces, and that is why you don't see so many mob scenes happening on their side of the line. Remove the cohesiveness of their society and its security forces, and you would see plenty of mob scenes and mob violence. You would also see them violating their holy scriptures, as Christians have been doing regularly for the past 2,000 years. Why then get so worked up when Muslims do it?

As if it was anything unusual....

- LH