Against U.S. Law, Palestinian Government Still Paying Terrorists With U.S. Taxpayer Funds

Adam Kredo at the Free Beacon has a story today that tells about the Palestinian Authority paying the salaries of convicted terrorists. While that's not necessarily news, what IS news is that the P.A. is doing so with U.S. dollars provided by the American Taxpayer. Why THAT is news is because a U.S. law mandates the P.A stop doing that or lose American aid dollars. According to Kredo:

"...Palestinian officials in recent days have rejected a new U.S. law, known as the Taylor Force Act, or TFA, that bans the PA government from providing salaries to terrorists and their families, a longstanding policy that had become the center of controversy after it was found U.S. taxpayer aid dollars to the Palestinians had been used to subsidize this practice ... While the Taylor Force Act—named after an American who was killed by a Palestinian terror attack in 2016—mandates the PA cease these payments or face a cutoff in U.S. aid, Palestinian officials have made clear in recent days they have no intention of ending this practice of funneling U.S aid dollars to the Palestinian Authority Martyr's Fund ... Palestinian leaders have continued to praise the so-called "pay-to-slay" policy since the TFA's passage, prompting outrage and concerns from Israeli and U.S. lawmakers who spoke to the Free Beacon about the situation..."

Kredo tells us that rather than hiding the fact that the Palestinian Authority is doing that, they are now flaunting it, bragging, and that the P.A.'s President, Mahmoud Abbas,  has vowed to continue the misuse of U.S. payments in defiance of the new law. He quotes that Abbas said in January:

"..."There is something that the Americans are telling us to stop—the salaries of the martyrs and the martyrs' families ... Of course we categorically reject this. We will not under any circumstances allow anyone to harm the families of the prisoners, the wounded, and the martyrs. They are our children and they are our families. They honor us, and we will continue to pay them before the living..."

Kredo reports the payout in the new allocations of foreign aid dollars budgeted to the P.A. amounts to about $355 million in U.S. dollars.

According to Kredo, U.S. Reps are protesting the P.A.'s use of this money for Terrorists, but U.S. officials assertions are not phasing the Palestinians and continue their defiance.

What it looks like from the conservative side of the issue is that legislators figured out a way to object to the Palestinian Authority funding of terrorism by passing a law that isn't enforceable.  As of yet they have been "outraged" and have protested the practice, but they have not withheld any funds as the law mandates.

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