The Palestinian Authority (PA) has been paying terrorists to murder innocent Jews for decades, encouraging criminals to commit these attacks by providing them and their families with lifetime salaries.
Using knives, guns, cars and bombs as weapons, Palestinian terrorists have murdered innocent Israelis, Americans, and Europeans, getting paid untold sums that amount to at least hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of their lives for these horrendous crimes.
I sat with my friend and colleague, Jeff Daube, watching as a group of lawmakers headed by Senator Lindsay Graham who were from both sides of the aisle passed legislation in March 2017 that requires the U.S. to cut all funding to the PA until it ends its “Pay to Slay” program.
The Taylor Force Act requires the U.S. Secretary of State to verify that the PA has ended its policy of paying terrorists, their designates and/or their surviving family members. The bill also requires the PA to publicly condemn terror attacks and to take steps to punish the terrorists.
The legislation was named after American war veteran Taylor Force, 29, who was stabbed to death in a Palestinian terror attack that left 10 others wounded in along the water in Jaffa. Force served in the US Army in Iraq and Afghanistan and was a graduate of West Point Military Academy. He was in Israel as part of a Vanderbilt University graduate student trip.
Despite the Taylor Force Act, and “the 2022 Taylor Force Martyr Payment Prevention Act which works to ensure that Palestinian terrorists do not benefit financially for committing acts of violence against Israeli citizens or the United States,” the U.S. still funds the PA, which continues to pay Palestinians who murder innocent civilians in Israel. According to the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, these payments amount to $300 million annually!! They do target Jews, but Americans are fair game too.
We must demand that our lawmakers enforce the Taylor Force Act, ensuring that no funds get to the PA from any source while their heinous program continues.
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Judy Freedman Kadish