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The President said that “Peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded and even rewarded,” in an undisguised criticism of the Palestinian Authority and Mahmoud Abbas.
The President said that “Peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded and even rewarded,”
This is what President Trump was referring to:
The Palestinian Authority has been escaping current restrictions on American aid and is using U.S. funds to pay stipends to the families of thousands of Palestinians who are committing heinous terror attacks.
Palestinian terrorist prisoners are regarded by the PA as patriotic fighters. While locked away, they and their families are paid premium salaries and given extra benefits as rewards for their service.
It’s no token sum. According to a recent report from the Gatestone Institute, “terrorists in prison receive higher average salary than PA civil servants and military personnel.” A 2014 study by the Israeli government, based on internal PA documents, showed that these prisoners and their families had received more than $75 million in stipends in just one year.
Shockingly, monthly salaries for both incarcerated and released prisoners are on a sliding scale, depending on the severity of the crime and length of prison sentence. Essentially, this incentivizes the commission of the most heinous terrorist acts.
And upon release from custody, the terrorists typically become PA civil service employees.
This summer, the House Foreign Affairs Committee took preliminary steps to reconsider this spending. As Rep. Ed Royce (R-Calif.), the committee’s chairman, said: “The Palestinian Authority has only worsened the conflict by inciting violence and hate speech. They’ve gone as far as offering a pay-to-slay stipend encouraging Palestinians to commit violence against Israelis.”
Seconding the sentiment, the Senate Appropriations Committee included in its State Department funding bill a provision to restrict aid that supports payments to Palestinians and their families who commit terror attacks.
According to a 2015 Congressional Research Service report, the Palestinians are among the largest recipients of international aid, with the U.S. contributing more than $5 billion in security assistance and bilateral economic aid.
There is no doubt that Palestinian terrorism is a purposeful result of the incessant incitement against Israelis in all quarters of Palestinian society, aided and abetted with U.S. dollars. This incitement is from time to time criticized, but only halfheartedly and persistently paired with a call to “both parties to reduce provocative actions.”
It is long overdue that Congress ensure that American funds cannot be used as financial subsidies for Palestinian terrorism and barbarism.
It's very simple to understand. If the murdered British kids were Israelis and the terrorist Palestinian, his family would receive a life pension from the Palestinian authority.
That region has been dealing with war for thousands of years. This is sadly just a continuation.
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