SOUTHERN BAPTIST RUSSELL MOORE SAYS ABORTION ISN’T A POLITICAL ISSUE, DON’T WORRY ABOUT HOW YOU VOTE

RUSSELL MOORE SAYS ABORTION ISN’T A POLITICAL ISSUE, DON’T WORRY ABOUT HOW YOU VOTE

SEE: https://pulpitandpen.org/2020/01/27/russell-moore-says-abortion-isnt-a-political-issue-dont-worry-about-how-you-vote/; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research 

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The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is led by an insufferable Democrat quisling, Russell Moore, who says he wishes his wife was a Democrat and more like Hillary Clinton. While weaponizing their “research fellows” over the March for Life weekend to attack Donald Trump for being pro-life, the ERLC circled wagons at the “we’re pro-life but not really” organization, Evangelicals for Life.

ABOVE: Notice this group was filled with Southern Baptists including Russell Moore, Danny Akin, David Platt, Ron Burns (Thabiti Anyabwile) and Kevin Ezell (President of NAMB).

Don’t let the name fool you. The conference was a who’s-who of “Never Trumpers” who are working tirelessly to place a Democrat in the White House in 2020. Speaking at the event along with Russell “I wish my wife were more like Hillary Clinton” Moore was the Social Justice warrior, David Platt, theoerotic divine romance novelist, Ann “I fly to Paris to make love to God” Voskamp, and Danny Akin, who has steered Southeastern Seminary to the hardcore left in the last two years.

And finally, the event hosted Thabiti Anyabwile (real name, Ron Burns), who said that he’d rather have dead babies than have Trump in office. His convictions, that babies are not as important as his allegiance to the Democrat Party, led Anyabwile to first endorse Bernie Sanders in the last election and later, Hillary Clinton.

It should come as no surprise to us then that the ERLC sent the message that “the pro-life agenda” is not a political agenda.



These Democrat leftists pretend as though they care about babies each year while abstaining from the March for Life and huddling together in D.C. to talk about the “sanctity of life” but discussing anything and everything except abortion.

Last year, this same group used their fake pro-life event to discuss the importance of Social Justice laws for Criminal Justice Reform, which they said is what it means to be ‘pro-life.’

Of course, the pro-life agenda is a political one. It is legal to murder infants and cut them down–limb from limb–because Russell Moore and Thabiti Anyabwile’s political party is in power.

These are false Christians, fake pro-lifers, and wicked, evil men. They are the wolves in sheep’s clothing we were warned about.

Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. Matthew 7:15

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SOUTHERN BAPTIST APOSTASY: 

EVANGELIST EXPOSES "EVANGELICAL DEEP STATE" IN INTERVIEW WITH ALEX NEWMAN 

OF THE NEW AMERICAN

Southern Baptist evangelist Thomas Littleton of Alabama joins The New American magazine's Alex Newman to discuss the "Evangelical Deep State." Among other topics, they talk about how false doctrines and dangerous heresies--especially on homosexuality and transgenderism (LGBT), as well as Social Justice, Critical Race Theory, and Cultural Marxism--are infiltrating even conservative evangelical churches in America. Part of it is funding from Deep State globalists hostile to the church and the Bible, and part of it is a lack of discernment among pastors and Christian leaders. Alex and Tom discuss the Southern Baptist Convention, the Presbyterian Church, and others. Tom names Albert Mohler as one of the key figures facilitating this. 






























  












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These Democrat leftists pretend as though they care about babies each year while abstaining from the March for Life and huddling together in D.C. to talk about the “sanctity of life” but discussing anything and everything except abortion.

WHY THE U.N. REJECTED TRUMP'S MIDDLE EAST PEACE PLAN

WHY THE U.N. REJECTED TRUMP'S 

MIDDLE EAST PEACE PLAN 

Proving, once again, why its moral authority died so long ago

BY JOSEPH KLEIN

SEE:https://cms.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/02/united-nations-rejects-trump-middle-east-peace-joseph-klein; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research 

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United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Nickolay Mladenov, predicted that the Middle East peace plan proposed by President Trump on January 28th will not become the basis of negotiations between Israelis and the Palestinians. The plan “does meet every single red line that Israel has put in place for negotiations, but stops very far from addressing the concerns of the Palestinian side,” Mladenov said. A statement issued by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres' spokesman last Tuesday declared that the UN "remains committed to supporting Palestinians and Israelis to resolve the conflict on the basis of United Nations resolutions, international law and bilateral agreements and realizing the vision of two States - Israel and Palestine - living side by side in peace and security within recognized borders, on the basis of the pre-1967 lines." (Emphasis added)

