Common sense. But watch the lovers of death rage.
“Trump signs into law bill slashing PA funds over terrorist stipends,” by Eric Cortellessa, Times of Israel, March 23, 2018:
WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump signed into law on Friday legislation that cuts some aid to the Palestinians until they end stipends to terrorists and the families of slain attackers, as he approved a massive $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill.
The Taylor Force Act, which was named after a former US army officer who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist while visiting Tel Aviv, was included in the legislative package.
The law will halt US funding to the Palestinian Authority until Ramallah stops issuing such payments. But it includes three exceptions, allowing for US funding to Palestinian water and childhood vaccination programs, as well as to East Jerusalem hospitals.
On Friday morning, Trump tweeted that he was “considering” vetoing the budget bill, since it didn’t include full funding for the US-Mexico border wall, but he then orchestrated a news conference announcing he would sign it.
Up until Friday, Trump had not yet explicitly stated whether he would sign the Taylor Force bill into law, though a White House official told The Times of Israel in July that the president supports its principal objective.
One of the Taylor Force Act’s authors, Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, thanked the family and friends of Taylor Force, who lobbied Congress to pass the bill and include in the omnibus.
“I truly appreciate the hard work of the Force family and the many friends of Taylor Force who made it clear to Congress the practice of #PaytoSlay must be stopped,” he tweeted, hours before Trump signed it into law.
The Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas condemned it and vowed to continue paying families of “martyrs and prisoners.”
Yusef al Mahmoud, spokesperson for the PA government in Ramallah, said that the US should instead have called for “ending the occupation and suffering of the Palestinian people.”
Congress, he added, should also make aid to Israel conditional on “ending its occupation and settlements because it’s the occupation that is responsible for killing our people and throwing them into prison.”
The spokesperson said that the “martyrs and prisoners are, in the eyes of our people, sacred symbols of freedom and struggle and opposition to humiliation and surrender.”
Senator Bob Corker, one of the bill’s main sponsors, has said the Palestinian Authority has created monetary incentives for acts of terrorism by paying monthly stipends of as much as $3,500 to Palestinians who commit acts of violence and to their families.
The amount of the payment depends on the length of the jail sentence they receive for the crime, he said….
D Austin says
The swamp won!
gravenimage says
How is cutting taxpayer aid to the homicidal “Palestinians” the swamp winning?
Roderick MacUalraig says
Should have said abolishing. I don’t want one red cent going to them.
SweetOlBob says
He should cut all money to the so called palestinians ! That’s ALL money.
The hell with the slobbering liberals and their weeping cry, “OH ! But the Children” !
Right ! Lets spend money on the health of a 2 year old while his father gives him (or her) a toy gun or a toy explosive belt and teaches them to go and kill Jews.
The *sc palestinians in Gaza can afford luxury department stores and luxury cars. I think they should take care of kiddie’s health problems.
* So Called
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opAdGt4gOi8
Andy says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zkd3QvkppE
J D S says
Two words in this that hit me wrong…..”some aid”…..it should have been… “all aid stopped”….
I have no idea how many dollars we send to Muslim countries but probably a lot. Neither do i know how How many of these Muslim countries produce terrorist but to me it makes sense…in fact all monies to any country that produces any terrorist should be stopped, Further, and to many, this may sound too harsh,
America has been “taken” too long but….we should stop ALL aid to foreign countries till we have fixed our national debt except maybe those countries that are on board with all of our foreign policies and then limited. Going to ever happen? Probably not because there are too many liberals in congress……I will stop short of calling them traitors but many sure are NOT FOR AMERICA like elected officials should be.
Dear God send us some “SONS OF LIBERTY”
Savvy Kafir says
I agree. We should not be giving ANY aid to any Muslim countries.
Anyone who is about to sign one of those checks should take the time to read the Qur’an.
larry says
Yup, the swamp won. This bill is a disaster. Full of so much pork you can smell it. All foreign aid should be cut to zero. We need to get our debt under control or this country will collapse. I was really hoping Trump would veto.
Carolyne says
Oh yes. Hillary Clinton would have been so much better with her playmate Huma.
Andy says
What’s REALLY Behind Trump’s Signing the Omnibus Bill!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPnO_HTEABg
gravenimage says
Exactly, Carolyne–whatever Trump’s missteps–and there have been not a few–still *much* better than Hillary would have been.
Can anyone imagine her cutting aid to the “Palestinians” over their support of Jihad terror? Me neither…
Carolyne says
Do we have some raging “Lovers of death” here?
Andy says
Beware the Military–industrial complex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%E2%80%93industrial_complex
What has happened to America?
What happened to the Borders, Language & Culture-as per-what Michael Savage has said many many times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtZlR_lXgDM
dumbledoresarmy says
Cut the lot.
gravenimage says
Yes! I hope this is just the first step.
Phil Copson says
If I was giving money to the PA for hospitals etc, I’d check the receipts carefully – the last 50 million dollar hospital turned out to have wings, jet-engines and shiny paint, and a sign saying “Personal property of Mr Abbas” stencilled on it.
HugoHackenbush says
See my post below regarding the “fungible” nature of money.
On another note; I have no problem with people fully suffering from the effects of their irrational ideology. Besides, we have no right to deny the “Palestinians” their justly deserved victory…in the Darwin Awards.
Peterson says
I would not give money to these programs also. When you are paying terrorists you have surplus funds. Everyone has to think about priorities and earn the money. Here it is funded by everyone else so that they can go on without Botheration and carry on terrorist activities. Once America stopped money to Pakistan it is at the brink of defaulting. They were happily cursing America and taking money from America.
paul says
NEVER give money to the enemy, who want us dead
HugoHackenbush says
Foreign aid definition: “going deeper into debt to China in order to send money to other people who also hate us” See also: “lunacy”, “self-agnegation”, “debt slavery” and “selling out our children’s future”.
