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Palestinian Authority Police Let Off Terrorists Who Kill Israelis
(Wall Street Journal) Naomi Linder Kahn - On May 29, Abeed Shtayyeh struck and killed two Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint outside Nablus - Sgts. Eliya Hilel and Diego Shvisha Harsaj. After the IDF launched a manhunt, Shtayyeh turned himself in to the Palestinian police. Under the Oslo Accords, the PA Security Forces, which receive training and funding from the U.S., should have handed over Shtayyeh to Israel to stand trial. But, like hundreds of terrorists before him over the past 30 years, he remained in PA custody for only a few hours. In March, the Israeli think tank Regavim identified nearly 80 officers of the PA Security Forces who have been killed or arrested while carrying out terrorist attacks against Israelis in the past three years alone. The PA and its security forces aren't partners in the fight against terrorism. The PA has never been a moderating force. The idea of empowering the PA in Gaza and handing it a sovereign state is the same one that has been killing Israelis for decades. The writer is director of the international division of Regavim.