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July 26, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Lessons-learned-in-Bahrain-596828

PA Prefers Financing Terrorists over Economic Prosperity

(Jerusalem Post) Sander Gerber and Dan Diker - The PA has defiantly declared that it is more committed to financing terrorists and their families than to paving a path to economic prosperity for the Palestinian people, let alone signing a peace deal with Israel. The PA assigns 7% of its annual budget to fund terrorists and their families. By comparison, China allocates only 5.5% of its budget for all its military spending. The U.S. Congress, in passing the Taylor Force Act in 2018, determined that these Palestinian payments reward and incentivize terrorism. The PA has succeeded in devastating the Palestinian economy while enriching itself. One Palestinian businessman who defied death threats to attend the Bahrain economic conference said of the PA, "They don't want anyone to speak about their theft, their misdeeds, the money that they stole from the Palestinian people." Meanwhile, 30,000 Palestinians work in 14 Israeli industrial zones in Area C of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and earn three times what they would earn in the PA. That does not include bonuses, insurance, and benefits, and it's all protected and guaranteed by Israeli labor laws. The writers are fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.

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