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PA: Look, we stopped terror!


By Ryan Jones
October 17, 2005

The Palestinian Authority at the weekend loudly boasted that it had honored its peace commitments by preventing a handful of terror attacks and confiscating a minor quantity of illegal weapons to be used against Israel's Jews.

On Saturday, the PA Interior Ministry, which controls the regime's security forces, issued a report on its first month in full control of the Gaza Strip.

The document highlighted the prevention of 17 attacks against Israel, and the confiscation of 75 land mines and 15 Kassam rockets.

But the unimpressive crackdown apparently only came in the wake of international displeasure following a major terrorist rocket attack on Israel immediately following the IDF's surrender of Gaza last month.

The PA had failed to confiscate the 40-50 Kassams used in that assault, or to prevent the numerous Hamas cells involved from launching their weapons.

A PA source was quoted by The Jerusalem Post as saying the recent preventative measures did not represent ?continuing action? against terror in compliance with signed agreements.

Nor had the PA come to a decision to honor it pledge to disarm the terror groups.

PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas has called for an end to the terrorists' public display of weapons, but has repeatedly rebuffed Western and Israeli pressure for him to take away their weapons and eliminate their ability to murder Jews.

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