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Peace Process

New website monitors PA arms violations


By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
November 28, 2004

A new Israeli-run website was launched last week to monitor the vast amount of weaponry forbidden under the “Oslo Accords” that is being used by the Palestinian Authority and its satellite terror groups to kill Israel’s Jews.

WeaponsSurvey.com provides a long and detailed list of rockets, anti-tank missiles, mortars and heavy machine guns currently in the hands of the PLO, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and others.

Under the terms of Israel’s peace agreements with the PA/PLO, the “Palestinians” are banned from possessing anything more threatening than personal firearms.

Forbidden stockpile

Divided into easy to navigate sections, WeaponsSurvey.com presents an ominous list of homegrown “Palestinian” rockets, including the ever-present Kassam, the advanced Nasser-3, and the long-range Hawkeye, which can reportedly strike targets up to 55 kilometers away.

Fatah, the ruling faction in the Palestinian Authority and home of Israel’s so-called “moderate” peace partners, manufactures many of the projectiles.

Also listed are the technologically advanced anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles the PA attempted to import aboard two arms smuggling ships between May 2001 and January 2002.

Other sections of the website reveal dangerous arsenals of mortar shells, landmines and heavy machineguns.

WeaponsSurvey.com’s editor, Aharon Etengoff also details “Palestinian” efforts to introduce chemical and biological weapons into the war on Israel’s Jews.

Heavily armed outlaws

Etengoff notes that most of the illegal weapons are in the hands of militias and terror groups outlawed under the Oslo Accords.

The PA’s failure to honor its commitment to disarm and dismantle such groups, coupled with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s withdrawal plan, has created a situation in which Israel’s major population centers will soon be under constant missile threat.

“The Palestinians don't even need to fire off that many [rockets] to completely change the fabric of life in the country,” Etengoff quotes former head of Military Intelligence and commander of Israel’s War College, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Ya'acov Amidror as saying in August 2003.

“It will be enough for them to fire one rocket every two weeks into Ra'anana or Kfar Saba and one rocket every few weeks into Jerusalem to make life unbearable for all Israelis,” Amidror explained.

Blatant violations

That these terror groups exist at all, let alone are in possession of advanced weaponry, is a blatant violation of the PA’s signed peace agreements.

Article XIV of the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement (also known as “Oslo 2”) states, “Except for the Palestinian Police and the Israeli military forces, no other armed forces shall be established or operate in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.”

It continues, “Except for the arms, ammunition and equipment of the Palestinian Police described in Annex I, and those of the Israeli military forces, no organization, group or individual in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip shall manufacture, sell, acquire, possess, import or otherwise introduce into the West Bank or the Gaza Strip any firearms, ammunition, weapons, explosives, gunpowder or any related equipment, unless otherwise provided for in Annex I.”

Section five of Article IV of Annex I permits the PA police to possess several thousand rifles and pistols, as well as 240 machine guns of no larger caliber than 0.5.

Far from acting to rectify the situation, the post-Arafat PA leadership announced Saturday its intention to integrate several well-known terror groups into the official “Palestinian” security forces.

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