Are You Paying Terrorists? Follow the Money

Yarden Frankl
Crossing the Yarden
13 March '11

http://www.crossingtheyarden.com/2011/03/are-you-paying-terrorists-follow-the-money/

For all those who pay American taxes, did you know that you are funding terrorism?

Now before you stop reading and assume this is some right-wing polemic, please hear me out. According to the folks at Palestinian Media Watch, (I know — two hat tips in a row, but they really are good,) the Palestinian Authority continues to award cash prizes for the families of terrorists.

In the period prior to the murders of Ruth and Udi Fogel and their three children in the Israeli town Itamar, the Palestinian Authority continued to encourage terror by glorifying terrorists as heroes and role models and through calls for violence. In addition, in an act that sent a clear message of support for terror, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas awarded $2000 to the family of a terrorist who attacked and tried to kill Israeli soldiers – just 2 months ago.

Now it’s bad enough that Abbas and his thugs are sending checks to reward terrorism, but just think for a moment about where that $2,000 check came from. The Palestinian Authority has almost no revenue. They are completely dependent on hundreds of millions of dollars delivered by the U.S. and other foreign countries. So a portion of your tax dollars is funding the same people who are handing out checks to terrorists and their families.

So as we RIGHT NOW cry rivers of tears for the murdered family from Itamar, I can only imagine how long will it take before we hear that the terrorists have deposited YOUR money as an expression of appreciation from the PA. Yes, the same PA that condemns terrorism in front of the news cameras turns around and pays for it when the cameras are turned off.

And while we are on that note, why are the cameras turned off? Can it be that no one in the media is aware of what’s going on? I mean I hardly did a comprehensive investigation right now. I merely got an e-mail from PMW that lays out the facts. Where does PMW get their information from?

From the Palestinian Authority’s own newspapers and television shows.

Are the same journalists who report on every brick used to build every house out here in the “territories” unfamiliar with how to find this same information? Is reading the official PA daily newspaper really outside the skill set of the highly paid correspondents from the Western Media? Do they know how to do a Google search?

Or do they just not care?

What do you think?

And more importantly, what are you going to do about it?

Here’s a start: Demand that your representatives in Congress vote to stop sending your money to the PA while the PA uses it to thank terrorists.

And while you’re at it, ask the media you read why they have not reported that the US funded PA is giving out checks to terrorists.

Yarden Frankl is an avid blogger, biker and runner, though not necessarily at the same time or in that order. He produces short films, long-term media analyses, and other efforts related to media bias for HonestReporting as their Special Media Projects Manager. Yarden’s blog, Crossing The Yarden, can be read at http://www.crossingtheyarden.com. He currently lives in Neve Daniel, Israel with his family, bikes, and dog.


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