"The Israeli government has placed significant restrictions on the US-coordinated training effort."
Tells you all you need to know right there, doesn't it, readers?
"Politics mars Palestinian forces' training"
"By Ellen Knickmeyer, Washington Post | March 16, 2008
MUWAQQAR, Jordan - A US-funded program to train and equip Palestinian security forces is mired in delays, a shortage of resources, and differences between Israelis and the Americans over what military capabilities those forces should have once deployed in the territories.
Weeks into the course, which began in late January, US and Jordanian instructors had yet to receive essential training materials, including a US-designed curriculum, vehicles, two-way radios, and dummy pistols, rifles, and batons, Americans with close knowledge of the program said.
And CUI BONO?
Because of Israeli concerns, the group of more than 1,000 Palestinian trainees has not been outfitted with the pledged body armor or light-armored personnel carriers.
The shortages and delays have forced US and Jordanian trainers to improvise their way through the program, including purchasing pistol-shaped cigarette lighters for use in arrest drills and using their own cars for driver training. One of the Americans said, "In short, we are faking it."
All for Iz-ray-HELL!!!!!!!!!
In unveiling his 2003 blueprint for Middle East peace, President Bush said building an effective Palestinian security force was essential to achieving a Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel.
Then he opened his mouth wide to receive torrents of Zionist diarrhea!!!!!
Touring the region earlier this month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the goal is to create "a professional and capable Palestinian security force" in part to counter Hamas, the armed Palestinian faction that controls the Gaza Strip and does not recognize Israel.
The forces being trained here in a desert camp one hour from Jordan's capital, Amman, are under the Palestinian Authority, run by Hamas's relatively moderate rival, Fatah, which favors negotiations with Israel. Although Israel insists that the Palestinians must have effective security in the occupied West Bank and Gaza before its forces withdraw further, the Israeli government has placed significant restrictions on the US-coordinated training effort.
"No one can deny that at the beginning there were some growing pains," said Dov Schwartz, a US Defense Department official who is spokesman for the training program. "We had never done this before."
BULLSHIT!!!!!!!
The U.S. has never trained security forces for other countries?
Or we just haven't sucked Israeli shit in doing it?!?!
Testifying before a House panel earlier this month, Assistant Secretary of State C. David Welch said the United States is making "substantial progress" in training Palestinian security forces. But information from two Americans with close knowledge of the program - both of whom have extensive experience training security forces - and an internal memo from a US contractor indicate deficiencies in the training program.
US contract workers and Jordanian security forces are training about 600 members of the Fatah-dominated National Security Forces in a 16-week course. About 425 members of the elite presidential guard, which answers to Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas, are undergoing eight weeks of training.
Yeah, Israel really wants peace!!
Holding up it's FRIENDLY ENFORCERS, is it?
Wake the fuck up, shitstink Fatahs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
During a recent escorted tour of the camp, black-clad members of the presidential guard banged clubs on riot shields on the asphalt training grounds and blasted paper targets in live-fire practice.
Squads mustered in mismatched sweat suits for physical training or sat in green uniforms in classrooms lit by overhead projectors, answering the questions of their Jordanian instructors."