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Friday, September 30, 2005

Now there is a symbolic babystep

It's not much but it's a start: The Palestinian Authority has started a crackdown on public displays of weapons. Palestinian authorities began enforcing a ban on public displays of weapons Thursday, arresting three people and confiscating the guns of off-duty police officers in a key step toward imposing order in the chaotic Gaza Strip. [...] In a move to bring order to Gaza, Palestinian officials on Thursday announced a ban on public displays of weapons, and Hamas said it would honor it. The Palestinian police chief, Ala Husni, said that in the wake of Israel's recent pullout from Gaza there is no longer a reason for anyone other than security officers to carry weapons. "The role of resistance weapons has ended in the streets. They should go back into storage and they should not show up in the streets," he told a news conference. "Any weapon now in the street is a criminal weapon." He said there were no plans to seize stored weapons. Good baby step Abu Mazen, now take out Hamas and I will be impressed!

2 Comments:

At 9/30/2005 10:19:00 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I will be more than impressed if he does!
But why not seize stored weapons? they are as likely to be used on anyone any minute just as displayed weapons!

 
At 9/30/2005 05:15:00 PM, Blogger Papa Ray said...

I've posted this here before and other places.

Gaza is going to be nothing more than the "Killing Ground".

"Weapons Free" is the command given to Israeli pilots when they cross the border.

Papa Ray
West Texas
USA

 

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