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2025-01-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian Authority pursuing West Bank terrorists to impress Trump, analysts say
[IsraelTimes] Semi-autonomous body wishes to show US president-elect it is capable of governing a post-war Gaza; 11 people killed in last month’s clashes between PA forces and terror groups

The Paleostinian Authority is determined to score a win against forces of Evil in the West Bank ahead of US-President elect Donald Trump
...The Hero of Butler, Pennsylvania...
’s inauguration, aiming to demonstrate its ability to control post-war Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, analysts told AFP.

The security forces of the PA, which exercises limited control over the West Bank, have been engaged in deadly festivities with button men since early December. The arrests of several forces of Evil triggered the skirmishes.

The PA forces are fighting members of the Jenin Battalion group, most of whom are affiliated with either 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...
or Hamas
..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
, whose October 7, 2023 attack on Israel triggered war in the Gaza Strip.

Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza since 2007 when it ousted the PA in a bloody coup, is the main political rival of 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....>
’s Fatah party that dominates the PA.

Eleven people — including PA security personnel, forces of Evil and civilians —have been killed in the violence in Jenin refugee camp, a stronghold of gangs in the northern West Bank and a frequent target of Israeli military raids.

"What is happening in Jenin is a crucial test for the Paleostinian Authority, which is trying to assert its control and impose security in the region," political analyst Khalil Shahin said.

An official with the Ramallah-based PA, speaking on condition of anonymity
... for fear of being murdered...
to discuss the operation in Jenin, said that Abbas "categorically rejects any mediation... and insists these hard boyz surrender themselves and their weapons."

Anwar Rajab, a front man for the PA’s security forces, said, "There will be no tolerance for this rogue group that operates outside the law."

The intra-Paleostinian festivities erupted amid a major raid by PA forces on the Jenin camp, which came after the December 5 arrest of a Jenin Battalion commander on charges of possessing weapons and illicit funds.

Armed Paleostinian factions in Jenin and elsewhere portray themselves as a more effective resistance to Israel than the PA, which coordinates security matters with Israel.

Analysts say that in Jenin, the PA is trying to prove it can control the violence and demonstrate that it could bring stability to Gaza once the war is over.

Shahin said the PA was trying to "weather the storm" of the Gaza war, Israeli offensives and regional upheavals before Trump takes office in January.

’ILLUSIONS’
“The PA hopes that, after Trump sees its ability to control Jenin, he will support it in governing Gaza after the war, unlike President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant....
," Shahin said.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, however, has ruled out any role for the PA or Hamas in governing Gaza after the war ends.
Regardless whether or not it wins them Gaza, a government ought to actually govern the territory it putatively rules, so this is good practice.
During Trump’s first term, US relations with the PA rapidly deteriorated over what the Paleostinians viewed as a series of moves to sideline them.
Perspicacious of them to notice the blatantly obvious.
Trump broke with most of the world by moving the US embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. He also suspended aid to Paleostinians and his "deal of the century" to solve the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict would have seen Israel annex 30 percent of the West Bank.

Hani al-Masri, director of the Paleostinian Center for Policy Research and Strategic Studies, said the timing of the Jenin raid appeared to strategically coincide with the lead-up to Trump’s return to the White House, as well as the possibility of reaching a ceasefire in Gaza after nearly 15 months of war.

In an analysis piece for his institute, Masri warned against the "illusions" of trying to appease Trump or believing he would take a different approach in his second term.
While appeasing President Trump will be extremely painful to the Palestinian self-image, not appeasing him will be even more extremely painful to Palestinian prosperity and world support.
The PA "believes it will be acceptable to the new Trump (presidency) if it lowers" its demands or opposition, Masri said.

While Hamas and Islamic Jihad accuse the PA of effectively serving Israeli interests, many fear a more intense outbreak of intra-Paleostinian violence, against the backdrop of the ongoing war in Gaza and a surge in Israeli military raids and settler attacks in the West Bank.

Videos have circulated showing alleged abuses by Paleostinian security forces, further increasing tensions between the rival camps of the PA and Hamas.

Hamas has condemned "grave violations" by the PA’s forces, while Fatah has denounced those who "legitimize chaos and anarchy."
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