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Differences in U.S. and Israeli Legislation Against PA Payments to Terrorists

(Jerusalem Post) Gil Hoffman - The Knesset is scheduled to vote on Monday on legislation to deduct the amount of money being transferred by the Palestinian Authority to terrorists and their families from the taxes and tariffs Israel collects for the authority. Shurat Hadin president Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, who has sued the PA on behalf of many terror victims, explained how the Israeli legislation differs from the Taylor Force Act, which passed in Congress in March and cuts U.S. aid to the PA until it stops paying terrorists and their families. "The Taylor Force Act can take away money from the PA if it continues funding terror because it deals with U.S. aid that is entirely at the Americans' discretion. In [Israel's] case, it's the PA's money, not Israeli money. It's from taxes they don't have a mechanism to collect, so we do it under the Oslo accords' tariff agreement. We can take the funds for punishment and deterrence but it's still their money."
2018-07-02 00:00:00
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