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It turns out that many of the police serving in the Palestinian Authority Security Force (PASF) have been moonlighting as terrorists. They were originally trained by American police, paid with American aid dollars, and are now being relied on to help Israel fight terrorists in Judea and Samaria. But instead of fighting terrorists, they are themselves terrorists. More on the double lives of “Palestinian” policemen can be found here: “‘Terrorists in Uniform:’ The PA police moonlight as terrorists,” Elder of Ziyon, July 18, 2025:
During the Oslo process in the 1990s, the US trained the Palestinian Authority police to help them build a state.
An acquaintance says that they used to bring retired American officers to Israel and they would meet with the PA police. One general said to my friend after the meeting, “These are NOT police. These are soldiers pretending to be police. Watch out.”
As we saw during the second intifada, he was right. The PA police would use their American equipment for terror.
Palestinian Media Watch issued a report this week, “Terrorists in Uniform,” that is a must-read on how PA security forces are moonlighting as terrorists, just as Hamas police are also terrorists. Last week, the two terrorists attacked and murdered 22-year-old Shalev Zevuloni were found to be PA police.
The PMW report gives example after example of how the PA Security Forces themselves brag about these terrorists employed by them:
The PASF spokesman praising the PASF forces specifically because they are fighting Israel, filling the Israeli prisons, and achieving Martyrdom.
The PASF is supposed to be collaborating with Israel in fighting terrorists in the West Bank. It does so intermittently, and only against terrorists belonging to Hamas, rounding them up, or even killing them, not because they are terrorists, but because they belong to the PA’s enemy, Hamas.
Fatah praised the PASF terrorists: “By day security Forces, and by night self-sacrificing fighters.”
The PA is no less supportive of terror than Hamas, and their police – which are the linchpin for any potential takeover of Gaza – are part of the problem, not the solution.
Abbas’ Fatah doesn’t deny that members of the PASF carry out terror attacks against Israelis. Fatah is clearly proud of such attacks. Abbas himself keeps pretending to be against terrorism, but he continues to finance his “Pay-For-Slay” program that rewards past, and incentivizes future, acts of terrorism. And now we discover that Fatah — which Abbas runs — brags that members of the PA’s police force are “by day Security Forces, and by night self-sacrificing fighters.” The PA is no less a supporter of terrorism than its arch-rival Hamas. And should the PA ever be put in charge of Gaza by the Western powers, in the dreamy belief that unlike Hamas, the PA opposes terrorism, they will soon be disabused. The PA and Hamas are rivals for power, and prepared to kill each other’s fighters, but on one point they agree: terrorism against the hated Israelis is always to be encouraged.