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[Editor’s note: Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s masterpiece contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
Each year that Trump was in office, fewer people in Israel were killed by terrorists while every year that Biden has been in office, the number of people killed by terrorists has increased.
2023 looks on track to be the deadliest year in Israel since 2015, under Obama, and the bloodshed is an eightfold increase in Israeli deaths since Trump’s last year in office.
The Biden administration restored Obama’s old policies and doubled down on them. And the death toll in Israel looks the way that it did under Obama. Under Biden, Israelis are dying at similar rates to the way that they did under Obama, but not at all as they did under Trump.
The foreign policy establishment claims that the Trump administration’s foreign policy toward Israel was a failure. And yet during Trump’s last year in office, when all the pro-Israel policies had been implemented, the fewest Israelis were killed in at least a generation.
In one of the least reported events in the region, the violence had all but ended with only three Israeli deaths in 2020. By contrast under Biden, 7 Israelis were killed in just January 2023.
Twice as many Israelis died in one month of Biden than in one year of Trump.
What was the secret to peace that had eluded every previous administration? Simple. The Trump administration stopped funding terrorists. And the terrorists stopped killing people.
This is not speculation. All anyone has to do is look at the death toll year by year.
The killings in Israel mostly held steady from Obama’s final year in office to Trump’s first year in office, but fell 18% in 2018 as the Trump administration began to pull away from the old failed policies of the Democrats and the Bush Republicans.
That was also the year that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo replaced Rex Tillerson and a Republican congress cut foreign aid to the PLO terrorists and the effects were obvious.
In 2018, Congress passed the Taylor Force Act: named after an Iraq War veteran studying in Israel who was stabbed to death by a terrorist in Jerusalem. The Taylor Force Act cut off a good deal of foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority which limited its ability to fund terrorist attacks.
In 2019, President Trump went even further with a nearly total cutoff of aid to the Palestinian Authority. And the number of terror victims in Israel declined by nearly a quarter.
Not only Israeli deaths were sharply reduced, but casualties among the ‘Palestinian’ terrorists and their human shields fell by more than half from 2018 to 2019.
In 2020, the first year that the cutoff was truly felt, only 3 Israelis were killed.
And only 30 casualties were experienced by the terrorists and their populations.
The Trump and congressional Republican cuts to foreign aid to the PLO terrorists and their political entity had sharply reduced the violence and saved lives on both sides.
Fewer Israelis and Arab Muslims living under Palestinian Authority rule were killed in 2020 than at any time since Obama took office. It wasn’t peace, but it was the closest thing to it.
What should have become a model for moving forward was instead ridiculed and discarded.
When Biden took office, he violated the Taylor Force Act and massively ramped up foreign aid and political support for the terrorists occupying parts of the West Bank and Gaza. And the number of deaths shot up from 3 to 17. Since then deaths from terrorist attacks have increased every year under Biden: nearly doubling by some accounts from 2021 to 2022.
As many Israelis were killed in the first two months of 2023 as in all of 2018. By April, as many Israelis had been killed as in all of 2017: the deadliest year under the Trump administration. As of now, more Israelis have been killed in 2023 than in all of 2018 and 2019 combined.
These numbers show what happens when you fund terrorists and when you stop funding them.
Beyond the raw casualty figures, the number of significant terrorist attacks increased 59% from 2021 to 2022. The number of shooting attacks shot up fourfold by over 200% (while stabbing attacks declined) indicating terrorists who were better armed and prepared.
But even as the bodies piled up, the Biden administration has doubled down on death.
In 2022, Biden met with PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas and boasted that, “when I came to office, I reserved the policy — I reversed the policies of my predecessor and resumed aid to the Palestinians — more than a half a billion dollars in 2021.” And promised over $300 billion more.
Money is the engine behind the violence and the Biden administration is providing the cash.
The PLO’s ‘Pay-to-Slay’ or ‘Martyrs Fund’ program 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.
“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,” PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas had insisted.
“You sent a report to Congress that officially certified that the Palestinian Authority and the PLO… have not met the legal requirements for ‘terminating payments for acts of terrorism against Israeli and US citizens,’” Senator Ted Cruz challenged a State Department official.
“They are paying for terrorists to murder Americans and to murder Israelis. And nonetheless, this administration is bringing those terrorist leaders to Washington, is bringing them to cocktail parties to wine and dine political leaders.”
“We are working to bring pay-to-slay to an end,” Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Barbara Leaf insisted.
The way to end pay-to-slay is to stop sending money to terrorists. Any foreign aid sent into areas controlled by terrorists, whether in Afghanistan or the West Bank or Gaza, finances terrorism. And if you doubt that, just count the money and then count the bodies.
The Trump administration proved that cutting off money to the terrorists ends the violence and the Biden administration demonstrated that restoring the money also brings back the violence.
Peace in the Middle East is not a dream. Just stop funding terrorists and it can be a reality.
And what about undermining the reelected patriot Netanyahu (never forgiven for going straight to Obama’s Congress) and financing the nuclear ambitions of a bunch of deluded mullahs? Indulging antisemitism in the halls of Biden’s congress? This is wrong and evil stuff.
The only people who really want peace in the Middle East are the Jewish people living in Israel. The rest love death death death, no matter how righteous they claim to be or how many humanitarian awards they give themselves.
