Israeli officials say that they are pushing the US State Department to come up with a “legal fix” to the Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act, an act that is coming into force Friday and effectively will cut all security aid to the Palestinian Authority.
Under the act, if the Palestinians kept getting any US aid, they would
be open to huge US lawsuits. The Palestinians announced they would forgo
any further aid, aid which will be cut as of midnight Thursday.
While Israeli officials are normally fine with Congress passing bills to
stick it to the Palestinians, this time it might actually inconvenience
them, as the sudden loss of funding is liable to interfere with Israel-Palestinian coordination.
Israel and the Palestinian Authority have had troubled ties for years,
and the amount of cooperation that is ongoing at this point is trivial
above and beyond security cooperation. If the US act inadvertently
severs one of these last ties, the Israeli government clearly fears the
Palestinian leadership may take rash steps to withdraw from
international accords.
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The Palestinian security service serves Israeli occupation, and the US pays for it.
Without the Palestinian Quislings maintaining the Israeli occupation, the Israelis would be hard pressed to do it themselves. They’d be forced to patrol Palestinians communities with Israeli Jewish troops. That would not work well, and in the process would get Jews killed, which is a red line.
Just as bad for them, Israel would be forced to pay for doing that, and pay more than the US does because Israeli troops cost many times more than Palestinian local police.
The Occupation depends on this betrayal of Palestinians by other Palestinians. Having the US as intermediary makes that possible. They could not just work directly for Israel, or they’d be run out of the area.
Yup, crazy that the Pals have a “security” arrangement with their tormentor.
The occupation is the result of the Jordanian/Palestinian attack against Israel. Unlike other occupiers (China, Russia, Morocco, Turkey) Israel has offered to end the occupation in return for a peace treaty.
What Palestinian “Authority?” What “authority” does it have??
That is the Israeli way – torture the Palestinians and get them pay for the tools of torture.