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Israel-Palestine
Enfeebled Palestinian security force trains for Gaza pullout
2005-08-11
Finally, MSM uses an adjective properly.
GAZA CITY - Thousands of Palestinian security officers are enduring a mad rush of physical training and weaponry drills in order to take control of areas vacated by Israel in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.

Enfeebled by the five-year intifada and based out of premises partially destroyed by Israeli military action, security branches on the Palestinian Authority payroll are undergoing rigorous training for the Israeli pullout.
I suspect Charlie Johnson will soon re-use his favorite pic of Paleos leaping through rings of fire.
Security sources say 5,000 forces are being assembled and groomed to ensure that Israel’s disengagement from Gaza, due to begin in earnest on August 17, takes place free of violence after an appeal for calm by Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas.

Some are already in position, with the bulk of national security and police to be deployed early next week in zones bordering the Israeli settlements and roads used by settlers leading to the territory’s border with Israel.

At the ravaged navy police headquarters on the Gaza seafront under the glare of officers and Egyptian supervisors, men are instructed in the fine art of house ambush, checkpoint management and riot dispersal.
Riot dispersal? I can see why Paleo coppers wouldn't know much about that.
“More than 5,000 from national security and the other services have been trained. This force will be called on to assume control of the evacuated zones,” said chief instructor Colonel Mohammed al-Rawagh. “Other than physical endurance and operational exercises, they are being taught weapons and ammunition handling,” said instructor Mohammed Wasshah.

With the Palestinian leadership under massive international pressure to ensure the pullout passes off without militant attacks that could precipitate a crushing Israeli military response, little is being left to chance. General Jamal Kayed, national security commander in the southern Gaza Strip, said deployment plans during and after the departure of all Israeli troops and 8,000 settlers have been religiously prepared. “Under this plan, 7,500 members of national security and police are being deployed in and around the areas to be evacuated,” he said.

In a three-pronged operation, the special core of 5,000 will fan out inside the evacuated settlements, national security on their outer perimetre and police in adjacent Palestinian autonomous zones, said Kayed. Both Israeli and Palestinian officials said the force’s main task would be to prevent rocket attacks from the likes of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Success will depend largely on the attitude of both Islamist fundamentalist groups, whose armed wings are responsible for the majority of rocket attacks on Jewish settlements in Gaza and Israel proper. Islamic Jihad has announced its militants are under orders to stop firing rockets at Israeli targets in the lead-up to the pullout. Hamas has said it will observe an informal ceasefire but will respond to any Israeli “violation”.
"We can hear dem Jooos breathin'. It grates on our nerves, it's a violation I tells ya!"
Ordinary Palestinians would be banned from nearing settlements during the withdrawal, Kayed said, in a bid to stem much-feared looting and pillaging from angry mobs seeking to avenge Israel’s 38-year occupation of Gaza. “This force will also be responsible for taking control of the land that the settlements were built on and to protect property and infrastructure which are going to be given to the big-shots preserved,” he said.

Security preparations are also awash in the northern West Bank around Jenin where four isolated Jewish settlements are also to be dismantled in the first week of September. A special unit of 700 security officers has been formed and a camp erected to house them, said security commander in the region, General Dhiab al-Ali. “The camp will welcome a battalion of 700 soldiers and officers commanded by a colonel. The sole task of this force will be to guarantee law and order in the zones to be evacuated by the Israeli army and settlers,” he said.
Posted by:Steve White

#3  Enfeebled by the five-year intifada and based out of premises partially destroyed by Israeli military action.

Der Judennnn!!!
Posted by: gromgoru   2005-08-11 08:50  

#2  How much you want to bet the Paleos step on their dorks? If they do a a masive and brutal response should come their way. I mean brutal as in wipe out all the males between 12 and 60 in the Gaza strip, throw the rest of the population out and claim the land as part of the territory Israel in perpetuity.

Let the MMs and TRANZIs choke on that. Tell them the policy of Israel is no longer to "occupy" it is to anex and take full possession of any place that is used to launch attacks on Israel or it's citizens.
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom   2005-08-11 04:19  

#1  Heh, insert "Heavily Armed, Morally Bankrupt, and Mentally" at the beginning of the title, Doc, and I'll buy. ;-)
Posted by: .com   2005-08-11 03:58  

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