Pay for Slay Must End

The family of Omar al-Abed will receive $3,120 per month because he murdered the Solomon family in cold blood.

Leil Leibowitz of Tablet Magazine expounds on Abed’s financial reward:

Because the payment is commensurate with the length of the terrorist’s jail sentence, and because the sentence grows heftier the more Jews the terrorist kills, the al-Abeds will be richly rewarded for Omar’s murderous spree: the monthly salary paid to the families of those sentenced to 30 years or more in prison is $3,120. Just for comparison, an average Palestinian engineer earns about $1,300 per month.

The Palestinian Authorities (PA) payouts to the families of murderers, which is commonly referred to as “Pay for Slay,” only serves to incentivize more violence against Jews.

Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), a watchdog group monitoring the PA’s incitement of violence, reports that the PA’s “total expenditure for directly funding terror is 1.237 billion shekels or $355 million” for 2017.

Palestinians receive approximately $500 million annually from the United States. How much of this money specifically is being used as a reward for murdering the Solomon family?

Recently, Israel capitulated to the demands of a violent mob by removing metal detectors placed at the base of the Al-Aqsa mosque, in response to the murder of two Israeli police officers, following riots.  However, the violence will not stop so long as the PA continues to provide financial incentives for murdering Jews.

Right now there are bills going through congress, such as the No Bonuses for Terrorists Act and the Taylor Force Act, which would end US taxpayer subsidizes for Palestinian terrorism. A clear message needs to be sent to the Palestinians that the US will no longer subsidize their violence and murder.