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Israel-Palestine
French FM asks Israel to allow Paleos adequate security
2005-09-09
JERUSALEM - French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy on Thursday urged Israel to allow the Palestinian Authority to adequately equip its security forces in order to implement the rule of law.
Nightsticks?
“The Palestinian Authority must be given the chance to equip credible security forces,” he told reporters ahead of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom.
Billy clubs?
“How can we ask terrorist groups to disarm if people responsible for disarming them don’t have the means?” Douste-Blazy added.
Door-knockers?
The Palestinian Authority has complained that it lacks adequate weapons and ammunition to clamp down on powerful armed groups, but Israel has so far refused to allow officials to import more arms.
Snub-nosed .38 police specials?
But the most powerful Palestinian militias -- Hamas’s Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades and Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade -- have threatened to fight anyone who tries to take away their weapons.
Posted by:Steve White

#7  I thought the PA was armed already.

Maybe the PA should use a little ingenuity; go after the small fry clandestinely first, confiscate their arms and ammo to equip more of their personnel, and work their way up from there. Given past PA indifference to terror attacks, if not outright complicity, I can certainly understand the unwillingness of the Israelis to permit more arms and ammo to be shipped into that rathole.
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama   2005-09-09 19:46  

#6  Even in France he is deelmed an intllectual light-weight (but a heavy-weight slime): he has been named the "Mickey d'Orsay" who rhimes with Quai d'Orsay the nickname for the French Foreeign Ministry.
Posted by: JFM   2005-09-09 12:12  

#5  ^only
Posted by: Shipman   2005-09-09 11:51  

#4  3dc Why does the French FM give a damn?
Because Paleos having managed to murder a single Israeli in almost a month --- a state of affars not to be bourne.
Posted by: gromgoru   2005-09-09 09:34  

#3  Notice that he didn't offer up two battalions of FFL to help with security. Guess there isn't enough money in the local banks to warrant a deployment.
Posted by: Phineck Whimble2173   2005-09-09 09:33  

#2  Why does the French FM give a damn?
Posted by: 3dc   2005-09-09 02:48  

#1  Just let them use their private weapons. No self respecting Palestinian is ever without his AK47. Perhaps they mean heavier weapons like anti tank rockets, surface to air missiles, and suitcase nukes.
Posted by: RWV   2005-09-09 01:14  

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