The U.S.-Israel relationship has never been stronger than under the current leadership of President Donald Trump, according to Pastor John Hagee, founder and national director of Christians United for Israel (CUFI).
Reps. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) and Doug Lamborn (R-CO) urged the United States Department of Treasury on Tuesday to use Executive Order 13224 to blacklist Issa Karake, director of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)’s Commission of Prisoners and Released Prisoners’ Affairs.
Knesset members are advancing competing laws with the start of Israel’s new parliamentary session to serve as the equivalent to America’s Taylor Force Act, which sanctions the Palestinian Authority’s “pay-to-slay” policy of providing terrorists and their families official stipends for the murder of Jews.
The New York Times made what some observers are calling the “correction of the year” in admitting the Palestinian Authority does, in fact, pay terrorists’ families.
TEL AVIV – U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman slammed the Palestinian leadership in an interview Wednesday, saying that the aging Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is replaceable and if he continues to show no interest in negotiating with Israel,
Breitbart News Senior Editor at Large Joel B. Pollak defended last week’s omnibus spending bill on Monday evening’s edition of Breitbart News Tonight.
Conservatives are understandably frustrated by the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law, under protest, on Friday. But the omnibus is not a disaster. In fact, Republicans scored many important wins.
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is praising the U.S. government for passing a law that suspends some financial aid to the Palestinians over the stipends paid to families of Palestinians killed or jailed in fighting with Israel.
Amidst criticism of the omnibus spending bill, the passage of the Taylor Force Act is a silver lining — and a milestone in foreign policy that could save taxpayers money.
WASHINGTON — The Taylor Force Act, which would slash funding to the Palestinians until Ramallah stops payments to terrorists or their families, will likely pass this week as part of a massive US government spending bill.
All countries should pass a law like the US’s Taylor Force Act, which bars the Palestinian Authority from making so-called “martyrs payments” to the families of terrorists, Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan told a Jerusalem anti-BDS conference of international lawyers on Monday.
TEL AVIV – In accordance with its “pay-for-slay” law, the Palestinian Authority last year paid terrorists and their families over $347 million, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said Tuesday.
TEL AVIV – New legislation that proposes deducting the amount paid by the Palestinian Authority to terrorists and their families from monies owed by Israel in taxes will be submitted in the Knesset, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said on Monday.
WASHINGTON — The US House of Representatives passed on Tuesday the Taylor Force Act, legislation that would cut US funding to the Palestinian Authority unless it discontinues its practice of paying monthly stipends to the families of terrorists who kill Israelis.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously passed the Taylor Force Act (House Resolution 1164) on Wednesday, taking the United States government one step closer to cutting funding to the Palestinian Authority (PA) if it refuses to end its practice of “pay for slay,” which involves rewarding terrorists for killing Americans and Israelis.
TEL AVIV – The Taylor Force Act—named after a U.S. Army veteran who was killed in a terror attack in Tel Aviv— that would force the Palestinian Authority to end its “pay-for-slay” program offering monthly stipends to convicted terrorists or else forfeit aid, is predicted to pass a critical vote next Wednesday.
On Thursday, the Trump administration said it will support a bill that would suspend America’s financial aid to the Palestinian Authority until it ends a longstanding practice of “pay to slay” which rewards Palestinians for killing Israelis and Americans.
Monthly payments to families of those imprisoned for attacking Israelis contribute to stability in Palestinian society rather than encourage terrorism, the senior Palestinian official in charge of disbursing them told The Jerusalem Post Sunday.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a bill Thursday to cut US funding to the Palestinian Authority if it does not stop paying salaries to terrorists and their families.
A day before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will consider a revised version of a measure that would strip US funding to the Palestinian Authority over its practice of paying terrorists and their families, the most powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington broke its silence and came out in support of the bill
As the Senate Foreign Relations Committee prepares to pass a bill that would massively cut aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until it ends its $300 million in annual payments to convicted terrorists and their families, one of the legislation’s leading advocates has said that the PA must change its own laws regarding the payments as a condition for continued US assistance.
On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a hearing to discuss the Taylor Force Act, which, if passed, would cut financial aid from the United States to the Palestinian Authority (PA) unless the PA stops its “pay for slay” payments which reward terrorists.
TEL AVIV – Former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon joins the chorus of security officials expressing support for U.S. Congress to pass legislation that would cut off American funds to the Palestinian Authority until it stops paying salaries to terrorists and their families.
TEL AVIV – A group of former top Israeli security officials have expressed support for a proposed U.S. legislation that would cut off American funds to the Palestinian Authority until it stops the payment of salaries to terrorists and their families.
This week, the Palestinian leadership met with President Donald Trump’s envoys to the Middle East and refused, point blank, to stop paying terrorists and their families.
The Reuters news agency has reported that the Palestinian Authority (PA) intends to continue paying stipends to families of terrorists, despite assurances that PA President Mahmoud Abbas reportedly made to U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
Israel Law Center founder Nitsana Darshan-Leitner told Breitbart News Daily in an exclusive Memorial Day radio special on SiriusXM 125 The Patriot Channel that it’s past time for the United States to cut funding to Palestinian terrorists and their families.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Marco Rubio (R-F), and Tom Cotton (R-AR) have written a letter to President Donald Trump urging him to demand that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas end his government’s years-long practice of paying terrorists and their families for attacks against Israel and its citizens when he meets with him at the White House Wednesday.
President Trump, after showing incredible leadership in striking at the murderer Bashar al-Assad, can confront Abbas and reverse the previous administration’s amorality of allowing hard-earned taxpayer money to go to terrorists.
TEL AVIV – A bill to sever U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority until it stops paying salaries to terrorists and their families for attacks on Israelis and Americans would be reintroduced, Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday.
