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New York Post
14-07-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
US aiding Palestinian terrorists, Senate's chance to cut waste and other commentary
Mideast beat: US Aiding Palestinian Terrorists Two killers who stabbed and shot a security guard in a Jerusalem suburb 'were Palestinian Authority police officers,' fumes The Wall Street Journal editorial board, and Ramallah's pledge to investigate 'is good for a laugh.' In fact, the Palestinian Authority 'glorifies terrorism by its security forces,' as a new Palestinian Media Watch study documents; the PA and Fatah openly 'boast' about PA security officers' involvement in terrorism. And though the 'Taylor Force Act stops direct U.S. economic aid to the PA' for paying rewards to terrorists or their families, US support for the security forces 'is another matter.' Notably, the State Department has yet to say how much exactly Washington sends the PASF, but 'taxpayers and the public deserve to know.' DC watch: Senate's Chance To Cut Waste 'This week, the Senate will vote to rescind $9.4 billion of spending Congress previously appropriated,' cheers the National Review's editors. The rescissions bill 'would ax funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and various foreign-aid accounts.' For starters, PBS and NPR's 'progressive bias is pervasive and well documented.' But the feds shouldn't be funding TV and radio outlets, anyway. The bill also cuts billions in 'development assistance, which has a shoddy track record of fostering economic growth in poorer countries,' a 'fund to promote clean energy technologies abroad' and 'an account created in the 1990s to help former Soviet states transition away from communism. (Mission accomplished.)' 'If Republicans are remotely sincere about limiting the federal government's scope, they should pass the bill without delay.' From the left: Cheer Progress Against Terror The end of the TSA's airport shoe-removal policy is a 'marker of underappreciated progress,' argues Vox's Bryan Walsh: 'The threat of devastating terror attacks in the US' and abroad 'has greatly receded.' Improved 'screening for threats,' such as the use of 'multi-view computed topography (CT) scanners' and 'biographic vetting' of every traveler 'against the Terrorism Database' has been key. The once 'highly organized international terror cells' intent on attacking the West have been cut down. True, an attack could still 'take place somewhere in the US'; the TSA decision is, 'at best, a partial victory, one that has come with costs and that could be reversed at any time.' Yet 'even a partial victory is more than many of us would have expected.' Conservative: Butler-Shooting Questions Remain It's been a year since Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate President Trump in Butler, Pa., but 'little is still known about Crooks and his motives,' laments Salena Zito at the Washington Examiner. Crooks fired 'at the crowd and at then former President Donald Trump,' hitting Trump in the ear and mortally wounding 'local retired fire chief Corey Comperatore.' Crooks' father 'said in hindsight that the signs of his son's mental health decay began six months before' the shooting. 'One year later, several agents have been suspended, a decision announced this week, but' Corey's wife, Helen, 'says she wants more information.' Among 'people who attended the rally' and in 'the suburban neighborhood of Bethel Park, that sentiment is shared.' From the right: Brennan's Record of Scandals Former CIA Director John Brennan professes to be 'clueless' about the Justice Department's investigation of him, but his bluster, scoffs Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness, is hollow, because Brennan 'knows full well' that 'his fingerprints are on some of the greatest scandals of the last decade.' Brennan, 'who has a record of serially lying to Congress, the public, and the media,' testified in 2017 to having no knowledge of the provenance of the 'now-infamous bogus Steele dossier,' and denied it played a key part in CIA 'intelligence assessments.' But behind the scenes, Brennan was among the dossier's 'most ardent advocates' and 'chief architects' of the lie that Hunter Biden's laptop was a Russian op. His record is one of 'chronically lying, leaking, and weaponizing the government.' — Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
Yahoo
11-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Israel slams Palestinian 'deception scheme' over claim it halted terror rewards program
