(Fox News) Sean Hannity - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview on Friday: On an annual basis, the Palestinian Authority is giving hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorists or the families of terrorists who murdered Israelis, murdered Americans. It's unimaginable. I mean, after a decade, it could be more than a billion dollars that are given to terrorists! This is from the main-line Palestinian Authority headed by President Abbas, who's going to see President Trump in Washington. I think the first test of peace is to say to them, "Hey, you want peace, prove it. Confront terrorism. Stop rewarding terrorism. Stop paying terrorists." They pay terrorists on a sliding scale, not on the cost of living, but on the cost of killing. The more you kill, the more you get. Unacceptable! Has to change. That's a test for peace. You know, in our free, open, transparent societies, if we say a syllable to a domestic audience, it gets beamed around the world immediately. We're held accountable for every word. But in the case of Abbas, you know, it's like he lives in a different universe! He can say "I want peace" to Western leaders, but then to his own people, he says the very opposite! In the case of the Palestinian leadership, including President Abbas, to his own people he says, we don't want a state next to Israel, we want a state instead of Israel. First, we get a state. Then we flood Israel with the descendants of Palestinians. We go back to Haifa, Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Acre. That's the end of Israel. You make peace by demanding from the Palestinians to pass the test of peace. Hold the Palestinian leadership accountable. Don't let them get away with double talk. How about if what Abbas says to President Trump he has to say to his own people? How about if he says, "Yes, Mr. President, our laws will forbid paying terrorists. And I'm going to make sure that not a penny goes to the terrorists or their families." The only chance that this will change is if there's pressure brought to them to make this real change, to say, "No, we're not going to accept just generic, fluffy words of peace while you indoctrinate your own people with a doctrine of death. We want you to change the way you speak to your own people." There's no one that wants peace more than Israel. This canard that Israel doesn't want peace is a joke. We teach peace to our children. We yearn for peace. And we don't have double talk because what we say inside is what we say outside, and everybody holds us accountable. It's high time that that accountability was put on the Palestinians, that you tell them, "No, I want to see what you tell your children. I want you to stop paying terrorists and their families. I want to see a change." If that kind of demand for genuine accountability is put forward, that could make for a turning point.
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