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Gaza
By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem
Last Updated: 1:58am GMT 15/11/2006



Israel is on the brink of a policy U-turn that would authorise 1,500 armed Palestinian soldiers based in Jordan to move into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

While Israel sees the move as a way to counterbalance the growing power of Hamas, such a policy shift could worsen the internecine violence between rival Palestinian factions which has claimed scores of lives this year.

It reverses years of strict military sanctions imposed by Israel on the territories because of fears that weapons provided to Palestinians would end up being used for attacks on Israeli targets.

advertisementThe United States, which is behind the initiative, hopes that the arrival of the troops, trained and equipped to relatively high standards by the Jordanian armed forces, will restore badly-needed order in the occupied territories.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/15/wgaza15.xml

[There is a certain irony here. Hamas was encouraged when it first emerged by Israel to weaken the more secular PLO during the first Intifada. Now, Israel is trying to weaken Hamas by encouraging the PLO.]

[Summer Wine]

Well, in Israels view it could be seen as supporting a palestinian faction that will accept a coexistence with Israel without further need for violence and global alienation versus allowing a faction that wants to continue using violence until their state is destroyed or their enemies suicide themselves through acts of violence.

I can't complaim as one has accepted the concept of a two state solution without the utter destruction of Israel and the other hasn't. Before you argue too hard about the right for a state (Israel) to be created out of nothing except UN and others ideals. Consider the following countries as examples.

China, Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, etc. Could go on, but the list includes every nation that exists today. Before you bitch about Israel and how it treats its minorities. Consider Indonesia and China as prime examples of similar situations.

[cbclark4]

Yes the whole Arab world, Saracen world, Moslem world is cut up into manufactured strips. From Spain and Portugal. The whole Med Africa. The Arabian Penninsula. Asia Minor Turkey, Armenia, Persia. Outremer etc.

How do you say "Unite" in Arabic.

cbc