Current Edition About Subscribe The Jerusalem Center

Daily Alert Archive

Every Daily Alert Since 2002

Search

Search more than 90,000 news items by topic, author, or source.
Use " " to search for multiple words and phrases.

Trending Topics

April 29, 2005       Share:    

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/570335.html

Israel Rejects Arming Palestinian Police

(Ha'aretz) Aluf Benn - A political source in Jerusalem said Bush administration envoys Elliott Abrams and David Welch raised Palestinian Interior Minister Nasser Yousef's request for arming the Palestinian police during their visit to Israel last week. Israeli officials responded: "Let them first take the weapons from the terrorists." A source within the defense establishment said the U.S. security coordinator in the Middle East, Lt.-Gen. William Ward, "did not ask to supply the Palestinian police officers with weapons, but merely asked what Israel's position would be regarding Russia's request to give the Palestinian police armored vehicles. He was told that Israel was opposed to this."

View the full edition of Daily Alert

Back to Archive

Subscribe to Daily Alert: