Washington Post: Kerry warns Israel of possible ‘chaos’ if Palestinian Authority collapses
Secretary of State John F. Kerry warned Israel on Saturday against allowing — or even promoting, as some have urged — the collapse of the Palestinian Authority, saying that it would leave the Israelis with unbearable financial and strategic costs and undermine the security of the Jewish state now and in the future.
In a strongly worded speech at the Brookings Institution’s Saban Forum, Kerry asked whether Israelis were “ready to accept the heightened risk [of] chaos, lawlessness and desperation” that would result. Not only would Israel have to take over the provision of all basic services and welfare for the population, Kerry said, but the end of the current modicum of Palestinian self-rule also would cut off international assistance to the West Bank.
WNU Editor: This is John Kerry's way of pressuring Israel to give concessions to the Palestinian Authority .... he knows that Israel is not interested in governing these territories, and "scaring" them with these warnings may make them budge on an issue or two. Will it work .... probably not .... especially now with tensions and hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians at a near all time high.
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"...especially now with tensions and hostilities between Israelis and Palestinians at a near all time high."
Not even close to a near term high. Intifadas, wars, incursions, bombers, etc. generated much high levels of tension and military response.
Unlike the U.S. where one or two attacks bring America to crisis, life goes on as usual in Israel as they adapt to the latest atrocities innovated by Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah, and agents of foreign governments.
Israel is focused on Iran and Hezbollah moving troops and weapons closer to the Israeli border or sneaking heavy/high tech weapons to Hezbollah.
While awful, the Palestinian murders through car rammings, knives, rocks, and bullets is manageable. You forget the past and overestimate the present tension caused by local Palestinian attacks on mostly innocent civilians.
This is how a country under perpetual threat, attack, and asymmetric warfare lives from day to day.
Anonymous
Do the general population in Israel have gun's.?
Because in the United states after every idiot that shoot someone .. The government wants to disarm their citizens.
I was talking on a macro level Anon. The entire Middle East is now involved in war .... war and conflict hat has not been seen for a very long time. This in turn is raising tensions to an unprecedented level throughout the region .... even between Israelis and Palestinians. The tensions and hatreds are there .... they just are not shooting at each other at this moment of time.
Surprisingly, reports indicate that they do not. The most heavily civilian armed population is in the West Bank because of high threat levels. As the most recent disturbances intensified, Israeli government officials requested that all people permitted to carry weapons do so. This was very surprising since they are in a perpetual war footing in Israel and I overlayed my U.S. experiences to believe that all Israelis adults could/would carry weapons. Not the case to my surprise.
Of greatest concern is that it appears that the severity of the current attacks on the elderly, children, worshipers, and security personnel has led to the central government admonition against the use of deadly force in restoring civilian safety to be ignored. In English, this means that if you come after an Israeli with a knife, gun or car you will be shot and killed, not wounded or restrained. The number of captured and wounded Palestinians who attempt or succeed in murdering an Iaraeli has precipitously plunged.
One of the dodges that Palestinians have used in the past is to commit murder and turn themselves in to the P.A. so that they would be beyond the reach of Israeli police. No longer. Israel sent in commandos who snatched the last such person from their hospital refuge.
As more Americans and Western Europeans are butchered by ISIS and their copycats, the captured or injured will decrease in proportion to the level of atrocity. As with most conflicts of this nature, it will morph into increasingly more devastating reprisals. When you cannot tell the enemy civilians from the fighters, the selectivity of reprisals decreases.
I fear that ISIS has turned a religious quarrel into a clash of civilizations and religious identity. These never end well.
Thanks for the update
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