Trump Envoy Asks PA to Stop Funding Terror in Name of Peace, PA Refuses

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Talk about hubris. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who enables terrorism and propagates Jew-hatred, accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of using "racist rhetoric." Why? Because Netanayhu accurately referred to Palestinian detained by Israel for committing terrorist acts, "terrorists." JPost reports:

“Eight hundred thousand Palestinians have been detained in Israeli prisons since the occupation of 1967 and close to one million since 1948,” Abbas told the IDC Herzliya Conference in a prepared speech delivered by his foreign-policy adviser, Nabil Sha’ath. “Is any rational human being going to claim that these one million people are terrorists? That one-third of Palestinians are terrorists because they have been through Israeli jails. It’s really quite frankly racist rhetoric to call all our political prisoners terrorists.”

In recent weeks, Netanyahu has referred to jailed Palestinians, many of whom have carried out attacks against Israelis, as terrorists.

Abbas also defended payments to Palestinian prisoners and their families, which Netanyahu has demanded he stop.
“Payments to support families are a social responsibility to look after innocent people affected by the incarceration or killing of their loved ones,” Abbas remarked.

While the PLO argues that the payments are a social safety net, Israel contends that they incentivize violence.

In his remarks, Abbas also said he is ready to revive the tripartite Israeli-Palestinian- American anti-incitement committee.

Lovely. However, Abbas has no intention of stopping the Martyr's Fund, as it is referred to. Via US News

Israel has also demanded that the Palestinians stop making welfare payments to families of militants who are either imprisoned or were killed while committing attacks on Israelis. Israel says the so-called "Martyrs' Fund" provides an incentive for Palestinian violence.

A senior Palestinian official said that a preparatory meeting with Greenblatt on Tuesday had not gone well and became tense over the Martyrs' Fund. He said the Americans "are buying" Netanyahu's complaints about Palestinian incitement, and that Greenblatt was insisting on an end to the welfare payments.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was discussing a closed diplomatic meeting, said the Palestinians had rebuffed Greenblatt's pressure and demanded an Israeli settlement freeze. He said a Palestinian delegation would head to Washington next month for further talks.

So in other words, the Palestinian Authority will use any excuse it can to justify its incitement and to refuse peace. Again.

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