Defining the highly insecure pre-1967 lines as the internationally recognized border between Israel and an independent Palestinian state would give the Palestinians what they have long demanded. Why should the Palestinians bother negotiating with Israel if the United Nations and the so-called “international community” are completely in their corner and consider anything less than agreeing to the Palestinians’ demands as illegitimate? No wonder Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking to address the UN Security Council later this month on the Palestinians’ rejection of the Trump Middle East peace plan. “We say 1,000 ‘no’s to this deal,” Abbas declared on the day the plan was announced. "Trump, Jerusalem is not for sale. Our rights are not for sale. Your conspiracy deal will not pass," he added. Members of the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad terrorist organizations attended Abbas' speech in Ramallah. Abbas claimed that he and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh agreed to stand together as a unified front.

The Palestinian representative to the UN, Riyad Mansour, said that the Palestinians intend to have a draft resolution submitted to the Security Council supporting their rejection of the Trump peace plan. Knowing the U.S. will certainly veto such a draft resolution, the Palestinians are hoping to use the UN as usual to isolate the United States and Israel diplomatically.

"Of course we would like to see a strong, large opposition to this Trump plan," Mansour told reporters, standing alongside Tunisian Ambassador to the UN Moncef Baati, who is currently serving a two-year term on the 15-member Security Council. No doubt after the Security Council draft resolution is vetoed, the Palestinians and their friends will run to the General Assembly, where they can count on many anti-U.S., anti-Israel votes to supposedly “legitimize” the Palestinians’ rejectionism. According to Mansour, Abbas will use his visit to the UN to "put before the entire international community the reaction of the Palestinian people and the Palestinian leadership against this onslaught against the national rights of the Palestinian people by the Trump administration."

U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Kelly Craft, warned the Palestinians last Friday that complaining about the U.S. peace plan to the UN would only "repeat the failed pattern of the last seven decades." She asked rhetorically, “why not instead take that displeasure and channel it into negotiations?" The reason is that the Palestinians have successfully weaponized the United Nations as their diplomatic propaganda arm of choice. The UN's apparent outright dismissal of the Trump peace plan is playing right into the Palestinians’ hands. It typifies the UN’s reckless pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel bias.

United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Mladenov, for example, completely ignored major concessions offered to the Palestinians in the plan, which is built around the principle of a two-state solution that incorporates a step by step pathway to an independent Palestinian state. These concessions include (1) providing the Palestinians with territory reasonably comparable in size to the territory of the West Bank and Gaza pre-1967, (2) a capital in a portion of East Jerusalem that could bear the name already used by the Palestinians, Al Quds, and (3) transportation links allowing efficient movement between Gaza and the West Bank, as well as throughout a future Palestine. Approximately 97% of Palestinians in the West Bank will be incorporated into contiguous Palestinian territory. The plan does not call for uprooting any Israelis or Palestinians from their homes. In areas of the West Bank that are not contemplated to be part of the State of Israel, according to President Trump’s Middle East peace plan, Israel will not build any new settlement towns, expand existing settlements, or demolish any structure existing as of the date of the plan. The plan also provides for significant economic assistance to the Palestinians.

Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that President Trump’s peace plan is as one-sided as its critics have charged, there is still no reason to completely dismiss its relevance to advancing direct negotiations between the Israelis and the Palestinians. The plan represents, at the very least, the most detailed and comprehensive description of the concessions the Israelis are willing to offer, accompanied by a map of territorial borders the Israelis believe they can safely accept in recognizing an independent Palestinian state. The Palestinians insist on a Palestinian state with borders based on the pre-1967 lines that Israel considers to be indefensible. Those are two negotiation positions, far apart as they are, that can still serve as starting points for further discussions directly between the parties. Although the Palestinians are so dug into their position that such discussions would most likely end without success, not even trying to get the Israeli and Palestinian leaders together to negotiate, starting with their respective current positions, is certainly doomed to failure and more violence.  

