The Bidenites’ Catastrophic Refusal to Uphold the Taylor Force Act

The Palestinians, as heedless of reality as ever, had the ever-astonishing audacity to prepare “five demands” that they presented to President Biden when he met with Mahmoud Abbas in mid-July. A report on those demands, written before the meeting, is here.

Some of the demands had to do with Israel supposedly expanding its domains at the expense of the Palestinians. Ahmed Al-Deek, of the Palestinian Authority’s Foreign Ministry, claims that Israel is steadily “annexing” the West Bank. He knows perfectly well that the Israelis are doing no such thing. They are strictly observing the terms of the Oslo Accords. Area C in the West Bank remains solely under Israel’s jurisdiction, and the Jewish state is within its rights to keep, and expand, settlements in Area C.

The talk about a peace process has become a fantasy and unrealistic. This situation poses a serious threat to the concept of a two-state solution, which the Biden administration says it remains committed to achieving. Soon, our people will start laughing at us when we talk about the two-state solution.”

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What really makes Al-Deek’s complaint about the absence of a “peace process” absurd is the PA’s continued enthusiasm and support for terror attacks. The “Pay-For-Slay” program which Mahmoud Abbas insists he will continue to support “to my last penny” consists of generous lifetime subsidies paid by the Palestinian Authority to imprisoned terrorists, or to the families of terrorists who were killed while committing their attacks. This “Pay-For-Slay” scheme both rewards past, and incentivizes future, terrorism. And along with that program, there are the myriad ways that the Palestinian Authority honors and celebrates terrorists, by naming streets, squares, schools, and sports competitions after them. Then there is the constant antisemitic incitement by the Palestinian Authority, whipping up murderous hatred of “the Jews.” That incitement can be found in the textbooks that the Palestinian Authority uses in its schools, texts that it keeps promising to revise but never follows through. It is also evident in the wild accusations that are hurled at Israel for “plotting to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque and to replace it with a Third Temple” – an entirely factitious charge that, however, helps whip up murderous hysteria among the credulous Palestinian population. How can Ahmed Al-Deek with a straight face complain about the absence of a “peace process” when the Palestinian Authority does so much to whip up antisemitic hatred, encourage terrorism, and do everything else it can to undermine “peace”?

5) Restoring US financial aid to the PA.

Deek said that thus far the US has only resumed aid to the United Nations Work and Relief Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). “We need the money. We hope the aid will be resumed. “In 2018, Trump cut Palestinian aid to zero. During the same year, Congress suspended economic assistance to the Palestinians [through the Economic Support Fund-ESF] unless and until the PA ceased payments to convicted terrorists serving in Israeli prisons and ceased paying families of ‘deceased terrorists who died committing acts of terrorism.

It is here that the PA need no longer worry. The Bidenites, alas, have not upheld the Taylor Force Act. That Act prohibits the government from giving aid directly to the Palestinians as long as the PA keeps its “Pay-For-Slay” program. The Trump Administration had halted all aid both to UNRWA and the P.A. The Bidenites have restored both, giving hundreds of millions of dollars to the P.A. and to UNRWA. The Bidenites maintain that such aid was renewed because it was strictly “humanitarian aid,” so it was not covered by the Taylor Force Act. In fact, there is no exception in the language of the Taylor Force Act that provides for any exceptions. So far, Congress has allowed the Administration to get away with this bit of jesuitical casuistry.

The Bidenites can try to appeal to Mahmoud Abbas to end the “Pay-For-Slay” program all they want, and can express just how “strongly opposed” they are to the program, but none of that has any effect on the Palestinians. The only thing that will work is exactly what the Taylor Force Act does: cutting off all American aid to the PA as long as “Pay-For-Slay” continues. There is no other way.

The Bidenites, however, whatever their claims about “Pay-For-Slay,” are just as determined not to cut off their aid to the PA as the PA is to keep “Pay-For-Slay” going. What is it that makes the Bidenites so eager to give hundreds of millions of dollars each years to the corrupt regime in Ramallah that threatens to “cut off” all ties to Israel because the Jewish state dares to fight back against those who would do it harm?

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