Israel accuses Palestinian authority of incompetence in fighting terrorism

Senior Israeli security sources on Monday accused the Palestinian Authority and its security services of "complete incompetence" in fighting terrorism, the Israeli daily (Haaretz) reported Tuesday. This accusations came following the killing of two Israel soldiers in the West Bank over the past few days. According to Haaretz, the charge constitutes a sharp change in Israel's attitude toward the PA, after a long period during which the IOF and the Shin Bet Security Service had praised the security cooperation with the PA forces. Israeli senior security sources told the Israeli daily "over the past few months, there have been numerous instances in which terror attacks were foiled, but all were foiled solely by the Israelis." The sources said that the PA had done little in the way of arresting "terrorists" recently, adding no terrorists had been tried by Palestinian courts during the entire past year, according to Haaretz.