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Abbas issues new demands of Israel, but is quietly still arresting terror suspects
 [IsraelTimes] While formally maintaining freeze in security cooperation, PA nabs relatives of assailant rubbed out trying to stab soldiersDespite the Paleostinian Authority’s formal insistence that security coordination with Israel remains frozen, PA forces earlier this week tossed in the clink Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! two relatives of an assailant who attempted to stab IDF soldiers and was rubbed out. The uncle and cousin of Abdullah Takaatka were detained outside Bethlehem in the aftermath of his July 28 attack at the Gush Etzion Junction, Paleostinian sources said. PA security forces have also recently arrested several Hamas, a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth", and Islamic Jihad ...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah... activists, according to reports on Paleostinian social media. This activity is taking place despite the formal position set out by PA officials that its security coordination with Israel remains on hold in the wake of the Temple Mount tensions last month. PA President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial... announced a freeze in all contacts with Israel on July 21. Abbas’s adviser Mahmoud al-Habash said in a Thursday morning interview with the Paleostinian Ma’an news agency that the PA had a number of conditions Israel needed to meet in order for the security coordination to resume. Among these demands, al-Habash said, are that Israel cease all activity in the PA-controlled Area A of the West Bank, that free movement of Paleostinian civilians be ensured without restrictions, and that PA illusory sovereignty at border crossings be respected. In the context of that last demand, the PA is demanding that its forces be present at the Allenby Bridge border crossing between the West Bank and Jordan, as it says was agreed in accords with Israel. Abbas suspended the coordination to protest the installation of metal detectors at entrances to the Temple Mount, which were placed after three Israeli Arab gunnies killed two coppers outside the compound on July 14 with guns they had smuggled into the site. The new security measures sparked mass protests by Moslem worshipers, who boycotted the compound for 12 days until Israel removed the measures on July 25. Speaking with The Times of Israel on July 29, a senior Paleostinian official praised the Israeli government decision to remove the security measures and said that the coordination would gradually increase as long as Moslem access to the Temple Mount remained unrestricted. Also that day, The Times of Israel learned the PA has continued to make arrests of Hamas members in the West Bank. A Fatah official confirmed that arrests of Hamas members were ongoing, but said apart from "critical matters," security coordination with Israel had not yet resumed. The PA’s head of preventative security in the West Bank, Ziyad Hab al-Rih, also confirmed the arrests, saying the Hamas operatives were planning attacks in an effort to escalate tensions between Israel and Paleostinians. Rih said a number of Hamas activists were arrested that week in Qalqilya, Tulkarem, Ramallah and at Hebron’s Polytechnic University. The security cooperation between Israel and the PA, in place for years despite near-frozen diplomatic ties, is seen as critical for both Israel and Abbas’s Fatah faction to keep a lid on violence in the West Bank, particularly from the Hamas terror group. Posted by: trailing wife 2017-08-09 |
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