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Netanyahu: Time for the PA to Stop Financing Murder and Start Financing Peace


(Prime Minister's Office) Speaking at an Independence Day reception for foreign diplomats on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: "Peace can be pursued today in ways that are different and perhaps weren't available before.... Through the intertwining of regional normalization and Palestinian-Israeli normalization, we can bootstrap our way up to another historic peace. And I hope that the Palestinian leadership will make it possible for us to advance towards that peace." "Yet, the payment of money to terrorists by a sliding scale - the more you kill, the more you get - that's the opposite of peace....The Palestinian Authority pays $300 million a year...to a few thousand jailed terrorists.... Imagine if all that money was put towards coexistence, education for peace, joint projects, for medicine, for agriculture, for sewage treatment.... It's time to stop financing murder and to start financing peace."
2017-05-03 00:00:00
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