HugoHackenbush says
Note typp above: self-aBnegation.
HugoHackenbush says
Note typo in response to the other typo: “typo not typp”.
Frank Anderson says
Hugo. . ., neither of us can win against the keyboard; but we try!
LeftisruiningCanada says
ha, true.
Maxine says
Our Government should cut them all off IMO, We need to worry about Americans, and not every other Country. It is sickening how out of control the spending has got, but to have the disrespect, hate, and Demands, it is Insanity! All these Countrys are sucking us dry!
Relic says
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxuThNgl3YA
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
It is sad even to hear mad devil Trump talking about aids to palestians. Throw away his rubbish, let him take it to settle those little girls he has been sexually assaulting
Maxine says
Where are your facts! It is Just Pure hatred how you left Throw false Accusations at our Setting President, The Best One Ever. and would rather support Evil Demonic Greedy Politicians! Our Country has No place for the hate you people Spew. Leave if you don’t like America.
Carolyne says
The mere fact that Ibby hates President Trump makes me love the President all the more.
gravenimage says
🙂
Chand says
Trump will not be settling any ‘little girls’ soon. He could, on the other hand, be MAKING money! His lawyers have sued the porn actress Stormy Daniels for breach-of-contract by non keeping her mouth shut about the affair.
Chand says
typo: ” by not keeping her mouth shut”
LeftisruiningCanada says
Yes, those ‘little girls’ you often fantasize about but never show us any evidence for.
Ibrahim is not the only muslim to have little girls on the brain.
Indeed, it seems to be fard.
gravenimage says
Yep.
gravenimage says
Poor Ibrahim itace muhammed–his fellow Jihadists may soon be off the gravy train.
As for his reference to the president, he has claimed that he has a secret tape recording Trump’s assault on underaged girls. Never mind how he would have come by such a tape in Nigeria, when no such exists in the United States…why hasn’t he produced it? Wouldn’t that take down one of the enemies of his foul creed? The whole thing is absurd.
Even more grotesque is his posing as a defender of little girls. He has, in fact, said that their should be no limits on the age that Muslim peodophiles be allowed to “marry” little girls. *Ugh*.
Infidel says
If that piece of shit Palestinian leader is upset that Trump has stopped the stipends, why does not this vermin pay them himself? The USA is in no obligation to pay these mad jehaadis. Amazing is the sense of entitlement of Muslims!! Amazing indeed!!
AP says
IMO foreign aid is a farce. Let people spend their own money on the water, children, and hospitals, less cash for evil when you are hungry.
End PC says
Doesn’t the “exceptions”, which sound nice, just free up other PA money to give to families of jihad killers?
WPM says
Why don,t the rich Islamic countries aid the Palestinians? Why do the Palestinian leaders spend all the aid money on building ,schools ,hospitals, roads, sewers ,to improve the lot for their people? Giving money to Palestinian present leadership is like giving money to a drug addicts who have children , the kids will not get cloth ,feed, educated, the rent will not be paid, and the electricity to the house will be shut off ,but the parents will still get high. The Palestinian leadership get high on fighting Israel ,they stay in office by keeping their own people in poverty , blaming Israel for the short falls in the Palestinian leadership stealing the aid money to live like the third world tin pot dictators they are. They paid off terrorist families with a pension to promote violence to keep hate machine going.
Frank Anderson says
And buy 50 Million Dollar airplanes to use for what kind of smuggling and other bad purposes. Abbas does not need a full time airplane. So what else will it be used for while he is “at home”? The rich muslim countries don’t support the PA because they hate Palestinians as much or more than they hate Jews. Besides, it’s too much fun for them to watch the suckers pour money down a sinkhole that will eventually swallow and kill the suckers. “Nobody ever lost money underestimating the intelligent of the American consumer.” P.T. Barnum. Change the word from consumer to state department official and foreign aid decision maker and the statement would still be correct. Think about it?
Politicianophobia says
+ 100
Tom says
If the Palestinian Authority has said they will continue to pay the stipends to attackers and their families, the question must be asked, Where then is that money coming from, if not from the USA?
Could it be that the PA will divert the funds for hospitals and children away from its intended recipients and given to murderers and their families? Or does the PA have an alternate benefactor that will provide the funds? If it is the latter, why is the USA giving the PA ANY money at all?
The mire that is the Middle East is complicated but it seems much of western taxpayer money may be being siphoned off in the form of Aid to ME countries that may not need it from the west and can get funding elsewhere. More investigation needs to be done on exactly who is behind the scenes providing funds to countries in the ME, money that is probably being funnelled and used to fund the Jihad against the west, while we dummies give Aid money that may be unwarranted.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Tom, it is only idiot saudi monarchs. They Will soon be kicked out as traitors.
gravenimage says
Ibrahim itace muhammed is not a fan of foreign aid–he believes that Muslims should take money from Infidels in the form of Jizya, piracy, and slavery.
Proud Anti-Islam says
Cut all aids to PA. They misuse the money to pay all the Islamic terrorists. Never trust Muslims.
762x51FMJ says
No matter how an Islamic cause is financed,
A portion of the proceeds is used to assassinate
the freedom of others.
gravenimage says
True.
Richard Courtemanche says
It’s incomprehensible that Western leaders cannot unite in repulsing Islamists in every aspect considering their well known evil intentions.
LeftisruiningCanada says
It is incomprehensible, which is why deliberate actions are suspected.