IDF says it has cut down on arrests of wanted West Bank militants

IMRA/Ha'aertz ^ | 7-16-07

[SJackson]

[Security hiatus to help Abbas and please Bush] IDF says it has cut down on arrests of wanted West Bank militants

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA: Unfortunately, experience until now has been that such "gestures" to please Washington have turned out be literally "dying to please the White House" Israel Radio reported this morning that the "militants" being "disarmed" will ultimately be "rearmed" to serve within PA security forces.]

IDF says it has cut down on arrests of wanted West Bank militants

By Amos Harel and Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz

Correspondents Last update - 06:49 16/07/2007

www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/882145.html

The Israel Defense Forces has significantly cut down on operations involving arrests of wanted Palestinian militants in the West Bank, as a result of agreements reached between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Since Thursday morning, no such operations have been carried out in the West Bank.

This new development is linked to the meeting Monday between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, but also to the security program of the Palestinian prime minister, Salam Fayad, and to Israel's decision to offer pardons to 178 Fatah militants sought by the Shin Bet security service.

So far, the new regulations have still not been conveyed to the IDF in writing, and Central Command has so far been given only oral instructions.

"For now, we have removed our foot from the gas pedal," military sources told Haaretz Sunday, referring to the level of intensity with which wanted militants in the West Bank are being hunted down.

[Uncle Ike]

We can send them some senior INS people to show them how to “catch and release” and “look the other way”....

[KingSnorky]

And this is the same Israeli government that we’re hoping takes out Iran’s nuclear facilities.

[jiggyboy]

Another instance that proves Olmert is a “Palestinian” mole trying to destroy Israel from the inside. I stopped counting the number of instances at least a year ago.