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Palestinian Authority paid jihad terrorists and their families nearly $350 million in 2017

Jan 11, 2018 10:00 am By Robert Spencer

But deep down, they really, really want peace!

Yes, of course, I’m being sarcastic. But there are respected policy analysts in Washington at this very moment who actually believe that.

“Palestinian Authority Paid Terrorists and Their Families Nearly $350 Million in 2017,” by Deborah Danan, Breitbart, January 10, 2018:

TEL AVIV – In accordance with its “pay-for-slay” law, the Palestinian Authority last year paid terrorists and their families over $347 million, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday.

Citing the PA’s own data, terrorists with three to five year prison sentences receive $580 dollars a month – equivalent to the average Palestinian income, Liberman told a session of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday.

Terrorists sentenced to 20 years or more – usually for the murder of Israeli civilians – receive more than $2,900 per month for their entire lives, five times the amount of a “small time” terrorist.

On top of the PA salary, Arab terrorists who hold Israeli citizenship receive a $145 bonus, more than the average Israeli income of around $2,700.

In addition, there are additional stipends for wives and children.

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said, “The PA pays over a billion shekels a year to terrorists and their families, thus encouraging and perpetuating terrorism.”

“The minute the amount of the payment is decided according to the severity of the crime and the length of the sentence – in other words, whoever murders and is sentenced to life in prison gets much more – that is funding terrorist attacks against Israeli citizens. There is nothing that better illustrates the PA’s support for terrorism. We must stop this,” he added.

Liberman also presented his bill proposing to deduct the amount paid by the Palestinian Authority to terrorists and their families from monies owed by Israel in taxes.

The PA has paid out NIS 4 billion ($1.12 billion) over the past four years towards terrorist salaries, as per PA law. According to Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, who served as the director general of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, the longer a Palestinian security prisoner is jailed, “the higher the salary. … Anyone who has sat in prison for more than 30 years gets NIS 12,000 ($3,360) per month.”…

In August, Breitbart Jerusalem reported that PA President Mahmoud Abbas told President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner that he wouldn’t stop payments to convicted terrorists until his “dying day.”

After his meeting with Kushner, Abbas issued a statement on Facebook in which he vowed again: “I will never stop [paying] the allowances to the families of the prisoners and released prisoners, even if this costs me my position and my presidency.”

“I will pay them until my dying day,” he added.

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  1. mike9a says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 10:20 am

    Where 350mils is coming from! hah!, Close the US faucet and give 10% of saved money to JW to inform the world.

    • elee says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 10:24 am

      First thought was exactly word for word same as yours…..how the hell can anyone claim to squeeze 350 million out of “the Palestinians,” even if you’re a third-world gangbanger & pretty good at it?

    • mortimer says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 10:31 am

      YES! Close the faucet! Shut off the US aid (and from all other countries) until the Pallies denounce terrorism.

      However, if they renounced terrorism, they would have to say that Islam is false, because Islam commands terrorism: TURHIBUNNA (terrorize them) – Koran 8.60.

    • Andy says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 5:57 pm

      A devout Palestinian Muslim converts to Christianity!

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02tauaijLas

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 6:06 pm

        Bravo!

      • joanofark06 says

        Jan 12, 2018 at 8:52 am

        I’m happy for the man, but you know that the koran says, lying, cheating, etc etc…is allowed?

        I’d have to see for myself, for about a few weeks, whether he picks up a koran at that time, or not.
        Muslims are not to be trusted! But maybe, just maybe…this one is telling the truth. In that case, bravo…BUT

        You do know that the penalty is death, for converting from islam……to something else. In that case, he shouldn’t go around announcing his christianity faith all over the internet, BUT oh well….he if gets killed, he will go to heaven!

  2. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 10:31 am

    Mr Spencer, Who are these jihadi terrorists ? Are you referingy to freedom fighters líke Hamas ? we Will never accept this définition made by fascist zionist state of Israel and evil united states full of biases. The days of imposing définition on international community by these two evil entities is over. The hegemony has now ended.

    • mortimer says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 10:33 am

      Ibrahim, you are the terrorist, because you believe in Koran 8.60 – TURHIBUNNA.

      I charge you to repent and leave this amoral DEATH CULT and MURDER CULT.

      • mortimer says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 10:44 am

        Ibrahim, you say ‘FREEDOM’? You mean by that the EXCLUSION of non-Muslims from your dreamland! Like Saudi Arabia. Is Saudi Arabia ‘freedom’? Or complete enslavement to a Islamic dictatorship?

        Ibrahim, Israel is already a FREE COUNTRY according to Freedom House.

        Most Muslims countries are only PARTLY free or ‘NOT FREE’.

        On the freedom index, Saudi Arabia gets 10 / 100, Jordan gets only 36, Pakistan gets 41, Israel gets 80, and Iceland gets 100.

        https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world-2016/table-scores

        Ibrahim, Islam creates dysfunctional UNFREE countries.

    • mgoldberg says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 10:53 am

      Who is he to say they are terrorists? Why, by quoting their own words….”The Hamas Charter quotes Hassan Al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood: “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.”

