Gee, no way this can go wrong:
Under the plan that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced, Israel will remove about 50 roadblocks and upgrade checkpoints to speed up the movement of Palestinians through the West Bank.
The Israelis also will give Palestinians more security responsibility in the town of Jenin with an eye toward looking at “other areas in turn.” They also pledged to increase the number of travel and work permits for Palestinians and to support economic projects in Palestinian towns.
In return, the Palestinians promised to improve policing of Jenin “to provide law and order, and work to prevent terror,” according to a State Department statement.
Yeah, concrete steps in return for a “promise to improve policing” of the town that launches more suicide bombers than any other. And gee, what else will Israel be doing?
-deploying 700 Jordanian-trained Palestinian police in Jenin and allowing them to take delivery of armored vehicles. Jenin is known as a stronghold of Palestinian militants and has been a frequent site of clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen.
-raising the number of Palestinian businessmen allowed into Israel to 1,500 from 1,000.
-increasing the number of work permits for Palestinian laborers by 5,000 from its current number of 18,500.
And what, exactly, are the Palestinians going to do again?
In return, the Palestinians promised to improve policing of Jenin “to provide law and order, and work to prevent terror,” according to a State Department statement.
You mean the way they promised to stop terror attacks, rockets, and mortars?
Oh, yeah. No way this goes wrong.
How can you accept an agreement where you have metrics to follow and your “partner” has only vague, soft goals for “improvement”? Yet Israel does it again and again.