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| Israel to dismantle offices for liaison with Palestinians? |
| 2002-06-30 |
| Israel is to dismantle the liaison offices with the Palestinians set up in the West Bank and Gaza Strip under the 1993 autonomy accords, Yediot Aharonot newspaper reported Sunday. It said the dismantling of the last vestiges of security cooperation between the Jewish state and the Palestinians showed that Israel's aim was to take sole responsibility for security in the Palestinian territories. At a later state, Israel would also take charge of affairs of civilian administration in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to Yediot, Israel's best-selling newspaper. The liaison offices were opened in 1995 to coordinate between the Israeli army and Palestinian security services, which carried out joint patrols from the missions. That sure worked well, didn't it? But the defence ministry has ruled out such a development, which would amount to a return to full Israeli occupation. It sounds like the Israelis are of two minds, knowing they'll probably have to do it eventually, but not wanting to. Ben Eliezar would represent the second point of view. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |