Palestinian Authority Pays Terrorists and Their Families $140 Million a Year. Palestinians using foreign aid to reward terrorists for acts that kill Israelis

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Palestinian Authority Pays Terrorists and Their Families $140 Million a Year
Palestinians using foreign aid to reward terrorists for acts that kill Israelis
 

Palestinians improvise a barricade during clashes with Israeli troops near Ramallah, West Bank / AP

BY: Morgan Chalfant   
July 7, 2016 5:00 am

The Palestinian Authority spends roughly 10 percent of its annual budget paying terrorists who attack Israelis and supporting their families, according to expert testimony to congressional lawmakers.

Yigal Carmon, the president and founder of the Middle East Media Research Institute, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday that the Palestinian Authority is investing $137.8 million this year in salaries to terrorists jailed in Israel and payments to the families of imprisoned terrorists or suicide bombers, in violated of the Oslo peace accords with Israel.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/palestinian-authority-pays-terrorists-families-140-million-year/

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...  The United States has committed over $5 billion in bilateral economic and non-lethal aid to the Palestinians since the mid-1990s in order to prevent Palestinian terrorist groups from attacking Israel and promote piece in the West Bank, according to a Congressional Research Service report issued in March.

While U.S. law allows the government to cut aid to the Palestinian Authority for paying terrorists and their families, the Palestinian Authority has avoided this by transferring the payments to the Palestinian Liberation Organization, experts said Wednesday.  ...

Well, I'm just shocked.