Palestinian Authority restructures 'pay-for-slay' policy for West Bank terrorists

[Kittens Are Jerks]

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas issued an order to restructure laws and regulations related to paying financial allocations to the families of Palestinians linked with terrorist activity, known as "pay-for-slay," on Monday, according to Palestinian Authority state media WAFA.

According to the statement, the computerized cash assistance program, along with its database and financial allocations, will be transferred from Ramallah's Social Development Ministry to the Palestinian National Institution for Economic Empowerment, WAFA stated.

The amendments will allow all families previously benefiting from the former laws, regulations, and legislations to be subject to the same eligibility criteria as other families enrolled in social protection and welfare programs, according to WAFA.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-841475

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More on this story:

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-major-win-for-trump-pas-abbas-signs-decree-ending-pay-to-slay-system/

[Alchopwn]

We need to call things by their proper names.  Let's stop calling the West Bank terrorists "Palestinians" and start calling them Jordanians.

[+and-then]

This sounds like nonsense to me.  How can anyone prove the payments have actually stopped?  

[Kittens Are Jerks]

10 hours ago, and-then said:

This sounds like nonsense to me.  How can anyone prove the payments have actually stopped?  

The Pay for Slay payments are not being stopped. The PA is restructuring the payment system and will continue to make payments to terrorists and their families through other channels. The PA is corrupt and only a smidge less worse than Hamas.

[pellinore]

11 hours ago, Alchopwn said:

We need to call things by their proper names.  Let's stop calling the West Bank terrorists "Palestinians" and start calling them Jordanians.

12 hours ago, Kittens Are Jerks said:

Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas issued an order to restructure laws and regulations 

Now this is something I don't quite understand. Palestinians live in Palestine. Understandably, Jews fled from Europe  in the 1940s due to the Holocaust. But why did they go to Palestine?

And how did the Jews come to rename it Israel? They had just occupied someone's country. Why didn't they settle in Madagascar (which was Hitler's choice)? And why do they now think Palestine belongs to them? Is it just because there was no resistance to them settling in Palestine? If they had been allowed to settle in Australia, for example, would they have renamed it Israel?

Edited February 11 by pellinore

[Kittens Are Jerks]

1 hour ago, pellinore said:

Now this is something I don't quite understand. Palestinians live in Palestine. Understandably, Jews fled from Europe  in the 1940s due to the Holocaust. But why did they go to Palestine?

And how did the Jews come to rename it Israel? They had just occupied someone's country. Why didn't they settle in Madagascar (which was Hitler's choice)? And why do they now think Palestine belongs to them? Is it just because there was no resistance to them settling in Palestine? If they had been allowed to settle in Australia, for example, would they have renamed it Israel?

The history of the area is extremely complex and I suggest you look into it more carefully as the revisionist version you've presented is not at all representative of what actually happened. But long story short, Jews are indigenous to the land of Israel, whereas the now-called 'Palestinians' are indigenous to the Arabian Peninsula. Jews have lived there continuously for centuries, and first achieved self-determination 3,000 years ago. They did not just show up after the Second World War.

Palestine was never an exclusively 'Arab country' and prior to the 1948 partition, Palestinian Arabs did not view themselves as having a separate identity. Palestinian Arab nationalism became a political movement after the 1967 Six-Day War.

As for renaming the area Israel, you should look into what the area was originally called before its name was changed to Palestine.

I'm not suggesting Palestinians do not have some claim to the area, but they are not, and never have been, the exclusive owners of it. Yet, like Israel, they were offered statehood. Unlike Israel, they refused it. As an Israeli politician once said, "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."

 

Edited February 11 by Kittens Are Jerks
Minor addition.

[AZDZ]

Per the Bible, Palestinians began homesteading Israeli land while the Jews were slaving over in Egypt.

Ironically that occured because they disobeyed God's instruction not to go there in the first place. Another thing they did not do as instructed after getting the land back from them, commit complete and total genocide on them. Yeah.

If your Bible doesn't tell those stories you may have one of the newer sanitized versions. Be sure to get a genuine KJV for the whole story in unabridged form.

[Alchopwn]

21 hours ago, pellinore said:

Now this is something I don't quite understand. Palestinians live in Palestine. Understandably, Jews fled from Europe  in the 1940s due to the Holocaust. But why did they go to Palestine?

Actually this isn't quite correct Pellinore.  During the Ottoman Empire and the British Mandate of Palestine, the people we presently call the Jews were called the Palestinians, and the people we currently call the Palestinians were called Arabs.  The conflict between them was called the Palestinian/Arab troubles.

The Jews didn't "invade" the region because there had been continuous Jewish presence in the area since the time when the Romans did their mass deportations of Jews into slavery and out of the region following their uprising.  The Jewish presence in the region persisted thru the Byzantine period, the initial Muslim occupation, the Crusader States period, the Ottoman period and up to 1948 when the state of Israel was declared.

The so-called "invasion" began when the Rothschilds began buying up land in the British Mandate of Palestine, from local Arab landowners. The purchases were overwhelmingly of swampy and unused land in the region, which the Jews subsequently turned into excellent farm land, because they knew how, and the local population didn't.  There was considerable work to be done in the region, and many Arabs from Jordan and Egypt were attracted to the area for the high pay on offer.

The land was always bought at above market value, and the promise was that the new state was going to be a democratic state that offered full citizenship to everyone in the region, regardless of their religious affiliation, with the only caveat being that it would be a safe place for the Jews, who had suffered pogroms across Europe for centuries.  That was the limit of Zionism at the time.  

The real problem began when Amin Al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem decided that he hated the Jews, despite the fact that the Qu'ran itself says that the land belongs to the Jews and they will return to it.  The Grand Mufti preferred the teaching that once land is conquered by Islam, it will always be Muslim land, and must be fought for.  Amin Al-Husseini whipped up hostility among the Jordanian and Egyptian migrant workers, promising them the land if they kicked out the Jews, and a terrorist tit-for-tat war started in the British Mandate, which eventually culminated with the British leaving the region post-WW2.

In short, the Jews extended the hand of friendship to the Muslims and it was bitten off at the wrist.

Now, after the State of Israel was declared, the name of the groups changed.  For a while it was the Jewish/Arab conflict, but then in a dirty twist at the UN, the mirgant laborers from Egypt and Jordan decided that they were now the Palestinians, and with the support of the considerable Muslim lobby at the UN, they were able to make it stick.  So the fact is that the Jews used to be the Palestinians, and the Palestinians used to be the Arabs, and the so-called Palestinians today are actually Arab migrant workers Jordan and Egypt and they are still citizens of those states too. 

The other thing worth pointing out is that the "Palestinians" (Arab migrant workers) became refugees in Jordan, Egypt and other Muslim states in the region, and proceeded to stage uprisings against their host countries.  This is why no Muslim state will accept Palestinians as refugees, despite their religious duty under Islam to do so.  The "Palestinians" are really good at biting the hand of friendship, regardless of who extends it.