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US EXPECTED TO PASS BILL SLASHING AID TO PA OVER SUPPORT OF TERRORISTS
Jerusalem Post ^ | NOVEMBER 9, 2017 | MICHAEL WILNER

Posted on 11/09/2017 11:44:19 AM PST by SJackson

A mark-up vote on the Taylor Force Act is expected to pass with broad bipartisan support, clearing the way for full vote on the House floor.

A congressional bill that would compel the Palestinian Authority to end its compensation program for the families of convicted terrorists in Israel with the threat of an aid cut will reach a critical vote in the House Foreign Affairs Committee next Wednesday.

A mark-up vote on the Taylor Force Act is expected to pass with broad bipartisan support, clearing the way for full vote on the House floor.

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The Palestinian Authority passionately opposes the bill, claiming that its "martyr" compensation scheme benefits generations of families that include those of legitimate combatants in the Palestinian struggle for independence. Israel argues that the program is a perverse incentive for Palestinian violence against innocent civilians.

In principle, US President Donald Trump and his administration have condemned the program. However, they have stopped short of endorsing the Taylor Force Act, cognizant of PA opposition and the effects its passage might have on their effort to reboot the Middle East peace process.

The bill is named after an American Army veteran murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Tel Aviv last year. If passed, the PA would have to end its compensation program, which provides monthly stipends to Palestinians convicted of murder or terrorism in Israel relative to the length of their prison sentences.

After negotiating some wiggle room into the bill, granting the PA time to phase out the program, Democrats have endorsed the GOP-drafted legislation wholeheartedly. It enjoys support from top Democrats in both the House and the Senate, and the backing of America's largest Israel advocacy organization, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.


TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gwot; pa; palestinians
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1 posted on 11/09/2017 11:44:19 AM PST by SJackson
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To: SJackson

Will Palestinians be allowed to enter our country?


2 posted on 11/09/2017 11:46:33 AM PST by 353FMG
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To: SJackson

Good.


3 posted on 11/09/2017 11:47:00 AM PST by umgud
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To: SJackson
Saddam was paying them....$25,000.

Iran will do the paying. No problem.

4 posted on 11/09/2017 11:47:40 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: SJackson

Kick the filthy Muslim basturds out of USA now too! Or just execute them directly


5 posted on 11/09/2017 11:48:41 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: SJackson

Years overdue! Great news !!! Let’s drain the Snake Department Nazi and islamonazi Swamp too! Maga!!


6 posted on 11/09/2017 11:49:40 AM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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To: SJackson

are we nutz ?

> 350 millioin a year in aid to Hamas ?

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RS22967.pdf


7 posted on 11/09/2017 11:52:01 AM PST by stylin19a (Best.Election.Ever.)
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To: SJackson

Cut all aid and put a bounty on their heads!


8 posted on 11/09/2017 11:55:22 AM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.6l)
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To: SJackson

We can have some compassion. When they acknowledge Israel’s right to exist and drop their weapons, perhaps we help with humanitarian aid. They can get a check weekly every week they don’t kill Jews. For every Jew they murder, that number of weeks’ checks are forfeited. There is the monetary incentive for them.


9 posted on 11/09/2017 11:55:29 AM PST by doug from upland (Stand and honor the flag --- locking arms BS doesn't cut it)
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“Slashing”. Sigh.

I agree with other posters here. The only aid we should be giving them is a bullet in the head.

So Doug wants to pay them for not being scum for a day? Like in Oakland?

Seriously?


10 posted on 11/09/2017 12:02:21 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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Why on gods earth do we waste national resources on these sub humans? president Trump, I implore you, take the ultimate leadership action and stop funding these simians. The entire world hates you anyway, so I say do big things that will never ever be done. Why is the US directly funding this multigenerational conflict? Why are we paying for this war and terror action decade after decade. The PA has made it absolutely clear that they will never ever stop no matter what. My bones are getting old and My health is starting to go to $hit, and I am really resentful that any of my time working has gone to fund a perpetual war, and lavish lifestyles for their leaders floating high above their sea of poverty. Do it! Cut them off! Protect your people. The left worldwide will screech at volume 11 as they feel terrorist oligarchs are more deserving of the benefits of our labor than we are individually or publicly. The good news is the entire US is so used to 24/7 outrage and breathless hyperbole that the reaction cutting aid to the PA will be virtually indistinguishable from the reaction to you tweeting that Rosie is fat, just background noise. Please Mr President do it. If you do not nobody ever will. Need we buy Omars next Rolls royce? pay for tunnel construction? Pay for weapons, and bombs? US taxpayers fund all of those things and I resent it. /rant


11 posted on 11/09/2017 12:08:44 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: SJackson

More winning!!!


12 posted on 11/09/2017 12:08:45 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: dennisw; Cachelot; Nix 2; veronica; Catspaw; knighthawk; Alouette; Optimist; weikel; Lent; GregB; ..
Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

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13 posted on 11/09/2017 12:10:52 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: Sacajaweau

That’s true but this bill impacts US funding for terrorists and their families. Iran and others can do as they wish.


14 posted on 11/09/2017 12:12:54 PM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: faithhopecharity

15 posted on 11/09/2017 12:14:55 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: SJackson

Dang. Now the heads of the PA’s kids will have to share limos. How insensitive of us.


16 posted on 11/09/2017 12:17:13 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: Fiddlstix

They’re highly super dangerous. Unlike any other immigrants. We simply must repatriate them now without further delay.


17 posted on 11/09/2017 12:23:29 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they're excreted." -- Marcus Tillius Cicero)
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18 posted on 11/09/2017 12:37:46 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: SJackson

In principle, US President Donald Trump and his administration have condemned the program. However, they have stopped short of endorsing the Taylor Force Act, cognizant of PA opposition and the effects its passage might have on their effort to reboot the Middle East peace process.

What "Middle East peace process?"     The Palis will settle for nothing short of the obliteration of Israel. End of negotiation.


19 posted on 11/09/2017 12:38:02 PM PST by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: SJackson

...US EXPECTED TO PASS BILL SLASHING AID TO PA OVER SUPPORT OF TERRORISTS...

At first glance, I thought this was about Pennsylvania.


20 posted on 11/09/2017 12:55:47 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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