Jihad terrorism, paid for by Israeli, US, and European taxpayers. My latest at FrontPage:
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is the world’s biggest welfare case, with the United States and the European Union pouring billions, if not trillions, into the coffers of these supposedly oppressed people. Palestinian officials have used the money to enrich themselves and to finance jihad terror against Israel. Finally, Israel has begun to push back against this: in July 2018, the Knesset passed a bill directing that the amount of PA payments to jihad terrorists be deducted from the Israeli taxpayer money that was collected for the Palestinians. (How many people who condemn Israel for its supposed oppression of the Palestinians are even aware that Israeli taxpayer money goes to the Palestinian Authority?) These deductions are happening – but they’re still not nearly enough, and the Palestinian Authority is still giving an astounding amount of money to jihad murderers and their families.
As the new book The Palestinian Delusion: The Catastrophic History of the Middle East Peace Process shows, the reaction among Palestinian officials to the Israeli bill was predictable. PA spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh called it a “declaration of war,” and PA President-for-Life Mahmoud Abbas was defiant: “We will not accept a cut or cancellation of salaries to the families of martyrs and prisoners, as some are trying to bring about. We view the prisoners and the martyrs as planets and stars in the skies of the Palestinian struggle, and they have priority in everything.” They were, he said, “paving the way for the independence of Palestine.”
The Trump administration was unmoved, and took decisive action of its own in support of the Israeli government’s stance. After years of American funding of the PA despite massive evidence of the fact that it is encouraging and rewarding jihad terror activity, Trump cut the amount of money the U.S. sent to the PA. And on February 1, 2019, the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Clarification Act (ATCA) came into effect. This act allowed families of victims of terror attacks in foreign countries to sue foreign governments. The Palestinian Authority thereupon asked the U.S. government to end its funding of the Palestinian security services, which amounted to sixty million dollars annually, as continuing to take it would expose the Palestinian government to lawsuits under the new law.
All that is very much to the good. A Palestinian Media Watch Special Report published Monday notes that “since February 2019, the Israeli government has been deducting the money the PA paid to terrorist prisoners in 2018, which equals 502 million shekels” ($145 million). But this isn’t nearly enough: the deductions haven’t stopped the PA from paying jihad terrorists and their families, and the PA is still receiving so much aid money that it can keep jihadis and their loved ones living in style.
Israeli authorities are aware of this problem. Back in February 2019, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office announced that “Prime Minister and Defense Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed security officials to step up checks on additional Palestinian Authority payments linked to terrorism, including those to terrorists and their families. The amount frozen will be updated as per the information received.”
Since then, however, nothing more has been done; Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) explains that this is due in part to the fact that “calculating the precise figure paid to dead terrorists’ families is very complex.” The PMW Special Report documents “the minimal amount of money the PA is paying to families of dead terrorists,” and it’s shocking: “the families of at least 14,300 dead terrorists are receiving at least 1,400 shekels/month. Adding the one-time grants, the total PA payments in 2018 were at least 241 million shekels” ($70 million). That makes the low-ball figure for how much the Palestinian Authority is paying for jihad terrorism 200 million dollars.
Palestinian leaders had been encouraging and rewarding terrorism for years, and world leaders have repeatedly condemned not the PA, but Israel, pressuring the Jewish state to make still more concessions to the Palestinians. There had never been any cost to the Palestinians for their jihad activity. Now there is. But it if this pressure isn’t drastically increased, the Palestinian jihad terror factory will continue to turn out product at a rapid clip, financed not just by Israel by American and European taxpayers whose money is in all too many cases being appropriated by weak, feckless leaders who remain willfully ignorant about the real situation in Israel.
It’s madness. And it must stop.
mortimer says
Robert Spencer wrote: It’s madness. And it must stop.
It’s a psychodrama. The Arabs want to express Islamic supremacism. The existence of the Jewish people and the Jewish state prove that Islam is false.
Angemon says
How many of those, after learning of it, would frame it in a way that made Israel look bad?
FYI says
Abbas looks like he is trying to use the Vulcan Death Grip.
Well that won’t work.
Because it is not real:Like muhammed’s flying horse or the koran coming from God or the “palestinians”…that’s just made up…
Politicallyincorrectistruth says
Just like Noahs ark myth, the great flood, Noah was 600 years old, people walked with the dinosaurs, virgin births, the earth is only 5000 years old, slavery is ok, etc etc on and on….
gravenimage says
Does Politicallyincorrectistruth have a problem with Jihad terrorism? Not so he says…
CogitoErgoSum says
Maybe if they would just start calling the payments the Jizya they would get better results. Of course, there is that humble submission business that goes along with it.
Wellington says
Madness.
And the world’s most decent countries like Israel and America continue to participate in this madness.
