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\nCongressmen Call for Disclosure of U.S. Aid
\nto Palestinian Terrorists

\nAdam Kredo | April 25, 2018

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\nMembers of Congress hope to compel the State Department to disclose the amount of U.S. aid money the Palestinian Authority has given to convicted terrorists and their families, according to a congressional communication viewed by the Free Beacon that calls for a complete freeze in U.S. aid to the Palestinian government.
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\nReps. David McKinley (R., W.V.) and John Ratcliffe (R., Texas) are circulating a letter to Republican offices urging them to join an effort to compel the State Department to detail the amount of taxpayer money that has been used by the Palestinian government to pay terrorists under a longstanding policy known as "pay to slay."
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\nFollowing passage of the Taylor Force Act, which requires the Palestinian government to stop these payments or face a full cutoff in aid, the lawmakers are seeking to immediately freeze U.S. aid to the Palestinians until the State Department explains to lawmakers how it plans to enforce the new law.
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\nOrganizations tracking the Palestinian media recently disclosed that the PA is slated to spend at least eight percent of its 2018 budget on its so-called martyr's fund. That figure amounts to about $355 million, according to Palestinian Media Watch.
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[http://freebeacon.com/national-security/congressmen-call-disclosure-u-s-aid-given-palestinian-terrorists/]

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\nTerrorists With U.S. Taxpayer Funds,
\nDefying U.S. Law

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\nPA defies new U.S. law, hails U.S. subsidized payments to terrorists
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\nThe Palestinian Authority is continuing to pay out salaries to convicted terrorists using funds provided by the American taxpayer, a policy that defies a recent U.S. law mandating the PA stop these subsidies or face a cutoff in U.S. aid dollars, according to U.S. and Israeli lawmakers who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
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\nPalestinian 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.
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\nWhile 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.
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\nPalestinian 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.
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\nRather than obfuscate these payments, as the PA did for many years to avoid public disclosure, Palestinian officials have begun to brag about them. Mahmoud Abbas, the PA's longstanding president, vowed to continue these payments and defy the new U.S. law earlier this year.
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\n"There is something that the Americans are telling us to stop—the salaries of the martyrs and the martyrs' families," Abbas said in January, when the new law was being debated in Congress. "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."
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\nThe 2018 PA budget further codifies this policy, according to Palestinian Media Watch, or PMW, an organization that tracks governments in the region.
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\nThe PA's new budget is reported to allocate nearly 8 percent of its total operational budget to the martyr's fund, according to PMW. This amounts to around 44 percent of total foreign aid dollars budgeted to the PA, or about $355 million in U.S. dollars. [...]
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\nJust days after the United States passed the TFA, a PA government spokesman doubled down on the policy.
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\n"In the eyes of our people, our nation, and our cause, the martyrs and prisoners are sacred symbols of freedom, struggle, protecting human dignity, and resistance to submission and humiliation," the spokesman was quoted as saying, according to PMW. All of these titles are noble titles, and an anchored right of all humans, which cannot be bought or sold for any fortune in the world."\n

[http://freebeacon.com/national-security/palestinian-government-still-paying-terrorists-u-s-taxpayer-funds-defying-u-s-law/]

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Trump Admin to Host Convicted Palestinian Terrorist Despite Outrage
\nAdmin refuses to heed calls to bar entrance

