The answer to the question is Yes, of course.
“The Palestinian Authority spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year in stipends and other benefits to jailed terrorists and their families. According to data collected by Israel’s Defense Ministry, the PA spent a total of 1.237 billion shekels ($358 million), or about 7% of the PA’s total annual budget, on terrorist stipends last year.”
If the Palestinian Authority is giving any money at all to jihad terrorists, and the UK is giving any money at all to the Palestinian Authority, then yes, the UK is funding the jihad terrorists who tried to murder Kay Wilson.
“‘Is the UK funding the terrorists who tried to murder me?,'” by David Rosenberg, Arutz Sheva, January 12, 2018:
A British woman living in Israel has urged the British Parliament to probe whether funds the UK has provided to the Palestinian Authority are being used to promote terrorism and support jailed terrorists.
On December 18th 2010, two members of a Palestinian Authority-based terror cell attacked a pair of female hikers outside of Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, stabbing the two women repeatedly.
One of the women, 46-year-old Kristine Luken, an American citizen, was murdered during the attack. Luken’s fellow hiker, Kay Wilson, survived the attack, despite being severely beaten and stabbed more than a dozen times.
“I had been stabbed 13 times,” Key recalled. “But I somehow managed to get up – with 13 punctures in my lungs and diaphragm, over 30 broken bones, a crushed sternum, dislocated shoulder… I managed to walk over a mile bound and gagged and barefoot through the forest.”
“That was without a doubt the longest walk of my life – and it was a lonely, lonely walk because I thought I was going to die.”
Now Wilson, 53, is calling on her native Britain to examine whether its primary foreign aid program is funding the very terrorists who murdered her friend and attempted to murder her.
The Palestinian Authority spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year in stipends and other benefits to jailed terrorists and their families. According to data collected by Israel’s Defense Ministry, the PA spent a total of 1.237 billion shekels ($358 million), or about 7% of the PA’s total annual budget, on terrorist stipends last year.
‘Even if I will have to leave my position, I will not compromise on the salary (rawatib) of a Martyr (Shahid) or a prisoner, as I am the president of the entire Palestinian people, including the prisoners, the Martyrs, the injured, the expelled, and the uprooted,” Abbas said.
In a letter to MP Stephen Twigg (Labour), who chairs Parlaiment’s [sic] international development committee, Kay noted that the two terrorists responsible for the attack which took the life of Kristine Luken left Kay seriously wounded have received more than $12,000 each from the PA.
The PA, Kay noted, was a beneficiary of Britain’s Department of International Development (DFID), which provides part of the nearly $700 million the PA receives in foreign aid each year.
“In the past Dfid has suspended aid packages when evidence has emerged of taxpayers’ money being misspent or on the discovery of unacceptable behaviour and the committee has also been swift to investigate when a misuse of funds or malpractice has been highlighted,” Kay wrote in her appeal to Twigg.
“However, despite the fact that your committee possesses wide-ranging powers to examine DFID’s work you have chosen to ignore the Palestinian Authority’s funding and incitement of terrorism.
“There is now strong evidence that ministers have misled Parliament about how taxpayers’ money is distributed and there is incontestable evidence that the Palestinian Authority misuses aid funds, glorifies terror and prevents much needed development funds reaching those most in need.
“As the chair of the International Development Select Committee my co-signatories and I demand that you institute an enquiry into these matters as a matter of urgency.”
MP Twigg confirmed that he had received the letter, and pledged to “take its contents very seriously.”…
Jayell says
For many years now, the UK Government has been throwing taxpayers’ money around on ‘foreign aid’ like some pathological spendthrift with a Mother Theresa complex who’s just won a mega-jackpot on the national lottery. But that’s OK because it’s not their money and we all know that, with the NHS going bust, they couldn’t give a damn about their own citizens anyway, especially Ms. Wilson in this case.
PS – Not sure about the ‘Mother Theresa’ bit, bearing in mind who’s in No. 10 at the moment.
David Scoltock says
Nothing new. Americans used to fund the IRA via sinn fein before 9/11 showed what fubding terrorism results in.
If Corbyn gets in it’ll be far worse
LB says
Exactly. Not only is the UK indirectly funding terrorists, they are also silencing anyone who dares to even insinuate it (or anything remotely anti-islam related). This woman managed do drag her beaten and broken body for miles to survive, but that still wouldn’t save her from shari- *ahem*, UK “hate-crime” police for what she said here (which is nothing but the truth).
