Posted on 01/28/2026 9:17:57 AM PST by Texas Fossil
The State Department formally determined this month that the Palestinian Authority paid more than $200 million to terrorists and their families in 2025, the same year PA president Mahmoud Abbas claimed he ended the "pay-to-slay" program, according to a nonpublic notice provided to Congress and obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon.
Rather than ending these payments, the PA shifted to a new system that it hoped to hide from international donors at a time when the Ramallah-based government is jockeying for a role in postwar Gaza, the State Department disclosed for the first time. Israeli intelligence assessed that the PA funneled $144 million to terrorists and their families in 2024 and committed at least $214 million through 2025, while the State Department determined that the payments continued from March to August 2025 under a purportedly reformed welfare system.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
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I believe it exposes the lies by the PA. And I do expect that to continue.
President Trump will not deal with this as The O'Biden administration.
Iraq’s Hussain did the same thing when he was paying the families for bombings that killed Jews in Israel.
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Pure Evil.
It is Satan’s children.
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