Palestinian Leader Abbas Preparing to Return to Terrorism
Reports indicate that Abbas’ security personnel are already deep within the ranks of terrorist groups.
Chairman of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas is threatening to use terrorism now that Netanyahu has been elected Israel's Prime Minister
Chairman of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas – also known as Abu Mazen – has not ruled out the possibility of returning to what he calls “the armed struggle” should Israel not give in to all of the PA’s demands. In other words, he is threatening to use terrorism to get what he wants. Reports indicate that Abbas’ security personnel are already deep within the ranks of terrorist groups.
This should come as little surprise. Yasser Arafat did exactly the same thing. He initiated a new wave of violence and terror after rejecting a peace proposal offered to him by then Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Barak in the fall of 2000, a proposal that even most Israelis disliked.
Sources indicate to TPS that more than 20 members of the Palestinian security services, or sons of Palestinian officers, joined terrorist circles in the past year and have worked alongside the armed groups in Jenin and Nablus. Ra’ed Hazem, who carried out the attack on Dizengoff Street in Tel Aviv recently, is the son of Fathi Hazem, who was an officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Palestinian security services. Many others came from the Palestinian military intelligence apparatus in Jenin.
Sources in Nablus told TPS that many PA security personnel joined terror groups when the PA arrested Matzab Shteyyeh, a Hamas member who was a member of the Nablus Brigades, while a Palestinian officer told TPS recently, “It is not surprising, the morale in the official bodies is low, motivation is low and the armed groups attract the young much more than the corrupt authority.”
Bajs Abu Kaid was arrested in the Jenin refugee camp during an IDF operation in which three terrorists were killed. Abu Kaid was an officer in the Palestinian military intelligence, a released prisoner and was previously injured during an incident with IDF forces.
Kaid was a neighbor and the right hand of Ahmed Ala’unah, also a Palestinian military intelligence officer, who was killed in September by an Israeli sniper, when he shot at IDF soldiers. When Ala’unah was killed, he was standing next to Abd Hazem, the brother of Ra’ed, the terrorist from the Dizengoff attack.
For four years Ala’unah served in Palestinian military intelligence, and when he was eliminated he was already wanted by Israel. Even before that, Ala’unah went to training, which lasted three months, in the special units of Pakistan.
Who approved his departure?
Ala’unah was a “Khalil al-Aqsa” man. After his death, the Hamas Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip announced that an officers’ course would be named after him and also after Ahmed Abed Rahman Abed, another Palestinian military intelligence officer who returned to terrorist circles, and who was eliminated by the IDF.
His return to terrorism began before the groundbreaking operation that started in March of this year and he participated in the shooting of Israeli soldiers around a year before he was killed. On September 21, when the IDF arrested two of the Palestinian prisoners who later escaped from Gilboa prison, he participated in shooting at IDF forces.
Ala’unah “participated in many shooting incidents at IDF forces when he held the rank of officer in Palestinian intelligence and carried weapons that were apparently provided to him by the Palestinian Authority,” his family members said in interviews after his death.
Ahmed Ayman Abed, also a Palestinian military intelligence officer, was killed last September, in an incident in which Major Bar Falah was killed at the Jalama checkpoint near Jenin. Abed served in military intelligence in the Qalqilya sector after completing a training course at the “Al Astiklal College” of the Palestinian security forces in Jericho.
The governor of Jenin came to console his family after his death.
Abed went into action with his cousin from Kfar Dan. In his will Abed wrote, “There is nothing better than martyrdom and that’s why I chose it.” Abed told his mother, “You should be happy about my death and not cry.” Like other members of the Palestinian apparatus in Jenin, he was a close associate of prisoners who escaped from Gilboa prison and terrorist operatives who were killed. A Palestinian explained, “The loyalties in Jenin were broken a long time ago and today the loyalty is given to the camp and family and friends, not to the PA.”
The role of military intelligence in the Jenin region in the recent terrorist incidents is more prominent.
Palestinian sources reported to TPS that as early as last year, during a series of stabbing and car ramming terror attacks that took place at Tapuach Junction, members of the Palestinian military intelligence or their families participated directly.
The “mechanism,” which is headed by Zakaria Matzlah, a close associate of Colonel Majed Faraj, the head of Palestinian intelligence, also ran out of hands when a Palestinian prisoner held by his men in Jenin escaped during his transfer to the hospital. The wanted man, Iham Amer, returned to operating within the terrorist groups called “The Hornets’ Nest” in Jenin and is wanted by the IDF.
History repeats itself
The late Yasser Arafat (left) with Mahmoud Abbas The joining of the members of the Palestinian security apparatus to the circle of terror was one of the main causes of the original armed intifada, and is one of the most dangerous scenarios painted today by the Central Command, also as a lesson from the events of the Second Intifada of 2000.
At the moment, it is only a few dozen members of the official security apparatuses have returned to the terrorist groups, but the Palestinian Authority does not rule out a scenario of a sharp deterioration, in which the Palestinian security forces will join the armed conflict. One of Abu Mazen’s advisors tells us that “everything is open, all scenarios are a possibility.”
Abu Mazen himself commented on Wednesday that, so far, the Palestinian Authority has refrained from an armed struggle, while encouraging what it calls the “people’s struggle.”
Abu Mazen did criticize the armed struggle that began under Yasser Arafat in 2000, but yesterday, in an interview with the Saudi news agency Al Arabiya he said that although the agreements with Israel are still strong and do exist, and although he does not intend to dismantle the PA, and although he does not embrace the armed struggle now, he might change his mind at any second.
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