US Taylor Force Act to become law despite Democrat and Palestinian Terror Authority opposition

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Who would have imagined that the simple act of punishing terrorism would be such a herculean task, and the passage of the Taylor Force act (may his soul rest in peace) such an incredible feat? But in the age of the leftism, it is exactly that. A miracle in a dark age.

For those unfamiliar with who Taylor Force was, Taylor Force was an American Army veteran murdered by a Muslim terrorist in Jaffa in 2016.

The Democrats, party of terrorism, was of course, were a stmbling block to its passage.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that in order to achieve peace, P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas must “stop paying terrorists who murder Jews.”

“You know how much he pays? He pays about $350 million a year to terrorists and their families, each year,” stated Netanyahu. “That’s about a little less than 10 percent of the total Palestinian budget. That’s an incredible number.”

The legislation was introduced in the Senate in 2016 by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) and Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), and in the House of Representatives in February 2017. A Texas native, West Point graduate and U.S. Army veteran, Force was stabbed and killed by a Palestinian terrorist during a Vanderbilt University graduate-school trip to Israel.

A goodbye ceremony at Ben Gurion Airport for Taylor Force, a U.S. Army veteran killed in a Palestinian terror attack in Jaffa, before his body was sent back to America for burial in March 2016. Legislation named after Force would cut U.S. economic aid to the Palestinian Authority if it continues to issue payments to terrorists and their families. Credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

The two competing versions of the Taylor Force Act in Congress, however, have several key differences that have caused concern among advocates of the bill. Passed on Dec. 5 by the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 1164 adds several exemptions and loopholes to the original proposed Senate version. (JNS)

US Taylor Force Act to become law despite Palestinian Authority opposition

The law would dramatically halt US financial assistance to the PA absent reform, while retaining aid allotted to security cooperation and some humanitarian relief.

By Michael Wilner
March 22, 2018 03:27

WASHINGTON – Congress is expected to pass a bill this week that threatens to freeze State Department funds to the Palestinian Authority unless it ends its longstanding practice of compensating the families of terrorists convicted in Israeli courts.

The PA passionately opposes this bill, claiming that its “martyr” compensation scheme benefits generations of families that include those of legitimate combatants in the Palestinian struggle for independence. Israel argues that the program encourages Palestinian violence against innocent civilians.

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The Trump administration agrees with Israel, and US President Donald Trump has personally appealed to PA President Mahmoud Abbas in past meetings to end the program. Senior administration officials told The Jerusalem Post that Trump supports the legislation and plans on signing it into law once it reaches his desk.

The law would dramatically halt US financial assistance to the PA absent reform, while retaining aid allotted to security cooperation and some humanitarian relief. After negotiating some wiggle room into the bill, granting the PA time to phase out the program, Democrats wholeheartedly endorsed the GOP-drafted legislation.

​The legislation passed the House of Representatives in December with bipartisan support.

“After over two years of very hard work, we are on the verge of having the Taylor Force Act become law,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, who authored and introduced the legislation. “This is one of the most significant pieces of legislation I’ve been involved with. The powerful message from the Force family, along with effort from the pro-Israel community led by Sander Gerber, have made this possible.”

For decades, the PA has provided monthly stipends to Palestinians convicted of murder or terrorism relative to the length of their prison sentences, and to the families of slain terrorists. The PA considered the program a fundamental pillar of its welfare system.

Trump’s Middle East peace team characterizes the practice as contrary to the pursuit of peace. But passage and implementation of the Taylor Force Act comes at a delicate time in US-PA relations, when the peace team is trying to lure Palestinians back to the table, and when the PA already sees the US as skewed against its interests.

American Jewish organizations and Israel advocacy organizations, including the American Jewish Committee and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, support the legislation. The bill is expected to pass within an omnibus spending package.

Taylor Force was an American Army veteran murdered by a Palestinian terrorist in Jaffa in 2016.

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Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Why would the democrats be opposed to preventing terrorism? Not that more evidence is required, but the democrats are owned by islam, anyone who supports the democrats, supports islamic terrorism and oppression. There will have to be a reckoning with democrat islam, it will not be pleasant.

Sing On
Sing On
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

Beware of Canada’s Prime Moron Jihad Trudope. He’s probably going to pick up the funding gap created by the Force Act. As far as Trudope is concerned, anyone who is a jihadist is worth at least $10.5 million.

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

DEMS see Muslims as their new base and LOVE Muslim money. Ask Hillary and Huma.