JERUSALEM—The president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) apparently capitulated to the Trump administration by claiming to scrap its long-standing program known as "pay for slay," which provides payments to Palestinian terrorists and their families. There are, however, conflicting reports about whether the PA ended the program or is trying to hoodwink the Trump administration. Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein released a statement on X saying, "This is a new deception scheme by the Palestinian Authority, which intends to continue paying terrorists and their families through alternative payment channels." Judge Lets Lawsuit Claiming Biden Admin Knew Us Funds Were Aiding Palestinian Terrorists Move Forward On Monday, the Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) reported that Mahmoud Abbas "issued a decree law revoking the articles contained in the laws and regulations related to the system of paying financial allowances to the families of prisoners, martyrs, and the wounded, in the Prisoners' Law and the regulations issued by the Council of Ministers and the Palestine Liberation Organizations." WAFA noted that, regarding Abbas' decree, "powers of all protection and social welfare programs in Palestine have been transferred to the Palestinian Economic Empowerment Foundation." The Times of Israel reported that it had independently confirmed through sources that the revocation happened. Read On The Fox News App The pay for slay policy gained public attention when Taylor Force, a West Point graduate who served in Afghanistan and Iraq was savagely knifed to death by a Palestinian terrorist on March 8, 2016, while on a tour of Israel. President Donald Trump signed the Taylor Force Act into law in October 2018, after a vigorous campaign by Force's parents, Robbi and Stuart Force. "Abbas' announcement seems to be a ruse aimed at pulling the wool over President Trump's eyes," Asher Fredman, a former Israeli government official who now is the executive director of the Misgav Institute for National Security, told Fox News Digital. 'Pay For Slay': Palestinian Authority May Have To Compensate Families Of Hamas Terrorists, Report Says "It appears that the terrorists and families of terrorists who received payments under the PA's 'pay for slay' program will continue to receive the same payments, simply via a 'foundation' under the control of Abbas, rather than via a ministry under the control of Abbas." Fredman added, "It remains to be seen whether Abbas truly ends the pay for slay payments, as well as the virulent terror incitement and antisemitism in PA media, schools and summer camps." He said the PA announced that the payments to convicted terrorists are moving from the Ministry of Social Development to an independent Palestinian National Economic Empowerment Foundation. The head of the foundation's board is the minister of social development. The foundation's general director is also apparently an employee of the Ministry of Social Development, according to her LinkedIn profile. The linkage suggests that the foundation is closely tied to the PA. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told Fox News Digital, "We will rejoice when the PA stops financially rewarding Palestinian terrorists for murdering and injuring Israelis. Abbas' statement makes no such commitment. Mr. Abbas, you either support and abet terrorism or oppose and help end it." The Times of Israel reported that PA officials informed the incoming Trump administration about its plan to pull the plug on the "pay to slay" program. The thinking behind the PA's decision is to curry favor with the Trump administration and avoid the strained relations that existed during the first Trump presidency. After Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital city in 2017, Abbas boycotted the Trump administration. The Times of Israel wrote that Monday's "decree is Ramallah's latest effort to improve ties with Washington and amounts to a major victory for Trump, who managed to secure a concession from the PA that repeated U.S. administrations had worked to bring about." The PA is based in Ramallah in the West Bank (known in Israel as the biblical region of Judea and Samaria). Fox News Digital reported after a late 2023 deal involving the exchange of Palestinian terrorists imprisoned in Israel for the release of Israeli civilians held by Hamas in Gaza that the freed terrorists would receive monthly payments ranging from approximately $535 to $668 for Jerusalem residents. Jason Brodsky, the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), summed up a recent trend of foreign leaders caving to the Trump administration. "I think it speaks to the Trump effect. Foreign leaders fear crossing the president because he knows how to engage in coercive diplomacy, and it produces outcomes which advance U.S. interests like this. Iran and other countries are watching very carefully how the president pressures other governments, and this will shape their decision-making. Thus far, Tehran has been more risk-averse since President Trump has been in office," he told Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital questions to the Palestinian Authority were not article source: Israel slams Palestinian 'deception scheme' over claim it halted terror rewards program
Fox News
11-02-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Israel slams Palestinian 'deception scheme' over claim it halted terror rewards program
