PA Gen. Masri: We Can Stop Hamas, But Won't

At this point the PLO murderers are no longer even pretending to oppose their terrorist brothers in Hamas.

(Jerusalem Post) The Palestinian Authority has the strength but not the will to smash terrorist groups and their support networks in the Gaza Strip, a top PA security official said yesterday.

In an exclusive interview with The Jerusalem Post, Brig.-Gen. Muhammad Masri, head of the Political Security Department at the Palestinian General Intelligence Service, said the long-awaited crackdown on Hamas promised by former PA interior minister Abdel Razek Yahya will likely never happen.

As part of a sweeping set of reforms that began in late June, the PA has sought both to centralize its myriad security services and to rein in Hamas, a group responsible for more than half of all Israeli deaths due to terrorist attacks in the past two years of conflict.

"We have enough men and arms, but not political horizon and no incentive, to enter into bloody conflict with other Palestinians," said Masri from his office at the PA's GIS building just north of Gaza City. [Read More]