More than $5 million each month is spent by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to pay salaries of terrorists in Israeli prisons, according to a Palestinian Media Watch report presented to U.S. congressmen on Tuesday.
According to the media watchdog’s report, the money transfers
contravene U.S. law, which prohibits the funding of anyone who “engages in, or has engaged in terrorist activity.”
contravene U.S. law, which prohibits the funding of anyone who “engages in, or has engaged in terrorist activity.”
“The U.S. funds the PA’s general budget,” the report reads. “Through the PA budget the U.S. is paying the salaries of terrorist murderers in prison and funding the glorification and role modeling of terrorists.”
Authors of the report are attempting to persuade U.S. congressmen to cut U.S. funds to the PA because of its support and glorification of terrorists. According to the report, “A law signed and published in the official Palestinian Authority Registry in April 2011 puts all Palestinians and Israeli Arabs imprisoned in Israel for terror crimes on the PA payroll to receive a monthly salary from the PA.” The report says this law “formalizes what has long been a PA practice.” Anyone imprisoned for participating in the “struggle against the occupation [Israel]” qualifies to receive these payments.
An official daily newspaper of the PA says that 5,500 Palestinian prisoners receive such funds. Palestinian Media Watch says the average monthly salary for these terrorist prisoners is ils3,129 (US$907), which is more than the average monthly wage of a PA civil servant.
As a major foreign contributor to the Palestinian Authority’s budget, America is continuing to demonstrate its politically correct and weak approach to Palestinian terrorism, even as its support for ally Israel wanes. •
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