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2006-11-01 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

PA Offensive Capabilities Increasing, With US Help

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-11-01 10:17|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 I'm speechless.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-01 10:48|| 2006-11-01 10:48|| Front Page Top

#2 How could the PA become any more offensive than they already are?

Posted by Iblis">Iblis 2006-11-01 12:05|| 2006-11-01 12:05|| Front Page Top

#3 I doubt any of these "new" brigades would stand up well to a mixture of high explosives and napalm. Israel needs to get serious about cleaning out the cesspools known as the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Screw the "paleostinian" ayrabs.

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2006-11-01 12:55|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2006-11-01 12:55|| Front Page Top

#4 When you make it too costly to apply precision fire from tanks and air, the result is that the enemy reduces the area with artillery. If that is what the Paleos want, they had best evacuate any women and children they would like to survive to the beach and keep them there.

Posted by RWV 2006-11-01 13:55|| 2006-11-01 13:55|| Front Page Top

#5 The moment a single one of the Palestinian Authority's thugs fires even one American bullet at Israel, we'd better have the moral fortitude to go in and bomb them ourselves. Arming Palestinians of ANY stripe is an incredibly profound mistake. You might as well fill your swimming pool with pirahna. I can only hope that Israel will act in a far more decisive manner this time around. Nothing of Hamas or the al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade should be left standing.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-01 13:56|| 2006-11-01 13:56|| Front Page Top

#6 As for US arms to the Fatah terrorists, I believe this refers to the rifles, handguns, and ammunition provided to the PA police force and does not include any heavy weapons.

Posted by RWV 2006-11-01 13:56|| 2006-11-01 13:56|| Front Page Top

#7 Do you really believe that Fatah will hesitate to fire those weapons at Israel?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-11-01 14:09|| 2006-11-01 14:09|| Front Page Top

#8 Why is Olmert still there ?

Posted by wxjames 2006-11-01 14:25|| 2006-11-01 14:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Zenster, I am sure they will, but being Arabs it is doubtful that they will be able to hit anything with them. The rifles will most likely be used for gun sex or, if absolutely necessary, spray and pray fire. Personally, I would like to see the Israelis go Roman on Gaza and then salt the earth, but realistically, the proprieties must be observed.

Posted by RWV 2006-11-01 14:51|| 2006-11-01 14:51|| Front Page Top

#10 This is stupidity at the highest level if true. Why do I smell State Department ? Oh, I see, Maumoood said they'd never be used against Israelis. Oh, perfectly safe then.

Posted by SpecOp35 2006-11-01 15:32|| 2006-11-01 15:32|| Front Page Top

#11 I think RWW is basically making a correct point. A small percentage of the arms to Fatah being used probably unsuccessfully against Israel is an acceptable risk in return for the use of the preponderance of them against Hamas. AAMB uses weapons across the border against Israel mainly for PR - the fight with Hamas MAY be on the point of becoming a life and death struggle. It is not unreasonable to think the US and Israel have a dog in this fight.

What remains questionable is if Abbas really has the cojones for it. Years ago I was sure he did. Events have led me to question it. But we shall see what we shall see.

Posted by liberalhawk 2006-11-01 15:48|| 2006-11-01 15:48|| Front Page Top

#12 "Let's you and him fight!"

Posted by mojo">mojo 2006-11-01 16:21|| 2006-11-01 16:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Basically, all we have done with this is decide which one of the two street gangs present in the Paleo areas is the one we can work with, once the other is wiped out. So we give them some basic training, light weapons, ammo, and comm systems; they then go out and wipe out the other gangbangers. If Fatah then is smart enough, they will then cut a deal with the Israelis where the US and Israel leaves them alone to loot and pillage the Paleo treasury, in exchange for them stomping on the local terrorists.
Street bangers writ large with keffiyehs is what Fatah is, and street bangers will kill anyone who gets in the way of that kind of deal for them. They would then effectively be the only mob left in town, looting and pillaging to their heart's content.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2006-11-01 21:39|| 2006-11-01 21:39|| Front Page Top

#14 Fatah has demonstrated, to my satisfaction at least, that they aren't as smart as that, Shieldwolf, although they are marginally smarter than their competition.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-11-01 21:56|| 2006-11-01 21:56|| Front Page Top

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