US freezes “Palestinian” jihad aid budget, no more “pay-for-slay”

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Why should American taxpayers be funding the war against the Jews? It’s the same jihad against the USA, Europe and the non-Muslim world (Dar al-Harb).

EXCLUSIVE: US freezes Palestinian aid budget

By Eylon Aslan-Levy, I24 News, June25, 2018:

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The United States has quietly frozen its aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) pending review, i24NEWS has learned. The move comes two months after Congress passed the Taylor Force Act, which aimed to force the PA to terminate its “pay-for-slay” policies of paying stipends to convicted terrorists in Israeli jails and to the families of dead terrorists.

The act orders that US assistance to the West Bank and Gaza “that directly benefits the PA” be suspended unless the Secretary of State certifies that the Palestinian Authority has met four conditions: terminating these payments to terrorists, revoking laws authorizing this compensation, taking “credible steps” to end Palestinian terrorism, and “publicly condemning” and investigating such acts of violence.

The Taylor Force Act was passed as part of an omnibus $1.3 trillion spending bill on 23 March 2018. It was named for the US army veteran who was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Jaffa in March 2016, in an attack that injured eleven people.

A Senate Foreign Relations Committee aide told i24NEWS, “Our understanding is that US funding to the West Bank and Gaza is on hold pending an administration review.”

Separately, i24NEWS understands that the West Bank and Gaza office of USAID — the American international development agency — has not received its budget for the upcoming fiscal year and therefore has not been able to put its projects out to tender.

The funding freeze has caused the suspension of certain programs run by international agencies. An official at the HALO Trust, which performs landmine clearance operations in the West Bank, told i24NEWS that it had suspended operations because the United States had stopped transferring funds at the end of May, leaving a major funding shortfall.

The withholding of USAID’s total budget as well as third-party projects means the administration is taking an expansive interpretation of what assistance “directly benefits” the PA, viewing humanitarian projects that would otherwise need to be paid for by the PA as constituting direct assistance to that organization.

MANDEL NGAN (AFP) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks with US President Donald Trump in Washington on March 5, 2018 but now he returns home to what may be the most crucial stretch of his long career with corruption probes encircling him
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A Palestinian official confirmed the report, saying the Trump administration had told the PA in mid-January 2018 that it was reexamining its Palestinian aid budget. He said the United States had informed the PA after the emergency Organization of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Istanbul in mid-May, which convened in protest at the relocation of the US Embassy to Jerusalem and the situation in Gaza, that the assistance had been put on hold and placed under review.

The head of the PLO General Delegation to the US, Dr. Husam Zomlot, neither confirmed nor denied the report, saying only that if Washington decides to cut funding to the PA it would damage American interests in region and its vision of a two-state solution.

“If the US freezes its funding it means its freezing its vision,” Zomlot told i24NEWS, calling any decision to freeze funding “very regrettable” and “very harmful and damaging to the US’s interests and its allies’ [interests].”

Zomlot further stated that “using financial means as a political tool and financial pressure as a political tool does not work,” adding that such a move would not hinder the PA’s legitimacy in the region.

“What will be affected is peace, not us,” Zomlot asserted.

The United States was, until now, the world’s largest financial backer of the PA. Although it did not provide the PA direct budgetary assistance, unlike the European Union, it contributed massive funds for humanitarian projects in the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well as for UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency.

AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File In this May 23, 2017 file photo, President Donald Trump shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas after making statements to the press in the West Bank City of Bethlehem
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The total aid budget requested by the State Department for fiscal years 2018 and 2019 stood at $215 million annually for projects designed to boost the Palestinian economy, develop infrastructure, and boost institutional capacity among other goals.

The suspension of this aid means the Secretary of State has not certified that the Palestinian Authority has taken the steps the Taylor Force Act demanded. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has defended these payments as “social responsibility”.

The committee aide also confirmed that the State Department has submitted to Congress its criteria for determining assistance that directly benefits the Palestinian Authority, as the act required. The US State Department declined to share this unclassified report.

The PA has long had a policy of paying stipends to convicted terrorists in Israeli jails and to the families of dead militants. In 2017, the total budget for “prisoners’ payments” stood at $345 million, equivalent to half of the international contributions to the PA’s budget. The stipend is pegged to the length of the convicted terrorists’ prison sentences, meaning it is indirectly pegged to the severity of the crime.

The Trump administration slashed US payments to UNRWA in January 2018. UNRWA says $305 million have been withheld, plunging the agency into its “largest funding crisis ever” and forcing it to scramble for emergency contributions from other nations.

The funding cut comes at a time of an unprecedented diplomatic crisis between the United States and the PA, which is boycotting Trump administration officials and rejecting in advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan they intend to launch soon.