J D S says
Oh The UK is not the only one I feel sure some of the U.S. AID dollars are getting to the terrorist also.
BC says
Why does the rest of the world (at least the left of it) think that Israel must make peace with people who are constantly murdering its citizens and anybody else they can lay hands on and not being ashamed of that but officially rewarding the murderers?
gravenimage says
Good questions, BC.
jewdog says
The funding is essential for peace, no doubt, that will be the excuse. She should think of herself as a martyr for peace. If the Labor party ever gets in power there will be even more funding.
john spielman says
to answer this woman – YES the UK is not only funding islamic terror in Israel but it is funding the islamic INVASION and CONQUEST of Britainistan formerly known as Great Britain
Sarah says
Good God, I can’t imagine what she went through, not just enduring that attack, but having to hobble her way through that forest after the attack, to go get help. The poor, poor woman.
I’m hoping her question is entirely rhetorical, however. Because a blind person can see the answer to it. And a white Western woman who lives in Israel (of all places) and who was mauled and nearly slaughtered by a (Palestinian) Arab Muslim, living next door to Israel, shouldn’t be needing to ask the question she has asked.
The answer is stupidly obvious, sweetheart.
I know I have more of a ‘take no prisoners’ mentality, so perhaps that is clouding my judgement here. But I’m guessing she’s asked that question with the hopes of shining a light on the corruption that is occurring, by having the British government sending money to the so-called ‘Palestinians’. She is hoping to embarrass them and back them into a corner and maybe somehow, magically, get the foreign policy to be altered as a result of the attack she suffered through.
If she wants all of those things (and hell, I would too, in her shoes) then rather than going for the passive-aggressive approach, I’d be inclined to say something like ‘The attack I barely survived is my blood on the hands of the Secretary of State for Foreign & Commonwealth Affairs by way of the British government knowingly colluding in my attempted murder at the hands of the Palestinians, whom which are funded annually, by the British government and therefore, the British taxpayer. I call on the Secretary of State (et al) to explain and justify the British government’s position that places me in a position of becoming collateral damage, in their eyes, so as to continue their corrupt relationship with a known terror group, the PLO.’.
Mind you, I’d also then probably turn up dead at some point, in an alley somewhere with two in the bac of my head. That’s the kind of consequences for those sorts of actions, in the world we live in today. But either way, the polite posturing and passive aggressive speech of interntional diplomacy has gotten us nowhere good in the past 30 years and if this woman wants change – she’s going about it the wrong way.
I sincerely hope she makes a full recovery and leads a long, safe and happy life.
dr ilona says
well said………………
CRUSADER says
“Although the prisoners are in an Israeli jail, should my government ever decide to let murderers free again in a prisoner exchange, these cold-blooded savages will not be released. Instead they will be shipped off to the USA to stand trial there,” Wilson said….
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/us-charges-two-palestinian-men-in-2010-killing-of-american-hiker-kristine-luken/2017/04/13/daba85f4-2069-11e7-be2a-3a1fb24d4671_story.html?utm_term=.6c196de1bcba
CRUSADER says
Fuller account of the stabbings is horrifying, but imperative for people to know details on, so that these stories aren’t sanitized:
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Attack
On Saturday afternoon, 18 December 2010, Luken and Wilson were hiking in the Mata forest, near the town of Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem. They noticed two Arab men, Aiad Fatfata and Kifah Ghanimat, approaching them and were suspicious of their intentions. The men attacked them armed with a long serrated knife. The women attempted to fight back, Wilson managing to stab an attacker with a pocketknife, before they were subdued. The men stole their money and removed Wilson’s necklace. Wilson recalled: “I didn’t understand whether they wanted to rape us or mug us. They removed my Star of David. I tried to convince them we weren’t Jewish.”
Wilson instructed Luken to feign an epileptic attack and told their assailants that they were part of a tour group that would soon be returning. After half an hour at being held at knife point, their shoes were removed and their hands tied behind their backs. After being gagged with parts of a fleece jacket, the two women were separated and forced to kneel on hands and knees. The two women begged for their lives to be spared but were then stabbed multiple times. Wilson later told police: “I realized he was going to behead me. I saw Kristine murdered before my eyes. She was yelling. I didn’t want it to hurt me. I tried to keep silent. It was tough, because the beatings were hard, but I tried to play dead.”