JERUSALEM—The president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) apparently capitulated to the Trump administration by claiming to scrap its long-standing program known as "pay for slay," which provides payments to Palestinian terrorists and their families. There are, however, conflicting reports about whether the PA ended the program or is trying to hoodwink the Trump administration. Israel's Foreign Ministry spokesman Oren Marmorstein released a statement on X saying, "This is a new deception scheme by the Palestinian Authority, which intends to continue paying terrorists and their families through alternative payment channels." On Monday, the Palestinian News and Information Agency (WAFA) reported that Mahmoud Abbas "issued a decree law revoking the articles contained in the laws and regulations related to the system of paying financial allowances to the families of prisoners, martyrs, and the wounded, in the Prisoners' Law and the regulations issued by the Council of Ministers and the Palestine Liberation Organizations." WAFA noted that, regarding Abbas' decree, "powers of all protection and social welfare programs in Palestine have been transferred to the Palestinian Economic Empowerment Foundation." The Times of Israel reported that it had independently confirmed through sources that the revocation happened. The pay for slay policy gained public attention when Taylor Force, a West Point graduate who served in Afghanistan and Iraq was savagely knifed to death by a Palestinian terrorist on March 8, 2016, while on a tour of Israel. President Donald Trump signed the Taylor Force Act into law in October 2018, after a vigorous campaign by Force's parents, Robbi and Stuart Force. "Abbas' announcement seems to be a ruse aimed at pulling the wool over President Trump's eyes," Asher Fredman, a former Israeli government official who now is the executive director of the Misgav Institute for National Security, told Fox News Digital. "It appears that the terrorists and families of terrorists who received payments under the PA's 'pay for slay' program will continue to receive the same payments, simply via a 'foundation' under the control of Abbas, rather than via a ministry under the control of Abbas." Fredman added, "It remains to be seen whether Abbas truly ends the pay for slay payments, as well as the virulent terror incitement and antisemitism in PA media, schools and summer camps." He said the PA announced that the payments to convicted terrorists are moving from the Ministry of Social Development to an independent Palestinian National Economic Empowerment Foundation. The head of the foundation's board is the minister of social development. The foundation's general director is also apparently an employee of the Ministry of Social Development, according to her LinkedIn profile. The linkage suggests that the foundation is closely tied to the PA. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told Fox News Digital, "We will rejoice when the PA stops financially rewarding Palestinian terrorists for murdering and injuring Israelis. Abbas' statement makes no such commitment. Mr. Abbas, you either support and abet terrorism or oppose and help end it." The Times of Israel reported that PA officials informed the incoming Trump administration about its plan to pull the plug on the "pay to slay" program. The thinking behind the PA's decision is to curry favor with the Trump administration and avoid the strained relations that existed during the first Trump presidency. After Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital city in 2017, Abbas boycotted the Trump administration. The Times of Israel wrote that Monday's "decree is Ramallah's latest effort to improve ties with Washington and amounts to a major victory for Trump, who managed to secure a concession from the PA that repeated U.S. administrations had worked to bring about." The PA is based in Ramallah in the West Bank (known in Israel as the biblical region of Judea and Samaria). Fox News Digital reported after a late 2023 deal involving the exchange of Palestinian terrorists imprisoned in Israel for the release of Israeli civilians held by Hamas in Gaza that the freed terrorists would receive monthly payments ranging from approximately $535 to $668 for Jerusalem residents. Jason Brodsky, the policy director of United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), summed up a recent trend of foreign leaders caving to the Trump administration. "I think it speaks to the Trump effect. Foreign leaders fear crossing the president because he knows how to engage in coercive diplomacy, and it produces outcomes which advance U.S. interests like this. Iran and other countries are watching very carefully how the president pressures other governments, and this will shape their decision-making. Thus far, Tehran has been more risk-averse since President Trump has been in office," he told Fox News Digital. Fox News Digital questions to the Palestinian Authority were not answered.
