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"Two convicted informers were executed in January 2001. But Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who gives the final authorization for an execution, came under international pressure to stop the executions and has not permitted any more since then.

"However, Palestinian militias have taken the law into their hands, rounding up and executing suspected collaborators. Dozens have been killed."

If, as Ibrahim Barzak reports, "dozens have been killed," there must be hundreds of such "collaborators."

Heroes are dying here, heroes who have braved the insanity gripping their people to fight for real freedom -- freedom from the thuggish tyranny of the terrorist gangs, freedom from ignorance and hatred. Mostly we do not know their names, and we never will. We are almost never told that they are winning. As Uri Dan wrote in the New York Post on July 13:

"Three weeks ago in Israel, in a single day, there were 58 terror alerts -- some 'very hot' -- of planned Palestinian attacks. But none was carried out -- thanks to an enormous security blanket thrown over the West Bank that has given Israelis a long stretch without the deadly bombings that have claimed hundreds of lives."

A key element in that "security blanket," as Dan reported, is "greater collaboration from Palestinians who either oppose homicide bombers or are paid informers."

Perhaps some historian of the future will tell the story of these heroes. Except in passing, no reporter today is doing it.

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