There are many tens of thousands of illegal assault rifles in the Gaza Strip. Nothing would be easier for independent observations than piles of the assault rifles being carted off by American observers for destruction.
But Ha'aretz correspondent Amir Oren reports today that " Israel will not insist on collecting all the weapons in the hands of the militias. . . Personal weapons. . .may remain in the hands of the militiamen as long as they are stored and not publicly displayed."
Assault rifles aren't toys.
"With a few hundred machine guns and mortars, a small army can take over an entire country, killing and wounding hundreds of thousands" Jeffrey Boutwell and Michael T. Klare "A Scourge of Small Arms" Scientific American - June 2000
That's "a few hundred machine guns". Not "a few thousand" or "tens of thousands".
I don't know what happened to IMRA, but they used the term "militiamen" which means Terrorists.
What's a "legal assault weapon" in Israel as opposed to an illegal one? Does the current assault weapon ban in the States have any bearing on this? My personal feeling is an American should have the right to own any caliber weapon. Does this right extend to other people or not?
Please, Sharon, care more for your people than for world opinion.