\nby Adam Kredo

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\nThe Trump administration says it will permit a Palestinian official known for endorsing terrorism and murder to enter the United States next week for a series of high-level meetings on the Israel-Palestinian peace process, a move likely to prompt outrage in the pro-Israel community.
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\nThe State Department confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon late Thursday that it intends to permit Jibril Rajoub, secretary of the Fatah Central Committee, to participate in meetings with U.S. officials next week, despite his repeated calls for terrorism against Israel and a 15-year stint in Israeli prison for committing terror acts.
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\nA State Department official who spoke to the Free Beacon acknowledged Rajoub's radical rhetoric, but maintained he can serve a positive role in peace talks set to take place between Trump administration officials and a Palestinian delegation including Mahmoud Abbas.
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\nPro-Israel organizations and victims of Palestinian terror attacks already have called on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to bar Rajoub from entering the United States due to his calls for terrorism.
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\nLegal experts claim that Rajoub's endorsement of terrorism should prevent him from obtaining a U.S. visa under current laws. U.S. law bars entrance to individuals who "endorse or espouse terrorist activity."
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\nThe Trump administration has no plans to acquiesce to this call, according to a State Department spokesman.
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\n"The U.S. government does not endorse every statement Mr. Rajoub has made, but he has long been involved in Middle East peace efforts, and has publicly supported a peaceful, non-violent solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the official told the Free Beacon. "We continue to press Fatah officials, including Rajoub himself, to refrain from any statements or actions that could be viewed as inciting or legitimizing others use of violence."
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\nRajoub can play a key role in advancing peace talks, according to the official, who maintained the Trump administration is "committed to reaching a comprehensive Middle East peace agreement."
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\n"As part of that effort," the official said, "administration officials have been meeting with a range of both Israeli and Palestinian officials, including Rajoub."
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\nPro-Israel advocates have long denounced Rajoub for his repeated endorsement of Palestinian terror acts and efforts to glorify those who commit them.
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\nRajoub was sentenced in 1970 to life in prison for throwing a grenade at an Israeli Army truck. He served 15 years in prison, but was released in a 1985 prisoner exchange.
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\nRajoub praised Palestinian terrorists who targeted Israeli civilians in the most recent wave of violence.
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\n"We in the Fatah movement bless and encourage them," Rajoub said, according to Palestinian Media Watch, or PMW, a group that monitors Palestinian rhetoric. "We consider them heroes and a crown on the head of every Palestinian."
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\nAt least four Americans were victimized by terror attacks following Rajoub's statements, according to PMW.
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\nWhen terrorism against Israelis spiked in 2015, Rajoub appeared on official Palestinian television to endorse the crimes.
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\n"These are individual acts of bravery, and I am proud of them," Rajoub said on television in October 2015. "I congratulate everyone who carried them out. I say to you, we are proud of you … Whoever confronts, fights, dies as a Martyr, is arrested or injured—his identity is known. What I mean is that the fighter, the prisoner, or the Martyr, they are assets to the entire Palestinian people."
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\nRajoub repeated this statement in a separate interview in January 2016.
\n"I say that whoever carried out individual acts of heroism, we in the Fatah movement bless and encourage them. We consider them heroes and a crown on the head of every Palestinian," he was quoted as saying.
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\nRajoub also has come out in favor of Hamas' kidnapping Israeli soldiers.
\n"If Hamas wants to kidnap soldiers, let them kidnap soldiers," he said in a 2014 interview.
\nU.S. law appears to bar entry for individuals who engage in this type of rhetoric. Anyone who "endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization" should not be permitted to enter the country, according to current law.
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\nThose opposing Rahoub's entry into the country have already established a website publicizing his statements and calling on Trump to intervene.
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\nNitsana Darshan-Leitner, president of the Israel Law Center, said in a statement that Rajoub should not be heralded as a partner for peace."Rajoub is an unrepentant terrorist who has never abandoned his dreams of murdering Israelis," Darshan-Leitner said. "At every opportunity Rajoub publicly vows that he will eventually destroy the State of Israel. Allowing this recidivist criminal, who has served numerous jail terms, to enter the U.S. would create a threat to the public safety of all Americans."
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\n"Secretary Tillerson is urged to bar the entry of this dangerous thug and to send a message to the PLO and all other terror groups that under this new administration the U.S. will no longer be a safe-haven for violent extremists who have declared war against the West," she said.
\n","contentType":"Article","authorId":[245],"news":false,"id":11994,"lang":"en","thumbnail":"/storage/freebeacon.jpg"},{"description":"\"[PMW's Itamar] Marcus told a crowd of congressional staffers and other observers Friday during a presentation on Capitol Hill... \"Someone has to get the proper information to the White House” because it is “releasing $192 million based on false information.' 'The Palestinian Authority is in total...","tags":[],"tagIds":["190","193","1035","1036","1039","1045","1569"],"content":"

The PA Hate Machine

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\nObama Reinstated Financial Aid to Palestinian Authority under False Pretense, Expert Says
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\nby Adam Kredo

