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Family and Friends of Murdered American: Pass the Taylor Force Act


(The Hill) Bradley Martin - In March 2016, a Palestinian terrorist went on a stabbing rampage in Tel Aviv, killing visiting West Point graduate Taylor Force and wounding 10 others. This act of barbarism spurred the creation of the Taylor Force Act, which would stop American economic aid to the Palestinian Authority until the PA ceases paying stipends to terrorists and their families. The PA pays the murderer's relatives a monthly pension equal to several times the average monthly Palestinian wage. Every year, the U.S gives nearly half a billion dollars to the PA. Most of those funds, or their equivalent, are used to pay Palestinian terrorists who have murdered innocent Americans, Israelis and others. Taylor's father, Stuart, said, "I feel that rewarding people for terrorism is totally out of the realm of decency. Taylor would have been proud of the effort to pass this act and know we were behind it." It is our responsibility to make sure that murderers are not rewarded and that a good man who served his country did not die in vain. The writer is a senior fellow at the Haym Salomon Center.
2017-09-14 00:00:00
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