Don’t you dare call it savagery, you racist, bigoted Islamophobe. “Palestinian Authority Rewards Terrorists for Number of Jews They Kill,” by Edwin Black, Algemeiner, February 8, 2015:
Last year, Congressional legislators were astonished to learn that the Palestinian Authority was issuing monthly payouts totaling between $3 and 7 million as salaries and other financial rewards to specific terrorists and their families.
The money was channeled, in part, through the Ministry of Prisoners pursuant to the Law of the Prisoner. The law set forth a graduated scale, pegging monthly salaries to the length of Israeli jail sentences, which generally reflects the severity of the crime and the number of people killed and/or injured.
Thousands of documents, newly obtained by this reporter through a lawsuit to unseal court-protected files, demonstrate that these payouts are not blind automated payments. Rather, senior Palestinian Authority officials as high as President Mahmoud Abbas scrutinize the details of each case, the specific carnage caused, and the personal details of each terrorist act before approving salaries and awarding honorary ranks in either the PA government or the military.
Ministry of Prisoners spokesman Amr Nasser has explained, “We are very proud of this program and we have nothing to hide.” Nonetheless, in response to the international furor, the Palestinian Authority announced that it would replace the Ministry of Prisoners with an outside PLO commission known as the Higher National Commission for Prisoners and Detainees Affairs.
The PA is dependent upon foreign donor countries to supply much of its budget, which now exceeds $4.2 billion annually. About ten percent of the PA budget, more than $400 million, is contributed annually by United States foreign aid. The U.S. and many other countries have enacted laws forbidding any payments when the monies directly or indirectly support or encourage terrorism.
The interdepartmental bureaucratic notations the Palestinian Authority has recorded on each terrorist before approving the level of salaried compensation is extensive. For example, one prominent case involved Ahmad Talab Mustafa Barghouti, who personally coordinated numerous terrorist acts. These included a January 2002 shooting spree on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, killing two and wounding 37; a March 2002 shooting spree at a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing three and wounding 31; and finally a March 27, 2002, attempt to smuggle an explosive suicide belt in an ambulance. The Israel Defense Forces arrested Ahmad. On July 30, 2002, a military court concluded that he was responsible for murdering 12 Israelis, and Barghouti was sentenced to 13 life sentences.
According to on-going internal Palestinian Authority security reviews dated February 3, 2009, and July 6, 2009, Barghouti’s special compensation began retroactively to July 1, 2002, the first of the month that the 13 life sentences were imposed. At the time of his arrest, Barghouti was a Sergeant in the Palestinian Police. As a reward, while in an Israeli prison, Barghouti’s annual salary of 12,953 Israeli shekels was continued and gradually escalated when he was promoted to First Sergeant.
Still in prison, Barghouti was promoted again, this time to Warrant Officer, pursuant to a November 13, 2008, Presidential Order 15999/3, according to Palestinian internal security records. One document lists Barghouti’s bank account as account 36079 at the Housing Bank for Trade and Finance in Ramallah. A related document tabulates additional monthly allocations for Barghouti’s two named beneficiaries, showing they jointly received 900 shekels monthly in 2002, beginning the month he was sentenced. That monthly allocation rose to 1,000 shekels in January 2004. The beneficiary payments were deposited into account 628134 at the Arab Bank’s al Bireh Branch 9030, the documents show….
Richie says
I think its high time the Jews should expel all of the Muslims from Israel, at least any and all Muslims who threaten Jews with violence. Its amazing to me that the narrative Muslims and the left spin is that Muslims are native to all of the middle east, and that the Jews and the Christians were the invaders.
Angemon says
Upon learning this, the UN passed a motion demanding Israel to make its military and civilian targets more accessible to “palestinians” looking for their big career break…
Spot On says
Financial support to the Palestinians from the USA is also geared to this same anti-Semitic formula.
c says
We really need an political movement called “LET THEM HATE US FOR FREE” when it comes to giving money to countries that mostly want us dead. Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq and a few others should be on the “let them hate us for free” list. If they want to do genocide, let’s not have them do it with American tax dollars
Judi says
This has been going on for years. I’ve signed petitions against it, but alas, to no avail. An American author, Edwin Black, has written a book on the subject called “Fanning the Flames” which echoes what Robert has written but also details the fact that they are also tax exempt from these donations.
katherine says
This is juicy news all right ! Imagine the taxpayers in the US and EEC giving their hard-earned money to their governments to bankroll Islamic Regimes for Jihad, and in this case Bounty payments for Jew Scalps.
Do westerners really know or care who they are voting for. Do they even realize that a TOTAL WAR has already been declared on them by a totalitarian ideology disguised as a religion while their politicians are clueless to the actual situation.
Instead of a State of Emergency, Europeans and Americans are still preoccupied with football, soaps and MTV and the rest is oblivion.
Lioness says
No one in the US, or the west for that matter, knows or cares that the money supports terror. They are busy condemning Israel for trying to survive. The Palestinians have a really good deal, they don’t work, they rest all day and play “Shesh-Besh” (an Arab game of dice) and get paid for Jihad against Jews. What a life! That is why they have obesity problem in the PA and more money that they know what to do with it, all from our pockets.
Bezelel says
Information like this article needs to be broadcast constantly to get through the attention deficit priority deficient gizmo oriented intellectuals who are depending on NBC to tell them what to think. US foreign aid department needs a thorough audit with the results made public.
duh_swami says
A few years ago Rasool and Hillary ‘gave’ Abbas $193.000,000 to ‘help him with his budget shortfall’ (Hillary’s words). Recently John Kerry said he would like to ‘give’ Abbas 200+ Million…Completely Insane, ainit?
Elisheva says
I’ve written my congressmen about this and got some nonsensical reply. The US and UN should be sued for supporting Terrorism. This has been well known for a long time.
BC says
Executing all those convicted of acts would solve this problem. I can already hear the shrieks of the bleeding hearts if this was enacted
Hummer says
Wealth redistribution by Obama-actually we are paying the tax demanded by this evil ideology. Americans should not be grateful and bring it to an end unless they be frightened leftists which I suspect is the case.