(Hudson Institute-New York) Khaled Abu Toameh - Over the past two years, Palestinians who protested in public against the policies of the Palestinian Authority have been assaulted and beaten by U.S.-trained Palestinian policemen. Palestinian journalists and human rights activists who tried to document these assaults have also been beaten. Abbas and Fayyad have not hesitated to use violence against their critics. Many of those who spent time in Palestinian prisons and detention centers in the West Bank say they were subjected to various methods of torture. It is hard to understand why the Palestinian Authority, which relies heavily on U.S. and EU taxpayer money for its survival, is allowed to get away with human rights violations. In recent weeks, several Palestinian government employees said they received warnings from the Palestinian security services and senior Palestinian Authority officials in Ramallah not to meet with "Jewish correspondents" or any other foreign journalist suspected of being "pro-Israel."
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