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Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BR1V820091228
Netanyahu: Israeli Forces Must Remain on Jordan Border to Prevent Arms Smuggling to PA
(Reuters) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israeli forces must remain along the eastern border of a future Palestinian state to prevent arms smuggling. "The problem of demilitarization [of a future Palestinian state] must be resolved effectively and this entails effectively blocking unauthorized entry, first and foremost from the east, wherever the border is defined," Netanyahu said. "I doubt whether anything except a real presence of the State of Israel, of Israeli forces, can accomplish that." Netanyahu said an "international arrangement" for the borders of a Palestinian state, similar to the deployment of a UN force in southern Lebanon, would not suffice.