MK Dr. Yuval Shteinitz (Likud) demands that Israel disarm the PLO and its armed forces. Speaking yesterday at the Israel Center in Jerusalem, and again today on public radio, Shteinitz warned that \"national security is much more important that personal security,\" and asserted that any ceasefire achieved in the short run would come at the expense of a necessary strike at the source of the problem. Journalist David Bedein, director of the sponsor of yesterday\'s talk, the Israel Resource News Agency, reports that Shteinitz is chairman of special Knesset Foreign and Security Relations subcommittee on Defense Planning and Policy.
Bedein writes today, in the name of Dr. Shteinitz, that Israel has ignored for too long the growth of the Palestinian security forces, from the agreed upon number of 24,000 in the Oslo II agreement of 1995, to 60,000 Palestinian soldiers who are now under arms. \"The PA is engaged in a well-planned war of attrition,\" Shteinitz said, \"that could last for many months and years if Israel does not act immediately to stem the flow of weapons smuggling into the PA, by closing every possible artery of supplies, from the PA airport in Gaza to every possible roadblock...\"
He demanded that Israel increase its military pressure on the Palestinian security services, and called for the IDF to immediately attack PA army bases, PA ammunition dumps, PA officers and all the bunkers where weapons can be stored.
Bedein writes today, in the name of Dr. Shteinitz, that Israel has ignored for too long the growth of the Palestinian security forces, from the agreed upon number of 24,000 in the Oslo II agreement of 1995, to 60,000 Palestinian soldiers who are now under arms. \"The PA is engaged in a well-planned war of attrition,\" Shteinitz said, \"that could last for many months and years if Israel does not act immediately to stem the flow of weapons smuggling into the PA, by closing every possible artery of supplies, from the PA airport in Gaza to every possible roadblock...\"
He demanded that Israel increase its military pressure on the Palestinian security services, and called for the IDF to immediately attack PA army bases, PA ammunition dumps, PA officers and all the bunkers where weapons can be stored.