Can the PA Security Services do the Job?
By Gil Sedan JERUSALEM, June 17 2003 (JTA) http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=12898&intcategoryid=1 [IMRA: If Israel Broadcasting correspondent Gil Sedan had written this piece as a prediction of the consequences of Oslo back in 1993, Prime Minister Rabin’s people would have investigated him for incitement and he would have been denounced as one of the crazies who doesn’t appreciate that a (secular) messianic era was at hand. Those were the days that Mr. Rabin scoffed the opponents of Oslo for suggesting the possibility that bringing Arafat’s army would ultimately mean bringing Israeli cities such as Sderot under fire. Now, a decade later, when the daily rocket attacks against Sderot are treated with the same nonchalance as the weather and traffic reports, one can only hope that the warnings of today’s “crazies” will never be put to the test.] Ever since Ariel Sharon took office as IsraelĂs prime minister, it has been Israeli policy that unless the Palestinian Authorit