(Jerusalem Post) - Israel has presented documents in Washington linking the Saudis to payments to terrorists. The 85-page dossier, compiled by Military Intelligence, indicates the systematic and ongoing transfer of large sums of money to the Palestinians by official Saudi institutions. The Saudi support was not only of a humanitarian religious nature, as Saudi spokesmen in the U.S. claim. Rather, the Saudis transferred "large sums of money in a systematic and ongoing manner to families of suicide terrorists, to the Hamas organization, and to persons and entities identified with Hamas." Such aid to families of terrorists considerably increases the motivation to perpetrate terror attacks, including suicide attacks.
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