U.S. chides Israel for curbs on Palestinian forces

abcnews.go.com ^ | Nov 7, 2007 | Adam Entous

[Esther Ruth]

U.S. chides Israel for curbs on Palestinian forces

By Adam Entous

Nov 7, 2007

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - The United States has complained to Israel that it is undercutting the ability of Palestinian forces to exert security control in parts of the occupied West Bank before a U.S.-sponsored peace conference.

Israel seized body amour from the Palestinian Presidential Guard and conducted raids in the city of Nablus despite the deployment of Palestinian forces there, sparking private protests from the Bush administration, Western officials said.

Building up a Palestinian force capable of providing security and preventing militants from attacking Israel is a key part of a U.S.-backed push to revive peacemaking and meet Israeli security demands for ending its occupation.

The officials said Washington had asked the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Richard Jones, to deliver a complaint about the raids, which took place on Wednesday and earlier this week in the city's restive Balata refugee camp.

[QQQQ]

Private protests from Washington??? My God!

[DoughtyOne]

Building up a Palestinian force capable of providing security and preventing militants from attacking Israel is a key part of a U.S.-backed push to revive peacemaking and meet Israeli security demands for ending its occupation.

There are times when it just baffles me to watch this White House and it's refusal to take historical events into account.

Looking at what Israel has had to put up with, I find it impossible to fault them for aprehension concerning the deployment of a Palestinian security force.  I do find it reprehensible to read about our government giving Israe trouble for maintaining contact with reality.

[Blue Highway]

Building up a Palestinian force capable of providing security and preventing militants from attacking Israel is a key part of a U.S.-backed push to revive peacemaking and meet Israeli security demands for ending its occupation.

Am I missing something, or aren't the Palestinian forces the very militants (read terrrorists) that are attacking Israel? Has someone slipped something in Bush's drink?

[Nachum]

Correction:

Private protests from Condi's state dept.

[Romneyfor President2008]

Israel to US State Dept:

STFU

[familyop]

"Has someone slipped something in Bush's drink?"

No. Our more superior fellow constituents are only pushing the President to complete their anti-Israel part of our 2004 Republican Platform (under "Road Map"). ...except for the reneging on the part about moving our Embassy there to Jerusalem, of course. That's not going to happen, either, as our leadership is pushing Israel to split Jerusalem in preparation for Muslim takeover.

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[Convert from ECUSA]

Israel needs to tell the Defartment of State to kindly go and kiss a porcupine.