(Taylor) Forcing the issue
In March 2016 an American citizen and veteran, Taylor Force, while visiting Tel Aviv, was stabbed and killed by a Palestinian Arab terrorist. This brought US attention to the PA’s despicable practice of paying financial incentives to terrorists and their families, with the amount increasing according to the number of deaths and injuries they inflicted on innocent civilians.
As a result, the Taylor Force Act was passed by Congress and signed into law in March 2018, rendering it illegal for the US government to provide financial aid to the PA as long as its policy of financially incentivizing terrorism remains in place. Since then the PA has continued to make these payments at a rate of well over $100 million per year.
Recently the Biden-Harris administration announced that it would begin providing $15 million per month ($180 million a year) to the PA for “humanitarian” purposes, and several days ago it announced it would provide an additional $75 million. It offered no comment on the fact that this is in effect a blatant violation of the Taylor Force Act. These illegal payments, which will enable the PA to continue doling out generous stipends for its “pay for slay” policy should be canceled immediately.
Taylor Force and all the other American and Israeli victims of Palestinian Arab terrorism deserve no less. DANIEL H. TRIGOBOFF, PH.D.
Williamsville, New York
Regarding “US pledges $15m to Palestinians as first step to restore funding” (March 29), it is very strange that the US – which has proclaimed undying friendship with Israel and fulsomely praised the democratic values we share with them – should pledge millions of dollars as “just the first step” to restore funding to the PA, which offers money to its citizens to murder Jews and thus makes terrorists of its people. For several decades, the PA has abused their children’s minds by filling their textbooks and media with hate against the Jewish people and especially Israeli Jews.
I find it difficult to swallow that an American president would reward the so-called Palestinians for their behavior against their bosom buddies.
EDMUND JONAH Rishon Lezion