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Misplaced concern

Saeb Erekat, whose encounters with the truth are accidental at best (as recently documented by Mediacrity and IRIS)
complains to a reporter in a straight news story:

Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian official, raised concerns Tuesday that Israel might try to sabotage Palestinian elections in January or even resort to assassination to upset balloting.

After talks at the White House and then with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the longtime associate of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said thousands of monitors were needed to oversee the elections Jan. 25.

"We want the American administration to help us, to send as many observers as possible, people to help us in the training and making sure that the Israelis don't sabotage or obstruct those elections," he said in a doorway of the State Department after meeting with Rice.

Give me a break. If Erekat is so concerned about interference in elections, his focus should be a bit closer to home:

Fatah halts polls amid violence

BTW, the phony Erekat charge was about the relative size of Israel's army. For persepctive check out Elder of Ziyon's observations about the size of the Palestinian police force:

According to yesterday's Phunnies, there are about 52,000 Palestinian "policemen" - more than one in twenty adult men work in "security" and the ratio of police to the general population is about 1 security officer per 67 people.

In contrast, in Canada the ratio of police to the general population is about 1:533.

Which would make the PA-controlled areas by far the safest in the world!

Whatever on earth does the PA need all those "police" for?

Technorati Tags: Israel, Palestinian Authority, PLO.

Crossposted on Israpundit and Soccer Dad.

Posted by SoccerDad at November 29, 2005 11:08 PM