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2023-01-31 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Abbas assures US security ties with Israel only partially cut, can be restored
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[IsraelTimes] PA president tells CIA chief announced freeze aimed at pushing Netanyahu to moderate settlement expansion, said to fear condemning Jerusalem attack would be ’political suicide’
| Abbas rebuffed Burns’s request that he condemn the Friday night attack, saying it would amount to "political suicide" amid heightened Paleostinian anger over the Jenin raid, Channel 12 reported. |
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....
told CIA director William Burns Sunday that parts of a security coordination apparatus with Israel have remained in place, despite announcing a total freeze on cooperation last week following a deadly IDF raid in Jenin.
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The comments to Burns during a meeting in the West Bank Sunday came as the Biden administration (aka the Wilmington comorra)
 ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know...
has pressed the PA to rethink the move as it attempts to deescalate tensions following the Thursday morning raid, which sparked festivities in which nine Paleostinians were killed, many of them members of terror groups but including at least one civilian. Israel insists that the raid was a necessary anti-terror operation.
Abbas told Burns on Sunday that intelligence sharing with Israel — a key component of the sensitive security ties — has continued, according to an official familiar with the details of their meeting who confirmed a Channel 12 report.
On Thursday, Abbas’s front man Nabil Abu Rudeineh said that "security coordination with the occupation government no longer exists as of now." Israel, the US and PA view the coordination mechanism as a key element helping to tamp down terror activity and promote stability in the West Bank, though Ramallah has repeatedly threatened to suspend cooperation in response to Israeli moves.
Among other elements, the security coordination includes regular communication between Israeli and PA security forces to prevent entanglements when the IDF enters Paleostinian towns. The PA also assists in extracting Israelis who mistakenly enter Paleostinian areas and carries out arrests of terror suspects on Israel’s behalf.
The official who requested anonymity said the PA president also assured Burns that PA security forces will continue arresting terror suspects and that the security coordination would be fully reinstated once calm is restored.
Tensions have amped up in recent days, adding urgency to the visit to Israel by Burns and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. On Friday, a Paleostinian gunman from East Jerusalem opened fire on Israeli civilians outside a synagogue in the capital, killing seven people and injuring three more.
Abbas rebuffed Burns’s request that he condemn the Friday night attack, saying it would amount to "political suicide" amid heightened Paleostinian anger over the Jenin raid, Channel 12 reported.
In response to the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new hardline government passed a series of punitive measures along with a pledge to "strengthen settlements" in response.
According to Channel 12 news, Abbas told Burns in the meeting Sunday that Ramallah hoped its announcement on cutting security coordination would lead the Israeli government to adopt a more measured approach regarding settlement expansion in order to prevent the feared collapse of the PA.
Unlike the previous government, Netanyahu’s administration has voiced little support for bolstering the PA as a bulwark against less moderate Paleostinian factions vying for supremacy in the West Bank. Most members of the government oppose a two-state solution and many support annexing large parts of the West Bank.
"As long as the Paleostinian Authority encourages terror and is an enemy, I have no interest for it to continue to exist," Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said earlier this month, while signing a decree to block NIS 139 million ($39.6 million) in tax revenue from the PA and redirect it to families of terror victims.
Despite the move, part of punitive measures against the PA appealing to international bodies for legal action against Israel, the funds were funneled to Ramallah in full ahead of Blinken’s visit, Channel 12 reported Monday.
Abbas is slated to host Blinken in Ramallah on Tuesday, where he is expected to reiterate many of the messages he passed along to Burns, the official said. 
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