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PMW director interviewed by CBN
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\nPalestinian Leader Swears 'By Allah' to Keep Paying for Terrorism: 'Pay to Slay' Tops Agenda
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\nWatch CBN's interview with PMW director Marcus here

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\nIn the face of economic pressure and international criticism, the Palestinian Authority still vows to spend every last penny it has to pay those who murder Jews. Financial support to terrorists' families will continue despite the United States cutting aid to the PA over the so-called "pay to slay" issue.
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\nThe Palestinian Authority says taking care of those who murder Jews is a top priority.
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\n"By Allah, even if we have only a penny left it will only be spent on the families of the martyrs and prisoners and only afterward will it be spent on the rest of the people," said PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
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\nMahmoud Abbas, PMW Screen Capture
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Earlier this year, the United States moved to punish the PA for the pay-to-slay policy. It put the Taylor Force Act into effect, which cuts US aid until the PA stops rewarding terrorists and their families. Australia followed suit in July. The rest of the world has yet to act.
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\n"The international community, first of all, has to recognize that the Palestinian Authority paying salaries to terrorists is really a symptom of the fundamental problem and that is that the Palestinian Authority sees killing Israelis, killing Jews as something heroic," Itamar Marcus, founder and director of the Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) told CBN News. His organization has monitored reports and speeches from the region for more than 20 years.
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Itamar Marcus, founder and director of Palestinian Media Watch (PMW),
\nPhoto, CBN News, Jonathan Goff

\n"So the Palestinian Authority has put these killers on a pedestal," Marcus continued. "They've turned them into heroes and role models for the Palestinian people. By now, they can't even back off. They can't even backtrack. They are going to keep rewarding these killers with the money that they're getting, to a large extent, from foreign donors."
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\nPMW prepared posters to expose the terrorist and their crimes while laying out the scope of the payments.
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PMW documents terror attacks, victims and the PA's pay-to-slay payments,
\nPhoto, CBN News, Jonathan Goff

\n"We've got Abdallah Barghouti…I would say the most notorious Palestinian mastermind of terror. He built the bombs for suicide bombings of Sbarro restaurant, Zion Square, Hebrew University; killed Americans, killed Europeans, killed altogether 67 people. He's serving 67 life sentences, these are among the 67 people, and he's already also received about $200,000...and he will continue receiving a salary, eventually receiving $3,500 a month.
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\nThe Taylor Force Act is not only a law, but it acts as a symbol as well.
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\n"We created a special poster in memory of Taylor Force, an American veteran who was murdered in Tel Aviv. The person who killed him was a terrorist named Bashar Masalha, who himself was killed right afterward by Israeli forces. Bashar Mashalcha's family is now rewarded for life. They've received up till now $13,000.
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\nThe 2018 budget for rewarding martyrs' families and wounded is nearly $200 million.
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\nMarcus says this doesn't bode well for the peace process.
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\n"Until the Palestinian Authority changes its ideology and sees murder as murder and sees murder as something punishable, there's no one really to talk to on the Palestinian side," he said.

[http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2018/october/pay-to-slay-tops-
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\nTaxpayers Funding Terrorism:
\nHow the P.A. Uses Millions of US Dollars for 'Pay-to-Slay'

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Watch the interview with PMW's director here

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\nA House subcommittee unanimously passed a bill that paves the way for cutting U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority if it doesn't stop paying salaries to terrorists who kill Israelis – what some call "pay to slay."
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\nWhat would you say if you found out your tax dollars were indirectly going to pay Palestinian Arab terrorists to murder Israeli Jews and others? That's just what's happening.
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\n"Since 2003, it has been Palestinian law to reward Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails with a monthly paycheck. Palestinian leadership also pays the families of Palestinian prisoners and suicide bombers. These policies incentivize terrorism," Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., said.
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\nThe practice is known as #pay-to-slay.
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\nThe Taylor Force Act gets its name from the American combat veteran murdered while on a school trip to Israel.
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\nThe 21-year-old terrorist behind the brutal stabbing of Force was killed by police, but he was praised by the Palestinian Authority government and his family received lifelong financial compensation.
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\nThe kinds of compensation include the following:
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\nPension for life triple the average salary in P.A. areas.
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\nFree tuition, health insurance and clothing allowance for life, plus a free monthly stipend.
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\nAnd that's where this current legislation draws the line. Royce says stopping that practice – courtesy of $300 million U.S. tax dollars every year – is what's behind the Taylor Force Act.
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\n"With this legislation, we are forcing the P.A. to choose between U.S. assistance and these morally reprehensible policies," he said.
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\nDespite earlier pressure from Congress to stop these payments, the Palestinian Authority has actually raised the amount paid to terrorists whom they consider martyrs. The payments are on a sliding scale. The more successful the attack, the bigger the payout.
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\nIn the 2017 P.A. budget, money to convicted terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons increased by 13 percent and 4 percent more went to their families – more than 30,000 recipients in all.
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\nThis year, direct funding of terrorism has reached $355 million and yet the P.A. is largely funded by U.S. taxpayer dollars.
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\n"The Palestinian Authority claims to its people that they have a right to kill Israelis, literally, a right to kill Israelis," Palestinian Media Watch Director Itamar Marcus told CBN News. "Israeli civilians, women, babies and they claim that a U.N. decision from the 1970s, which said the Palestinians have the right to use all means to gain their rights, means they have a right to kill civilians. This is the way the Palestinian Authority interprets it."
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\nMarcus said while Israel has means to crack down on terrorists, the West can play a major role.
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\n"The only way this will stop is if the leadership of the Palestinian Authority is forced by the international community to completely change the messaging," he explained. "The international community can force them. The Palestinian Authority is so dependent on foreign aid. The United States gives them foreign aid. The European Union gives them foreign aid. Most of the Western European countries, they have the power to stop this."
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\nThe House Foreign Affairs Committee passage of the Taylor Force Act aims to do just that. The measures are expected to pass the full House and move on to the Senate.\n

[http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/israel/2017/november/house-committee-votes-to-cut-funding-to-p-a-s-pay-to-slay]

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\nReign of Terror? West Funding PA Torture, Murder

\nby Julie Stahl and Chris Mitchell

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\nAccording to a 2014 congressional report, the U.S. government has committed more than $5 billion to the Palestinian Authority since the mid-1990s. Yet the average Palestinian is still living in abject poverty.
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\nIn a video interview, obtained courtesy of Palestinian Media Watch, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas indicates where the money may have gone.
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\n"Since [Hamas'] coup against the P.A. [in 2007] and until today, we've been transferring more than 50 percent of our [P.A.] budget to Gaza, including salaries to 60,000 to 70,000 [P.A.] civil servants who aren't working," Abbas says in the video.
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\n"They are [in Gaza] and are receiving salaries. We pay them because they stopped working, and so Hamas appointed other people in their place," he added.
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\nThe video clip is part of a soon-to-be-released report from PMW on finances in the PA. The report quotes the Palestinian paper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, saying the average monthly salary for a P.A. civil servant as of 2011 is $795 per month.
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\nAccording to those figures, those "60,000 P.A. workers receive $47 million a month -- not to work," PMW said.
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[http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2014/October/Reign-of-Terror-West-Funding-PA-Torture-Murder/]

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