When Secretary of State Blinken met with PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas, he boasted of the over billion dollars in aid that the Biden administration had programmed for the terrorist territories.
That aid has come with a very heavy price.
In Feb 2019, President Trump’s total cutoff of aid became official. That year, 10 Israelis or people in Israeli controlled areas were killed in stabbings, shootings, rocket and other attacks, down from 12 the previous year, and 15 in 2017, and 16 in 2016.
In 2020 however only three Israelis were killed.
These numbers reflected the diminished capacity of the Islamic terrorists. The reduction in numbers was not due to the pandemic. 2020 still saw attacks, including firebombings, rocket launches and stabbings, but the success and lethality rates for these attacks were lower.
The numbers turned around dramatically once again in 2021.
In April 2021, the Biden administration restored aid to the PLO. Terror incidents, reflecting attack attempts, shot up sharply from 91 in February and 89 in March to 130 in April.
By May, major fighting resumed with 13 Israelis, including two children, killed.
By the time the year was over, 17 people in Israeli areas had been killed. The over 400% increase in deaths was only the beginning. In 2022, 31 Israelis or people in Israeli areas were killed, up from only 3 in 2020, for a massive 900% increase in casualties since the restoration of foreign aid to the terrorists. This was the worst death toll since 2015 under Obama.
But in January and the first half of February of 2023, 10 Israelis have already been killed, including a 6-year-old boy and an 8-year-old boy.
Three times as many have been killed in a month and a half of 2023 as in all of 2020. That’s a 233% increase over 2020 in just a fraction of a year, but it’s also a marked month-to-month escalation from 2022 which featured no attacks at all in January or February. More people have already been killed by terrorists in 2023 than through most of March in 2022.
What a difference a billion dollars makes.
While the media has tried to portray the terrorism as “lone wolf” attacks, they’re crowdsourced violence of the kind that Al Qaeda and ISIS helped innovate. But the PLO’s version is unique through its ‘Pay-to-Slay’ program which rewards terrorists, regardless of their formal affiliation, including ISIS and Hamas members, with salaries and payments for their families.
Terrorists are paid based on the length of their prison sentence. That means successful killers can earn $2,000 to $3,000 a month in a part of the world where the average salary is around $700 a month. It’s five times more profitable to be a terrorist than a teacher.
The Palestinian Authority calls for the murder of Jews, praises it and then rewards it.
Muhammad Al-Lahham of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, which runs the political movement behind the terrorists of the Palestinian Authority, was caught on video praising the “patriotic conscience” of a terrorist who had killed a rabbi taking his 2-year-old son for a walk in 2022.
The Trump administration cut off aid to the PLO’s Palestinian Authority and Congress passed the Taylor Force Act banning funds from going to finance Pay-to-Slay.
Throughout all this, PLO leadership have been consistent in refusing to stop financing terrorism.
“We will neither reduce nor prevent [payment] of allowances to the families of martyrs, prisoners and released prisoners, as some seek, and if we had only a single penny left, we would pay it to families of the martyrs and prisoners,” Abbas had bragged. By “martyrs”, he meant those Islamic terrorists who were killed while carrying out terrorist attacks.
Despite this, the Biden administration had restored aid and rebuilt diplomatic relations. Biden and Blinken have met with Abbas. And while they have attacked Israel over everything from letting Jews pray on the Temple Mount (due to Jewish prayers offending Muslim sensibilities) to democratic judicial reform that will limit the unilateral authority of pro-terrorist judges, Biden and Blinken have had nothing to say to the terrorists about the program funding the murder of Jews.
America First Legal, under Stephen Miller, filed suit against the Biden administration on behalf of the parents of Taylor Force: a non-Jewish Afghanistan war vet murdered in Jerusalem.
“The Biden Administration is well aware that the PA pays Palestinian terrorists to injure or kill innocent Americans and Israelis in Israel. Yet, in blatant violation of the Taylor Force Act, a federal law that prohibits the government from sending American taxpayer dollars to the PA until it stops supporting terrorism, President Biden and Secretary of State Blinken have resumed payments to the PA after the Trump Administration had stopped these payments in compliance with the Taylor Force Act,” America First Legal declared..
“The Taylor Force Act, named after our son, was passed by Congress and signed by President Trump to stop this Pay to Slay. Yet the Biden Administration has resumed payments to the PA notwithstanding its Pay to Slay program,” Stuart Force, Taylor’s father, said.
The Biden administration’s decision to fund the Palestinian Authority has consequences beyond Israel. Islamic terrorism is a global threat and has been a reliable killer of Americans abroad.
