US offers millions to keep Abbas safe
The United States has proposed a USD 20 million plan to boost Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' personal security force and upgrade the main cargo crossing between Gaza and Israel, American officials said Thursday.
The plan is being worked out by Lt. Gen. Keith Dayton, the US security coordinator in the West Bank and Gaza, and was discussed during Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's meeting with Abbas on Wednesday, the officials said. The plan is part of a larger US effort to bolster Abbas, a political moderate who is in a power struggle with the Islamic Hamas group.
I am just not sure how funding Force 17 (Abbas' personal security force) gives a boost to Abbas' popularity among Palestinian Arabs, and I would dearly love to hear an enterprising journalist ask the US Secretary of State that very question.
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