We say “L’chaim” to life!
But for the rest, peace is the death of death, and that’s a no-no.
It’s not only the money, the incessant flow of money out of (and into) America for terror.
It’s the talk talk talk and the lies lies lies and the hatred hatred hatred – drop by drop, day by day, eroding moral sensitivity and responsibility. How else can you murder with such conviction, without support?
All money sent to the “terror”tories is an investment. It’s not aid.
If, as some now say, focusing on abortion will give the Democrats victory in 2024, how can stopping the globally financed murder of the Jewish people in Israel and throughout the rest of the world be a unifying, moral, viable issue?
I think it goes back to the ancient nomadic raiders vs civilized agriculturalists paradigm. The nomadic raiders love to raid, rob, attack civilized people and areas. They love to destroy civilized areas, makes herding their animals even easier.
Islam isn’t a religion of peace, it never was, and never will be as long as they follow the Koran. Sura Scriptures call for laying wait and ambushing the enemy.
No one should. R fooled by Democrats who claim to support Israel and who subsidize terrorism and terrorists
It is a maxim of economics that you get more of what you subsidize. The grotesque Biden maladministration subsidizes the murder of Jews in Israel so you get more murders. Hardly a surprise.
Obama and Biden are anti-Israel. Their policies show it. The US will never be blessed again by God, because of these radical policies that are against Israel and her survival. Learn the hard way and ignore the truths of Biblical prophecies. We are moving toward Armageddon.
They should revoke Obamas Peace Prize there are others who should have got it more then Obama
I’ve joked that Obama got the prize for being “not Bush”. Trump was nominated for negotiating the Abraham Accords – the first ME peace deal in more than a generation. (He also started no new wars and reduced the hostility with North Korea – the biggest threat according to Obama – I mean, other than Michael Flynn.) But no one expects Trump ever to receive that award.
Given that the Nobel Peace Prize is actually farcical, I’m not sure Trump misses it. Does he want to be in the company of such people as Yasser Arafat and Obama? I hope not.
They should revoke his presidency and all the benefits he gets form people of USA and abroad.
Obama is a Muslim Communist who designed efforts to make America unlivable for
all Americans. The man is and evil minion of Satan followed by the evil Biden. End
times are here and Israel is surrounded by a world of enemies. Pray for the peace
of Jerusalem and send all the support you can to the Israeli people.
It matters not what modifier one applies to adherents of Islam. The goal of such men is to advance the Caliphate over the whole earth, by force, by supernumeration, by deception, by infection, or by any means available. Followers of the prophet will take up any flag to destroy those who do not adhere to their ways. For this reason, there is no place in the civilized world for Islam, and any accommodation of it is folly.
Every member of that tribe must be expelled from civil society and made to return to the desert in Arabia.
There’s no question Trump is much better on foreign policy issues.
And all other issues. I am not a Trump fan, but TaliBiden is a total moron
Maybe, a Trump fan would know Trump’s not the only alternative and go after DeSantis like Trump. This binary thinking is a terrible mistake in my opinion.
Jump on the dastardly bandwagon of liars, cheats, and scoundrels who hate Trump
for the most pathetic, asinine, and petty of reasons.
Biden is a Democrat, no different from Obama, Pelosi, Newsom, etc. He’s just doing
the usual Democrat dirty deeds.
Are you getting sanctimonious?
Were you in north Wales today?
God bless President Trump and God bless Israel.
Pray for the Peace of Jerusalem and pray for President Trump.
This is a spiritual battle of good and evil of Biblical proportions
calling for Biblical faith of those like Abraham.
Judgment is coming from the Lord. He is merciful and patient, but there are so many evil people who have polluted his earth and his creation, and his love of Jerusalem and His people, and are now deserved of judgment, the likes of which we have never seen in history. Ezekiel chapters 38 and 39 explain the Great Gog-Magog war.
Headline writers: Please, “Twice as many … as,” not “Twice as many … then.” Continuing to write proper English is a good defense against the entropy ruining our society.
than, not then. Splee chcek is a terrbile thnig.
President Trump is outspoken, and he needs to be. Our country has been undermined by unlawful elites, and politicians who have destroyed the freedoms we all hold dear, and stollen elections to grab power. They undermined the ability to elect a productive, bold, patriotic leader who cares about America.
JOE BIDEN = NAZI.
“JEWS” (not Jews but DemoKKKrats who work for Biden) = NAZI COLLABORATORS.
You wear the Swastika well, Blinken, Garland, Nides and Mayorkas.
Daniel, why are you using the term ‘west bank’ instead of the true names Judea and Samaria?
Why are you giving legitimacy to the claims of thieves, liars, invaders and terrorists?
We know the truth, and it’s up to us to stick with it, even if no-one else will.
Excellent article though.
Why isn’t this information shouted from the rooftops, especially to American Jews who as a whole support Democrats!
“We will neither reduce nor prevent [payment] of allowances to the families of martyrs (read: terrorists), prisoners and released prisoners… and if we had only a single penny left, we would pay it to families of the martyrs (read:Jews killers) and prisoners,” PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas had insisted.”
Provided, naturally, that this ‘single penny’ doesn’t come from Mr. Mahmoud Abbas’ pocket, at the risk of encumbering the huge wealth this President-for-life managed to acquire, including inter alia the palace he built in Ramallah.