Abbas mulls scaling back security ties to Israel

[Chris]

Abbas mulls scaling back security ties to Israel
By Reuters

The Palestinians may review their West Bank security ties with Israel if it continues unilateral operations such as a Dec. 26 raid which killed three militants, President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday. After losing control of the Gaza Strip to rival Hamas Islamists in 2007, the U.S.-backed Abbas reordered his West Bank forces in coordination with Israel, whose settlements and other occupied zones make the territory complex to administer. Abbas says the measures are part of the Palestinian drive for sovereign independence from Israel, but slow peacemaking progress and Israeli military actions have sapped his support.

"Recently their provocations and incursions have increased," Abbas told Palestine Television, referring to the raid on Nablus, in which three militants from his Fatah faction died, as well as Israel's killing of three Palestinians in Gaza that day. "We find ourselves before the point of review, of considering many of the things that we do," he said. "If the [security] coordination does not lead to a halt in the incursions and the provocations, we will think anew."

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[Chris]

Abbas has no one but himself to blame. His lack of control in the West Bank allows for the armed wing of Fatah to launch attacks via rockets while he sits at a desk and plays politician. Israel needs to take care of their own and quit worrying about Abbas and the terrorists until they lay down their weapons. If they don't lay down their weapons they they need them laid down for them (Pslam 83, etc.)