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Because the US has paid for their reconstruction. In the past they never acted against terrorists, and therefore their existence was illegitimate. I hope it's different this time, but I don't think it will be, since Arafat is still pulling so many strings. Abbas, in addition to having almost no public support, is really just a puppet of Arafat. He answers to Arafat. They should really just kill Arafat, he is responsible for the murders of thousands of people, American diplomats, Israeli civilians, and a hell of a lot of other people too. He is a terror master, and the architect of the current terror war against Israel (PA members even publicly admitted that the "intifada" was being planned in advance, from around the time that Arafat left the table at camp David and Taba. He probably figured that if the Israeli were willing to offer that much, after so many years of PLO terror, that they were close to being broken as a society, and as an economy, and that more terror would lead to greater capitulation.
Anyway, the PA security has more than enough man and firepower to act against terrorists now. They probably won't though- Abbas already said he would never use force against Hamas or Islamic Jihad (Fatah and the rest are all allies anyway- they compete, and disagree over tactics, but when it comes down they are obviously all on the same team- Abbas gave the education portfolio in his "new cabinet" to Hamas)
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