The movie “Paradise Now” (2005) describes the 48-hour process of two Palestinian youths who have been recruited for suicide attacks in Tel Aviv, Israel. One of the main characters in the movie, ‘Said’, is a child who has a father that was demonized as betrayer and was killed. In the movie, he was suspected of being a betrayer when he was infiltrating Israel and cut off from the base in order to terrorize Israel. Nevertheless, he exploded a bomb and committed suicide on a bus with Israeli soldiers. This is a serious problem in real Palestinian society. Palestine’s enemy is not Israel, but also Palestinian people want to change minds spontaneously or forcibly.
  The Palestinian cooperator problem is not something that started just recently. Israel has made distrust and antagonization in Palestinian society. Israel killed targets using Palestinian supporters, and they can have ‘increased mutual distrust effect’ from Palestinian society. Also, Israel made distrust and antagonization in Palestinian society. For the past 50 years, MOSSAD(Israel intelligence) agents have created supporters in Palestine using threat and conciliation. Israel gave supporters money, employment, labor certification and even sex as rewards. Two important responsibilities of Israel intelligence are MOSSAD and Shin Bet.
  MOSSAD is the secret intelligence service of Israel. Generally, MOSSAD is known as more better than CIA. However, MOSSAD isn’t much help between Palestine and Israel. Shin Bet(General Security Service) receives help from supporters and leads assassinations. They use Palestinian supporters, so they record every target’s movement and launch operations. Therefore, Palestine reacts by labelling the executions as a ‘act benefiting the enemy’. The bereaved families and friends feel dejection and have no choice but to be branded betrayers by people.
  Israel gives Palestine not only physical pain but also psychological trauma to create mistrust among Palestinian people at the same time. Nevertheless, in an international society, they don’t have any measures or substantial plans.
 

By Lee Da-yeon

dy34@cbnu.ac.kr

By Ko So-young

sy35@cbnu.ac.kr