Sunday Times:
IRAN has promised a reward of $10,000 (£5,600) to Islamic Jihad if the militant group launches rockets from the West Bank towards Tel Aviv, a senior Palestinian intelligence official said last week.The UN should sanction Iran for its proxy war against Israel. Its President pretty much gave the game away this past week praising the IJ attacks at the same time he was calling for the destruction of Israel.Speaking in his Ramallah office, the official produced a fat wad of $100 notes which he said had been confiscated from a pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad activist.
The money was said to have gone from Iran to Damascus, the Syrian capital, from where Ibrahim Shehadeh, Islamic Jihad’s head of overseas operations, transferred it to the West Bank.
According to the intelligence official, the Palestinian Authority has located workshops where “Al-Quds” (Jerusalem) rockets are being made and has given their co-ordinates to the Israelis. “We understand they destroyed some of them,” he said.
The Israeli media claimed last week that rocket attacks from the West Bank were widely expected: Ben Gurion airport’s eastern runway is just five miles away and the outskirts of Tel Aviv are within 10 miles.
Shaul Mofaz, Israel’s defence minister, and the army’s chief of staff held an emergency meeting to discuss requests from the mayors of towns bordering the West Bank for sirens to alert inhabitants to incoming rockets.
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An interesting aspect of this story is that the intelligence came from the Palestinians who shared it with Israel. This is an important step for the Palestinians and they should be applauded for working with Israel to eliminate a mutual threat. The more they work with Israel on matters like this, the more likely they will be able to achieve statehood. Since the PA lacks the means to stop the attacks on Israel, cooperating with Israel is some evidence that they have the will to stop them. That is something they have not done since the 1990's.
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