T. Belman. Israel is trying to buy quiet. With the same purpose they allow Qatar to give Gazans $25 million per month and allow 3000 Gazans to work in Israel.
This is a temporary solution only.
PA to receive a transfer of 1.5 billion shekels from Israel amid dispute between the sides over payments to terrorists.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) will receive a transfer of 1.5 billion shekels ($430 million) from Israel, officials from the two governments said Friday.
Israel will continue to deduct money from the transfers to account for the PA’s payments to prisoners, a decision that sparked the row, but the two sides have agreed to further talks to resolve that issue, the PA’s “civil affairs minister” Hussein al-Sheikh said, according to AFP.
Shai Babad, director general of Israel’s finance ministry, told AFP the transfer would be made on Sunday to the PA government, which is facing a crippling financial crisis caused by the dispute.
Sheikh confirmed they would receive the funds.
In February, Israel decided to withhold about $10 million a month from revenues of some $190 million it collects on the PA’s behalf.
Immediately after Israel’s decision to offset the money paid to terrorists from the PA tax funds, the PA announced it would not take the partial sum of the funds from Israel.
PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas later reiterated that he would not accept partial payment of tax transfers owed by Israel and also stressed that he would not end the financial support for the families of terrorists imprisoned or killed by Israel.
The PA chairman has in the past called the PA’s continued payments to terrorists a “red line” that would not be halted under any circumstances.
Sheikh said Friday the two sides had agreed to form a committee to resolve remaining issues, including the money withheld over prisoner payments.
“This is a step towards resolving the crisis but the crisis didn’t end,” he told AFP.
The PA spends six percent of its annual budget to pay $4.5 million a month to jailed terrorists and another $6.5 million to their families, yet continues to ask for foreign donations.
(Arutz Sheva’s North American desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)
This is insanity to finance terror against your own people. The government is failing to destroy the terror organizations and is paying them off while the terror victims suffer needlessly.
If you want to win… WIN. If you want to lose do exactly what you are doing. You do not want terrorism rewarded.
Right now a young Palestinian girl would rather have a terrorist who gets a pension than a workforce member. This is perverse.
First, allow legal actions by those injured including emotionally from the terrorism to be deducted from any funds. Then, increase the penalty for payments to the terrorists from 100% deduction to 110% deduction, to 120% deduction, etc. until the agreement is reached or when the total amount that is deducted is 100% of the total amount.
Then, if that doesn’t work, start depriving the terrorists of their cozy jailhouse conditions. Then, if that doesn’t work go to the next steps whatever they may be.
In short, keep raising the stakes until you win. There is no substitute for victory. Everything else just prolongs the terror.
Let’s see terrorists get an income for life. What do Jews/Israeli’s or non Jews/Israeli’s in or out of Israel receive in compensation due to terror activities? How much of the 10 million per month takes care of one’s own?
When a business gets blown up by terrorists who pays to rebuild? the gov. or insurance co. does the owner get stuck with increased premium rates.