The Republican-led House easily approved legislation named the ‘Taylor Force Act’ that would restrict financial aid that directly benefits the Palestinian Authority until it takes credible steps to end what lawmakers say is a practice of rewarding Palestinian terrorists who murder innocent Americans and Israelis.
AP The US House of Representatives voted yesterday to reduce the annual $300 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority “unless it take steps to stop making what lawmakers described as payments that reward violent crime.”
The Taylor Force bill is named for Taylor Force, an MBA student at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and a West Point graduate who was visiting Israel in March 2016 when he was stabbed to death by a Palestinian. Force was from Lubbock, Texas, and served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The legislation, which passed by voice vote, reflects bipartisan outrage over what members of Congress have called a “pay to slay” program endorsed by the Palestinian Authority. The measure is intended to stop the Palestinians from paying stipends to the families of Palestinians killed or jailed by the Israeli occupation authorities.
Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., the House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman, said the program “incentivizes terrorism.””This perverse pay-to-slay system uses a sliding scale: the longer the jail sentence, the greater the reward,” Royce said. “The highest payments go to those serving life sentences – to those who prove most brutal.”
According to Reuters, “to become law, the measure must also be passed by the US Senate and signed by President Donald Trump. Similar legislation has been passed by two Senate committees.
stop every penny–direct and indirect
If this bill has been weakened by muslim or palestinian apologists, PRESIDENT TRUMP needs to send it back to congress to reinstate the clauses that makes it worth the paper it is printed on.
We don’t need to wait a year to enforce Taylor Force. And we don’t need to put money aside for these terrorists until they supposedly comply. They will just make arrangements to hide the source of payments to terrorists, murders, and the families of the same, while still using our money to pay them.
There is no use for PRESIDENT TRUMP to sign a “feel good” bill that does nothing to penalize these terrorists !
This Taylor Force Act must be done and done quickly. What a shame to pay money to the families of terrorists. This has been going on for years this pay to slay atrocity.
I always wished that Americans would find out where their tax-dollars REALLY went. Unfortunately liberals don’t care. Wake-up America! God Bless us all, Taylor Force, and POTUS Trump. MAGA!
Finally an anti-terrorist measure that is not being blocked by swamp creature democrats & RINO/ROTTs.
Nice, that makes two shots at the Palestinians today. Trump kicked sand in their face first and now Congress.
No money at all to Fakestine. Encourage them to quit breeding.
Yeah it passed but???
http://www.jns.org/latest-articles/2017/12/4/the-gutting-of-the-taylor-force-act
Today is a hard day for the Palestinians. I have always said they have to hit rock-bottom, like a drug addict, deprived of everything except bare necessities to recover from their hateful indoctrination.
Not going to happen Susan, the izslime Pandora is OUT of the box and is not going to go back in willingly. They see that if they don’t get their rotten calofhate up and running this time they are done for, so they are going to pull out ALL the stops and let fly with al,the hate and ugliness they can muster. The brutal nasty Isis are the perfect picture of REAL izslime.