Author Topic: US consulate in Jerusalem arms Palestinian guards in breach of Israeli law  (Read 829 times)

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The decision to hire and arm the Palestinian security personnel was made by the consulate’s chief security officer, Dan Cronin.

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... The plan is to employ them mostly as escorts to American diplomats’ convoys in the West Bank.

WTF?  Is Cronin's plan to instigate another Benghazi?

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... The plan is a breach of a 2011 agreement between the consulate and the Israeli government, which determined that only former IDF combat soldiers hired by the consulate would be allowed to carry weapons. That year, Israel gave the consulate approval to keep about 100 guns for its security guards, but only if they’re American diplomats or Israelis who served in the army. While the consulate employs scores of guards from East Jerusalem, they have not been armed up until now.

Sources said that a change in attitude towards Israelis in the consulate began about a year and a half ago, when Cronin began his tenure. Employees claimed that since then, seven Israeli guards were fired, compared to one Palestinian. Three Israeli guards quit recently in protest of Cronin’s decision, and said he has been training the Palestinian guards at an American facility in Jericho. Some of the security guards were even flown to the US for training, they said.

Workers who were employed by the consulate accused Cronin of a callous attitude towards the Israelis and of voicing pro-Palestinian remarks. “The law in Israel is merely advice to him,” they said. “Cronin does what he wants. He doesn’t want the Israelis in the consulate.”

According to these sources, some of the Palestinian guards have been arrested in the past for throwing stones, or have relatives who were convicted of terrorist activity. “The consulate’s conduct is extremely biased towards the Palestinian side, and Cronin is actually raising an armed militia of Palestinians in the consulate. They’re trained in weapons use, Krav Maga, and tactical driving. This is irresponsible. Who is ensuring that putting this weaponry in Palestinian hands will not lead to terror?”

The most senior advisor to the consul general is a Palestinian who served time in Israeli prison because of membership in the PLO. Another employee is related to one of the leaders of Hamas in Jerusalem, Mohammed Hassan Abu Tir, who has served numerous sentences in Israel’s penal system.
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This regime is doing everything it can to leave Israel dangling on the precipice alone.

I wish a meteor would destroy Washington DC. I really, really do.
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I agree.  I wouldn't trust a "Palestinian" guard, if I was on a mission there, as far as I could throw one.

But it's not just Israel, it's everybody.  This regime is full of people who seem to take great spiteful joy in shoving dangerous and disliked people in the faces of those who believe they are dangerous and dislike them; a form of imposed tolerance.
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Maybe we can have the Taliban be the armed guards for the embassy in Kabul?

And I bet Vlad would leap at the chance to have Spetzanz in the Moscow embassy, as would the Chi-Com's in Beijing and everybody else out there...

I mean if this really is a fricken brilliant idea...

Yeah, uhh, no.  This is pure spite-driven idiocy by Obama to stick it to Bibi by showing him Obama is gleefully arming Pali's and waving his gay little ass at them and their laws...giving a damn what happens to anybody at the embassy is a low order concern for Obama...he already got away with one Benghazi, what's another gonna cost him?  Whose going to hold him accountable for jack effing shyt?!  Pubbies?  Ha!
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