      Got that? Just as it ‘obliterated others before it’.
      Now… you believe, that others must be erasted, ‘obliterated’ as the hammas charter attests and you call this evil, good. You call those who believe that, ‘good men’

      They are not. You are not.

    • duh swami says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 1:39 pm

      There’s nothing free about Islam…It comes with a very high price…

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 4:11 pm

      “Are you referingy to freedom fighters líke Hamas ”

      Yes, the cowardly rabid dogs who pick off unarmed civilians and launch pointless futile and pathetic toy rockets into the freest nation in the region. The “we’ you mention should take great care, because one day the lion you are poking will decide it’s time to rid itself of the annoying yapping pack of currs it has so far been tolerant of.

      I’ll only mourn the loss because your actions are so obviously the result of being under the control of satan. We don’t want to have to harm you people, but you are so corrupted by hate and blind envious rage that nothing else will probably work. You are only dangerous because you are insane, like a drunk hobo.

      I pity you for having willingly sold yourself into the slavery of islam.

      There is a way for you to escape. His name Is Jesus. He can set you free. Repent, and turn to Him before you face His judgment.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 6:26 pm

        +1

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 6:20 pm

      Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

      Mr Spencer, Who are these jihadi terrorists ? Are you referingy to freedom fighters líke Hamas ?
      ………………………………….

      Ibrahim itace muhammed considers murdering Jews to be “freedom”.

      More:

      we Will never accept this définition made by fascist zionist state of Israel and evil united states full of biases.
      ………………………………….

      Of course not–he himself has said that he seeks the genocide of the Jews.

      More:

      The days of imposing définition on international community by these two evil entities is over. The hegemony has now ended.
      ………………………………….

      How many times has he announced the destruction of Israel and the United States? He does it every few days…

    • eduardo odraude says

      Jan 12, 2018 at 12:40 am

      Five Reasons the Qur’an Cannot be the Word of God

  3. elee says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 10:40 am

    PMW just said they told us to keep our aid. Fine by me, I don’t want stock in these criminals. Pakistan, “Palestine,” I’m liking this more every day.

  4. RichardL says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 10:50 am

    I like that this knowledge is spreading. I have been using the fact that European and US taxpayers fund the killing of Israeli children in my classrooms. Students are stunned when they hear this.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 11:28 am

      Hats off to you, RichardL, for telling the truth!

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 7:19 pm

        +1

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 6:34 pm

      Well done on retaining your teaching position!

  5. Lookmann says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 10:53 am

    Petro-dollars to nurture jihad [ through mosques]

    Western dollars to ‘rehabilitate martyrs’

    Absurdity / incongruousness to the core.

  6. StellaSaidSo says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 11:24 am

    The so-called ‘Palestinians’ are fools, pawns in a game played by greedy and powerful men who pretend to be their protectors. These men rake in money from gullible donors, who think they are helping ‘the poor refugees’, and from govts motivated by their own perceived best interests. In fact, the money is largely spent on terrorism, and on maintaining the lavish life-styles enjoyed by the ‘leaders’. (Yasser Arafat, for example, had millions in his personal bank account; his wife shopped for clothes in Paris.) The entire Palestinian ’cause’ is bogus, and always was. It was never about a ‘home’ for ‘the Palestinian people’; they had a home to go to – Transjordan (as it then was). It was – and is – about Islamic Jew-hatred, about driving the Jews into the sea, as per the Koranic injunction. It should hardly be necessary to point out that the land of Israel was Jewish long centuries before Islam was invented.

    • mike9a says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 12:47 pm

      Vicious misery cycle: we got free money -> we give you some $$$ to purchase yours or your family life and promise you 72 monsters -> with a lots of leftover $$$, we go to shopping to civilized world. BTW do not complain and THINK, your life is not worth anything anyway, we PLO and similar will do ‘thinking’ for you, just make babies so we can continue milking uninformed infidels

      • StellaSaidSo says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 12:58 pm

        You nailed it, mike9a; that is exactly how it works.

      • LeftisruiningCanada says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 4:16 pm

        Good posts.

        Their ‘leaders’ are just petty pimps using the Pals like dictators always use ‘their’ people.

        The west has funded this, because they think evil can be bought off.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 7:28 pm

        Good posts, Stella, Mike, and LeftisruiningCanada.

  7. Philip McDonald says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 11:41 am

    Who says crime doesn’t pay??

    • Guy Forester says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 1:45 pm

      Seems to pay quite well, especially when the victim and/or race card is played.

  8. Voytek Gagalka says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 12:58 pm

    “Peace” in Islam means submission. So yes, they “want peace” but unless we would wish to be subjugated under their absolute rule, we better choose not to have anything to do with that kind of “peace.” And no, this is not a sarcasm but sad truth.

  9. Guy Forester says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 1:56 pm

    Your tax dollars hard at work folks!

    Time to stop ALL foreign aid and review each and every country that is getting ANY kind of support for ANY kind of projects. This includes so-called “humanitarian” aid. If the US taxpayer is not getting something commensurate in return, stop sending our money away. All too often these programs and projects end up dumping cash into the hands of corrupt politicians.

