U.S. Taxes Reward Palestinian
Terrorism!
Please Sign the Petition!
The Palestinian Authority [PA] incites violence (especially during
the current
wave of stabbing attacks) while paying high salaries and benefits to
convicted terrorists in Israeli prisons.
Unbelievably, the more horrific the crime, and the more
Israelis or Americans murdered, the higher the “salary” and the better the “benefits.”
The U.S. has the leverage to end this appalling
practice, but has not done so.
Basic Facts about the
Palestinian “Terrorism Industry”
·
Much of the funds the PA uses to reward
terrorists comes from your tax dollars. The PA budget
is heavily dependent on foreign aid—and the U.S. is the PA’s largest
single country donor.
·
From 1993-2014 Palestinian terrorists murdered 1,513
Israelis, wounded thousands more, and also murdered and maimed some 150 American
civilians.
·
Terrorist salaries are on a sliding scale: the
more horrific the crime, the higher the wages.
·
The most horrific mass murderers receive the
highest salaries including those responsible for suicide bombings on buses, at
restaurants, in public squares.
· In
Israeli prisons there are some1,000 Palestinians convicted
of murdering Israelis in terror attacks.
The Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas
- does not discriminate: terrorists from every
group—Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad—receive subsidies,
- also pays Arab Israeli citizens convicted of committing
terrorist acts,
· grants monthly salaries up to $4,000 to terrorists after
they are released from prison,
· incentivizes terrorists by glorifying them and their actions
by holding an annual Prisoners Day and naming town squares, sports teams,
schools, and summer camps after notorious terrorists.
The PA budget is heavily dependent on donor nation money,
which thereby funds the terrorism industry.
- Donors
gave approximately $30 billion in international aid to the PA between 1993
and 2012; $7 billion came from the U.S. alone and $7 billion came from the
EU; $10 billion came from individual European
countries, Japan, Australia, and Canada.
- The
U.S. allotted $170 million and the EU allotted $421 million to directly
fund the PA budget in 2013.
- A PA
official reported that 85% of foreign donations were used for PA salaries
in 2013, which likely includes prisoner salaries.
This practice must come to
an end! Learn More...
Although Congress has already passed legislation demanding
more oversight to prevent American taxpayer money from funding terrorism, no
major changes have been made: payments to prisoners are not mentioned in
U.S. Government oversight reports.
Please take action and sign the petition!