 

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normfunk
normfunk
5 years ago

The PA does not want peace, if there was peace their own people would turn on them for the corruption and decorate every lamppost in the territories with the bodies of the corrupt PA officials.

Kalambong Kalambong
Kalambong Kalambong
5 years ago
Reply to  normfunk

The United States can get a much better use of its money by financing the Burmese in fighting against the rohingya islamic terrorists

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Better yet. BUILD THE WALL and PROTECT OUR BORDERS for a change. I am personally tired of fighting wars for others. We have our own war to fight here. We are literally being invaded by freeloading imbeciles.

It’s going to get worse!
The new Mexican President sees US taking in their citizens as their “human right”.

Mexico’s Next President Tells Country:
They “must leave their towns and find a life in the United States”…

June 22, 2018 by sundance

We’ve been sharing this intensely predictable issue since late 2017. Andrés Manuel López Obrador, or “AMLO”, is going to be the next President of Mexico. The self-described “soft Marxist”, a Mexican Hugo Chavez, has been so far ahead of all other candidates – the outcome of the July 1st Mexican election is a foregone conclusion.

Interestingly, people are only now starting to take notice because AMLO is openly telling his fellow countrymen they must flood the U.S. border.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/06/22/mexicos-next-president-tells-country-they-must-leave-their-towns-and-find-a-life-in-the-united-states/

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

The USMC recently went on joint military maneuvers w/Malaysia. I figure it was to put the fear of allah into Myanmar and show who the US is backing in SE Asia.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

I wouldn’t mind my tax dollars going to support Myanmar, well at least not as much as supporting islamic sh!ttystans like Pakistain, Egyptistan, the Paleswine Authority etc.

Thomas Faddis
Thomas Faddis
5 years ago

GD obama and All previous administrations that gave our tax monies to support these terrorists families!

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago

Excellent! But I’m sure that Europe will up their payments to the “Palestinians” to make up for it like they did when Trump earlier cut some funds. Europe will gladly and generously fund anything that is bad for Jews and Israel even if it is bad for Europe as well.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

Ah but the EU is running out of money.
Merkel might be removed through a vote of no confidence, People don’t want OPEN BORDERS and MASS MUSLIM migration.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

They are there in big numbers so there is nothing they can do but suffer.

Susan
Susan
5 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

There is always something that can be done. Fight back and hard. Islam will have to be destroyed in the streets if necessary by all freedom loving people.
In the words of Winston Churchill:

“Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never–in nothing, great or small, large or petty–never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”

I am going with Winston on this one.

TD
TD
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

“Merkel might be removed through a vote of no confidence,”
As long as it happens soon, and it cascades into liberal parties losing across Europe and even here in the US (especially this year).

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

I would love the EU to go bankrupt, but unfortunately Europe isn’t running out of money fast enough.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
5 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

Good, let them pay as long as it is not our tax money.

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

Yes, but ultimately the world would be a better place if the Muslims went bankrupt.

pandainc3
pandainc3
5 years ago
Reply to  caliroxanne

Great. Let them.

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
5 years ago
Reply to  pandainc3

The world would be a better place if the Muslims went broke.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

So ALL aid is frozen?
If true – GOOD – long over due.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

It should be stopped not frozen.

TD
TD
5 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

They probably went with the frozen route to get some Democrats on board to pass the bill which is probably 30 years+ overdue.

WM1
WM1
5 years ago
Reply to  carpe diem 36

Exactly! “If the US freezes its funding it means its freezing its vision.” How stupid are we to finance a ‘vision’ blurred by reality and truth.

Muslims (Palestinians) will NEVER, under any circumstances, renounce their determination to destroy Israel.

So just how realistic or viable is any two-state solution when one side is bound, by oath, policy and Sharia law, to seek the complete annihilation of the other?

To conclude it is, is sheer insanity!

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago

I have yet to meet a single US citizen who wants their tax dollars going to support the muslum sh!ttystans ANYWHERE.
Who the does the US government represent? US citizens? Or their muslum petrocratic paymasters?

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Why aren’t MUSLIM countries funding MUSLIMS?
Why should the WEST be doing that?
Muslims HATE the west.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

What exactly have the Palestinians done for the United States after all these years, except maybe spew hatred against us?

TD
TD
5 years ago
Reply to  R. Arandas

true. and this coming September 11th Anniversary week, I will be posting online to remind people that they cheered on 9/11 and putting a caption that Democrats support them.

carpe diem 36
carpe diem 36
5 years ago

They will not be able to prove that the PA is complying with those terms. They will hide those payments or do other “schtick” to continue to do what they always did. America will have to find another way to force them to comply, maybe stop payments for a few months and see what is happening. I hope they will not let themselves be fooled.