Wilson was stabbed 13 times and sustained several broken ribs, punctured lungs and diaphragm, dislocated shoulder, broken shoulder blade, and a broken sternum; Kristine was fatally stabbed in the attack. The attackers returned a few minutes later to confirm that the two women were dead. Wilson was stabbed again in the chest. She said: “I played dead. I saw [the knife] hadn’t gone into my heart. My friend was dying, I heard her making gurgling sounds.” Wilson regained consciousness and found herself between bushes in the forest. Feeling weak and severely injured, she tried to shift herself to the forest trail so that other people might discover her. She recounted: “I just wanted to sleep and felt as though I were about to collapse, but I knew I could not fall asleep. I tried to get up three times and fell down, I deviated from the path and couldn’t find my way, and it was very difficult for me to breathe, but I had to make a switch in my head and think positive.”
With her hands still bound behind her back, Wilson staggered barefoot and bleeding heavily from multiple stab wounds for more than 1,200 meters until reaching a parking lot where a family alerted the authorities. She was hospitalized in the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in a critical condition. Due to Wilson stabbing one of the attackers with a small penknife, the DNA on her knife led to the capture of a terror cell. She was declared a heroine by the Israeli Shin Bet and the Israeli press.
Police and border officials staged a large hunt for Luken, combing the forests around Beit Shemesh. After an overnight search, Luken’s body was found ensconced in bushes, bound and stabbed to death. Police believed her body had been moved there by the assailants.
Aftermath
The role of the Israeli West Bank barrier in preventing terrorist attacks was analyzed and Haaretz concluded that while the West Bank barrier remained unfinished, terrorists continued to have easy access into Israel through the Beit Shemesh corridor from the West Bank.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Neta_Sorek_and_Kristine_Luken
BUILD THE WALL !!! BUILD THE WALL !!!!! BUILD THE WALL !!!!!!!!!!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Incredible ordeal. Evil on the loose.
If more people realized the situation Israel has to put up with, there would be less comparing their security barrier to the Berlin wall (by quite frankly stupid letfies).
Thanks for the info Crusader.
gravenimage says
**My God**–thanks for the details. This is more horrifying that I had realized. I had envisioned a quick attack, but it was far worse and more sadistic. Lucky this poor woman survived.
b.a. freeman says
Sarah, i agree with U wholeheartedly; extremely good post! and BTW, if the nazis running eurabian governments don’t stop protecting their proxy army of pious muslims, they’re liable to end up with a rebellion of the masses. i’m pretty sure that the plan is to cover pious muslims as long as possible, then declare martial law when society begins to collapse. from there, it a short distance to a leftist dictatorship marked by only a few assassinations (if any, given the treason of the people almost always at the top).
and if that rebellion starts, there are likely to be *lots* of leftists – even the stupid ones who have never bothered looking at islam for themselves – swinging from lampposts.
StellaSaidSo says
Copies of Kay Wilson’s letter should be sent to every UK political party (including small and emerging parties like FOR BRITAIN and BRITAIN FIRST), and every media outlet in UK. MP Twigg might take the matter more seriously if he knows that others are reading his mail.
christianblood says
US, UK and EU countries give many Billions of dollars to the islamic world annually, even to murderous jihadists that are mass-murdering Christians and other minorities in places like Balkans, Libya, Iraq and Syria. Shame on them!
Terry Gain says
Jay Boo Boo
Christianblood’s comment is on topic and totally appropriate. Funding for the PA is funding for terrorism and a people who will not let Israelis live in peace.
dr ilona says
Israelis live in peace…………….??? not there…..they stole the country with help of the britains and that means Rothschild)………israelis are.khazaken, who stole palestinian country …this socalled from god…. elected folk ( which god please ) are the most dangerous group on this mother planet. Read the talmud, the kabbala and educate yourself
LeftisruiningCanada says
If you are looking at the same parts of the Talmud that Ibrahim is, you aren’t really looking at the Talmud at all.
But you would need to quote something first.
christianblood says
Terry Gain
Thank you, I am sure “Jay Boo” consumed too much MSM propaganda that he can’t see anything beyond it.
gravenimage says
Christianblood is fine with Russian “ally” Iran funding Hizb’allah’s terrorism against Israel.
Actual Anti-Jihadists condemn this foolish insanity whether perpetrated by Western nations or by Russia.
gravenimage says
“dr ilona” wrote”
Israelis live in peace…………….??? not there…..they stole the country with help of the britains and that means Rothschild)
………………………
What vicious twaddle.