    Of course, certain companies will start insisting that we need these programs to “help fight terrorism” and continue to arm and train the military forces of these corrupt nations. We should base our support on such things as: UN voting record, rights and freedom of the citizens, bilateral trade, and their military record. Certain countries, like Pakistan, have demonstrated they are not worthy of our support. The PA should never have been given one penny. PA was terrorist from day one.

    For those that insist we continue humanitarian aid, go find a private, NGO, and give to your heart’s content. Do not insist that I must pay taxes to support corrupt governments, terrorists, and crony capitalism.

    • Diane says

      Jan 11, 2018 at 3:22 pm

      Yes! There are plenty of Non-Profit Orgs that spend our donated dollars fairly and wisely, for people that are truly in need of help. One of them, that does EXCELLENT work is “AGAPE International”. They help rescue young children from sex-slavery. They’ve saved many lives. I recommend anyone to research them, and consider donating.

      • gravenimage says

        Jan 11, 2018 at 7:33 pm

        Thanks, Diane.

  10. Don McKellar says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 2:14 pm

    The correct response from President Trump should now be: “It looks like they have an extra $350 million in disposable aid. America will cut off $350 million in aid or all aid, whichever is less, to ensure as best we can that American taxpayers are not funding terrorists.”

  11. gravenimage says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 6:04 pm

    Palestinian Authority paid jihad terrorists and their families nearly $350 million in 2017
    ……………………….

    We should cut off all aid to these thugs.

  12. sidney penny says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 8:44 pm

    Where does the money come from?

  13. sidney penny says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 8:46 pm

    If society rewards violence you will get more violence. Simple

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 12, 2018 at 1:26 am

      Exactly.

  14. eduardo odraude says

    Jan 11, 2018 at 11:58 pm

    I’ll go out on a limb and predict that Trump will cut off half or all of this aid within the next two months, i.e., by early March.

  15. Infidel says

    Jan 12, 2018 at 12:45 am

    The more tolerant and appeasing the host non-Muslim society, the more virulent the Islamic parasite.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 12, 2018 at 1:07 am

      Yep. They interpret our tolerance as weakness, and exploit it every way they can. And if we dare to say NO to them, they play the victim, and the tantrums start. As every responsible parent knows, if you indulge a child every time he demands something, there will be no end to the demands. Yet we continue to indulge these pathetic cry-babies. It is time we got tough. I would start by docking their pocket money. They do nothing to earn it. Switch off the welfare tap, brace for the usual whining and gnashing of teeth, and watch the bludgers scramble for greener pastures.

  16. eduardo odraude says

    Jan 12, 2018 at 1:38 am

    PA President Mahmoud Abbas told President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner that he wouldn’t stop payments to convicted terrorists until his “dying day.”

    This makes Abbas and his government a terrorist government. And why can’t the “Palestinians” create a democracy? Why is it one election one time, and then Abbas is in forever?

    So he’s a dictator and murderer. Even if it is deemed somehow misguided to just destroy him and his fascism, they should not get another penny from us until they make peace with Israel. Furthermore, they should not get a penny until they create a real liberal democracy. Too bad if they don’t want one because they insist on being fascist pigs till they die. Then they can enjoy their fascistic lifestyle but not on our dime.

    • StellaSaidSo says

      Jan 12, 2018 at 1:45 am

      ‘…they can enjoy their fascist lifestyle but not on our dime.’

      Exactly.

    • joanofark06 says

      Jan 12, 2018 at 9:31 am

      “And why can’t the “Palestinians” create a democracy?” That’s a joke right?? Muslims and their Islam, create a democracy?? That’s like mixing oil and water…it’ll NEVER work! If you think, it ever would work, you don’t enough about Islam..!! Once a country is Islam, it STAYS Islam…as far as I’ve ever seen anyway….someone can tell me if I’m wrong….

      But I believe, that’s what the Iranian muslims, are trying to fight, in the streets of Iran….their so called “freedoms”. If they think they’ll ever “freedoms” under Islam….they need to have their heads checked!
      If they think, by their fighting for “rights and freedoms” in the streets, that Islam in that country, can be terminated all together, or/and replaced by something else, or ANYTHING else….they STILL need to get their heads checked!
      When has a country that is based on islam and most everyone in that country is a muslim, ever traded, or got rid of islam, and replaced it with any other religion, or culture, or etc?? I may be wrong, but I can’t think of a single one….!

  17. Joe Smith says

    Jan 12, 2018 at 3:22 am

    This title should actually read: The United States of America paid $350M to jihad terrorists and their families in 2017.”

  18. TassieR says

    Jan 12, 2018 at 6:02 am

    Well, Abbas’ practice of supporting terror (not with his own cash, but of course) is only natural: he is a 100% terrorist himself. Abbas is just Abbas. But shouldn’t we add “and Kushner is just Kushner”?

  19. Yitz says

    Jan 12, 2018 at 9:55 am

    Till his dying day.may it be soon.and poor ibraham says gaza killers are freedom fighters!yeah and lions are vegetarians

  20. Del says

    Feb 22, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    The same Hamas that Trudeau gave hundreds of millions to shortly after being elected. He tried to hide it by laundering it through the UN.

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