Oslo Exsposed
Soldier's murder was latest in new trend of terror by PA security
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent 11 February 2010
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1149079.html
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad on Wednesday condemned the stabbing
of an IDF soldier at the Tapuah checkpoint by a Palestinian police officer.
It is hard not to appreciate the political courage summoned by Fayyad
Wednesday in condemning the killing of an Israeli soldier at a checkpoint in
the occupied territories.
But Fayyad apparently realizes that to maintain his extraordinary
cooperation with the Israel Defense Forces in the West Bank, he needs to
compromise on his dignity, even if at a hefty political price.
However, one emerging trend is difficult to ignore. Most of the fatal
attacks in the West Bank in recent years were carried out by members of
Palestinian security forces.
Two months ago there was the murder of Rabbi Meir Chai, near the settlement
of Shavei Shomron, by three Fatah men, one of them a member of the West Bank
counterintelligence service.
In November 2007, three Palestinian policemen murdered settler Ido Zoldan,
also from Shavei Shomron. A month later, two members of the Palestinian
general intelligence service murdered two Israeli soldiers from Kiryat Arba,
who were hiking near the village of Tarkumia.
These attacks create quite a dilemma for Israeli security organizations. On
the one hand, the Palestinian Authority is combating Hamas and Islamic
Jihad, often demonstrating a surprising ability to counter the Islamist
terrorist threats. But the same PA neglects its own men, including former
members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade and security service men.
Moreover, there is increasing anti-Israel incitement by the PA, which comes
not only from third-rate politicians, but also from very senior officials.
Only a few weeks ago, a senior PA official took part in the dedication of a
square to Dalal al-Moughrabi, who took part in the
Coastal Road Massacre in 1978 and murdered children with her own hands, and
in January a sermon calling for the murder of Jews was broadcast by
Palestinian television.
Fayyad and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, while far from encouraging
terrorism, do support the "popular resistance" of the Bi'lin and Na'ilin
model, in effect, endorsing stone-throwing. Fayyad himself "only" took part
in burning settlement produce, while he and
his government engage in setting up preposterous investigative committees to
look into allegations of organ thefts by Israeli soldiers. The message
trickles down to the lower ranks and can often be misunderstood. In view of
the stalemate in negotiations, it's not hard to guess why settlers and
soldiers are perceived as legitimate targets.
This doesn't make the dilemma any less acute for the Israelis in view of the
"miracle" performed by Abbas and Fayyad in the West Bank. Thousands of words
have been written about its Palestinian cities, the burgeoning economy and
the war on radical Islam. The Palestinian stock exchange went up by 12
percent in 2009 and an even steeper climb is expected in the coming year.
Construction of a new Palestinian city began north of Bir Zeit two years
ago, and the PA is planning another one north of Jericho, to be named Kamar,
Arabic for moon.
Fayyad, a Washington favorite, is showing results time and again of just how
much he is a man of action, unlike his other Palestinian colleagues. He
doesn't focus on personal interest, he's clean of any taint of corruption
and the rare vision of a Palestinian state he bears is
being implemented on the ground. It's precisely that one Palestinian
policeman who decides to carry out an attack that might frustrate his plans.
Fayyad's troubles were compounded last night with a Channel 10 expose
showing Abbas' chief of staff, Rafiq Al Husseini, trying to coax a woman
into sleeping with him. The incidentwas revealed by Fahmi Shabana, former
director of the general intelligence service in Hebron. Ironically, this
man, who a year ago was arrested by the Israel Police for recruiting agents,
was also the man who arrested the two terrorists from the Tarkumia attack.
Wednesday, he became Abbas and Fayyad's latest and biggest headache
Slowly day after day the lie of the Oslo process is exposed
You can't take terrorist and put them in uniform and by magic the become good people. They are still terrorist they just happen to be in uniform of a so called police officer.
The Palestinians have not nor do I think they will ever make a change from terrorist to a people that seeks peace with their former enemies.
Cartoons on PA TV educate the children to murder Jews and then the police of the PA give an example that even those in authority support and carry out acts of terrorism and murder.
