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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/opinions/shooting-attack-reveals-uncomfortable-truths-about-israel/
Shooting Attacks from PA on Israeli Towns
(Israel Hayom) Moshe Phillips - For the third time in two weeks, Hamas terrorists standing within the municipal boundaries of Tulkarm in the Palestinian Authority unleashed a barrage of gunfire aimed at the nearby Israeli town of Bat Hefer. Then they posted a video of the shooting on social media. There have been similar attacks targeting Kibbutz Meirav, near the PA city of Jenin. These incidents lay bare the flaws in the ongoing crusade to establish a Palestinian state. Statehood proponents use soothing terms such as "security guarantees" and "demilitarization," but those words are worthless. No Arab regime has ever been demilitarized, and nobody can "guarantee" Israel's security - because no other government will ever have the political will to forcibly demilitarize or guarantee anything. The PA has a huge police and security force. Why didn't they arrest the shooters? When the PA signed the Oslo Accords back in 1993-1995, it explicitly undertook to act against terrorists. The PA's original 12,000-man police force that the Accords authorized have illegally ballooned into a 60,000-man de-facto army - making it the sixth-largest per-capita security force in the world. If Jenin and Tulkarm are filled with terrorists now, just imagine how much worse it would be if the PA's fourth-largest and sixth-largest cities were part of a State of Palestine? All sorts of weapons would flow freely into these cities. Who is going to stop that? Israel's critics say that Israelis can trust that a Palestinian state will be peaceful. These latest shootings are a reminder that the exact opposite is true.