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Palestinian Authority paid $150,000,000 to jihad terrorists as salaries in 2019

Jan 31, 2020 2:00 pm By Robert Spencer

This jihad terror entity should not receive a penny more of foreign aid. But it will.

“PMW exclusive: PA gave 517.4 million shekels to terrorists as salaries in 2019,” by Maurice Hirsch, Palestinian Media Watch, January 30, 2020:

According to recently published Palestinian Authority financial reports, Palestinian Media Watch can expose that the PA has admitted to spending no less than 517.4 million shekels ($149.7 million/€136 million) paying salaries to terrorist prisoners and released prisoners in 2019.

The PA expenditure on allowances to wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists was at least 151.6 million shekels in 2019. Accordingly, the total minimum PA expenditure in 2019 on its payments to terrorists and families of dead terrorists – its Pay-for-Slay policy- was 669 million shekels ($193.6 million/€175.8 million).

In accordance with the Israeli law, Defense Minister Naftali Bennet should present the National Security Cabinet with a report showing that the PA expenditure on its Pay-for-Slay policy was no less than 669 million shekels.

Israeli law demands that this figure be deducted from the monthly tax transfers Israel makes to the PA.

Background 
Since created in 1994, the PA has implemented a “Pay-for-Slay” policy according to which it pays millions of shekels/dollars/euro every year in monthly salaries to reward Palestinian terrorist prisoners and released prisoners and monthly allowances to reward wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists (so-called “Martyrs”).

The PA codified the policy in the Law of Prisoners and Released Prisoners in 2004. Since then, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has twice approved substantial hikes in the monthly salaries paid by the PA to the terrorists (2006, 2010).

According to sworn testimony given by a senior official on behalf of the PA, the PA payments to the wounded terrorists and families of dead terrorists are not codified in PA law, but rather only stipulated in undisclosed internal documents.

While the PA policy has been widely condemned, with four countries (Canada, the US, Australia, and Holland) cutting off all direct aid to the PA until the policy is abolished, and while the PA continues to request (and receive) considerable amounts of foreign aid, the PA itself carries on squandering hundreds of millions of shekels/dollars/euro on terrorist salaries every year, incentivizing and rewarding Palestinian terrorists.

In 2018, Israel passed a law to combat the PA policy. According to the law, at the end of each year, the Israeli Minister of Defense must submit a report to the National Security Cabinet detailing the PA expenditure on terrorist salaries and allowances in the passing year. Once the Cabinet approves the report, the PA expenditure in the passing year is deducted in twelve equal parts from the taxes that Israel collects and transfers to the PA in the coming year.

The new Israeli law was first implemented in February 2019, after PMW exposed that the PA had admitted to spending no less than 502 million shekels to pay the monthly salaries to the terrorist prisoners and released prisoners in 2018.

In response to the Israeli decision, Abbas positively decided to plunge the PA into a self-inflicted financial crisis by refusing to accept all the tax revenues from Israel, if Israel deducted any sum. Since the tax revenues account for almost half of the PA budget, rejecting their receipt had a substantial impact on the PA economy.

To overcome the crisis, the PA decided to temporarily cut salaries to the law abiding PA employees by 50% and to suspend referrals of Palestinians for medical treatment in Israeli hospitals. The PA also attempted to hide its financial reports, until PMW highlighted these actions. However, at the same time, the PA doubled down on its commitment to pay the terrorist prisoners, continuing to pay them 100% of their salaries.

After 7 months, the PA finally capitulated and agreed to receive the taxes that remained after the deduction.

Following an additional PMW report on the subject of the PA payments to the wounded and the families of the dead terrorists, in late December 2019 the Israeli National Security Cabinet decided to deduct an additional sum of 150 million shekels. Since the number of wounded Palestinian terrorists and the number of Palestinian terrorists killed grew in 2019, it is reasonable to assume that the PA expenditure for these terrorists grew.

According to statistics published by the PA and Israeli NGO B’tselem, no fewer than 110 Palestinian terrorists were killed in 2019. Taking into account the different PA payments, the additional expense incurred by the PA was no less than 1.6 million shekels.

During the presentation of his new Middle East peace plan, – the deal of the century – US President Donald Trump stressed the need for the PA to abolish its policy of rewarding terrorists and murderers:

“To ensure a successful Palestinian state, we are asking the Palestinians to meet the challenges of peaceful co-existence.  This includes adopting basic laws enshrining human rights; protecting against financial and political corruption; stopping the malign activities of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other enemies of peace; ending the incitement of hatred against Israel — so important; and permanently halting the financial compensation to terrorists.”

