Israeli Security officials today blamed the Palestinian Authority and its leader, Abu Mazen, for not fighting terror in the West Bank. This is unlike the situation in the Gaza Strip, where a considerable drop in the number of incidents is evident, coming to two or three a day.

A senior security official said that Abu Mazen has not made changes in the top ranks of the security organizations in the West Bank, which he says indicates a lack of seriousness in the PA’s war on terror. “Only replacing the old generation of officers in the West Bank will constitute a real declaration of intent,” he told Ha’aretz, “not a lot can be expected from the present bunch.”

This piece ran on the Nana Wire Service on March 3rd, 2005

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