Once again Israel is on the road to probable disaster when it approved transfer of guns to the Palestinian Authority. How soon people forget. It was part of the Oslo Accord agreements that Israel handed over to the PA 30,000 weapons for the express purpose of maintaining order in their domain. I argued to no avail that if Billy clubs were ok for English Bobbies then why was it necessary to turn over so many guns to the PA.

History is repeating itself. These guns will only encourage more guns and armaments brought in through Egypt over the Philadelphia road which never should have never been given up by Israel . The Palestinians have plenty of guns with which they haven’t been able to stem the Qassam rockets fired into southern Israeli towns.

What Israel is doing is a prescription for continued internecine  war amongst the Arabs and greater anger toward the Israelis. Israelis are no superpower in their foreign policies. Hopefully I will be wrong and the peace process by any name will proceed.

Norman Mann, San Diego