The Taylor Force Act was intended to discourage the PA’s financial support for terrorists and their families. It’s a start. But it’s not enough. Other legislation is now needed — an Act To Oppose Glorifying Terrorism (it might be called, less awkwardly, the Gail Rubin Act, after the first victim, an American, of Dalal Maghrebi), to discourage the PA’s promotion of terrorism, especially on its television programs for children, and in its naming of squares, parks, streets, schools, camps, and courses, after “Palestinian” terrorists. Of course, the “Palestinians” won’t change the names of those squares, parks, streets, schools, camps, and courses. But their refusal to comply with what all decent people will see as an eminently reasonable request will make it easier for much deeper cuts to be made in American aid.
Just imagine how useful the public discussion of a proposed “Gail Rubin Act” could be. The Act’s Congressional sponsors could show, for a television audience of millions, many of the schools, squares, streets, parks, etc., named in honor of such murderers as Dalal Mughrabi. They could then explain exactly what murderous deeds Mughrabi, Abu Iyad, Yahya Ayyash, and others had done to be so “honored” by the PA. And American news programs could also re-broadcast the children’s programs shown on PA television, where cute preschoolers sing along with a “Palestinian” Mickey Mouse, as they express their cheerful desire to “kill Jews.” That should be eye-opening for many in this country, who have no real idea of the atmosphere of hate in which “Palestinian” children are raised.
The PA will refuse to comply with the provisions of either the Taylor Force Act, or the (here proposed) Gail Rubin Act. It will not stop its lavish stipends for terrorists and their families. And it will not stop, either, naming squares and streets and schools after terrorist murderers they wish to honor. So be it. Now aid to the PA can be decreased more and more, month by month, pari passu with their continued refusal both to end those payments to the families of terrorists and to rename the places named in honor of such terrorists. For every month that goes by without the PA’s compliance, American aid could be cut by a specified and ever increasing amount, until, ideally, the American contribution to sustaining the PA, asymptotically approaching zero, achieves its palpable hit.
The “Palestinians” are not exactly without resources. They just prefer to be supported by the generous Infidels, and especially by the Americans. But if necessary, they can go to the rich Arab states of the Gulf for support, which has so far been minimal. Why can’t those states, with their huge revenues from an accident of geology, their oil reserves (and, in the case of Qatar, natural gas), be pressured to support their fellow Arab Muslims? Since 1973 alone, those Arab oil states have received more than 25 trillion dollars. Given those sums received by the Gulf Arabs, why should the West be supporting, in any amount, the Palestinian Authority when the rich Arabs are there to help them?
Why did the West, why did the Americans, ever think that they had some kind of obligation to financially support Muslim Arabs? There is no such obligation. Especially in the case of the “Palestinians,” whose existence as a separate people is a deliberate fiction, whose leaders have been staggeringly corrupt (think of Arafat with his one-to-three billion dollar fortune, or of Mahmoud Abbas and his two sons, who between them have accumulated their own fortune, of at least $400 million) and who support, promote, and practice terrorism, how did we ever commit ourselves to supporting people who do not wish us well? Nor is there any obligation to welcome into our midst those whose ideology, the faith of Islam, inculcates the need to fight the Infidels, wherever they are to be found (e.g., at 2:191, 3:89, 9:29), that commands the waging of Jihad in 109 Qur’anic verses, that unambiguously describes Muslims as “the best of peoples” (3:110) while Infidels are “the most vile of creatures”(98:6).
The continued funding of the PA, despite the Taylor Force Act, makes their leaders think they can continue to get away with their “Pay For Slay” program. Furthermore, their honoring of dead terrorists by naming so many places and programs after them is another way to promote terrorism that the Taylor Force Act did not even address.
We all need to understand that we Americans owe the “Palestinians” exactly nothing. The PA is neither a democratic nor a decent regime, but dictatorial and wildly corrupt. It is not our ally, it is not our friend. The reason for being of the “Palestinians” is to destroy, and replace, the single Jewish state with a 23rd Arab state. We have received nothing from the PA of value; the democratic country they wish to destroy happens to be our only unshakable political and military ally in the vast swath of territory between Europe and Japan.
Cutting off all aid to the PA will demonstrate that we are unwilling to be taken for granted, our laws (as the Taylor Force Act) openly flouted, our policies mocked. Count America out. Let the PA, no longer the ungrateful recipient of American largesse, instead become a permanent mendicant in the Gulf, waiting for its handouts from Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar — all states which have recently given signs of tiring of the “Palestinian” cause. We’ve given enough. We’ve endured more than enough. Go ahead, let’s see how patient and generous those Arab states, dripping with petrodollars, will turn out to be for their so-called “Palestinian” brothers.
mortimer says
Aid should be handled through Israel, allowing the Israeli government to decide who gets the money. That way, terrorists will not get it.
Raja says
Mortimer,
Aid is just a misnomer for Islamic Jizya, an entitlement to Muslims paid through the nose by the infidels according to Koran etc.
I guess some clowns coined this idea of bribing the Arab Muslims under sundry plans to dole out largess(to the terrorists) for buying peace especially when 2 state theories were being floated around 1948 and earlier.
I agree with you that any dole out should be allowed through Israel whose survival is always hanging in balance.
The Crusader says
I’ve read that Democrats feel uncomfortable with passing this Bill. The only reason why they feel this way is THEY DONT WANT TO LOSE PALESTINIAN AMERICAN VOTE.
keith says
Some good ideas,,,,that fall flat when you involve the media, who are so busy kissing Musloid asses that they would be terrified to do it in case they are called Islamaphobic!!!!