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Palestinian "Pay-for-Slay" Rises Again


(Wall Street Journal) Editorial - Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas received media praise this month for his decree that the PA would revoke its "pay-for-slay" salaries for terrorists. Now we learn that wasn't true. Abbas told his Fatah party's Revolutionary Council last week: "Even if we have one penny left, it is for the prisoners and martyrs. I will not agree, and you will not agree, to reduce any obligation, any interest or any penny given to them. They must receive everything, as it was in the past." He's talking about Palestinians who drive cars into Israeli crowds or stab and shoot Israelis on the streets. The men who planted bombs on Israeli buses last week will go on the PA payroll, joining the perpetrators of the Oct. 7 massacre. Rather than end its terror stipends, the PA has moved them to a new entity.
2025-02-27 00:00:00
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