Repressive Palestinian policies and methods, backed by US funding for the forces implementing those methods, will thus augment the experienced but resource-poor Cuban authorities in crushing dissent.
Credit: FARS
Ramallah, July 15 – President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian National Authority telephoned First Secretary of the Cuban Communist Party and President of the Republic of Cuba Miguel Díaz-Canel today to offer assistance in the violent suppression of demonstrations against the troubled island’s government. Díaz thanked Abbas and accepted the offer.
A team of two dozen Palestinian police will embark Friday to Havana, where Cuban officials will attach them to local law enforcement and paramilitary units in shooting protesters with live fire, beating them, and imprisoning random family members to put pressure on the others. Decades of repressive Palestinian policies and methods, backed by US funding for the forces implementing those methods, will thus augment the experienced but resource-poor Cuban authorities in crushing dissent. Cuba has suffered for decades under an economic embargo by the United States, and has depended on aid from poorer and less-powerful governments to maintain its regime.
“The governments of Palestine and Cuba are proud to announce a collaboration in this vital endeavor,” read a statement by Abbas’s office and the Cuban Communist party Secretariat. “Together we will defend the legitimate government from the machinations of an international cabal bent on undermining the authentic leadership of, for, and by the people in both of our countries.”
The move comes just weeks after Palestinian neighbor and rival Israel dispatched a team of search and rescue workers, mostly IDF soldiers, to the scene of a Miami-area high-rise collapse that killed more than 150 and injured dozens of others. Such rapid-response measures by Israel have proved a diplomatic and public-relations boon, and Palestinians, who both hate and admire Israel, have sought to duplicate such successes. Opportunities have remained scarce, owing to logistical, financial, and political circumstances, but Palestinian officials voiced the hope that this operation will serve as precedent to a long series of others in which the Authority’s experience in arbitrary detention, wanton violence, silencing of dissent, and torture or murder of dissidents can help cement ties between Palestinians and other peoples.
“Already we have fielded inquiries from Venezuela, Iran, and Myanmar,” disclosed Abbas confidante Nabil Aburdeineh. “And informal conversations on the subject have already taken place with Russia, China, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation – and those are just the ones I am at liberty to reveal at this time.”
Experts remain divided as to the timing of the move; some predict the team will be summoned home within a week because local protests continue to spiral out of control.
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