The Palestinian people and the UN should demand total disarming of ALL militias including those of Hamas, Fatah and the Presidential Security

As I got us this morning at 6 am the first thing I did was to take a look at Asharqalawsat newspaper to see the headlines and to see the number of dead and injured in Gaza. Well, the numbers are not like Baghdad, but getting up there. 22 dead and couple of hundreds injured and of course both sides of the conflict Hamas and Fatah used the best weapons the Israeli Occupation can provide to kill each other.
The civil war in Gaza and soon in the West Bank was inevitable. Since Oslo, when over 18,000 veterans of the failed to liberate PLO returned to Occupied Palestine under Oslo forming the backbone of the bureaucracy and the security for Arafat, his Fatah and his PLO, which proved to be the most corrupt and incompetent administration.
Under Oslo, Arafat and Fatah became the subcontractors for the Israeli Occupation, keeping the peace and security for Israel, its Army and armed and criminal settlers as they went about the West Bank and Gaza and as they went on with their confiscation of more and more land and building more and more settlements. While Arafat and Fatah where providing this service to Israel, the Israeli, the Americans and the Europeans were very pleased with the work rewarding Arafat and Fatah billions of dollars and of course allowing him to build up his security forces to some 60,000 armed men, divided into more than 13 different security organization. Of course the purpose of so many different and competing security organizations, in addition to providing security for Israel, is to provide Arafat with the kind of security he needs, with the spies he needs and of course to create jobs and means of fleecing the people to the heads of these security forces.
Out of these 13 different security organizations, the Preventive Security Forces (how did Arafat came up with this name no one knows) were the most ruthless when it came to dealing with the Palestinians and especially with Hamas, which was at odd with Arafat and Fatah. Last week I saw a documentary on Alarabia TV, where Mohamed Dahlan, the former head of the Preventive Security in Gaza at the time, gave a promise to Mofaz to break the bones of Hamas, and this was on public television, the same documentary that showed Nabil Shaath restating what was denied later, that George Bush told him, God gave him the divine mission to end the Arab-Israel conflict. Of course Hamas, whose leaders where jailed, tortured and beaten by Dahlan and his Preventive Security could never forget that and now it is their chance to even and settle scores.
With the wild fight going in Gaza and seeing Gaza going up in smoke one would think that both Hamas and Fatah forgot they are both under Israeli Occupation and that the Israeli Military Occupation is not over yet, and that a corporal in the Israeli Army can stop even the president of Palestine from getting into his car and travel from one side of Ramallah to the other, and that a private in the Israeli Army can stop and humiliate even the biggest honcho within Fatah, the PLO and Hamas.
For the last 30 years, I always stated that the Palestinians under the leaderships they have for the last 50 years are unfit and are not yet ready for independence on their own. The PLO and Arafat have rendered the Palestinian society so dysfunctional, so maligned, so corrupt and so incompetent that no matter who is at the helm, whether it is Mahmoud Abbas, Khalid Mishal, Ismail Haniyah, Azzam Al-Ahmed, Mohamed Dahlan or the other ten thousand “Abu” could be the leader, that is able and have the competency and trust to lead to freedom and independence. The Palestinians need help to protect them from themselves and from the Israeli Army and Israeli armed settlers. They need a third party that can walk them through independence, if and when the Israeli and the world Jewry come to recognize it is time to end the Israeli Occupation and it is time to let the Palestinians go.
Only few years ago, both the US and Israel where demanding that Arafat consolidate all of the 13 different security forces and to reduce the number of the presidential security. Now the US is providing $ 86 millions to arm and train the presidential security forces for WHAT? To have one more well armed militia to kill and murder.
The Palestinians do not need more weapons and more militias. They need total disarmament of all the militias including those of Hamas, Fatah, PLO, Islamic Jihad, Alaqsa Brigade, and Izzendin Alqassam among others. The security of the people at large requires immediate international intervention to disarm all of the militias, even the presidential security, since all have proven they are the main source of insecurity for Palestinians after the Israeli Army and after the well-armed and well-protected Israel settlers.
One would think the US and Mahmoud Abbas, would put that kind of money in education and healthcare instead of arming one more militias.
It is too bad the Palestinian leadership under Mahmoud Abbas is allowing the Americans to play the same role they played in Central America where the US using the School of the Americas at Ft. Banning, GA to train army officers who went back and became ruthless killers and murderers. The same will happen now. The US will train these presidential security forces to become the ruthless militias repeating the same story.
If the Palestinian leadership under Mahmoud Abbas, want to do something for the Palestinian people, then he should push for an end to the Israeli Occupation, even if he has to invite the UN to take over his job and his responsibility.
As for Hamas, they are proving to the people and to the world, they are no different from their enemy Fatah. They are ruthless, incompetent and unfit to lead the government, let alone lead to freedom and independence.
I could never believe what is going in Gaza and the West Bank from cold blooded murder, to ruthless killings, to destructions of public property, to dragging people from their homes, to kidnapping foreign aid workers and journalists, to firing in the air, and of course to see all these armed motorcades, taking small time militia leaders and small ranking officers from one place to another place. If one were to see these armed motorcades zipping through Gaza one would think George Bush himself is buzzing through town.
Yes, we the Palestinians have no sense of shame and no sense of honor to allow this kind of leadership to take over. Hamas and Fatah leadership should remember that an Israeli corporal can force them to stop at a checkpoint and can force them to kneel to the ground. Where is the sense of dignity and priority? We have lost it all.