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Hamas Warns Against PA Collaboration with Christians

(Ha'aretz) Mati Steinberg - A group of Hamas prisoners held in Israel have published a study on Hamas websites entitled, "The Detention Philosophy of the Abbas-Dayton Security Apparatuses and Methods of Dealing with Them," based on their own personal experience and debriefings and interviews they conducted among their fellow Hamas members in jail. The 61-page document details the widespread efforts of Palestinian Authority groups to apprehend Hamas activists in the West Bank: surveillance, detentions, psychological warfare and interrogation methods, including temptations and torture (sometimes even to death). Between June 2007 and September 2009, according to the authors, there were 22,000 incidents initiated by the PA security forces against Hamas groups in the West Bank. The PA forces are said to collaborate with Christians, such as American general Keith Dayton. The authors of the Hamas document refer to "the Abbas-Dayton security forces" and denounce the PA rule as "a Daytonian government." The writer is a Middle East scholar and a former adviser to the head of the Israel Security Agency.
2009-12-14 08:59:43
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