Report: New U.S. Weapons for PA To Be Used Against Israel
11:50 Dec 04, '06 / 13 Kislev 5767

(IsraelNN.com) American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice last week promised weapons to the Palestinian Authority (PA), which a PA security force member said will be used against Israel, according to WorldNetDaily.

Reporter Aaron Klein quoted Abu Yusef, a member of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas's Force 17 which was promised the weapons, as saying they will be used to "fight Israeli occupation." Yusef belongs to the Force 17, Abbas's elite security army, and also is a member of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which is a branch of Abbas's Fatah party.

Rice met Abbas last week in Jericho and pledged 6,000 new assault rifles, according to Arab sources. Foreign and local media have reported that the American proposal also provides for American military instruction at two Force 17 bases in Jericho and in Gaza.

Several previous terrorist attacks have been carried out following the transfer of weapons provided by the United States, and PA forces in the 1990s attacked Israel with guns provided by former Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin