It must rebuff US pressure to curtail IDF counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria.
First, he may end IDF counterterror operations in Palestinian cities in Judea and Samaria.
The Court cannot constrain IDF counterterror operations if it isn't asked to intervene by NGOs.
To strengthen Abbas, the US pressures Israel to curtail its counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria.
After all, the Palestinian militias trained by the CIA in the 1990s were trained in counterterror tactics.
And since its counterterror operations necessarily place them at risk, those operations are fair game for international condemnation.
Here it is worth noting that among the other invitees, Iran's "counterterror" conference prominently featured Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
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Such a move would render it difficult if not impossible for Israel to conduct counterterror operations within those temporary borders.
As a supposed moderate, he claims that Israel should curtail its counterterror operations and let his own "moderate" forces take over.
In her studied view, they understated the number of Palestinians rendered homeless by the IDF counterterror offensive last year by some 60 percent.
Jones's plan, which is vociferously opposed by the IDF, would make it impossible for the IDF to carry out counterterror operations in the areas.
The letter represents the first U.S. admission that the four were killed in counterterror strikes even though their deaths had been reported in the media.
Indeed, as its top counterterror officials made clear in Senate testimony on Wednesday, the administration never considered treating the terrorist as an illegal enemy combatant.
Targeting Americans with lethal force in counterterror operations overseas was a controversy that flared publicly during confirmation hearings for CIA Director John Brennan earlier this year.
"Neither I, nor any president, can promise the total defeat of terror, " Obama told his audience of students, national security and human rights experts and counterterror officials.
He also has repeatedly embraced the NYPD's surveillance and other counterterror programs after a series of stories by The Associated Press on the department's widespread spying on Muslims.
The president cast the drone program as crucial in a counterterror effort that will rely less on the widespread deployment of U.S. troops as the war in Afghanistan winds down.
The British have staged, without incident, huge public events such as the 2012 London Olympics and the 2011 royal wedding, and counterterror police have successfully foiled some alleged terror plots.
Dahlan even bragged that to date, Fatah has killed 10 times more Palestinians suspected of cooperating with Israel's counterterror operations (the same operations the PLO committed to assisting) than Hamas has.
His message will also be carefully analyzed by an international audience that has had to adapt to what counterterror expert Peter Singer described as the administration's "disjointed" and often "shortsighted" security policies.
The CIA has its own fleet of drones that it uses on its counterterror missions, and any decision to stop building drones would be unlikely to have any effect on that program.
The US claims that the forces it is training will be responsible for counterterror operations and regular police work, and therefore, it is wrong to say that Dayton is raising a Palestinian army.
This week Mitchell asked Israel to stop all of its counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria, and allow Palestinian forces to operate not only in the Palestinian areas, but in predominantly Israeli areas as well.
The time has come to ratchet up the IDF's counterterror operations in Judea and Samaria to end the current wave of terror before the Palestinians have the opportunity to get their killing machines back in gear.
Speaking before the Center for Strategic and International Studies last Thursday, Brennan declared that appeasing terrorists and terror-supporting regimes and societies by bowing to their political demands is the central plank of the administration's counterterror strategy.
And the attempt to blow up a U.S. plane on Christmas Day used a bomb technique similar to the one to that was used in August to try to assassinate the chief of Saudi Arabia's counterterror police.
FIRST, IN recent months the Obama administration has applied massive pressure on Israel to remove its military forces from Judea and Samaria, curtail its counterterror operations and allow US-trained, anti-Israel Palestinian military forces to deploy in the towns and cities.
Aides have portrayed Brennan as cautious in the use of drones, restraining others at the CIA or military who would use them more often, even though as the White House's counterterror adviser, he has presided over an explosion of drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia.
" He said the unprecedented disclosure was made as a way to build on Obama's commitment in his State of the Union Address earlier this year to "continue to engage" with Congress on counterterror efforts and to "ensure that they remain consistent with our laws and values.
Just as Hizbullah has used UNIFIL forces in south Lebanon as a shield from the IDF behind which it has rearmed and reasserted control over the border zone, so too a NATO force would facilitate an empowerment of Hamas and Fatah, which would unify, arm and organize free from the threat of IDF counterterror operations.
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