PLO Decides to End Security Cooperation with Israel
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The Palestinian Liberation Organization’s central council decided Thursday to end security cooperation with Israel, in a potentially explosive move after Tel Aviv cut off a key source of funds.
The PLO council decided "to stop security cooperation in all its forms with the occupying power" which it urged to "take over full responsibility for the Palestinian people in the occupied State of Palestine, the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza."
Set up under the 1993 Oslo autonomy accords which founded the Palestinian Authority (PA), the coordination involves the sharing of intelligence and is considered crucial for Israel to keep tabs on Islamist movement Hamas and its West Bank members.
The PLO said its executive committee would meet to implement the decision taken by the central council which held a two-day meeting in the West Bank town of Ramallah, without giving a date.
The Palestinians submitted a U.N. Security Council resolution in December -- which was voted down -- calling for an end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank within two years, and in January joined the International Criminal Court, where they plan to press for war crimes against Israel.
Israel has in response frozen $127 million per month in tax revenues due the PA, rendering it unable to pay tens of thousands of employees and threatening its very existence.
U.S.-backed talks between the Palestinians and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government collapsed in April after nine months of fruitless meetings amid bitter recriminations and mutual blame.
Relations have since further deteriorated, after a devastating war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza during the summer, and with the Palestinian moves against the Israelis in the international arena.
05 March 2015, 23:00
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Pah! If Hamas takes over Ramalla it would be PLO people who will be thrown off tall buildings...
06 March 2015, 00:40
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This is the Netanyahu method. Of your adversary, even when cooperating with you, engages in some conduct that you find objectionable, then go for the jugular, hold your foot on his neck until he screams, and then, only if he relents do you remove the boot. His only problem is that he is not dealing with his children, but with peoples and nations, like the Palestinians and Iran. Nations do not respond like spoiled children. Rather, they push back. Netanyahu is, of late trying his modes operandi on the Obama Administration. Well, it won't work there either. It is an arrogant person who operates this way and he will bring down on himself and Israel all that he sows.
06 March 2015, 20:44
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How quickly you bury them. Shame on you, you exemplify the nusrats and da3eshits who gave up on Palestine and rather want to slaughter Arabs. You're the lost cause, Arabs and Palestinians will prevail, no matter how long it takes, because we are a people that NEVER gives up.
