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Biden & Co. keep funding Palestinian terror — in defiance of Congress
By Sander Gerber
June 16, 2023 8:15pm Updated

Linda Thomas-Greenfield
US Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield condemned
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' antisemitic statements
that equated Israelis to the Nazis.
AP
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US Permanent Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield rightly
condemned in a recent speech Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas’ antisemitic statements that equated Israelis to the Nazis.

With no sense of the irony, she then called for foreign aid to the very
same PA he continues to lead, 18 years into his four-year term.

An even more distressing irony: President Joe Biden recently launched a
first-ever National Strategy To Counter Antisemitism amid a spike in
Jew-hatred, yet at the same time — in defiance of Congress’ intent — his
team continues to provide material support for the PA, even as it not
only spouts antisemitic speech but funds anti-Jewish terrorism through
its “pay-for-slay” program.

Congress clearly determined that PA terror payments encourage violence,
which is why it passed the Taylor Force Act, barring economic assistance
that “directly benefits the Palestinian Authority” until it “stops all
payments incentivizing terror.”

In recent months, the West Bank has seen a spate of fatal Palestinian
terror attacks, with each of the perpetrators and their families then
eligible for PA payments.

In 2018, the authority’s refusal to end systematic terror funding led to
bipartisan passage of the Taylor Force Act, named for a US citizen and
West Point grad murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Tel Aviv.

President Joe Biden
President Joe Biden recently launched a first-ever National Strategy To
Counter Antisemitism amid a spike in Jew-hatred.
AP
Among other things, the law urges our UN representative to “use the
voice, vote and influence of the United States at the United Nations”
and the State Department “to use its bilateral and multilateral
engagements” to highlight the issue of pay-for-slay and push for
governments to stop funding the PA.

The Biden administration is violating these requirements.

It has renewed aid to Palestinian and Palestinian-funding entities, like
the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East,
potentially subsidizing the pay-to-slay program.

Money is fungible, so if the PA doesn’t need to spend money because of
an UNRWA program, it can allocate more funds to pay-for-slay payments.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Congress recently passed the Taylor Force Act, barring economic
assistance that “directly benefits the Palestinian Authority” until it
“stops all payments incentivizing terror.”
via REUTERS
With her May 24 remarks, Thomas-Greenfield went beyond skirting the
Taylor Force Act’s legal restrictions to outright defy the law’s
intended purpose.

As she condemned Abbas for antisemitism, Thomas-Greenfield also promised
the United States will “encourage all parties in the region to consider
ways to support the Palestinian Authority.”

Instead of highlighting the PA’s pay-for-slay horrors, she called on the
international community to provide more PA funding, enabling Abbas to
keep making more of those perverse payments.

She admitted as much in what must’ve been a Freudian slip, noting “the
severe crisis that the Palestinian Authority faces in fostering further
instability in the West Bank.”

President Joe Biden
n 2018, the authority’s refusal to end systematic terror funding led to
bipartisan passage of the Taylor Force Act, named for a US citizen and
West Point grad murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Tel Aviv.
ZUMAPRESS.com
If, as Thomas-Greenfield claims, the PA faces a financial crisis, it
should start by cutting its payments to murderers.

And make no mistake: Team Biden knows full well that Abbas & Co. fund
terror. Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara
Leaf openly admitted in recent congressional testimony that the PA
continues to pay terrorists and their families.

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In questioning Leaf, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was right to call out the
administration’s decision last year to waive sanctions on Hussein
al-Sheikh, secretary general of the Palestinian Liberation Organization
Executive Committee, so he could travel to Washington.

“Publicly, when the administration defends engaging with terrorists, you
claim things are going well,” charged Cruz.

“But when you file a statutorily mandated report with Congress, you
admit the PLO is continuing what are called pay-to-slay payments.”

Leaf claims Team Biden is “working to bring pay-to-slay to an end” yet
admits it has “not yet” succeeded.

The Biden administration should abide by the Taylor Force Act in its
entirety and use all available means to end the PA’s pay-for-slay program.

US officials also have an obligation to hold Abbas accountable for his
antisemitism and incitement of violence.

Having failed to stop PA-backed terrorism, the Biden team should also
reverse its support for UNRWA, to pressure Abbas to change his ways.

A senior US government official starting a speech condemning
antisemitism and ending it calling for support of the perpetrator’s
organization shows a shocking lack of awareness (if not administration
hypocrisy).

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What do you think? Post a comment.
More troubling, Team Biden’s policies and statements undercut efforts to
rein in Palestinian terror.

The violence will continue so long as there are funders — like Biden &
Co. — who keep incentivizing it.

Sander Gerber is the CEO of Hudson Bay Capital Management, a
distinguished fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of
America and a fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

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Blue gladiator
17 June, 2023

The UN ambassador should be fired yesterday because of her hate for the
very country she is apparently representing.
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and our strongest
ally. They are the size of the state of NJ with enemies on all sides.
The rest of the Arab world should do more to help the Palestinians in
a peaceful and positive approach. There must be a solution, but it is
foolhardy on the US part to condemn our strongest ally in the region.. .

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Foulan
17 June, 2023

“encourage all parties in the region to consider ways to support the
Palestinian Authority.”

So why don't Arab and Muslim countries do more to support the Palestinians?

Because they are fed up with the Palestinians who do nothing to help
themselves, whose only answer to Israel is terrorism (especially in
Gaza) and who are profoundly corrupt. They have nothing to offer their
people or the wider Middle East in terms of prosperity, peace and the
rule of law.

Why have Trump's Abraham Accords been so phenomenally successful?
Because Arab counties prefer to deal with a country of intelligent
people that is technologically advanced - Israel, as they have openly
and covertly for many years.

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Mark Jones
16 June, 2023

The Palestinian Authority is on the Obama Shadow Govt's permanent
protected class list. Name another govt entity that finances terror that
still enjoys this level of US support. There is none.

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Canadian Conservative
17 June, 2023

It's called "talking out of both sides of your mouth". Tell this group
over here one thing, then tell this group over here something totally
different. Justin Trudeau has been known to do that up here. He'll say
one thing to English Canadians, then something completely different to
French Canadians. They figure that people won't notice. In America,
Biden gets away with this quite often because he's got the majority of
the media on his side. They would never point out the kind of things
that outlets like the NYP point out.

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Adam
16 June, 2023

Israel's detractors give terrorism a pass and make zero demands of the
PLO or PA to have standards or civility. Gullible Western leftists have
sided with the terrorist death cult that openly calls for death to the
Jews and then have the gumption to whine when sane people call that
antisemitism.

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