(New York Daily News) David Pollock - The synagogue massacre by Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem on Tuesday was an act of premeditated murder in cold blood, not part of some "cycle of violence." That three of these entirely innocent victims were also U.S. citizens does not make the crime any worse, but it does provide an extra reason for the U.S. to respond in the right way. The U.S. government should now act to hold to account those responsible for this horror. While Abbas personally condemned this terrorist attack, at the same time he allows his advisers, his ruling Fatah political party, and his official media to praise and glorify these terrorists as heroes, martyrs and more. His government pays convicted terrorists and their families regular stipends. And Abbas himself just wrote a formal letter of condolence to the family of the Palestinian terrorist who shot and almost killed Rabbi Yehudah Glick just a few days ago. This means that the U.S. should, in line with existing U.S. law, move immediately to cut some of our very substantial aid to the Palestinian Authority - unless Abbas publicly repudiates and unequivocally ends this practice of hypocrisy and deception about incitement to murder. The writer is a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
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