“Robbi and I call upon President Biden to stop sending fungible taxpayer dollars to the PA that will end up funding terrorism,” Stuart Force appealed.
And the latest wave of violence shows just how ‘fungible’ that money is.
The massive uptick in successful terrorist attacks is not a coincidence. The numbers become more significant when we distinguish between so-called “lone wolf” attacks which are most directly impacted by ‘Pay-to-Slay’ and rocket attacks by other terrorist groups. 14 people were killed in direct terrorist attacks in 2018. That number dropped to 5 in 2019, the year Trump cut off aid to the PLO. By 2020, it fell to 3, in 2021, the year Biden restored aid, it rose to 4 and then shot up to 32 in 2022 reflecting the ‘slow burn’ effect of fungible aid money being taken away and then restored within a government bureaucracy even if it’s run by and for terrorists.
As the Biden administration continues pumping money into the terrorist entities occupying parts of Israel, the violence is drastically increasing. 2023 is already on track to top 2022 which had the worst numbers since 2015. The level of Islamic terrorism is returning to that of the Obama administration and that means that we can expect an even higher death toll in Israel.
The billion dollars in aid is a factor, but an even bigger factor is that the Biden administration, like its Democrat predecessor, has made no secret of its support for the Palestinian Authority. And the Biden administration has gone even further with its diplomatic support for the PLO regime and its pressure on Israel. The latest murders are the work of a terrorist group that knows that Washington D.C. has its back and will intervene to protect it from Israel.
The Biden administration’s decision to appoint Hady Amr, an open supporter of Islamic terrorism and opponent of the Jewish State, as its key liaison to the PLO, who was inspired by the intifada, has consequences, and dead bodies in Jerusalem are among the most obvious ones.
Islamic terrorism runs on money and foreign support. The Biden administration has provided both. The Palestinian Authority spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year on Pay-to-Slay.
The pipeline of terror may end with a 6-year-old boy lying dead on a Jerusalem street but it begins with cash coming out of Washington D.C. The attacks of September 11 cost Al Qaeda about half a million dollars. The cost to the PLO of killing that little boy, his brother and a newly married man going to spend the Sabbath with his wife’s family probably comes out to about $30,000 a year. Or $10,000 per dead Jewish person. That’s a fraction of the millions of dollars in foreign aid which could be used to finance hundreds and thousands of more murders of Jews.
$10,000 to kill a six-year-old boy, another $10,000 to kill his 8-year-old brother. Thanks to the financiers of murdering Jews in the Biden administration, the terrorists have the cash.
And we’re the ones providing it.
Joe Biden says
C’mon man, you ain’t supposed to use data this way, you just need to manipulate it a little.
1 (billion) might have saved 1 life for example.
Works for me and Hunter.
Handler #9 says
Mr. President.
Speaking of being manipulated, we have Xi on the phone. He needs to know what he’s getting for his money?
He’s also hinting at releasing those Hunter pictures from the brothel again, so I suggest you don’t keep him waiting.
Mo de Profit says
What’s your name again?
Handler #9 says
I’m an anonymous leftist (among several) tasked with handing *Biden thick envelopes from Hunter, giving *Biden q-cards, wishing him away from the press, changing his depends, etc.
As *Biden is as comatose as John Fetterman, we have our hands full!
*
Harvey says
Joe Biden is my name.
BirdieCat says
Plus, The Big Guy got 10% of the $1B sent to the PLO — a win-win for everyone.
Dave says
Cmon man, this is spit in the wind compared to the number killed in Biden’s war in Ukraine.
David Ray says
Well, since B. Hussein, err, I mean Saddam Hussein isn’t around anymore to write checks to PLO bombers, Sleepy had to fill that vacated position.
I’d say that he must be proud, but I doubt if the dullard remembers signing off on those checks. (Nice to know my hard-earned tax dollars are being squandered so wisely.)
Daniel Greenfield says
He’s just helping out Iran which doesn’t have as much money as it used to.
Andreas Schweizer says
By far the largest financier of these Palestinian peace organizations is the EU. The permanent threat is used on the Cyonist side to keep the alert permanently. Qui bono? Only the parasites…
Algorithmic Analyst says
That’s where the real waste in government spending is, financing terrorism overseas and such.
Daniel Greenfield says
It’s waste that kills.
Lightbringer says
Yes, a billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to some real money.
Steven Brizel says
This is appeasement of terror in practice
Chief Mac says
It isn’t appeasement – it is active and continuous support
Noah Andeark says
The terrorists at the terror org CAIR has promised racist rapist Joe Biden muslim support if he would use taxpayer dollars to kill Jews.
