Good thing Biden’s handlers are going to start showering these good folks with American taxpayer money again, eh?
“How much did PA spend on terror salaries in 2020?,” by Maurice Hirsch, Itamar Marcus, and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch, February 22, 2021:
Since the beginning of 2020, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has been trying to hide the financial record of its payments to the Palestinian terrorist prisoners and released terrorists (together hereinafter “the terrorist prisoners”). In 2018 and 2019, the PA monthly budget performance reports clearly listed the transfer expenditures of the “Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs,” which was primarily the payments to terrorist prisoners, as 502 and 517 million shekels respectively. In 2020, the budget category of the “Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs” (later by the PA called the Commission for Detainees’ Affairs) was removed altogether. However, throughout 2020, numerous statements by PA and PLO officials confirmed that the PA continued to pay hundreds of millions of shekels a year in terror rewards. Consequently, it was clear that the PA had decided to pay terrorists in a roundabout way so that there would be no reference to the salaries at all in their budget.
Palestinian Media Watch has examined the PA’s financial reports throughout 2020 and can now report both where the payments are being hidden, and that the amount the PA spent on terrorists salaries in 2020 was no less than 512 million shekels.
The salaries the PA paid to terrorists in 2019 via the Ministry/Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs, were paid in 2020 through the PLO. Under the budget listing of PLO “transfer expenditures” the PA’s payments through the PLO rose more than 300% in 2020, from 161 million shekels to 673 million shekels. The additional expenditure – 512 million shekels – is the minimum amount the PA paid to the terrorist prisoners and released terrorists in 2020.
Why did the PA make this accounting change in 2020?
As a recipient of international funding, the PA must show full transparency and publicly list all its expenses, whereas the PLO is not accountable to anyone for how it spends its money. The PA wants to prevent the international community from seeing listings like the one below in its “budget performance report” of 2019, which shows 517 million shekels for salaries to terrorist prisoners listed under the “Commission of Detainees’ Affairs”. (Note: the 517 million shekels in the right column are the salaries to terrorists, while the 619 million shekels in the left column is the full budget of the Commission in 2019.)
This is not the first time the PA has tried to hide its expenditure on the salaries to the terrorist prisoners. In 2014, after a series of PMW events in European parliaments and meetings with members of the US Congress exposing the PA’s terror rewards resulted in threats from the donors to cut all funding to the PA, the PA stopped paying salaries to terrorists directly. It closed its Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs and transferred the terrorist payments to a new PLO Commission of Prisoners’ Affairs. At the time, PMW’s report “The PA’s billion dollar fraud” exposed the PA’s effort to deceive the world with a cosmetic change concealing its terror payments, which brought condemnation and outrage from the donor countries.
The following chart shows the PA Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs and the PLO’s “transfer expenditure”, i.e., its payments to terrorist prisoners, from 2014 through 2020. Whenever the PA closed the Ministry of Prisoners’ Affairs (orange columns), the PLO’s transfer expenses (blue columns) rose by the amount of the salaries to terrorists. See the blue columns in the years 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2020, which include salaries to terrorists.
In 2020, with the PA again paying the terrorists through the PLO rather than directly, the annual “transfer expenditure” of the “PLO institutions” rose from 161 million shekels in 2019 to almost 674 million shekels in 2020 – a rise of 300%!…
PMW concludes that the PA continued to pay salaries to terrorist prisoners in 2020; that the PA hid the salaries under the budget line of the “PLO institutions”; and that the total payments in 2020 to terrorist prisoners and released prisoners were at least 512 million shekels….
Terry Gain says
Biden will enable them to pay more.
Sabri S. says
It is funny and tragic about how only American and European infidels are dumb enough to give the Palestinian Authority a penny. They have squandered billions of dollars of their taxpayers money on this abomination of an entity. And who benefits? – certainly not the Palestinians, who after 70 years are still illiterate, poor and disenfranchised as the day Israel was created for European Jewry, at the detriment of the entire Middle East. Just how dumb can the infidel populations of the world really be?
gravenimage says
Note that Sabri S. doesn’t have a problem with his coreligionists not bankrolling these Jihadists.
Then, the reason the “Palestinians” are not doing better despite the billions of dollars poured into them is that they spend so much of this Jizya on mjurdering Jews.
But the idea that the “Palestinians” are poor and illiterate is not borne out. In fact, per capita income is almost as high as in neighboring Jordan, and about twice that of Yemen. And the literacy rate there is 96%–hardly illiterate, although Sabri S. many not understand percentages. Of course, it is lower for women, because Islam hates females.
Then, the claim that Muslims having a vibrant democracy in their midst is detrimental to them is just bizarre–save that it makes surrounding Dar-al-Islam look pretty sad in comparison.
gregbeetham says
War is deceit, Muslims even deceive those who give them money not for terrorism of even waging war but they just can’t help themselves when they’ve got an Israel to attack for absolutely no reason that makes sense.
maria says
Muslims are the nazis who want to destroy the whole world to be able to be rulers all over the world.
And Biden and demo Rats are supporting them
Dude x says
I thought jihadis just steal money when they need it. But then I guess those millions were stolen from Americans in yet another ‘woe is me’ PA con.
And the impoverished are still sleeping in the cold on the American streets, starving, shaming Christ with his people’s cold cold hearts.
Keith O says
I notice in the picture, the mudslime is missing part of his finger.
The saying goes that every bomb maker will get bitten by his bomb at some point.
Explains how this peaceful mudslime is missing a digit!
OLD GUY says
You would think that the American Politicians would work and spend our tax dollars to protect us and to make our country a better place to live. But NO they send Billions of our tax dollars to support citizens of other countries and our ENEMIES. We build infrastructure, supply arms and fund the leadership of governments and organizations who HATE America and want to destroy us. We the people need to get a law passed that restricts our political leaders from providing foreign aid and materials or weapons to any country without approval of congress.
Right now we need to control our borders and help our own citizen and rebuild our own infrastructure.
DavidR says
Even though it seems becoming a terrorist is a good career choice for young Palestinians they should consult their guidance counselor first. However, it can be a financially rewarding adventure for you and your family. In addition Israeli prisons provide many accommodations that make jail time more pleasant for jihadis including unlimited prayer hours.
gravenimage says
Palestinian Authority paid at least $156,000,000 to jihad terrorists in 2020
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Just think what they could have done with that money if they were not so obsessed with loving death…