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Going back to your comment.. you said the PA are paying $400 million a year to kill Israelis.. that is technically not true.. it alludes to terrorists being paid that amount each year to go on a rampage..Well, let's be fair, the Palestinians in the West Bank are far more out of control with attempted murders of random Israelis nearly every day and with the Palestinian Authority paying them over $400,000,000 a year to kill Israelis, yet Biden and Blinken didn't seem to think it was any problem at all.
Of course i am aware that prisoners and their families are paid money by the PA. $400 million (being generous with that figure) covers a lot of different people and situations.
The IDF can come into your home and make up any kind of shit they want. You can throw rocks and be put in prison.
To not provide biased links, here is a quote from an Israeli website:
The Palestinian Authority views the Martyrs’ Fund as a means of supporting its citizens who are standing up in the face of injustice. They characterize the policy as a form of social welfare intended to help households whose earners are sitting in prison and restore dignity to a people living under military occupation. While the Martyrs’ Fund as it exists today arose in the early 2000s, the tradition of supporting Palestinian prisoners dates back to the early days of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in the 1960s. It has long been a fixture of Palestinian society and the culture of Palestinian nationalism. Moreover, Palestinian officials often argue that martyr and prisoner payments prevent its citizens from becoming further radicalized by Hamas, which openly embraces violence against Israel.
Regardless of its true purpose, it is not accurate to characterize the Martyrs’ Fund solely as a means of encouraging terror against Israel. Contrary to what Prime Minister Netanyahu may claim, not every recipient of aid from the Martyrs’ Fund is a terrorist. As Glenn Kessler points out in the Washington Post, Israel arrests many Palestinians for nonviolent offenses and “security threats” that may qualify more accurately as civil disobedience than terrorism. It is difficult to determine what portion of these detainees actually committed violent offenses that could be considered “terror”. Moreover, Palestinians in the territories are subject to Israeli military law and do not enjoy the legal rights guaranteed by Israeli civil law. The IDF regularly carries out arbitrary arrests of Palestinians, detains them without charges, and tries them in military courts that have a nearly 100 percent conviction rate. Palestinian children are also subject to this process, many of whom end up facing long prison sentences for relatively minor offenses.
Thus, it is unfair to claim that all who benefit from the PA Martyrs’ Fund are terrorists. Not all Palestinians in Israeli prisons have or intend to have Israeli blood on their hands.

Palestinian Prisoner and Martyr Payments Explained
The Palestinian Authority’s policy of financially supporting Palestinians who land in Israeli prisons, as well as their families, is a perennial concern for Israeli and American policymakers and a source of disagreement with their counterparts in Ramallah.Critics of this policy, particularly in...
