The Palestinian security forces engage in extensive cooperation with the Israeli occupation forces, a practice that the Palestinian Authority has taken great pains to conceal from the world.
The emergence of details in newly released Wikileaks diplomatic cables, first reported by Dagens Nyheter (DN), place the already beleaguered Palestinian Authority under even greater pressure.
In Gaza and on the West Bank collaboration with Israel is considered to be the worst form of treason. Palestinian informers face the death penalty. But in reality the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority on the West Bank has itself long engaged in an extensive exchange of information with military, police and even Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency. The contacts are “friendly, professional and sincere,” according to a US diplomatic wire reporting a conversation between Yuval Diskin, Shi Bet’s head, and James Cunningham, the US Ambassador to Israel.
The Wikileaks diplomatic cables between the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and the State Department in Washington reveal particulars about the exchange of information.
A Palestinian security detail, for example, provided a so-called Qassam rocket, a type of homemade missile directed at targets within Israel, to the Israeli defence forces, according to document from January 2010. The Palestinian security forces seized the rocket in conjunction with the arrest and interrogation of two members of Hamas. The two Hamas operatives also confessed that they planned to establish an underground weapons factory on the West Bank. After the Israelis concluded a technical analysis of the rocket they returned it to their Palestinian counterparts.
Another wire records dissatisfaction among those responsible for security in the Palestinian Authority. They desired more out of the collaboration with Israel and complained about the “one-sided Israeli approach”.
The West Bank’s top police official, Hazim Atallah, also expressed frustration “with far more information flowing from the Palestinian side to Israel than is received in return”.
Said Abu Ali, the minister of interior in the Palestinian provisional government, emphasized that it was “necessary” that the security collaboration with the Israelis remain confidential: “keep them [the contacts] out of the public eye,” the wire quotes him as saying.
The Wikileaks wires make clear that the civilian public security forces on the West Bank have long running formal collaboration with the Israelis police, including joint working groups to combat violent crime and traffic violations.
On Monday, the TV station Al Jazzera published secret documents concerning negotiations for settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Among the revelations was the proposal by Palestinian negotiators in 2008 to allow Israel to annex the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem and all of the settlements, except one in East Jerusalem. Israel declined the offer.
Furthermore, the Palestinian’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erakat, accepted that only 100,000 Palestinians with refugee status would be allowed to return to what today is Israel. There are currently around 5.0 million Palestinian refugees.
The portrayal of Palestinian docility in the negotiations, like the divulgence of the extended collaboration with the Israeli security forces, is awkward for Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, who publicly maintains a much tougher stance towards Israel than that which has emerged from the Wikileaks wires.
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/wi...an-collaboration-with-israeli-security-forces
The emergence of details in newly released Wikileaks diplomatic cables, first reported by Dagens Nyheter (DN), place the already beleaguered Palestinian Authority under even greater pressure.
In Gaza and on the West Bank collaboration with Israel is considered to be the worst form of treason. Palestinian informers face the death penalty. But in reality the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority on the West Bank has itself long engaged in an extensive exchange of information with military, police and even Shin Bet, Israel’s domestic security agency. The contacts are “friendly, professional and sincere,” according to a US diplomatic wire reporting a conversation between Yuval Diskin, Shi Bet’s head, and James Cunningham, the US Ambassador to Israel.
The Wikileaks diplomatic cables between the US Embassy in Tel Aviv and the State Department in Washington reveal particulars about the exchange of information.
A Palestinian security detail, for example, provided a so-called Qassam rocket, a type of homemade missile directed at targets within Israel, to the Israeli defence forces, according to document from January 2010. The Palestinian security forces seized the rocket in conjunction with the arrest and interrogation of two members of Hamas. The two Hamas operatives also confessed that they planned to establish an underground weapons factory on the West Bank. After the Israelis concluded a technical analysis of the rocket they returned it to their Palestinian counterparts.
Another wire records dissatisfaction among those responsible for security in the Palestinian Authority. They desired more out of the collaboration with Israel and complained about the “one-sided Israeli approach”.
The West Bank’s top police official, Hazim Atallah, also expressed frustration “with far more information flowing from the Palestinian side to Israel than is received in return”.
Said Abu Ali, the minister of interior in the Palestinian provisional government, emphasized that it was “necessary” that the security collaboration with the Israelis remain confidential: “keep them [the contacts] out of the public eye,” the wire quotes him as saying.
The Wikileaks wires make clear that the civilian public security forces on the West Bank have long running formal collaboration with the Israelis police, including joint working groups to combat violent crime and traffic violations.
On Monday, the TV station Al Jazzera published secret documents concerning negotiations for settlement of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Among the revelations was the proposal by Palestinian negotiators in 2008 to allow Israel to annex the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem and all of the settlements, except one in East Jerusalem. Israel declined the offer.
Furthermore, the Palestinian’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erakat, accepted that only 100,000 Palestinians with refugee status would be allowed to return to what today is Israel. There are currently around 5.0 million Palestinian refugees.
The portrayal of Palestinian docility in the negotiations, like the divulgence of the extended collaboration with the Israeli security forces, is awkward for Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas, who publicly maintains a much tougher stance towards Israel than that which has emerged from the Wikileaks wires.
http://www.dn.se/nyheter/varlden/wi...an-collaboration-with-israeli-security-forces
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