[www.whitehouse.gov, Jan. 28, 2020]

Whether the PA will suddenly listen to US President Trump – for whom the PA has only shown contempt – only time will tell, but until then, Israel – if it wants to abide by its own laws – should deduct no less than 669 million shekels ($193.6 million/€175.8 million) from its tax transfers to the PA in 2020.

In the meantime, while most of the world agrees that the PA practice of paying financial rewards to terrorists is despicable, the PA continues to waste ever-growing amounts of fungible donor aid to fund this policy. To help put an end to the PA’s “Pay-for-Slay” policy, the EU and more countries should make their aid conditional on the permanent abolishment of the policy.

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  1. PRCS says

    Jan 31, 2020 at 2:16 pm

    Does that meet minimum wage requirements?

    • mortimer says

      Feb 1, 2020 at 9:07 am

      Are those the only jobs that are available?

  2. DHazard says

    Jan 31, 2020 at 2:35 pm

    More evidence that Islam is much closer to organized crime than religion. They just call their hit men heroes and if they get killed, martyrs.

    • mortimer says

      Feb 1, 2020 at 9:16 am

      Islam began in a group of 7th century larcenous vagabonds and petty thieves called the ‘SAALIK’. By pure luck, these thieves eventually grew into an empire and then ‘got religion’ to explain their success and justify their criminality.

      Quote from ‘The Middle East: A Brief History of the Last 2,000 Years’ by Bernard Lewis, p.214-5

      “In Arab culture, even the beggars have their poetry. … A special category were the brigands and bandits, who inevitably flourished at times and in places when rich caravans travelled by difficult and lonely mountain and desert trails. Some were simply criminals… Others, perhaps because they expressed some recognizable social protest, were admired and sometimes became the object of popular and even literary cults. Such, for example, were the so-called ‘brigand poets’ (su’luk, plural sa’alik), who flourished in ancient Arabia. The sa’alik were outcasts living outside the tribal system, and with none of the protection that that system afforded. They produced a distinctive type of poetry, which won the admiration of literary historians in both medieval and modern times.”

      Early Islam springs from the SAALIK, and that explains why criminals and incarcerated convicts of today often feel at home in Islam and join it while in prison.

  3. somehistory says

    Jan 31, 2020 at 3:10 pm

    What the creepy fraud ‘abbas’ doesn’t put in his pockets, goes to terrorists…and this has been the case for the entire time the pa has been receiving funding from the nations of the world. If they agreed to the “deal of the century” and took the billions offered, that money too would go to the jihad terrorists…and everything else they agreed to would be ignored by them.

    “There is no peace for the wicked one.” They don’t want peace and so reward the murderers among them with huge piles of cash. Not only does this keep those people going, it encourages others to take up murder against the Jews and Christians in order for their families to live high on the camels.

    Rewarding evil and taking part in evil is what islam is all about.

  4. keith says

    Jan 31, 2020 at 3:55 pm

    The UN needs to take a stand and block ALL aid to the PA until they play ball like every other civilized country.
    After a few weeks of this, maybe the people will revolt against the sick bastards who are getting wealthy on their blood.

    • James Lincoln says

      Jan 31, 2020 at 6:37 pm

      keith,

      Unfortunately, the UN is infested with muslims – and will continue aid to the PA regardless of what is done with the money…

      • Hoppla says

        Feb 1, 2020 at 8:42 am

        No aid for both of them. Let’s get out of the middle east and all other countries we occupy, money nor bombs will solve the worlds problems, never have and never will.

        • gravenimage says

          Feb 5, 2020 at 10:42 pm

          By “both of them” is Hoppla referring to Israel? Likely so. He has always hated Jews, despite Israel being our staunch ally in the Middle East, and the only democracy there.

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 31, 2020 at 9:31 pm

      Keith, the UN is complicit with this Jihad savagery.

      • keith says

        Feb 1, 2020 at 4:56 pm

        True. However the UN security has no Muslim nations among it’s 5 permanent members and only 2 in the current non permanent.
        And given that this is a world security problem,,,,,,hang on,,,the UN doing what it’s paid and mandated to do? What was I thinking?

  5. Chaz says

    Jan 31, 2020 at 4:26 pm

    U.S. taxpayer dollars involved? Probably!! Makes want to rush out and pay even MORE taxes:-)

  6. Peter WF says

    Jan 31, 2020 at 8:17 pm

    Foreign aid going to a worthy cause?

  7. gravenimage says

    Jan 31, 2020 at 9:28 pm

    Palestinian Authority paid $150,000,000 to jihad terrorists as salaries in 2019
    ……………….

    Just horrifying. So glad that President Trump has cut money to these Muslim thugs.

  8. mortimer says

    Feb 1, 2020 at 9:18 am

    The PA leaders all build huge monster homes in Cyprus or Egypt and retire from terrorism.

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