Israel Fights Back: False Reporting, Iron Dome Funding, World's Condemnation
As Israel worked to defend terror threats from Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) in Gaza leading to 1,100 rockets raining downon the Jewish...
Palestinian Media Watch reports that, despite growing international protests, the new Palestinian Authority budget increases spending by 13% for salaries to terrorist prisoners and by 4% forpayments to families of terrorist “Martyrs." Direct terror funding expenditures by the PA now reach 1.237 million shekels - $355 million for 2017.
“Is the PA President running a mafia or a government? No Israeli government, right, center, or left, can seriously negotiate with a leader who embeds a pay-for-murder scheme to killJews,” charged Rabbis Marvin Hier and Abraham Cooper, Dean and Founder and Associate Dean and Director of Global Social Action for the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a leading Jewish HumanRights NGO.
“Abbas' priorities, when it comes to his own people, border on the bizarre. He spurned desperate pleas from mothers and withheld the funds to provide full electricity for his livingconstituents in Gaza, yet he eagerly escalates financial rewards for terrorists — dead andalive," Wiesenthal Center officials added.
Photo:Rabbi Cooper (L) during an earlier meeting with Taylor Force Act sponsor, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-CO)
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has endorsed the Taylor Force Act that would cut US funding to the PA because of its financial support of Palestinian terrorists and their families and has consultedwith Israeli MK Elazar Stern who has introduced similar legislation to withhold tax revenues from the PA that matches its terrorism outlays.
“Now is the time for Germany’s Merkel and France’s Macron to decrease their allotments to the PA and tell Abbas to stop playing Santa Claus for terrorists,” Hier and Cooperconcluded.
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