‘It is unconscionable that the Biden administration would abandon the successful pro-peace policy agenda of its predecessor,’ said Rabbi Steven Pruzansky, CJV’s Israel Regional Vice President.
The Palestinian leadership is now hoping that the Biden administration will turn a blind eye to the ‘pay-for-slay’ program and allow them to continue funding terrorists and their families.
The message the Palestinian leadership is sending to its people is: A Palestinian convicted of financial corruption is nowhere near as worthy of public office as one who murders Jews and masterminds terrorist attacks.
‘This is the least that can be offered to our prisoners who have sacrificed their lives, their blood, and years of their lives so that we can live in dignity and freedom.’
Israel will begin transferring 800 million shekels to the PA, but petitioners say the workers will never see the money, which will instead support terror.
While the anti-“Pay-for-Slay” law has not yet caused the PA to abandon its ‘Pay-for-Slay’ policy, the fact that it accepts the reduced tax revenues is progress.
Conducted together with pro-Israel organizations, the campaign showed direct ties between BDS-promoting organizations and terrorist groups or operatives.
PA spends billions of shekels on terror rewards while abusing the goodwill of the global community to fund the humanitarian requirements of needy Palestinians.
Israeli children have regularly been the purposeful targets of Palestinian terror organizations. Their murder has not only been indiscriminate, but deliberate.
Belgium publicly slaps the PA with one hand over its glorification of terrorists but caresses it with the other, upgrading its diplomatic status in Brussels.
The exemption from paying tax on a new car is just one of many financial rewards the PA pays to the terrorist prisoners and the families of dead terrorists.
‘Israel expects the EU to act with full transparency and reveal the scope of its financial aid to organizations that have ties to terror and promote boycotts.’
The PA will pay the terrorist who broke into the home of the Solomon family and slaughtered three of its members a whopping $3M over the course of his lifetime.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon announced a new diplomatic battle against humanitarian funding that reaches Hamas and supports its terror infrastructure. ‘We will not relent until the UN and other aid organizations begin to track and follow every dollar that enters the Gaza Strip,’ he said.
US Republican Senator Dan Coats said that the Palestinian Authority’s use of American taxes to pay terrorists is ‘morally repugnant, must be stopped’ and is working on legislation to ensure that funding is restricted if the practice continues.
The Gaza director of global charity World Vision has been caught by Israel assisting Hamas. Protest to World Vision for hiring staff who participate in terror activities against Israel!
Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende confronted the Palestinian leader on the PA payments to terrorists. Abbas confirmed that such payments still exist, but said that the salaries are not paid with Norwegian funds.