There are many hundreds of Palestinians working directly with Israelis in the West Bank and Gaza. They work with Israelis in groups such as Taayush, the International Solidarity Movement, the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions, The Palestine Center for Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation, etc. They are not lynched, arrested or tried for working with Jews and Israelis.

I recently attended an event where I saw many photographs and heard testimonials from people who had worked directly with Israelis and Palestinians in joint nonviolent peace efforts. The only threat to the Israeli and the Palestinian activists was from the Israeli army, who frequently fired live ammunition at peaceful protests. Recently this resulted in an Israeli activist being shot in the eye. See the Israeli human rights organization Betselem for information on the behavior of Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank and Gaza at www.btselem.org There have also been incidents of Israeli settlers beating Israeli activists with rifle butts and hospitalizing them, all because they were trying to help Palestinian farmers harvest their olives. They were trying to offer a measure of protection to the farmers who were frequently shot at and beaten by settlers. There are extremists in the Israeli population, too.

There have been lynchings by some Palestinians of other Palestinians, because it was suspected that they were collaborating with the Israeli occupying army. That is wrong, but is quite different than the claim that anyone who works for peace with Israelis will be arrested or lynched. That is a ridiculous assertion, that I notice wasn't backed up with any facts.

See www.taayush, www.icahd.org, www.mideastweb.org/ccrr, www.palsolidarity.org, to read about Israelis and Palestinians working together for peace in the West Bank and Gaza.