Olmert's promises to Abbas on W. Bank checkpoints evaporated, revelations on Dahlan

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[ 25/06/2007 - 01:33 PM ]

NAZARETH, (PIC)--

The Israeli occupation government has reneged on earlier pledges it made to PA chief Mahmoud Abbas to ease Palestinian people’s crossing at Israeli checkpoints in the West Bank, and of removing many of those barriers there.

According to Israeli political analysts, the Israeli government’s step was spurred by intelligence reports affirming that the removal of the barriers would pose security threat to the Hebrew state.

The Hebrew Haaretz newspaper confirmed on Monday that the Israeli army and the intelligence departments were opposing such moves, but it revealed that the Israeli occupation government approved the resumption of security coordination with the PA security apparatuses in the West Bank.

It also added that the Israeli cabinet championed the reactivation of the Quartet security committee comprising Israel, the PA, Egypt, and the USA with the aim to thwart weapon smuggling across Gaza-Egypt borders, and to supply Abbas’s forces with the needed money and weapons they need.

Another Hebrew paper, the Ma'ariv, revealed that Israeli premier Ehud Olmert will present Abbas with a bundle of gradual privileges given to the PA chief on condition he would intensify the fight against Hamas Movement.

The bundle, according to the paper, includes releasing a number of Palestinian captives, and supplying weapons to Abbas’s “militias” and the mutiny trend within Fateh faction among others.

It also added that Olmert will tell Abbas not to resume dialogue with Hamas otherwise Israel will stop coordinating with him and will halt giving him hundreds of millions of dollars in tax-revenue money due to the Palestinian people and the legitimate PA government under Ismail Haniya.

Serious revelation:

In a related matter, the Masreyyoon (Egyptians) newspaper quoted high-ranking Egyptian security officials as confirming receiving documented information from Hamas Movement proving Dahalan’s role in jeopardizing Egypt’s national security.

According to the paper, the documents left no doubt on Dahalan and his close aide Rashid Abu Shebak role in conspiring with the Israeli and US intelligence departments against Egypt.

“The classified documents proved that the two mutiny trend leaders were attempting to drown Egypt with drugs and counterfeited dollars with the aim to destroy Egypt’s tourism”, the paper furthermore unveiled.

Moreover, the paper added based on the documents that Dahalan and his group played crucial role in instigating Sinai Bedouins to seek asylum in Israel to put more pressure on the Egyptian government, and they were involved in suicide bomb attacks on Egypt’s vital tourism installations.

Dahalan and his group accused Hamas Movement of being behind those attacks with the aim to drive a wedge between Hamas and Egypt.

The paper, in addition, accused Dahalan’s group of kidnapping Egyptian security official Hussam Al-Mosaly in Gaza, and of wiretapping telephone calls of the Egyptian embassy and the Egyptian security delegation in Gaza with Cairo.

More important, the documents affirmed Dahalan and his group’s role in spying on Egyptian forces in the Sinai desert in favor of Israel, in addition to his role in the assassination attempt against PA premier Ismail Haniya last December.

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