Posted on 07/06/2018 11:11:17 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
JERUSALEM, Israel – The Palestinian Authority accused Australia of making a declaration of war following its decision to withhold financial aid to the PA if it continues to reward terrorists and their families. It's one more nation pressuring the PA to stop a policy many call "pay to slay."
The controversial policy provides money to convicted Palestinian terrorists and their families for attacks on Israelis. The payments coming from this fund add up to more than $330 million each year.
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop objected to the policy saying, "I am concerned that in providing funds for this aspect of the PA's operation, there is an opportunity for it to use its own budget to [fund] activities that Australia would never support."
Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi called Bishop's statement "extremely insulting."
"Australia now is just doing the bidding of the US unfortunately and Julie Bishop's statement is extremely insulting and it shows the utmost ignorance of the realities of Palestinians living under a cruel and brutal and illegal Israeli occupation," she said.
Australia's decision follows America's lead in passing the Taylor Force Act that also withholds aid until the PA ends the terror payments. Congress named the law after Taylor Force, an American citizen killed in a 2016 terror attack in Israel.
Meanwhile, Israel's parliament debated its own legislation to stop payments to the Palestinian Authority.
"To this Palestinian enterprise that is called the Palestinian Authority, Mr. Chairman [Mahmoud Abbas], it is very easy to get accepted when the only thing you have to do is to kill Israelis to get arrested or killed and you get a job," Israeli Foreign Affairs and Defense Chairman Avi Dichter said during a debate on the issue. Taylor's father sat in on the discussion.
"We are honored to have you here with us, the event to pass this bill, and hopefully we shall pass it on the second or the third call," Dichter told him.
And pass it they did, adding one more multi-million-dollar penalty against the Palestinian Authority for encouraging and rewarding terrorism.
LOL
They sound like the Democrats.
Let ‘em piss up a rope.
The Palestinian Authority should be fully de-funded by every nation.
It’s like the time I mugged a bum by not giving him a dollar.
It has to be over a billion dollars a year when you count the US, the EU, and the twenty-odd other nations. So in twenty years....20 billion. Where is there evidence that the money ever existed?
[[Where is there evidence that the money ever existed?]]
The evidence is scattered all over Israeli grounds in the form of smashed rocket parts-
Submit or pay tribute ... the whole civilized world has been insane paying any and all Arab dogs any tribute. May the world grow a pair .....
Too clever!
Welfare recipients are going to riot.
But “Make WAR on the infidels” is just their way of sayin howdy!
But “Make WAR on the infidels” is just their way of sayin howdy!
Much of it was shipped off shore under Arafat when he headed the PLO.
As the true colors of the PA are being revealed....
Today's Palestinian terrorists are no different in character from their Barbary Coast pirate cousins or other predators who have been dealt with militarily for far less than the cost of annual bribes. Give them a choice: They can behave, or they can die.
Hmmm. Since the Aussies are catching all this flak, they must be over the target. 😁
Bad news. Abbas may have to sell his jet.
I give Australia the edge here.
Sad but true.
What the Aussies are doing is switching the funds from out right cash to in-kind support. They are sending food, fuel and supplies to the PA via the UN instead of handing out the cash. A move in the right direction but they ought to just quit with feeding these pests.
Thousands of Palestinians line up before dawn every day to go through security and go to work in Israel. Those are the honest and hardworking ones. Hundreds of thousands just sit on their butts waiting for the next aid trucks to arrive.
Iranian mullah's are putting the squeeze on the Western European socialist dictators to come up with more money to feed those chirping baby birds in Syria, Gaza and the West Bank. Seems they have skimmed off and spent all of Obongo's money already? Rifles, mortars and rockets are expensive I guess?
Embargo the hell out of them, let the populations revolt against these crazies in power and let them settle this within their own ranks. No nation building and no money for anything.
yea, tell em to get a gangstamint that lets them work at least and doesn’t feed the death to whitey stuff..and while your at it reject Mohamm as a prophet
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