Report: Bush Asks PM to Authorize [Jordan-based Fatah-Loyal] Badr Brigade [for West Bank]
Full Text;
“US President George W. Bush asked Prime Minister Ehud Olmert during their meeting in Washington on Tuesday to authorize the entry of 1,500 Palestinian soldiers from the Jordanian-based Badr Division, into the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the British daily The Daily Telegraph reported.
The relatively well-armed Badr Division is loyal to the Fatah faction, and the hope in the US is that the additional troops will help buttress Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ strength in the territories against Hamas.”
Commentary;
This seems a typical case of [Abbas] biting the hand that feeds [the US]. And Bush asks Israel to self-violate her national soverignty as well as to be an accomplice to Abbas and Fatah, the biters? And weakling Olmert, who does not belong leading Israel, will accede to this gross abrogation of Israel’s national sovereignty?
Check out this post from Barak of IRIS; Abbas’ Fatah Declares War on US “Without Mercy” as an indication of how Abbas and Fatah’s biting of the hand feeding them.
For additional context on the Government of Israel’s gross abrogations of National Sovereignty, click here, here and here. MB