TD
TD
5 years ago

“taking “credible steps” to end Palestinian terrorism”
I like this move.

but their leader Abbas has a PHD in Holocaust denial.This is a race-war that was started by the Pally-trash. Abbas is a freak with glasses. Just look at him.

Beverly
Beverly
5 years ago

Not only should the U.S. stop payment to the PA, it should also stop the humanitarian payments to the Central American countries and Mexico who’s people continue to come to the U.S. and apply it to the cost of taking care of those at the U.S. border.

Steve
Steve
5 years ago

Now stop funding the UN as well.

Sarsour Clito
Sarsour Clito
5 years ago

DEPORT ALL MUSLIMES FROM AMERICA!!!!!

Sarsour Clito
Sarsour Clito
5 years ago

I would like to know why Trump is not deporting all the muslimes who have infested America. They are crawling and breeding everywhere. Surely there are plenty of illegals aming them!!!!????

Sarsour Clito
Sarsour Clito
5 years ago

Mexicans and Hispanics are far less dangerous than the muslimes who have infested America. WHO LET THEM IN???

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago
Reply to  Sarsour Clito

Democrats, mostly, under Obama.

Sarsour Clito
Sarsour Clito
5 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

Moochelle O has burkas to match Omuslime’s prayer rug.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago
Reply to  Sarsour Clito

Let’s hope they are made out of detonation cord.

Sarsour Clito
Sarsour Clito
5 years ago

ARE THERE NO ILLEGAL MUSLIMES OCCUPYING AMERICA??? Why is Trump ignoring them??? DEPORT THEM ALL!!!

Schinderhannes Schinderhannes
Schinderhannes Schinderhannes
5 years ago

Best news ever. This should have been done years ago. There is lots of Oil money floating around in the middle east. The PA will find another backer to their Policy of Hatred. Dr. Zomlot is completely out of touch. The PA and Hamas have both condemned the US for years, and have stirred up hatred towards the us in that area and around the world. Stopping this so called “Aid” will not make any difference to US PA relations. It just lays out clear rules. Lets hope Trump will remain firm is this.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
5 years ago

What is Palestine? They refused to be a country, so they’re a rogue entity. So now they’re an independent state, recognized by 135 nations.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Honig

Moreover, there was no “Palestine” ever mentioned in the Bible. The closest sounding name is “Philistine”.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
5 years ago
Reply to  Sunshine Kid

Emperor Hadrian hated the Jews so much because the Jews’ Great Revolt against Rome in 66 C.E. led to one of the greatest … Since the Romans had first occupied Israel in 63 B.C.E., their rule had grown more and … While the Romans would have won the war in any case, the Jewish civil war and therefore gave the name Philistine to Arab land.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Honig

Just confirmed what I said. There never was a “Palestine”.

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
5 years ago
Reply to  Stephen Honig

I think Bar Kochba should’ve sought an alliance w/Persia before he started his revolt — because with their help he might have thrown the rotten, corrupt, decadent Romans out of Israel. The Romans mobilised legions all the way from Northwestern Europe to take on Israel.

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
5 years ago

This is another reason why Christianity is similar to Jews. Jesus’ disciples couldn’t have Romans/heathens believe in Judaism, because they hated them so much and there are too many laws (613) to follow. So they altered Judaism and changed Jesus beliefs in the Old Testament to a new one. And now you know the rest of the story.

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago

Well, that accounts for why all the muslims are trying to take over France – for the money, what else?

Sunshine Kid
Sunshine Kid
5 years ago

In a way, it was a good thing that Obama did as much damage to the USA that he did. He forced open the eyes of Americans to the slow onslaught by the muslims and criminals that were all about the destruction of the power and respect of the USA the world had. He showed just how criminal and anti-Christian the Democrat party really is.

Andrew Sears
Andrew Sears
5 years ago

no more aid. build the wall, on all our borders. deport all illegals and those anti Christian and Jew muslims. start imprisoning democrats and other terrorists. put pelosi out to pasture.

Rick Reynolds
Rick Reynolds
5 years ago

It’s great to see we’re going to stop financing terrorism but this is not enough. Chances are that Saudi Arabia, Qatar or other rich Arab Gulf states (and Lefty European states) will keep funding “Palestine” because it is the best battering ram they have against fortress Israel. It hides and legitimizes their jihad against the Jews.

So not only should all funding to Islamic groups be cut off, Trump should work with Israel to bomb all muslim terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, Boko Haram, etc into dust. That is the only way to end this problem. And should more Muslims get fired up for jihad against the US/Israel, then bomb them too. We are in a state of war against them.

Laddyboy
Laddyboy
5 years ago

Stopping the money flow to hamas/palistine is to lose a vision? YA BET YA BOOTYS!!! hamas’ DEMONIC vision is the total annihilation of Israel and its People. hamas needs to stop attacking Israel then claiming that Israel attacked them.

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