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Just another good Trump policy.
Just another reason why they hate him.
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* Which law Biden appears to have violated. See post below.
Just another reason why they hate him.
President Joe Biden offered strong support to Israel this week after massive terror attacks by the Palestinian Hamas terror group, but said nothing about following President Donald Trump’s example of withdrawing funds that may have benefited terrorism.
In fact, President Donald Trump was the first U.S. president to cut aid to the Palestinians because of concerns about subsidies that the Palestinian Authority (PA) pays to terrorists and their families — what critics have called the “pay to slay” program.
U.S. direct aid to the Palestinians dates to the 1990s, when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), formerly considered a terror group, signed the Oslo Peace Accords with Israel. U.S. aid for the PA totaled about $5 billion from 1994 to 2018, according to the Congressional Research Service.
The U.S. also gave about $6 billion from 1950 to 2018 to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), a special agency that deals only with Palestinian “refugees,” most of whom have not been refugees for generations.
But President George W. Bush began shifting aid away from Gaza to the West Bank (known in Israel as Judea and Samaria) after Hamas won parliamentary elections, defeating the supposedly “moderate” Fatah faction (which also supports anti-Israel terror).
President Barack Obama trimmed aid to the Palestinians after the PA broke various commitments. But he gave $221 million to the Palestinians in his final hours in office. He also pledged nearly $1 billion to rebuild Gaza after Hamas triggered a 2008-9 war
No administration, until Trump, made major cuts to Palestinian aid, for fear of destabilizing the PA. But after Trump signed the Taylor Force Act in 2018, which prevents U.S. taxpayer funds from going to the PA* while it still supports “pay to slay,” funds to the PA declined dramatically. Trump also cut funds to UNRWA, and publicly threatened aid to the Palestinians generally.
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Trump Was Only U.S. President to Make Major Funding Cuts to Palestinians over Terror
No administration, until Trump, made major cuts to Palestinian aid over concerns about terror. Biden reversed many of Trump's cuts.
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* Which law Biden appears to have violated. See post below.
