IsraelNN.com) Fares Al-Ashi, who was trained by Americans in South Carolina when Fatah controlled Gaza security forces, is using his education to teach Hamas loyalists to be martyrs, according to the Chinese new agency Xinhua. He said he gives his trainees information about explosives as part of a new Hamas police training.
The "martyr Aziz Massoud" course is named after a terrorist, one of the police trainers, who was killed in an IDF strike in February. "Every program should carry the name of a martyr," Al-Ashi said.
The United States has trained hundreds of Arab Fatah militia members who were part of the elite Presidential Guard, a private army that was envisioned as protecting Palestinian Authority (PA) chairman Mahmoud Abbas from a Hamas coup. However, the Americans suffered an embarrassing defeat when Hamas overran Fatah forces in Gaza last year.
A training manual distributed by American Secret Service officers, with the logo of the Counterterrorism Training Group and the U.S. government seal, was a teaching manual for Al-Ashi and other former Fatah terrorists who switched to Hamas.
And because the American strategy of training Palestinian Authority Security forces worked out so well in the Gaza Strip, the Americans continue to arm and train Fatah security forces in the West Bank – in the hopes, that this time, PA forces will be able to crush any possible Hamas ascendancy there.
Of course, no one stops to think how a lack of decent governance, rampant cronyism & corruption within the Palestinian Authority gave rise to the conditions which saw Hamas’ crescent star rise in the first place but by all means continue using the same strategy. It may even work - one day, somewhere else.
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