The Palestinian Authority has paid more $1 billion to terrorists and their families over a four-year span, a study from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs found.
That dollar figure represents a sum total of seven percent of the PA’s annual budget. It’s also about 20 percent of what the PA received each year in foreign aid, the study showed.
The payments are part and parcel of PA law, apparently.
Look at this, from The Tower:
“The payments are written into PA law, which declares that the prisoners — who are often convicted of security offenses — are “a fighting sector and an integral part of the weave of Arab Palestinian society,” and guarantees “the financial rights of the prisoner and his family.” Prisoners consequently receive a significant payment while incarcerated, as well as jobs or salaries upon their release. The time they served behind bars also counts toward their seniority in PA institutions.
“A prisoner who completed a five-year sentence or longer is entitled to a civil service job in the PA. As longer sentences result in greater authority and better pay, it means that Palestinians incarcerated for more serious crimes, including terror, are rewarded more generously.
“The PA’s 2016 budget allocated 488.4 million shekels (about $128 million) for salaries to imprisoned terrorists and released prisoners, according to the report. In addition, payments to families of “martyrs” — which include Palestinians killed while carrying out terror attacks — totaled 663.6 million shekels (about $175 million). Overall, the PA paid 1.152 billion shekels (about $303 million) in terror related payments in 2016. …
“The PA’s budgets for 2013 to 2016 each allocated over $270 million in payments for terrorists and their families, according to the research presented in the paper.
“In order to escape growing criticism of the practice, the PA ended direct payments to terrorists and their families in 2010 and instead began sending the funds to the PLO, which distributes the funds to their intended recipients.”
Nabil-Shaath, one of PA President Mahmoud Abbas’s advisers, said earlier this month that President Donald Trump’s call to end the pay-outs to terrorists was “insance.”
But Trump is hardly alone in his view that the payments are thinly disguised government support for terror.
Again, from The Tower:
“The Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board argued in November of last year that payments to Palestinian terrorists ‘are an official incentive program for murder that in any other context would be recognized as state sponsorship of terror.’
“Eli Lake wrote in Bloomberg View in July, 2016 that offering salaries to Palestinians who kill Israelis ‘encourages’ terror attacks ‘as a legitimate act of resistance.’
“The subject of payments to terrorists came to the fore in Britain in March 2016 after The Mail on Sunday published an exposé showing that the PA paid generous salaries to a number of convicted Palestinian terrorists. That report, as well as another released by Israel Radio, was based on research done by Palestinian Media Watch, a nonprofit that has documented how the PA incentivizes terror since 2011.”
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”We are teaching peace to our children”…..he said to Trump.
Always taqiyya …
When the “West” finally starts to wake up and realize that the Arab/Islamic World doesn’t interpret ANYTHING the West deems as negative about Islam as the West does then maybe, just MAYBE there will be a chance.
When the “West” says it’s against “terrorism”, the Islamic world always agrees. It’s just that they don’t see anything they do as “terrorism”. They believe that “Western Values” is what we’re talking about.
The disconnect is so great as to be frankly “unbelievable” which is why no one in “The West” actually “believes” it.
What civilized people call “terrorism” muslims call practicing islam.
Exactly…+100
Another question: What civilized people give money to their enemies?
All I can come up with is there is more money than intelligence these days.
It is remarkably stupid to complain about terrorism, then finance it. Perhaps a little thought in to getting some accountability for foreign aid is in order?
It’s not stupid. It’s criminal.
One can’t take anyone for granted!
http://www.weeklystandard.com/christian-charity-in-gaza-funnels-money-to-hamas/article/2003733
Let’s tell the whole story: They shelled out one-billion of our dollars to our enemies. Does this not make the people who facilitated this–traitors?
► No, of course it does not make them traitors. If they want to occupy territory and load it up with thieving Jews that’s their business
We’re nice guys. Let’s just pay them for it
Don’t like the Jews muslum rat? Move back to your muslum sh!ttystan and you’ll never be bothered by anyone Jewish ever again.
► You want me to like them and settle them too, and pay for it ?
Let me think about that for a couple hundred years
Don’t you have some unlucky little boy you should be molesting back in Pakistain or Iran?
The numbers don’t add up: 250 million is not 7% of the budget. Either way, the United States, needs to cut our portion by 50% ASAP.
No, the Paleswine didn’t shell out a billion dollars to support muslum terrorists, the US and Japanese taxpayers did (maybe even Canada as well).
What’s the national product of Gaza, aside from muslum terrorism and persecution of the unbeliever in islum that is?
Yes America- our inept leadership is borrowing money to pay the Palestinians at least 500 million a year. If they were not getting our tribute, they likely could not afford supporting terrorists.
The PA’s financial support for Hamas is part of the legal record of the United States.
“A trial transcript can never fully capture how a jury experiences the presentation of trial testimony, nor does it note the jurors’ reactions to that testimony.Thus, while the transcript in this case reflects the fact that Dr. Milton-Edwards’ testimony was not credible, it does not record the laughter her testimony at times provoked from the jury. ”
http://nylawyer.nylj.com/adgifs/decisions14/112614omnibus.pdf
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In the day’s leading up to President Trump’s recent trip to the Middle East, a PA official was asked about the complication that might be presented in view of the fact that they continued naming town squares after terrorists. His ridiculous reply was that, in the first place, they were not terrorists. There goes still another chance for peace in the region.
Good to know, now we can reduce our payments in aid by the same amount.
No wonder these people never really get any where.
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