Robert Swift
Robert Swift
6 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Maybe that’s just another reason they refuse to secure the border! Would explain why Border Patrol find’s prayer rugs, and korans in our S.W. desert!

mezcukor
mezcukor
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

I sure hope so Mahou

turkeychoker
turkeychoker
6 years ago
Reply to  Mahou Shoujo

they are opposed to preventing terrorism, because their own relatives are involved. There have been a few reports of this or that guy being the kid of some very wealthy family or low level politician. They run drugs too.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

If Americans are united and keep demanding it , things will move in the Right direction just as these folks in
san diego are doing to push back on Islam in schools https://tinyurl.com/y8yzso88

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

Good … but seriously …

Let’s use Rules of Engagement …

You pay terrorists to kill a soldier – We burn a whole city to the ground – NEXT!

Seriously – We Are The Civilization That Does Not Rape Babies.

It’s not that hard to figure out folks.

L Novak
L Novak
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Unfortunately we are the civilization that shoots Palestinian children and murdered 500 children in Gaza in 2014.

Emmett
Emmett
6 years ago
Reply to  L Novak

LESS mOSLEMS LESS JIHAD, JUST LIKE LESS NAZIS TO MAKE WAR !

mackykam
mackykam
6 years ago
Reply to  L Novak

Really? If what you say is true, and we both know it isn’t, then killing 500 children in Gaza wasn’t enough. Nits grow into lice….

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago
Reply to  mackykam

L Noval is another MUSLIM apologist that lies. Truth is his eternal enemy.

Robert Swift
Robert Swift
6 years ago
Reply to  mackykam

Omg, lol, reply of the century!

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago
Reply to  L Novak

We do not use human shields. And then blame the opposition for killing the innocent people in harms way.

Robert Swift
Robert Swift
6 years ago
Reply to  L Novak

Which college propagandist taught you that? Shouldn’t you be on a PBS site, you liberal nazi?

LeslieFish
LeslieFish
6 years ago
Reply to  L Novak

Really? Where’s the evidence for this claim?

IzlamDownpressesHumanity
IzlamDownpressesHumanity
6 years ago
Reply to  L Novak

If you f’ing muslum vermin were to stop firing rockets and mortar rounds into Israel the Israelis wouldn’t have to kill your fellow allahtards at all.

Thomas Faddis
Thomas Faddis
6 years ago
Reply to  L Novak

Israel guards her people with rockets, ‘palestine’ guards her rockets with people!

pipo
pipo
6 years ago
Reply to  L Novak

What is your problem in shooting palestinians or muzzrats.

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago

Our “aid”, tax dollars, was being used to compensate Muslim terrorist families if they were martyrs. It was outrageous. This is FANTASTIC news! It’s horrible to be so excited about common sense? There was DEM opposition to it….

Lynn D
Lynn D
6 years ago

The US is the largest donor when it comes to overseas aid. Of all the countries that get aid from USA (118 if I remember correctly) 7 out of the top 10 recipients are Islamic countries.. Guess who gets the most? Bloody Palestine!…In fact the Islamic countries that don’t have oil production, survive on foreign aid…So there should be no one in their right mind that would object to Palestine’s funding being cut by USA… I would go further and cut all aid to Islamic countries.. They are all such wonderful countries under sharia, so let them live and prosper under sharia as they say it is the best system for government….

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago

How F-ed up is it that we need an act of Congress to stop giving aid to terrorists? And on top of that, who the F- does Abbas think he is to oppose OUR legislation?

F- pisslam.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

Instead, the money would go to victims of terrorist violence instead of safekeeping should Palestinians change their mind?

We don’t need to halt it, but REVERSE the flow, know what I’m say’n? Uck halting. The victims of terrorist NEED the money NOW!!

Why don’t you give it to them?

larry
larry
6 years ago

there will be NO ‘no go zones’ in the US…. should the nasty sub-human ilk of islamic perverts start their crap here, I believe it will be short lived when Americans, patriotic Americans, with spines of steel and fully functioning testicles, will take the perverts battle to them, unlike the nancy boys of europe, decimating their coven’s numbers, relying on sean connery’s admonition, “if they send on of ours to the hospitial, we send 50 of theirs to the morgue”… more appropriate advice can not be given if we are to prevent the moral decay and societal collapse, wrought by psychotic islamic perverts, that has already destroyed europe…

JoseMarino
JoseMarino
6 years ago

Why should hard working Americans pay to keep terrorists alive?

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