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(May09) American General Keith Dayton praises Fatah Soldiers as 'Founders of Palestinian State'
The Jerusalem Gift Shop ^ | FRIDAY, 01 MAY 2009 03:24

Posted on 12/18/2009 8:23:31 PM PST by MindBender26

Palestinian Authority Special Forces were praised this week by an American general for becoming the founders of a new Arab country within Israel's current borders.

Addressing a battalion in Tulkarm that recently finished training in Jordan, US lt. General Keith Dayton said: "As I look at you, I couldn't be more proud of the fact that you stepped up to be the founders of a Palestinian state."

The United States plans to expand a program to bolster Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's security forces in the occupied West Bank, the general in charge of training and equipping them said Monday.

"We have plans to train at least three more battalions before this time next year," Lieutenant General Keith Dayton told Reuters. Each battalion has about 500 members.

"If it goes the way the administration has asked for, we will accelerate dramatically what we are doing here.

Over the past year, Israel had pardoned more than 250 Fatah terrorists implicated in the attacks in 2003 and 2004, and many of them were absorbed in PA security forces.

Now, Israeli intelligence sources say, dozens of these pardoned Fatah terrorists have returned to the fighting Israel.

Once trained by the U.S, the return of Fatah to terrorist activity against could place Israel on a collision course with Fatah’s American military advisers.

This could create a nightmare scenario of American military personnel caught in the crossfire between Israeli troops and Fatah terrorists.

The American consulate in Jerusalem has so far not commented on the fact that Fatah security forces, known as the al-Aqsa Brigades, are defined by American law as a terrorist entity and possibly are being inadvertently aided by the U.S. military.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; duplicatetopic; israel; searchisourfriend
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To: MindBender26; justiceseeker93; oswegodeee; freekitty; SkyPilot; jesseam; Free ThinkerNY; ...

Insanity has become the norm in DC along with treason.


21 posted on 12/18/2009 9:12:02 PM PST by ExTexasRedhead (Clean the RAT/RINO Sewer in 2010 and 2012)
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To: Clintonfatigued

BullSh@T! I don’t believe this.

Translation: I DO NOT Believe this 100%!


22 posted on 12/18/2009 9:12:16 PM PST by CommieCutter ("You wanted the presidency, you got it, now FIX THE DAMN ECONOMY!!!!" ----YankeeReb)
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To: buccaneer81

WTH marks this man as a traitor? He’s simply executing the assignment set before him. In any event, he’s training police/”security forces.” I don’t really know why military would be training police, but, in any event, I can’t see any training we are giving them doing anything to change their offensive or even defensive capabilities vis-a-vis the Israelis.


23 posted on 12/18/2009 9:13:10 PM PST by Constantine XI Palaeologus ("Vicisti, Galilaee")
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To: Freedom'sWorthIt

Apparently in the last days the USA will side with Islam and attack Israel ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10O9kUCAv40....


24 posted on 12/18/2009 9:14:51 PM PST by redstateconfidential (`)
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To: Constantine XI Palaeologus; MindBender26

How do you miss every war since 1970 with an artillery MOS and still get three stars? By being a Perfumed Prince of the Pentagon, that’s how.


25 posted on 12/18/2009 9:15:00 PM PST by clintonh8r (Oath Keeper and Manhattan Declaration signer)
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To: buccaneer81

The far right has an element of anti-semitists too, and that’s what this guy might be. Not sayin’, just sayin’.


26 posted on 12/18/2009 9:15:27 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...

This is UNREAL...


27 posted on 12/18/2009 9:17:46 PM PST by nutmeg (Rush Limbaugh & Sarah Palin agree: NO third parties! Take back the GOP)
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To: Constantine XI Palaeologus
READ...

Over the past year, Israel had pardoned more than 250 Fatah terrorists implicated in the attacks in 2003 and 2004, and many of them were absorbed in PA security forces.

Now, Israeli intelligence sources say, dozens of these pardoned Fatah terrorists have returned to the fighting Israel. Once trained by the U.S, the return of Fatah to terrorist activity against could place Israel on a collision course with Fatah’s American military advisers. This could create a nightmare scenario of American military personnel caught in the crossfire between Israeli troops and Fatah terrorists.

A real American would have resigned his commission before committing the crimes that Dayton has.

