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April 11, 2018

The Palestinian Authority’s Security Forces Are Crucial to Keeping the Peace. The “Peace Process” Could Be Their Ruin

An army without a state.

When, in 1994, the Oslo Accords first went into effect, fighters from the Palestinian Liberation Organization’s military wing took over police and security duties in Jericho and Gaza; later they would assume control throughout the West Bank. Yasir Arafat, as Neri Zilber and Ghaith al-Omari explain, quickly turned his new security services into personal armies that would maintain his grip on power and, eventually, make war on Israel:

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April 11, 2018

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  2. The Palestinian Authority’s Security Forces Are Crucial to Keeping the Peace. The “Peace Process” Could Be Their Ruin

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