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Israel-Palestine
Israel to ban hiring of Palestinians by 2008
2005-03-11
Something about reaping and sowing.
TEL AVIV — Israel plans to terminate employment opportunities for Palestinians by 2008.

Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Ya'alon said Israel no longer maintains a policy of encouraging Palestinian employment. Ya'alon said the government has been phasing out the number of jobs available to Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza Strip in Israel. By 2008, Israel would institute a complete ban on the employment of Palestinians, Middle East Newsline reported. The government can ban Palestinians from entering Israel and requires entry and work permits.

"The goal is to stop Palestinians from working in Israel by 2008," Ya'alon told the Low-Intensity Conflict warfare counter-terrorism [LIC-2005] conference on Tuesday.

Ya'alon said Israel has been encouraging Western and other donor nations to help the Palestinian Authority create jobs in an effort to end its dependence on the Jewish state. He said the new policy no longer regards a peace agreement with the PA as resulting in security. "In September 2000, 150,000 Palestinians worked in Israel," Ya'alon said. "This is no longer the case."

In a review of Israel's counter-insurgency policy, Ya'alon said the PA has failed to crack down on Palestinian insurgency groups. He called on the international community to hold the Palestinian leadership responsible for attacks against Israel — even if those strikes are financed by foreign countries. "The issue of responsibility and accountability should be emphasized, without allowing them to escape with excuses," Ya'alon said.
They're Paleos: you expect them to be responsible?
Ya'alon said the PA has demonstrated its security capabilities. He said PA police and security forces deployed 18 battalions in the Gaza Strip within a few days. The PA has not matched this achievement in the West Bank. "We have allowed them to deploy in the West Bank," Ya'alon said. "But so far they do this too slowly and not effectively."
Posted by:Steve White

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