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Palestinian Support Wanes for American-Trained Forces
WSJ ^
| 14 October 2009
| CHARLES LEVINSON
Posted on 10/14/2009 4:32:30 AM PDT by combat_boots
QALQILYA, West Bank -- Commanders of the U.S.-trained Palestinian security forces who have been locking up criminals and battling Hamas militants here for nearly two years have maintained morale in the ranks with a single promise: They will one day be the anchor of security for an independent Palestinian state.
The lack of progress toward that goal is starting to sap Palestinian public support for the forces and erode morale among troops, even as they win praise and fresh funding from Washington for their accomplishments.
Palestinian Security Forces train in the West Bank city of Nablus in August.
Meanwhile, the more the Palestinian Authority Security Forces cooperate with the U.S. and Israel to suppress Hamas, the more they threaten to undermine popular support for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas -- who is key to Washington's Mideast peace effort.
Popular anger at Mr. Abbas has already boiled over because of a series of concessions he made to Israel, under U.S. pressure, including his decision to withdraw support for a United Nations report that alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza. Mr. Abbas later reversed the decision, and supported the report. Israel has denied its forces acted improperly.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: me; military; pa; us
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To: combat_boots
Please. The plan has all along been to kill Israelis
using US funding.
'American training will be utilized to kill Jews'
NORTHERN WEST BANK security forces who recently received training
at U.S.-run bases as part of a stated effort to reform the PA's militias
All the trainings we received from Dayton and company will not affect our loyalty to
our people and the resistance," said the former Brigades leader.
The others present concurred.
The gunman was referring to Keith Dayton, the U.S. security coordinator to the
Palestinian territories who has been overseeing the training of Palestinian militias.
Since the late 1990s, the U.S. has run training bases for PA militias. The U.S. also has
provided hundreds of millions of dollars in financial aid and weapons to build up the PA militias.
"
What we received from Dayton, we will use when the day comes for a confrontation."
"I do not think that the operations of the Palestinian resistance would have been so
successful and would have killed more than 1,000 Israelis since 2000 and defeated the
Israelis in Gaza without these [American] trainings," said Yousuf.
Yousuf received U.S. training in Jericho in 1999 as a member of the Preventative
Security Services. He is a Brigades chief in Ramallah, where he is accused of
participating in anti-Israel terrorism, including recent shootings, attacks against Israeli
forces operating in the city and a shooting attack in northern Samaria in December 2000
that killed Benyamin Kahane, leader of the ultranationalist Kahane Chai organization.
Yousuf said his American training sessions were instrumental in killing Jews:
"All the methods and techniques that we studied in these trainings, we applied them against the Israelis," he said.
"We sniped at Israeli settlers and soldiers. We broke into settlements and Israeli army
bases and posts. We collected information on the movements of soldiers and settlers. We
collected information about the best timing to infiltrate our bombers inside Israel. We
used weapons and we produced explosives, and of course the trainings we received from
the Americans and the Europeans were a great help to the resistance."
"I myself received American trainings in Jericho. Together with my Preventative
comrades, I received trainings in intelligence methods and military trainings," he said. "In
the intelligence part, we learned collection of information regarding suspected persons,
how to follow suspected guys, how to infiltrate organizations and penetrate cells of
groups that we were working on and how to prevent attacks and to steal in places.
"On the military level, we received trainings on the use of weapons, all kind of weapons
and explosives," Yousuf said. "We received sniping trainings, work of special units
especially as part of what they call the fight against terror. We learned how to put siege,
how to break into places where our enemies closed themselves in, how to oppress protest
movements, demonstrations and other activities of opposition.
"I'm just telling you the truth," he said. "We applied against Israel all that we learned
from the Americans."
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posted on
10/14/2009 4:35:25 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
To: combat_boots
We conquered NA by arming Indians to kill other Indian tribes. Divide and conquer. The Israelis should start picking tribes in Arab countries and arm those that would war on others.
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posted on
10/14/2009 5:06:04 AM PDT
by
Leisler
(It's going to be a hard, long winter)
To: combat_boots
The lack of progress toward that goal is starting to sap Palestinian public support for the forces and erode morale among troops, even as they win praise and fresh funding from Washington for their accomplishments.The problem isn't with the "US trained Palestinians", it is with the Palestinians themselves. These people are the vermin of the Muslim world and their entire culture is based on hate for non-Muslims (especially Jews) and revenge (although, for God knows what!). So, it is no wonder that the more Hamas terrorists that the Palis capture/kill, the more there are to replace them.
What most of the west fails to recognize is that a schism has occurred in "Palestine" that has divided the Palis between Hamas and Hezbollah. No one can be neutral, they have to choose one side over the other. This is where the problem is.
The DBM needs to stop wringing its nanny hands over the fate of the Palis and let them go at each other. When the last Pali is left standing, then Israel can capture him and end one of the threats against their country. After that, there are only 99 MORE Muslim countries dedicated to the eradication of Israel and the Jews!!
(/sarc, last line only!)
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posted on
10/14/2009 5:10:15 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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