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| By: Stan Goodenough |
| Published: August 21, 2007 |
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This fall, the United States State Department will begin training members of the Palestine Liberation Organization to help secure their leader, Mahmoud Abbas, against a coup by Hamas.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arranged for State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security to conduct the program, which will continue through the beginning of 2008.
Reuters quoted the State Department as saying that the purpose of the program is to help the PA "deliver security for the Palestinian people and fight terrorism, build confidence between the parties, and ultimately help to meet the security needs of Palestinians and Israelis alike."
US security specialists have trained Palestinians before, only to turn their newly enhanced skills and often American or Israeli supplied weaponry against Jews.
For the Bush administration, which is increasingly desperate to secure a permanent status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians that will culminate in a two state solution, the "risk for peace" is well worth taking.
This article first appeared in the Jerusalem Newswire. |
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