Remember these things from a couple of weeks ago? They're here:

Following a slight delay in delivery and despite opposition from within the IDF, Israel will facilitate the transfer of 25 armored personnel carriers next week to Palestinian Authority security forces in Nablus. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert approved the shipment two weeks ago over the objection of his own security forces,... This is the first time the PA will receive armored vehicles since the outbreak of the second intifada in 2000. In 1995, PA security forces in the Gaza Strip received 45 BRDM-2 vehicles, all later destroyed in Israeli air strikes

What do PA forces in Nablus need these APCs for anyway? Are they doing a lot of fighting against Hamas soldiers dropping NBCs out of helicopters (from which, admittedly, the BTR-80s are very good at protecting soldiers). Because if something like that was happening, we think we would have heard about it.

A few years from now, we'll be reading headlines about how Israel had to destroy these APCs because they were being used against Israelis. And then a few years after that we'll be reading headlines about how the Palestinians are being given another new shipment of cutting-edge APCs. Because the Palestinian people, they desire peace you see.

References:
* Palestinians To Get 25 Cutting Edge, Helicopter-Busting APCs [MR]
* Palestinians to get 25 armored vehicles [JPost]

Previously:
* US To Hamas Arms Trasnfer Watch - Abbas Support Low
* Hamas Has 200 Tons Of Explosives That The US Gave To Fatah (Plus: Egypt Says It's Israel's Fault)
* Dozens Of Fatah Police Officers Defect To AQ (Plus: Israeli "Goodwill Gesture" - 300 Palestinian Policemen To Deploy Around Nablus)