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U.S. Should Push PA to Stop Payments to Terrorists

(Middle East Forum) Elliott Abrams - As the administration publicly embraces the Palestinian Authority as a peace partner, it risks confrontation with Congress over the Taylor Force Act, now supported by the Israeli government. Memorializing a U.S. soldier murdered by Palestinian terrorists while touring Israel, the act would defund the PA for making payments to terrorists and their families. At a time when a growing number of Western governments (e.g., Britain, Norway, Denmark) are willing to openly criticize the PA's incitement and terror glorification, it is important for Washington, at the very least, to take this position and squeeze the PA, whose survival depends on foreign aid, to desist from this reprehensible practice. The writer, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, handled Middle East affairs at the U.S. National Security Council from 2001 to 2009.
2017-06-23 00:00:00
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