More:
………israelis are.khazaken, who stole palestinian country …this socalled from god…. elected folk ( which god please ) are the most dangerous group on this mother planet.
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Ah, the claim that Jews are not Jewish, but are actually members of a small Asian tribe. More ahistoric claptrap.
More:
Read the talmud, the kabbala and educate yourself
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I see that “dr ilona” hopes that unwary posters here will find one of those sites like the Daily Stormer that make up “quotes” from the Talmud. What a nasty piece of work.
Notice that “dr ilona” has not a word of criticism for the brutal stabbing of this poor woman. Very telling…
Westman says
“MP Twigg confirmed that he had received the letter, and pledged to ‘take its contents very seriously.’…”
Where do politicians learn those Weasel Words that give the impression of magnificent action while only promising to tie their shoelaces? Are they born hesitating to take their first breath, not wanting to make a commitment to life and mother?
The Great Empire, harrump, Islam is the new jewel in the tarnished crown, harrump…
Does anyone else suspect Mr. Twigg has the hormones of Ms. Twiggy?
Is this the inevitable outcome of heavy socialism – officials become actors strutting on a stage for appearance; passing time until the next collection of public wealth?
It is an utter disgrace if even one UK Shilling or Euro goes to a PA whose “leader” pays terrorists to murder UK citizens.
LeftisruiningCanada says
+1
Karen says
“However, despite the fact that your committee possesses wide-ranging powers to examine DFID’s work you have chosen to ignore the Palestinian Authority’s funding and incitement of terrorism.”
Yes, Kay Wilson has made a very important point here.
The West gives hard cash to the PA supposedly to support its civil institutions while ignoring the well-known misuse of those funds. This is the legacy of identity politics which elevates the group above the individual. Western guilt funds an organization known to support terror and turns a blind eye to the destruction of individuals.
I would also encourage everyone to take a hard look at the charities they fund. Verify that there are no ties to BDS activities, and find out which groups your charities ‘partner’ with overseas. Ask hard and direct questions, if no detailed information is available on the websites or promotion material. Any group that fails those two points has been removed from my list.
gravenimage says
Yes–we hope it goes to the “Palestinians” creating a civil state–but instead it goes to the destruction of Israel and murder of Jews.
mortimer says
Kay Wilson is correct of course: the foreign monies given to the Pallies provide the massive payouts of some $350 million every year to JIHAD-TERRORISTS in prison and to their families, especially to the terrorists who were killed in suicidal attacks.
Not only Great Britain, but the United States, the EU and all countries who fund the Pallies are funding terrorism.
Then we must spend huge amounts of money for transport security, military costs to fight the terrorists, etc.
This does not add up to a sensible program. Aid must be linked to human rights and to a clear policy that condemns and opposes terrorism. If they continue to fund terrorism, the Pallies should not receive a dime.
Terry Gain says
Anyone who, post Holocaust, does not support the right of the Jewish people to live in peace in their ancestral homeland, is morally depraved.
Kay says
Poor woman. I’m so glad she survived. Kudos to her for speaking to power.
Terry Gain says
dr ilona says
Jan 12, 2018 at 10:28 am
Israelis live in peace…………….??? not there…..they stole the country with help of the britains and that means Rothschild)………israelis are.khazaken, who stole palestinian country …this socalled from god…. elected folk ( which god please ) are the most dangerous group on this mother planet. Read the talmud, the kabbala and educate yourself
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Educate yourself ilona. The so-called Palestinains never exercised dominion or control over what is now Israel. The Arabs, who have been at war with other civilations for 1396 years, were given 78% of of the Palestinan mandate. They have a country. It is called Jordan.
CRUSADER says
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/What-a-waste-Im-46-years-old-and-Im-being-murdered
Extraordinary story told of the assault while hiking in Jerusalem woods:
“I’m waiting for ‘Allahu akbar!’ but it doesn’t come….
Instead, I hear ‘Oh no, oh God,’ and I can hear them starting to stab [Kristine] a few times.
The next thing I know…he’s just stabbing me….
“It was so terrifying that there wasn’t a capacity for fear.”
