By David Singer —— Bio and Archives March 12, 2018
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"But to get peace, to get peace President Abbas has to embrace peace and to stop supporting terror. Raise your hands high if you agree with me that President Abbas should stop paying terrorists who murder Jews. You know how much he pays? He pays about $350 million dollars a year to terrorists and their families, each year. That's about a little less than 10% of the total Palestinian budget. That's an incredible number. He pays Hakim Awad. Hakim Awad is the terrorist who murdered this beautiful family of Ehud and Ruth Fogel and their three children, including a 3 month-old baby girl, Hadas. So he pays Hakim Awad, this murderer, and over the lifetime of this killer, he will be receiving two million dollars."
"Peace can never take root in an environment where violence is tolerated, funded and even rewarded"Just one month later Jared Kushner - Trump's son-in-law and chief Middle East adviser - and Trump's international negotiator Jason Greenblatt--met with Abbas in Ramallah. According to reports in Arabic media, the Americans then allegedly watered down Trump's demands-- only wanting these payments stopped to some 600 prisoners serving life sentences in Israeli prisons. Abbas defiantly rejected that proposal. Abbas seems to believe he can publicly humiliate Trump and escape the consequences. Monetary retaliation is a totally inadequate response to the indiscriminate murder of innocent civilians. Israel, Trump and the United Nations should boycott Abbas and the PLO by terminating all diplomatic contact until their vile and repulsive "murder for money" policy is ended.
David Singer is an Australian Lawyer, a Foundation Member of the International Analyst Network and Convenor of Jordan is Palestine International—an organization calling for sovereignty of the West Bank and Gaza to be allocated between Israel and Jordan as the two successor States to the Mandate for Palestine. Previous articles written by him can be found at: jordanispalestine.blogspot.com