ZOA & Former Knesset Defense Chairman Criticize Israeli Decision to Transfer Arms to PA Chief Abbas
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The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) and Likud MK Yuval Steinitz, the former chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, have criticized the decision of the Israeli government of Ehud Olmert to transfer weaponry and ammunition to the presidential guard of Palestinian Authority (PA) chief, Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen). According to a report in Israel’s Hebrew daily, Haaretz, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz decided yesterday to approve the transfer to in order to bolster Abbas’ in his conflict with Hamas and other anti-Abbas factions. A similar proposal to transfer arms to Abbas was previously considered but not approved by Peretz’s predecessor, Shaul Mofaz (Haaretz, May 25).
Yuval Steinitz described the move as a “wretched” decision. “Whoever transfers weapons to the PA gives legitimacy to the world to transfer money to the PA . What Abu Mazen is missing is not weapons, but determination and will for a war against terrorism” (Haaretz, May 26).
Abbas is not a man who has shown any serious interest in peace with Israel thereby deserving any help. As former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told Jewish leaders in a meeting at Blair House in Washington D. C., on April 13, 2005, Mahmoud Abbas is “not a friend of the Jewish presence in Israel; remember Abbas caused thousands of casualties of innocent Jews when he worked with Arafat; he hasn’t arrested terrorists, stopped the arms smuggling or bomb factories. I must tell you that even the PA itself smuggles weapons. No serious steps have been taken by Mazen and we can’t get to the Roadmap plan until the PA fully implements its obligations.”
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Commentary;
Steinitz: “… Remember Abbas caused thousands of casualties of innocent Jews …”
ISRAELIS have to remember that among the catastrophies which Mahmoud Abbas has helped to bring about was the world televised 1972 Munich Olympic Massacre.
This holacaust denier is worthy of NOTHING but contempt and hatred.
He is no better than Arafat, Hamas and the rest of the Islamic terrorist murderers.
It’s an unfathomable outrage that the Yuval Steinitz’s recognition of what Abbas is translates into Olmert’s characterization of him [Abbas] as a “very decent human being” rather than extrapolation in a national policy of winning, of eradication of the entire “p.a.(sic)”, with it’s Hamas, Al Aksa Brigades, Jihad, Hezbullah, etc. tenacles and the transfer out of the Arabs residing here. MB