CRUSADER says
Similar murderous knifing occurred earlier, to a feminist hiking who wanted to reconcile with Arabs:
Neta Sorek (Hebrew: נטע שורק), aged 53, grew up in Israel at Kibbutz Afikim. She later moved to Sweden and then to the United States, but after two decades abroad, she returned to Israel, married and had a daughter. She had worked as an English teacher in Zikhron Ya’akov for 13 years and was member of the feminist group Women for Peace, participating in joint Arab-Jewish projects. Her family said she believed in co-existence; she studied Arabic and met with Arab women from villages in northern Israel. In love with nature, she regularly walked outdoors.
On the day of the attack Sorek was on a vacation in small guest house located near the Beit Jimal Monastery. Shortly after she reached the site she headed out for a walk around the monastery, where she was murdered.
The attack
On 24 February 2010, members of a Palestinian terrorist cell illegally infiltrated into Israel from Surif, a Palestinian Authority controlled area, through gaps in the security barrier near Betar Illit. They burgled a house and stole a car from Beit Shemesh and then drove to the Beit Jimal Monastery waiting for nightfall to make their return to Surif. At the monastery, they spotted Sorek walking alone in the monastery gardens and decided to murder her. They stabbed her to death and fled the vicinity in their stolen car.
Sorek’s family were informed several hours later that she had not returned to the place where she was staying. The police were alerted and the Beit Shemesh police station began to investigate her disappearance. Dissatisfied with the police efforts, her family began to search for Neta by themselves. They knew that she had visited the monastery and approximated her whereabouts and eventually, her cousin and two friends discovered her body. Initially the police suspected a suicide [clarification needed] but after an autopsy was conducted, results showed her death was caused as a result of foul play.
An investigation was launched to find Neta’s murderers.
In addition to admitting to Luken’s murder, members of the terror cell also confessed to the murder of Neta Sorek from earlier that year and said that they had perpetrated additional stabbing and shooting attacks. The men declared their goal of murdering Jews. The Palestinian cell were indicted for two murders, two attempted murders, a rape and a series of other violent crimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Neta_Sorek_and_Kristine_Luken#Murder_of_Neta_Sorek
eduardo odraude says
In a normal world, this would not only deprive the Pal Authority of all foreign funds. The Pal Authority would also face tough international sanctions or even the arrest or lethal targeting of the leadership for their criminal, terrorist behavior.
b.a. freeman says
lethal targeting?
eduardo for prez!
762x51FMJ says
Wherever an Islamic cause is financed.
assassins of freedom are created.
Pong says
“I tried to convince them we weren’t Jewish”.
Interesting way of thinking. It sounds like “We don’t deserve such treatment, only jews do”.
6woods says
She was fighting for her life. You would have said the same under the circumstances.
gravenimage says
Agreed, 6woods.
Karen says
She was under stress, fighting for life, and trying to appeal to logic. But I do see your heartfelt point – in any other context, it could be viewed as you describe. I hope I never gave to face such animals. ?
Dapto says
Ofcourse they are as the UK is part of the Soros Nazi Collective that’s designed to kill you all
tgusa says
Yes indeed they are. They are, after all, insane. Its hard waking up from a bad dream only to find that what you thought was a bad dream is indeed real.
CRUSADER says
There is an interesting concept dealing with healing, of showing compassion with the hope of turning them and melting their hearts.
In the book “Third Choice” (introduction by Bat Ye’or) it mentions about getting close to one’s opponent, and in the process saving both the opposed and the opposer.
“….escape from the tyranny of evil and recover one’s freedom. Throughout this reflection on dhimmitude, the reader is confronted with the question of how to recognize evil, how to live with it while preserving one’s own moral probity, and how to overcome it by developing inner spiritual forces. And while drawing nearer to the oppressed, one also draws nearer to the oppressor, and may ask: can victims be healed if they do not go toward their oppressors and try to heal them also? Is this not the existential meaning of suffering, to bring about the healing of the world?”
Respected theologian Mark Durie wrote the book, “Third Choice” about making the choice of freedom over the vile destructiveness of rejection which Dhimmitude poses.
First choice is Islam.
Second choice is Dhimmitude.
Third choice is FREEDOM !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Maybe there is hope for Muslims….
But it will be them who have to change.
Just maybe….
Carol says
Sorry, but It reminds me of a tactic that might work with some would-be rapists. Rush towards them with open arms and you’ll likely deflate their attempt at sport. Carrying a utility knife sounds increasingly good.
terry says
The U.K. will do absolutely nothing in this regard.
The submission boat sailed years ago.