In addition to arming his friends the Saudis, Bush has trained and armed Palestinian “moderates” who used the new skills and guns to kill Jews. How compassionately Conservative was that? More than 1000 dead Jews since 2000! Now Condi, the wonder girl playing pretend global diplomacy, is planning to do it again, with Bush cheering her on. How stupid are these people? Words fail us.
United States-run programs that train militias from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah organization have been utilized to kill Jews and were instrumental in the “success” of the Palestinian intifada that began in 2000, a senior Fatah militant trained by the U.S. told WND.
“I do not think that the operations of the Palestinian resistance would have been so successful and would have killed more than 1,000 Israelis since 2000 and defeated the Israelis in Gaza without these [American] trainings,” said Abu Yousuf, a senior officer of Abbas’ Force 17 Presidential Guard unit in Ramallah.
The U.S. has long run training programs at a base in the West Bank city of Jericho for members of Force 17, which serves as de facto police units in the West Bank, and for the Palestinian Preventative Security Services, another major Fatah security force.
This weekend diplomatic security officials announced the State Department will begin training Force 17 again this year in an effort to bolster Abbas against Hamas, which took over the Gaza Strip in June when the terror group easily defeated U.S.-backed Fatah forces in the territory.