Noah Andeark says
The terrorists at the terror org CAIR has promised Cabbage Brain Biden muslim support in exchange the support of k.illing Jews.
John Bumpus says
How do foolish, corrupt people like Biden win such important positions in our National and various State governments? Our National and State governments are ‘full’ of them! These people are like toxic mold in our national body politic! When Biden goes on to his reward, I think that he will have MUCH to answer for (I love the Christmas Season–one of my favorite family traditions during the Christmas Season is watching the 1951 movie, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens {the Alastair Sim as Scrooge version}–early in the movie is the scene where Marley’s ghost tells Scrooge that Scrooge will have MUCH to answer for someday–I think that this scene should be a powerful, sobering reminder for anyone who acts thoughtfully about his life).
Kynarion Hellenis says
How do foolish, corrupt people get into power? We let them. We vote for them. We do not hold them accountable. And they cheat if they do not get our vote.
What would George Washington, or any of our founding fathers, say of us?
Lightbringer says
I’m sure that the Founding Fathers, being literate men, had massive vocabularies that they could have put to use finding things to say about us. Their words might not be printable but they’re good, solid English.
Daniel Greenfield says
They’re usefull puppets for the Left. Obama picked Biden as a useful shield. Now the Left is using him the same way. And he’s happy to be used as long as he feels important.
Chief Mac says
The TaliBiden terrorist regime is at war with Israel and busy financing world wide terrorism
commonsense says
I wish every clueless Jewish American who still votes Democrat would see this article. Ignorant fools.
Daniel Greenfield says
Most don’t care.
Just like most Americans don’t care about Islamic terrorism.
Rachelle says
Daniel, I’m not sure that most don’t care. I am sure however that they don’t understand our reality. They never did and they never will. That may be more dangerous in the long run than not caring.
ElkaZ says
Unfortunately they won’t read something like this. I have a few liberal friends. Getting them to hear this is like pulling teeth! They rationalize and rationalize and rationalize! They are also very weak on facts and very big on sound bites!
Darryl says
Ilhan Omar values are truly Democrat values, from the WH all the way down to hell.
Kynarion Hellenis says
I dearly wish Israel would defend itself with extreme measures, not caring about the international community’s opinion. Israel is for the Jews. Only Jews and those who love them and their nation should live there.
Daniel Greenfield says
That would be the great hope. Much as it would be the hope for America. And the free world.
ElkaZ says
Hopefully the current Israeli government will stick to,why it was elected and do just that! You can already see the “free” world joining together to condemn their actions!
Walter Sieruk says
That horrible old goat ,Joe Biden, is the epitome and personification of the word “Arch- villain.”
BLSinSC says
I don’t get it! IF WE have a LAW that says YOU CAN’T DO IT then WHY is it NOT BEING ENFORCED?? Oh yeah, the very people who are SUPPOSED to ENFORCE it are the ones who are VIOLATING it! IMPEACH Biden AND Harris at the same time and let McCarthy slide in – can’t be much worse! BUT we KNOW that will NEVER HAPPEN! No, we’ll have another year and 2/3’s to suffer and then HOPEFULLY find a way to override the FRAUD!!
Eva says
And this is why you don’t just destroy the terrorists, but the one financing them too.
ArizonaJewish Cowboy says
May Bozo Joe, Juden-RAT Blinken, Kamala, Hady Amr all die or go to hell soon.
And the sooner the better.
Tershia says
I realise our problem in Canada is wannabe dictator Trudeau, who is supported by all his sycophants. But I can’t understand why Americans support the ‘emperor in the altogether’ (apologies to Hans C. Anderson) when there are so many right-thinking people and politicians who surely can get rid of Biden who is no longer mentally competent !
angelo barbato says
This bag of chicken excrement and his administration are doing much more than harming Israel., not to mention undoing everything Trump accomplished in the 4 years of his administration.
mj says
I may be crazy to think this, but ever since Obama got power, foreign policy is domestic policy; meaning, in order to destroy Israel, the US must be destroyed first, economically, socially, academically, morally. This is our enemies’ strategy, working from within the system to use that system to destroy. And they really feel this strategy will finally get rid of Israel. They can’t do things fast enough to achieve their goal. But like Pharoah and his army who, filled with absolute hatred, blind to everything else, raced after the children of Israel without noticing the miraculous parting of the sea, they also will fail, בע״ה, with the help of God, always.
Spurwing Plover says
Remember under Obama we were sending Iran Pallets of cash and not peep from the M.S. Media bottom feeders or DNC
Walter Sieruk says
Joe Biden is the epitome and personification of the word ‘”Arch-villain.”