PA Officers: We´ll Only Target Israel

Arutz Sheva - IsraelNationalNews ^ | 11/11/5 | Nissan Ratzlav-Katz & Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

[SmithL]

In a letter sent this week to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), official PA militia officers declare that, even as internal security collapses, they will only point their guns at Israel.

In the letter, revealed by UPI, the officers warn that the Palestinian Authority (PA) security apparatus is on the verge of collapse due to widespread corruption and the ongoing state of anarchy that exists in autonomous areas.

The authors of the letter to Abu Mazen state that they reject ongoing US and Israeli pressure demanding the disarming of PA terrorist organizations. Instead, the militia officers declared, their weapons will only be pointed at Israel and at Israel's Arab agents fighting terrorism in the PA.

Under the shadow of this warning, the PA is preparing for local elections, which will include the Islamist Hamas terrorist group. The Hamas is widely seen among the PA Arabs as representing a turn away from official corruption and neglect. Growing unrest among PA Arabs was reflected in the results of a new poll by the Palestinian Center of Public Opinion, which showed a 20 percent drop in the number supporting a halt to violence against Israel.

While the PA officers' letter confirms situation analysis reports from Israeli army intelligence, Chief of Army Intelligence Major-General Aaron Ze'evi-Farkash told cabinet ministers last month that Abu Mazen can take control of the situation if he so chooses. However, former IDF Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon contended in a lecture to the Washington Institute for Near East Peace this week that Abbas has decided to exhibit a weak profile, seeking to use this to his advantage in negotiations with Israel.

Meanwhile, sniper fire, Molotov cocktail attacks and stone throwings, reminiscent of the breakout of the Intifada in the late 1980s, have become more widespread in the past several weeks. IDF soldiers found two weapons and bullet shells Thursday night on the road to Ma'aleh Michmash after terrorists shot at an Israeli vehicle. No one was injured in that attack.

In Bethlehem, the PA claimed it had arrested five Al-Aqsa Marytrs Brigades terrorists, affiliated with the ruling Fatah movement, involved in the murder of three young Israelis hitchhiking on the Jerusalem-Gush Etzion road last month. There was no confirmation of the arrests from Israeli sources.

[SmithL]

FYI

[marron]

Separate from Israel, separate from Jordan and Egypt, Gaza and the West Bank are not viable as independent territories.

There will never be an independent West Bank.

The Palestinian Authority is useless as a "partner" in negotiations because besides having no interest in peace, they couldn't deliver it if they wanted to. They don't control their own territory, and if they agreed to peace with Israel they would be murdered before the month was out.

Israel must decide its own peace plan, and implement it themselves. They must choose the border they are prepared to live and die by, and seal it. The arab regions beyond that border will collapse into chaos, and eventually there will be no choice but to reabsorb them into the neighboring arab countries.

Or, since they are insane, they may allow their territory to be used to launch attacks over the line into Israel, upon which time Israel must seize the offending piece of land and incorporate it permanently into Israel proper, minus any arab residents who must be pushed to the far side of the fence.

There is no other peace plan worthy of the name. This is what peace in the middle east looks like. We had best get used to it.

[JSteff]

"Israel must decide its own peace plan, and implement it themselves. They must choose the border they are prepared to live and die by, and seal it. The arab regions beyond that border will collapse into chaos, and eventually there will be no choice but to reabsorb them into the neighboring arab countries."

You are right but seemingly ignoring a major fact. While speaking bad about Israel the other arab countries do NOT want the palestinians in theirs.

Jordan once smashed them with their army. Egypt treats them like 3rd or 4th class citizens. Syria does not want them either... except to use them against Israel.

The pali's are a tool to use against Israel. Arab countries comprise what... like 99.5% of the land of the Mideast. The arabs keep the armed because they fear the Israeli's.

The arab's don't want them, they are tools. Nothing more.