The United States Should Cut Direct Budgetary Aid to the Palestinian Authority

There are four main reasons why we should cut aid going to Palestine. Reason 1: Palestine Is In A Unity Government With Hamas SOURCE: Clifford D. May, (president of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Mr. May holds master"s degrees from both Columbia University"s School of International Affairs and its School of Journalism. His undergraduate degree is from Sarah Lawrence College, and he hold a certificate in Russian language and literature from Leningrad State University, USSR.), July 2014, The Washington Times, (a daily broadsheet published in Washington, D.C., United States), "MAY: Salaries for terrorists" http://www.washingtontimes.com... "Two months later, Hamas, the U.S."government"designated terrorist entity that rules Gaza, publicly ended its often lethal, seven"year feud with the PA, which rules the West Bank. The two entities announced a "government of national unity."" Impact: This means that when we give money to the Palestinian Authority- It is also going to Hamas. Reason 2: The Palestinian Authority Rewards Terrorists For Committing Acts of Terror SOURCE: Edwin Black, (the award"winning, New York Times bestselling international investigative author. Black began working as a professional journalist while still in high school, later attending university where he further developed the craft. In the late 1970s he was a founder of the investigative magazine, The Chicago Monthly.), November 2013, The Jewish Daily Forward, (a Jewish"American national newspaper published in New York City.), "American Tax Dollars Help Fund Hefty 'Salaries' for Jailed Palestinian Killers" http://forward.com... A532;A532;A532;A532;A532;A532;A532;A532; "Here"s how the system works. When a Palestinian is convicted of an act of terror against the Israeli government or innocent civilians, such as a bombing or a murder, that convicted terrorist automatically receives a generous salary from the Palestinian Authority. The salary is specified by the Palestinian Law of the Prisoner and administered by the PA"s Ministry of Prisoner Affairs. A Palestinian watchdog group, the Prisoners Club, ensures the PA"s compliance with the law and pushes for payments as a prioritized expenditure. This means that even during frequent budget shortfalls and financial crisis, the PA pays the terrorists" salaries first and foremost " often before other fiscal obligations. The Law of the Prisoner narrowly delineates just who is entitled to receive an official salary. In a recent interview, Ministry of Prisoners spokesman Amr Nasser read aloud that definition: "A detainee is each and every person who is in an Occupation prison based on his or her participation in the resistance to Occupation." This means crimes against Israel or Israelis. Nasser was careful to explain, "It does not include common"law thieves and burglars. They are not included and are not part of the mandate of the Ministry." Impact: American Money is incentivizing and rewarding terrorism. Reason 3: Palestinian Authority Glorifies And Promotes Terrorism SOURCE: Palestinian Media Watch, (nongovernmental organization and media watchdog group. Founded in 1996 by Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch documents cases of incitement in Palestinian media.), Copyright 2014, "Violence and Terror" http://palwatch.org... PA terror promotion takes many forms. Nationalistically, the PA actively elevates violence as a valid and heroic means to achieve political goals, while religiously, fighting and killing Jews has been presented repeatedly by PA religious and academic leaders as Allah"s will. On the social level, Palestinian leaders and society honor even the most loathsome of murderers portraying them as heroes and role models: Dalal Mughrabi, who led a bus hijacking in which 37 were killed, has schools, summer camps, and many other events and places baring her name to immortalize and glorify her and her terror attack. Reason 4: Palestinian Police Force Collaborates With Terrorists SOURCE: Steven Stotsky said in (is a senior research analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. He has degrees from Yale University and the University of Massachusetts.), Summer 2008, Middle East Quarterly, "Does Foreign Aid Fuel Palestinian Violence?" http://www.meforum.org... "Not only did the security forces fail to prevent terrorist attacks, in many cases they colluded with terrorist groups and sometimes perpetrated attacks themselves. For example, on January 30, 2004, a Palestinian policeman belonging to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades boarded a crowded bus in Jerusalem and detonated a bomb strapped to his body, killing ten Israelis. The same article goes on to say that, Documents captured during Operation Defensive Shield in 2002 detail security forces involvement in terrorist operations.[29] An Israeli document describing the interrogation of Fatah leader Nasser Aweis in 2002 revealed the links between Tanzim operatives and the PA national security apparatus and showed not only how Palestinian security officers instructed Tanzim operatives in bomb-making, but also how they regularly updated Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat.[30] Other documents detailed Palestinian Authority salary payments to terrorists in the employ of security service officials."