Put another way, the near ubiquitous insanity of our time often comes down to hush money to buy more time from the malevolent—Islam of course being a major “contender” in this regard.
Well, time is way overdue to quit buying more time where the Islamic world is concerned because it has a 1400-year record of oppression, deceit, parasitism, destruction, et al., which has pulled the human species down big time in the final analysis. And please, no more about the wonders of medieval Islam, which almost in its entirety was done, to the extent that it existed, in spite of Islam, not because of it.
Minus Islam in man’s history, the world would be so much better off. Ditto for Marxism and Nazism. Three of a kind here most certainly—enemies of freedom and many other wonderful matters like equality under the law—all three of them. Enough already.
Proper characterization of Islam as a massive negative on mankind is way overdue. Indeed, it is an imperative of the first order if mankind is to survive with truth, liberty, equality under the law, women’s rights, et al., as well as with fine pork products and alcohol of course.
Time for a beer and a BLT. Eff Mohammed and the Koran. Ditto for all those idiotic kuffaars out there still making all kinds of excuses for the worst religion of all time.
Westman says
I once thought that the news media was a guardian of the realm until working in it for a while. At the time 40% of the newspaper was wire service, UPI, and AP. The news staff read the political news from the majors and tended to follow suit and whatever social “justice” subject was in vogue influenced the locally produced stories. In effect the small newspapers were captive to the majors on the East and West coasts.
It appears, even in the age of instataneous international communication, the same old voices dictate the propaganda and still, the people and Congress buy it. We don’t have leaders, we have followers of the news and polls whose primary objective is re-election by not rocking the boat and leading from behind.
The news majors are now castigating Israel and the spineless politicians and lazy ctizens take their “expert” propaganda as truth, like a mindless herd of wildebeest.
One fruit of Jihad is the (very) slow realization that Islam is the religion of violence; recognized by more and more citizens despite the loud apologists claims. CAIR doesn’t stand a chance of changing that image as a continual stream of Muslims, reading the Quran, get “woke” about Jihad.
Islam, indeed, has been a retrograde force on humanity. There are some competitive people, in the economic world, who don’t mind that Islam has made 1/5 of humanity, non-competitive.
Wellington says
Informative post, Westman. Thanks.
gravenimage says
Israel Still Paying Money to Palestinians, Palestinians Keep Paying Jihad Terrorists
………………
Suicidal insanity.
Infidel says
Bibi needs to go. He’s been the longest serving prime minister, but always gave better speeches when he was out of power than the policies he actually delivered. And it’s under his watch that these money transfers happened.
I’m assuming that Blue & White is not Labour, so they should be given a chance to run the country, and see what they deliver
gravenimage says
Infidel, Netanyahu is the least dhimmi leader Israel has had in recent decades. This was *not* something he initiated.
simpleton1 says
Wondering if this is true or fake news.
Sweden happily paying benefit money to Iraqi Defense Minister.
Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari is a Swedish citizen with a criminal record while enjoying years of benefits in Sweden for an alleged “memory problems”.
http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/562307
Swedish right-wing media reports, Al-Shammari is a dual Iraqi-Swedish citizen and is currently listed as a Swedish resident and on disability allowance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najah_al-Shammari
https://www.reddit.com/r/Iraq/comments/dyqpr1/swedish_newspaper_claims_that_defense_minister/
With interesting discussion in the comments, questioning the credibility of the paper, but also showing it does it homework, so quite possible.
simpleton1 says
Maybe a repeat comment and perhaps my earlier comment went into moderation??, so will divide up the links.
Wondering if this is true or fake news.
Iraqi Defense Minister Najah al-Shammari is a Swedish citizen with a criminal record while enjoying years of benefits in Sweden for an alleged “memory problems”.
http://www.basnews.com/index.php/en/news/iraq/562307
It would seem international socialist Republic of Sweden certainly takes seriously the globalist goals of the UN’istic Migration Pact, and will give a benefit to any one.
simpleton1 says
Swedish right-wing media reports, Al-Shammari is a dual Iraqi-Swedish citizen and is currently listed as a Swedish resident and on disability allowance.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najah_al-Shammari
simpleton1 says
https://www.reddit.com/r/Iraq/comments/dyqpr1/swedish_newspaper_claims_that_defense_minister/
With interesting discussion in the comments, questioning the credibility of the paper, but also showing it does it homework.
This is the 3rd link,
See the 1st one went through,,
but I think the 2nd link has held up, maybe moderation. The 2nd link was sourced from wikipedia that quibbled about this claim, by damming the messenger. 🙂
Del says
Trudeau sends millions to Hamas, laundered through the UNRWA, a UN organization that exists ONLY to support Hamas terrorists.