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2023-07-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Senior PA security official: Hamas, PIJ recruiting youth ‘with nothing to live for’
[IsraelTimes] Brigadier general Hassan Asfour says Paleostinians being paid to target settlers and IDF; says he urged CIA to push Israel to combat settler violence, approve more permits, in order to flip trend

The Paleostinian Authority faces an uphill battle in its attempt to curb terror in the West Bank, where Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbund millipede, and Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
have been recruiting impoverished youth to carry out attacks, a senior officer in the PA’s Preventive Security Service revealed in a meeting this week, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told The Times of Israel.

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Brigadier General Hassan Asfour, who serves as director of central operations in the Preventive Security Service, told members of the Paleostinian diaspora in the US that the PA has intensified its arrests of Hamas and PIJ fighters in the West Bank in recent months.

While interrogating those suspects, the Preventive Security Service learned that many of them are from the poorest segments of society with "no food to eat" and "nothing to live for," Asfour said, according to the source, who requested that the exact time and location of the meeting in the US not be shared in order to protect his identity. Asfour held several recent meetings with Paleostinian diaspora communities in Virginia and reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
and posted pictures from the latter gathering on Sunday.

The source said Asfour shared that the suspects arrested by the PA are often paid by Hamas and Islamic Jihad to carry out attacks against settlers and Israeli security forces. "Hamas and Jihad want to destroy the West Bank, and they don’t want the PA to be around," said Asfur, whose Preventive Security Service is tasked largely with counter-terror operations targeting the two terror groups that are Ramallah’s main rivals in the territory.

Such detailed comments about the PA’s efforts to combat terror and the deteriorating situation for Paleostinians in the West Bank are not typically shared publicly by government officials. Even rarer are candid remarks by a member of the domestic intelligence service to Paleostinian expatriates.

Asfour said that in addition to being motivated by the money offered by terror groups, some of the suspects arrested by the PA confided with their interrogators that problems at home led them to participate in West Bank festivities.

"Someone who gets into a fight with his lover, his sister or his mother then wants to take it out on a settler," he said.

Asfour told the group he was in the US for meetings and training at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Washington area, according to the source.

Asfour urged his American counterparts to pressure Israel to combat rampant settler violence and approve more permits for Paleostinians to work inside Israel so that the younger generation suffering under Israel’s military control of the West Bank can have more "to live for," the source said.

A spokesperson for the Preventive Security Service said Asfur did indeed meet with members of the Paleostinian American community but denied the remarks attributed to him in this story. A CIA spokesperson declined to comment.

The PA has slowly lost security control over areas of the northern West Bank amid allegations of corruption and its failure to reverse the expansion of Israel’s civilian and military control over the West Bank. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other groups financed by Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
have sought to fill the vacuum and have been increasingly targeting settlers and army positions in recent months.

In an effort to reverse the trend, PA 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....
directed security forces earlier this month to operate against Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the northern West Bank, particularly in Jenin, where the IDF carried out an extensive counter-terror raid on July 3 and 4.

While heavily criticizing Ramallah’s welfare system, which includes payments to imprisoned turbans and their families, Israel has recognized that it prefers a functioning PA, given that it provides services to millions of Paleostinians in the West Bank.

Earlier this month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hardline government passed a decision to take steps to prevent the cash-strapped PA’s collapse. However,
some men learn by reading. A few learn by observation. The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves...
the resolution did not include any tangible steps, which will likely be difficult to push through, given the support of many members of Netanyahu’s cabinet for annexing large parts of the West Bank and even dissolving the PA.

Netanyahu himself reportedly said last month that Israel must "crush" Paleostinian ambitions for statehood while clarifying that Israel still needs the PA, ostensibly as its security subcontractor.

In an interview earlier this month, Netanyahu laid out a vision for a solution to the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict in which all Israeli settlements would be allowed to remain as enclaves under Israeli control, while Paleostinians would receive a sub-sovereign state on the territory that remains, without security control, which would remain in Jerusalem’s hands.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-07-28 00:27|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top
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#1 "Asfour told the group he was in the US for meetings and training at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Washington area, according to the source."
And what has Langley to say about that?
Posted by Chaiger Henbane8193 2023-07-28 07:53||   2023-07-28 07:53|| Front Page Top










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