28 posted on 12/18/2009 9:18:29 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: myknowledge

Mossad needs to do to him what they recently did to that Hamas leader from a watercraft....


29 posted on 12/18/2009 9:19:00 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: PaleoBob
The far right has an element of anti-semitists too, and that’s what this guy might be. Not sayin’, just sayin’.

He's a CFR member, and that bunch isn't likely to be seen wearing a white hood in public.

30 posted on 12/18/2009 9:21:14 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Nachum

Ping.

FWIW


31 posted on 12/18/2009 9:21:20 PM PST by Jet Jaguar
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To: PaleoBob

“The far right has an element of anti-semitists too”

- Surely you jest.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2126090/posts

It is getting to the point where I dont know where allegiances and loyalties lie these days. Whom do you trust? In the civil war you couldnt even trust your relatives. I think that is where we are heading. Maybe I will just judge each man on his own merits without the religious/political labels.


32 posted on 12/18/2009 9:24:17 PM PST by Soothesayer9
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To: MindBender26

THe most appropriate words spoken...

“this aint America no more”

Time to retake it is well overdue!


33 posted on 12/18/2009 9:28:55 PM PST by himno hero
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To: MindBender26
Sorry, but I don't see any reason to attack Dayton who I believe undertook this mission under Bush when Condi was trying to get Olmert and Abbas together on a deal.

Fatah (secular, nationalist, socialist) special forces were butchered in Gaza by Hamas when Hamas threw Fatah out of Gaza.

Hamas is now threatening to take over the West Bank and these special forces that the Dayton is training in Jordan are to prevent Islamist Hamas (backed by Iran) from succeeding in overthrowing Abbas.

Unfortunately, Obama’s kiss-up-to-Muslims attitude and promise to lean on Israel led Abbas and the other Arab states to drop concessions agreed to with Bush and Clinton and demand a full Israeli pullback to the 1967 borders.

Yes, any Fatah personnel are suspect, but the Israelis will make sure they don't get any heavy weapons ever.

34 posted on 12/18/2009 9:34:16 PM PST by Seizethecarp
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To: Soothesayer9; buccaneer81

Well, I’m not talking about the American Jewish vote—I’d be the first to agree that it is reliably and insanely liberal.

And I’m not really talking about KKK types either though I understand they are, by legend, part of the far right.

I guess I shoulda said anti-Israel. Not just the far right but the US military has had an anti-Israel contingent, like Zinni and even Powell it might be argued.

Anti-Zionist is what I shoulda said. We now have a general training Palestinian terrorists who want to drown every Jew in the Mediterranean. That’s, um, anti-Zionist in my book—in addition to being STARK-RAVING INSANE.


35 posted on 12/18/2009 9:38:50 PM PST by PaleoBob
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To: bergmeid

March 5, 2013

Today the US Navy and US Air Force began Standing Down. All weapons systems will be transferred to UN control and command. The US Army and Marine Corps will be transferred to a new Continental United States Internal Security Command to handle any potential domestic unrest.


36 posted on 12/18/2009 9:44:51 PM PST by unkus
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To: buccaneer81

Oh, give me a break. Should American officers have given up their commissions when we were beating on the Serbs and helping the terrorist KLA? From the little I’ve been able to find browsing the web, it looks like we’re basically training Abbas’ personal security detail to protect him from an attempted assassination by Hamas. In any event it seems the primary objective of this training is to build up Fatah as a credible counter to Hamas. Who knows, internecine Pali warfare might be to Israel’s advantage.


37 posted on 12/18/2009 9:46:19 PM PST by Constantine XI Palaeologus ("Vicisti, Galilaee")
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To: PaleoBob
Anti-Zionist is what I shoulda said. We now have a general training Palestinian terrorists who want to drown every Jew in the Mediterranean. That’s, um, anti-Zionist in my book—in addition to being STARK-RAVING INSANE.

I agree. And he's a traitor.

38 posted on 12/18/2009 9:46:55 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: MindBender26

Sounds like a bunch of BS to me


39 posted on 12/18/2009 9:49:04 PM PST by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Constantine XI Palaeologus
Should American officers have given up their commissions when we were beating on the Serbs and helping the terrorist KLA?

Yes.

There is right and there is wrong in this world. Unlawful orders given by two 'presidents' should be met with defiance including resignation.

40 posted on 12/18/2009 9:50:00 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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