Posted on 05/15/2008 5:20:19 AM PDT by SJackson
Israel recently rejected a request by the US security coordinator to the region to allow Palestinian security forces to receive personal armor kits, night-vision goggles and electronic communication systems that the PA planned to use to set up a military communications network, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
The request was made to the Defense Ministry by Lt.-Gen. Keith Dayton, the American security coordinator to the Palestinians and Israel.
Senior defense officials said Wednesday that Dayton made the request on behalf of the Palestinian Authority several weeks ago and that it was immediately rejected, since some of the items had the potential to "break the balance" between the IDF and the PA security forces.
The Post has also learned that Israel is considering transferring security control over Tulkarm, Kalkilya and Hebron to the PA if a program being tested in Jenin is successful. Quartet envoy Tony Blair revealed the Jenin test project during a press conference in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
According to Blair's plan, the PA will receive security control over a large area, including and surrounding Jenin. In addition, restrictions on the passage of Palestinian businessmen in the area will be eased. Blair also said Israel had agreed to remove four West Bank checkpoints, upgrade seven others, and move one.
On May 3, 600 PA soldiers were allowed to deploy in Jenin after completing US-supervised training in Jordan.
Israeli defense officials said that another Palestinian battalion - comprising around 400 soldiers - was scheduled to complete training next week and would likely be immediately deployed in Bethlehem to help secure the city, which will host an international investor conference next week. After the conference, the new battalion will probably be deployed to the Jenin area.
Officials said that starting on June 1, another Palestinian battalion was slated to travel to Jordan for training conducted by US contractors who are supervised by Dayton.
Under the Jenin pilot program, the IDF will retain operational freedom in the area, but will work more closely with the PA and try to coordinate its operations with local Palestinian commanders. Defense officials said the PA forces were doing an effective job at enforcing law and order in the area but that it was still too early to rely on them to curb Hamas terrorism.
Unbelievable.
Kill them all.
yet another stupida$$ idea, brought to you by condi rice, who some people actually think would be a good vice president....someone that gullible has no business in any branch of our government ( she would probably give dogs armor if she was the dog catcher )
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Mu only question is: WHY does the United States have a “security coordinator to the Palestinians...”?
OOPS.
MY only question...
Who is making these requests?is it the State Department?DOD!who.
The President needs to get these idiots strait.We should not bee providing the Palestinian authority weapons that they will only give back to Hamas and the other Terrorist groups attacking Israel on a daily basis.
If our government end up giving these Amalekstinians this stuff, then our goverment has reached a new low-level of total stupidity.
this “...US security coordinator...” should be slapped around and fired.
Did they also request that we help them build gas chambers and ovens?
Treason at the State Department: A Whistleblower's Story
"The UK’s Sunday Times recently broke the story of an FBI whistleblower kept
from speaking publicly about a State Department official suspected of selling nuclear secrets.
Annie Jacobsen digs a bit deeper into this shadowy tale and wonders why
American media outlets have greeted the revelations with stunning silence.
Two weeks ago, the London Sunday Times broke an exclusive story about
FBI translator-turned-whistleblower Sibel Edmonds.
For five years, the U.S. government has prevented Edmonds from speaking publicly
on what she knows, claiming State Secrets Privilege. The Times got the exclusive
on the story, eerily titled “For Sale: West’s Deadly Nuclear Secrets,”
by talking to a number of Edmonds’ close associates who were not under a gag order,
and by filling in pieces of the puzzle from Sibel Edmonds herself.
According the Times article, the U.S. government sought to gag Edmonds
from revealing that corrupt government officials — specifically,
State Department official Marc Grossman — were directly involved in the stealing and selling
of nuclear secrets to foreign agents. In her role as translator, Edmonds listened in on,
or translated, hundreds of secretly intercepted conversations
between State Department officials and foreign nationals from 1996 to 2002."
To arm and train them. A Marine Lt General no less. We manage to train Marines at Parris Island and San Diego with Brigadiers. Go figure.
The administration is committed to arming the palestinians.
They don’t use tough, mean, foul-mouthed drill sargents any more?
Maybe we can open up the Air Force Academy to al-Qaeda so they don't have to pay to train their next batch of terrorist pilots. That would be similar to asking Israel to arm the Palestinians.
Sorry, thought he was a Marine. I didn't criticize him for carrying out his duty, if you read the thread I clarified that this decision is the responsibility of the President, not State Dept "lackeys" or others tasked with carrying out his policy.
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