According to reports by the Palestinian Media Watch, the Palestinian Authority passed a law last month granting a monthly salary to all P.A. residents and Israeli Arabs imprisoned by Israel.
Where does the funding for Palestinian salaries come from? The U.S., the E.U., France, Britain, Ireland, Norway, Japan, India, and the World Bank have all given money to the P.A. for its general budget in 2010-2011. The report suggests that it is very likely that this money has been unintentionally funding salaries for terrorists:
According to PMW, the PA has defined by law which residents and Israeli Arabs would be deemed “prisoners” as: “Anyone imprisoned in the occupation’s [Israel's] prisons as a result of his participation in the struggle against the occupation.”
In other words, all PA residents in Israeli prisons for terror crimes are officially added to the PA payroll. According to the definition in the PA law, PA car thieves in Israeli prisons will not receive a salary, but Hamas and Fatah terrorist murderers will.
The PA also gives a salary to Israeli Arabs convicted of terror crimes against Israel – the country of which they are citizens. PA benefits to Israeli Arab terrorists, in fact, are greater than the ones extended to PA resident terrorists.
Additionally, those serving more than 20-year sentences will receive a greater PA salary than prisoners serving shorter sentences, the new PA law establishes. Salaries are to be paid from the day of arrest until release.
What do you think?
8:04 am
You say what? Since when do you pay prisoners for being in prison? Some one needs to read the Bible and see what God says about that!
8:59 pm
that is the crazy it is like murder for hire it shows that who we value the most call your rep in Congress and demand this wasting of tax dollars stick to stop spending and balance the budged
1:29 pm
It’s absolutely ridiculous to pay a terrist a salary in or out of prison The countries paying them including the USA will eventually be dealt with by Jehovah God
4:38 pm
Our country already is. Our leaders are to blind to see it.