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\nThe Obama administration justified releasing more than $192 million in financial aid to the Palestinian Authority with false information, according to an Israeli expert who monitors the Palestinian media’s constant promotion of violent, hateful rhetoric.
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\nThe administration quietly reinstated the P.A.’s aid last month after it was frozen by Congress in the wake of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s attempt to declare statehood before the United Nations. The administration also secretly attempted to restore funding to a U.N. cultural agency that unilaterally—and illegally—recognized the “State of Palestine.”
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\nIn explaining the administration’s rationale for reinstating the funds, White House spokesperson Tommy Vietor claimed, “The P.A. has recognized Israel’s right to exist, renounced violence, and accepted previous agreements, including the Roadmap,” in reference to the peace plan advanced by the Middle East Quartet, according to AFP.
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\nEach of these claims is false and promotes the erroneous notion that the Israelis have a genuine partner for peace, said Itamar Marcus, the head of an Israeli research institute, who was appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [in 1999] to represent the Israeli government in negotiations with the P.A. on incitement issues.
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\n“This is totally, totally false information,” Marcus told a crowd of congressional staffers and other observers Friday during a presentation on Capitol Hill sponsored by the House Republican Study Committee (RSC) and EMET (Endowment for Middle East Truth). “Someone has to get the proper information to the White House” because it is “releasing $192 million based on false information.”
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\n“The Palestinian Authority is in total violation of these principles” detailed by the White House, he noted, before launching into a presentation outlining the multiple ways in which the P.A. teaches its youth to hate Israel and become violent terrorists intent on eliminating the Jewish state.
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\nDuring a broadcast of a popular Palestinian children’s show earlier this month, a child is praised for stating: “Our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail.”
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\nShe goes on, with the moderator’s encouragement, to discuss taking Israeli lands, a declaration that elicits the host to applaud and exclaim, “Bravo! Bravo! Bravo!”
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\n“This is an educational program, and they recited this at the opening,” said Marcus, the founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch, which translates and catalogs public instances of Palestinian incitement. “Twice in the same month they are reciting this hate message.”
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\nVideos of multiple children claiming that Yasir Arafat was poisoned by Israel were also displayed, eliciting murmurs of shock from some attendees.
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\nAnother children’s television show tells viewers how to create a map of “Palestine” that depicts the nonexistent state as encompassing the entirety of Israel. A narrator informs children that the maps will help them “remember our country, Palestine, in its historic area.”
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\nDuring another broadcast, a group of young children listen to playful music as they are taught that the Northern portions of Israel—which have never been deemed Palestinian land—are occupied Palestinian territories.
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\n“There is a very active denial of the past history as well to create a justification of denying Israel,” explained Marcus. “This is an official message.”
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\nAdditionally, claims that Palestinian political players believe the Jewish state has a right to exist are easily disproved by their comments, in Arabic, on the P.A.’s official television station, Itamar said.
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\nIn one video clip translated from Arabic, the P.A.’s mufti, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, explained why Israel does not deserve to exist.
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\n“The most important religious figure in Palestine is saying Israelis have no connection [to their land], and that’s a constant message of Palestinian TV,” Marcus said.
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\nHussein claims in another clip that was aired on official P.A. television stations that Jesus was a Muslim.
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\n“They’re saying Jesus was the first martyr,” Marcus explained after airing the video. “They are taking away his Christianity and turning him into a Muslim and saying he preached Islam.”
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\nSlickly produced propaganda videos claiming that Palestinians—not Jews—lived in Israel during biblical times also are broadcast on a regular basis.
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\n“It’s a very, very powerful message of Israel not having a right to exist,” Marcus noted. It reveals a campaign aimed at “denying all of Jewish history and Jewish right to exist there, and an ongoing denial of Christian tradition as well.”
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\nMarcus also displayed a translated version of a highly inflammatory article penned by Adli Sadeq, the P.A.’s ambassador to India. It contradicts the generally accepted notion that Fatah is a moderate political party that pursues peace.
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\n“They [Israelis] have a common mistake or misconception by which they fool themselves into assuming that Fatah accepts them and recognizes the right of their state to exist and that it is Hamas alone that loathes them,” Sadeq wrote in a November 2011 article published in the newspaper Al Hayat Al-Jadida. “They ignore the fact that this state, based on a fabricated [Zionist] enterprise, never has any shred of a right to exist.”
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\n“There are no two Palestinians who disagree over the fact that Israel exists, and recognition of it is restating the obvious, but recognition of its right to exist is something else, different from the recognition of its [physical] existence,” Sadeq adds.
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\nPalestinian newscasts also promote a dangerous ideology, Marcus said.
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\nAn official of Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki states in one broadcast from March 17 that Israel “imitates the period of Hitler.”
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\nThis type of violent, patently false rhetoric is rarely condemned by the United States, further emboldening the P.A., Marcus said.
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\n“The Palestinians will never stop if the U.S. keeps doing this,” he said. “If we want peace this has to stop. The policy should be based on correct information.”
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\nReferring to Vietor’s official explanation of why the P.A. should be given millions of taxpayer dollars, Marcus said, “That first statement from the White House is a total mistake,” and noted, “all of these examples happened in the last few months, some of it in the same week that the White House made that statement.”
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\nWhen the White House signs off on P.A. aid without condemning such rhetoric, “they’re telling the P.A. that you can continue glorifying violence and teaching your kids to continue making maps that don’t show Israel. They’re giving them a clean bill of health, and that’s the danger here.”","date":{"type":"firestore/timestamp/1.0","seconds":1337299200,"nanoseconds":0},"published":true,"lang":"en","title":"US resumption of aid to the Palestinian Authority is based on false information - PMW's Itamar Marcus reports on Capitol Hill","news":false,"author":[{"about":"","citeName":{"en":"Kredo, A.","he":""},"name":{"en":"adam kredo","he":""},"id":245}],"imageUrl":"","contentType":"Article","authorId":[245],"id":3751,"indexId":"index16","thumbnail":""}]