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Source: https://www.newsweek.com/when-terrorism-pays-cash-opinion-1780182
When Terrorism Pays in Cash
(Newsweek) William Daroff - Murder can be an all-too-profitable endeavor for Palestinian terrorists. The Palestinian Authority doles out hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorists and their families. The PA's continued incentives to commit heinous crimes should not be ignored. The PA grants an allowance of as much as $3,500 a month to those held in Israel's prisons for having murdered Jews. The allocation becomes a lifetime entitlement if the prison sentence runs more than five years. The PA's subsidies for terror are a moral outrage, spurring further violence and rewarding fanatics. Funding murder is always wrong, no matter the reason. Nothing could do more to showcase the PA's moral degeneracy and ineptitude as a partner for peace. Not a dime of American money - nor for that matter, those of our Western allies - should go to the PA until it discontinues this obscene program. The writer is CEO of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.