Posted on 05/30/2017 2:26:55 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
TEL AVIV – The Palestinian Authority has paid out NIS 4 billion ($1.12 billion) over the past four years towards salaries for terrorists and their families, a former intelligence chief said on Monday.
Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, who served as the director general of the Ministry of Strategic Affairs, told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the longer a Palestinian security prisoner is jailed, “the higher the salary. … Anyone who has sat in prison for more than 30 years gets NIS 12,000 ($3,360) per month.”
“When they’re released, they get a grant and are promised a job at the Palestinian Authority. They get a military rank that’s determined according to the number of years they’ve served in jail,” he added, according to the (Hebrew) NRG website.
Kuperwasser also said the PA’s claim that the funds are social welfare benefits to needy families is simply a lie. Their own budgets, he said, “clearly state that these are salaries and not welfare payments.”
Kuperwasser, today a project director at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs think tank, told the Committee that the funds were channeled indirectly from the PA to recipients “via a non-government ‘payment fund.'”
“There was a willingness to believe the lies that it was social support. In practice, no steps have been taken to change the situation and in the meantime, the Palestinians are trying to depict themselves as supporting peace while they are still paying the families of terrorists,” Kuperwasser said. “Assurance of a cash prize for acts of terror is encouragement to terrorism and is against international law, international conventions, the Oslo accords and other agreements that they have signed on.”
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According to Israel’s Channel 2 TV, when Trump and Abbas met behind closed doors just an hour earlier, the U.S. president lashed out at the Palestinian leader for lying to him. “You tricked me in DC! You talked there about your commitment to peace, but the Israelis showed me your involvement in incitement [against Israel],” Trump fumed.
The sudden display of anger shocked the Palestinian representatives into silence for several minutes, the report said, and thereafter the meeting was filled with tension.
I don’t think President Trump takes well to being lied to. I hope all funds are cut off the these PA bastards.
We always talk about fighting terrorism, fighting North Korea, etc. Maybe not funding these jackasses would be a good way to start.
At a bare minimum we should cut off their credit card. Im kinda odd like that I guess.
...and was that mostly funded by the USA taxpayers because our “leaders” are quisling idiots?
Israel’s problem here is that it doesn’t have capital punishment.
If every one of these captured terrorist scumsuckers had been executed, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
Well the PLO would still be funding their families, but the original designee of funds would be feeding the worms.
State Dept. gave Palestinians $357 million. And that’s not all
OBAMA PAID THEIR SALARIES!!!
What is the source of the funds?
Do the Palestinians have any REAL economy?
These people are bad-actors who have spent generation after generation on U.N. welfare.
Cut off the funds.
Cut off the utility serves.
He is Negotiating. He knew full well that Abbas had “lied” to him. That is what “Palestinians” do.
There will never be peace with the arabs, they want free this and that, and including the land that God gave Israel...
All from Obama’s Unmarked planes of cash ?
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