How U.S. Tax Payers Funded the Murder of an Iraq Vet in Israel
By Daniel Greenfield
SultanKnish.Blogspot.com
Taylor Force had been deployed to Iraq and
Afghanistan, he had served at Fort Hood in the year
of the infamous Islamic terrorist attack on the
base, but a Jihadist finally caught up to the
veteran, whose father and grandfather had also
served their country, in civilian life during a
visit to Israel.
Bashar
Masalha, the Islamic terrorist who murdered Force,
was shot dead by Israeli police around the time that
Biden was hanging out a mile away at the Peres
Center for Peace. But Biden and his boss signed the
checks to Iran and the Palestinian Authority that
motivated and rewarded Force’s killer.
Masalha came from Qalqilya which is under the civil
control of the Palestinian Authority. Its mayor,
Othman Dawood, is a member of Fatah, the core
political organization behind the PLO and the
Palestinian Authority. Fatah celebrated the murder
of Taylor Force and other victims of the attack,
praising Masalha as a “heroic martyr”. It named him
and two other terrorist attackers as “the pride of
all of the young Palestinians” and urged future
terrorists to go on killing in their name.
Palestinian Authority television called the
terrorist who murdered an American, a Shaheed, a
martyr for Islam. And the Palestinian Authority’s
support for the murder of Taylor Force doesn’t just
end there.
The Palestinian Authority pays terrorists based on
the amount of harm they caused and the resulting
jail sentence. Had Masalha survived his attack on
Taylor Force and the other victims, he would have
likely been paid $2,000 a month for his act of
terror. That’s pretty good money in a place where
$2,000 is more like an annual income. It’s so good
that that there’s no shortage of terrorists eager to
kill for cash.
And the Palestinian Authority has no shortage of
money to pay Muslim terrorists to kill Americans and
Israelis because the terror organization which
claims to be a state is subsidized by the United
States with billions of dollars. In 2014, the PA
spent $144 million on payments to convicted
terrorists. Its terror budget benefited from Obama
boosting 2014 foreign aid to the PA to $440 million.
For “peace”.
Masalha is dead and will not receive the blood money
he was hoping for from the Palestinian Authority,
but he died knowing that his family will still be
paid for his crime. In just one year, the PA paid
out $78 million to the families of terrorists.
Masalha’s family will receive money each month for
the murder of Taylor Force. That money will come
from American taxpayers. It will come from you.
Americans are paying money to Islamic terrorists who
kill them. They are paying money to their families
so that the terrorists know that even if they die,
their families will be taken care of by their
victims.
After a vague condemnation, Biden headed to a
meeting with the head of the Palestinian Authority,
PLO and Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, whose organization
encouraged and financed the murder of Taylor Force.
While the body of Abbas’ latest American victim was
flown back to his family, Biden grinned at the Osama
of the West Bank, shook the bloody hand of the head
of a terrorist organization that is among the
world’s top terrorist killers of Americans and
promised him more cash that will be used to help
kill more Americans.
After the murder of Taylor Force, Biden could have
skipped the meeting. When an Israeli planning
committee approved a housing plan the last time he
was in the country, Biden kept Netanyahu waiting for
90 minutes to express his displease. He didn't keep
the PLO terror boss waiting for even a second.
Why do Jewish houses in Jerusalem offend Biden more
than the murder of an American veteran?
But sadly the taxpayer financing of Islamic
terrorism in Israel doesn’t end with the Palestinian
Authority.
Obama signed off on Iran’s nuclear program. As part
of that deal, Iran got $100 billion in sanctions
relief. And he generously threw in a check from the
American people to the Shiite terror state for $1.7
billion.
After 9/11, Biden told staffers, “Seems to me this
would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a
check for $200 million to Iran.” Obama added plenty
of interest to that check and Iran quickly began
putting that money to good use in its weapons
programs and its terror financing.
As part of its celebration, Iran announced that it
would pay $7,000 to the families of terrorists in
Israel. On top of the American taxpayer money that
the family of Taylor Force’s killer will receive
from the Palestinian Authority, they will also
receive blood money from Iran.
Funding terrorism is popular in the Muslim world.
The Saudis were funneling $5,300 to the families of
dead terrorists in Israel. And they are not alone.
These days some of that money has been diverted to
Islamic holy wars in Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and
any number of other places where Allahu Akbar is
shouted as heads roll and bombs go off, but the
checks are still being cut to Muslim terrorists in
Israel.
And too much of the money being used to murder
Americans is coming out of the pockets of Americans.
Taylor Force is not alone. He is the second American
to be murdered by Muslim terrorists in Israel this
year. Americans murdered by Islamic terrorists in
Israel last year included Richard Lakin, a
76-year-old former elementary school principal from
Connecticut, Rabbi Eitan Henkin, a father of four
who was driving his family home, and Ezra Schwartz,
a Massachusetts teenager on a mission of mercy.
Many other Americans have been stabbed, shot at,
wounded, stoned and terrorized. And the money
funding their attackers came out of their own
pockets.
Members of Congress from both parties have tried to
cut off aid to the terrorists of the Palestinian
Authority. But Obama, like the presidents before
him, has refused to listen or to follow the law and
continues to fund terrorist attacks in Israel in
much the same way that Saddam Hussein used to.
Unfortunately he is not alone. The United States has
funded Fatah and PLO terrorism under three
presidents. This is an ongoing crime that must stop.
It kills Israelis and it kills Americans.
As long as the United States funds the Palestinian
Authority, it’s funding Islamic terrorism.
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade appears on the State
Department’s own list of Foreign Terrorist
Organizations. The Brigade is an arm of Fatah, whose
terrorist boss, Mahmoud Abbas, was one of the first
foreign leaders Obama phoned on his first day in
office.
Abbas was a frequent guest at the White House.
Despite skipping Israel’s parliament, Obama paid a
visit to the terrorist leader’s Muqata fortress,
ignoring Abbas’ own statement, “As far as I am
concerned, there is no difference between our
policies and those of Hamas. So why are they labeled
as terrorists?"
That’s a very good question. Maybe Abbas can ask it
of Biden as the Vice President of the United States
pays a call on the PLO and Fatah terror boss in the
old British prison that serves as his fortress
despite the murder of Taylor Force and other
Americans funded by Abbas’ terrorist organization.
Obama has poured billions into the Palestinian
Authority. These vast sums of money have not led to
peace. They have not convinced Abbas to negotiate in
good faith with Israel. Instead those billions have
helped finance Islamic terrorism. It’s time for the
United States to stop funding terrorists.
It’s clear that this administration will not do the
right thing. But if its successor does not stop
paying terrorists to kill, then Taylor Force will
not be the last American victim of taxpayer
subsidized terrorism. And their blood will be on his
or her hands.