Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....has instructed PA security forces to confront Israeli troops and settlers if they enter Paleostinian-controlled areas of the West Bank, a senior PA official said on Tuesday.
"President Abbas instructed the security services to confront the occupation forces and settlers," Azzam al-Ahmad, a member of the executive leadership of the Fatah party and the Paleostine Liberation Organization told the Paleostinian Satellite Channel. "We stress the importance of the national resistance," he added.
"If they enter our lands, don’t hesitate to confront them," al-Ahmad said, apparently referring to Abbas’s instructions regarding Area A of the West Bank.
"The best example is what is going on in Nablus [where battles between IDF soldiers and Paleostinian button men have taken place in the northern West Bank city], and even in Huwara," the site of a
"Not long ago, they [PA security forces] fought with them [Israeli soldiers] in Huwara," he claimed, without giving details.
The Israeli security establishment has long hailed coordination with PA forces as critical for combating terror and maintaining stability in the West Bank. Abbas recently cut ties following a deadly Israeli military raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank that killed nine Paleostinians, including at least one civilian.
At a summit in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba on Sunday, Israeli and Paleostinian officials agreed to take steps to resume coordination.