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.”
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