UN Security Council Resolution 242, which is still in effect, did not state that Israel had to give up all of the land it took away from Jordan after Jordan had attacked Israel. The November 22, 1967 resolution called for withdrawal of “Israel[i] armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict.” Several previous drafts of the resolution, which were rejected, had included a phrase specifically calling for “withdrawal from all the occupied territories.” (Emphasis added) The parties to the territorial dispute were supposed to negotiate for themselves the final borders. The resolution affirmed the “political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force.” (Emphasis added)

Efforts made since the adoption of Resolution 242 by the Security Council, General Assembly, and other UN forums to convert, by the stroke of a pen, the pre-1967 lines into “secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force” are invalid on their face. These UN bodies do not have the legal authority to decide the territorial borders between disputing parties except with the consent of those parties. Israel does not consent to the UN’s blessing of the Palestinians’ border design based on the pre-1967 lines. Israel has its own map. Only the direct parties to the dispute have standing to try to negotiate a resolution of their dispute. Israel is ready to do so. The Palestinian leadership refuses to do so unless they are guaranteed in advance the result they want.

At the January 29th press briefing by the spokesperson of the Secretary General at UN headquarters in New York, the spokesperson was asked whether the Secretary General would be open to encouraging direct negotiations, using as starting points the Palestinians' definition of what the appropriate border should be as one pole position and the borders set forth in President Trump’s plan as the other. The spokesperson would not answer the question, instead just saying that the UN has made calls for direct talks with the parties. When pressed to provide a more specific answer to the question, he responded, “I don't want to have to repeat what I've just said, so I won't.”

These non-answers demonstrate in a nutshell why the UN has long since lost its moral authority to act as an honest broker in direct negotiations between the Palestinians and Israel. The UN has become the Palestinians’ enabler, encouraging them yet again to miss an opportunity for genuine peace.

WUHAN, CHINA: CORONA VIRUS SPREADING, R0~CHINESE SUPPRESSION OF TRUTH

WUHAN, CHINA: CORONA VIRUS SPREADING, R0~CHINESE SUPPRESSION OF TRUTH 

REPORT BY PATRIOT NURSE

In this informative video, Patriot Nurse discuses the emerging data on the Wuhan Corona Virus and the relevant factors to its spread. Is there cause for concern or should we be preparing for the big one? We'll discuss the reliability of the Chinese data, as well as basic tendencies of humanity in times of suspected pandemic.

UPDATE: VIRGINIA GUN CONTROL BILLS

UPDATE: VIRGINIA GUN CONTROL BILLS

FLORIDA: FBI IDENTIFIES MOTIVE FOR PENSACOLA SHOOTING AS "JIHAD"~ARKANSAS: MUSLIM TERRORIST WHO SHOT TWO SOLDIERS CLAIMS HE SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN TRIED IN STATE COURT

FLORIDA: FBI IDENTIFIES MOTIVE FOR PENSACOLA SHOOTING AS "JIHAD"

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/02/florida-fbi-identifies-motive-for-pensacola-shooting-as-jihad;  

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research 

purposes:

It is astounding that seventeen years after 9/11 that it would be newsworthy that the FBI called a jihad attack “jihad,” but the denial and willful ignorance have been pandemic, and made into official U.S. policy during the Obama administration. This is a small step back to sanity for the still largely clueless and corrupt FBI. Much more is needed.



“FBI continues investigation into deadly NAS Pensacola shooting, calls motive ‘jihad,'” by Michael Warrick, WALA, January 30, 2020:


PENSACOLA, Fla. (WALA) – Nearly two months after a Saudi national killed three young sailors aboard NAS Pensacola, the FBI says its investigation is “ongoing,” stopping short of disclosing what the shooter was doing in the hours leading up to the tragedy.

The FBI and base commander spoke to reporters Thursday, but declined to answer how Mohammed Alshamrani, got a gun onto the base prior to the shooting. The FBI is working with Apple to look at two phones that were in Alshamrani’s possession.

“We have no evidence that there were any co-conspirators,” FBI Special Agent in Charge, Rachel Rojas said. “However we are still seeking the cooperation of Apple so we can look through the two I-Phones.”…

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SEE ALSO: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/02/al-qaeda-claims-

pensacola-jihad-massacre-says-saudi-airman-had-been-planning-for

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 Arkansas: Muslim who shot two soldiers 

claims that as a terrorist, he shouldn’t 

have been tried in state court

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/02/arkansas-muslim-who

-shot-two-soldiers-claims-that-as-a-terrorist-he-shouldnt-have-been

-tried-in-state-court; 
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Appeals of this kind tie up the Infidel’s resources, and although this one failed, the courts are so crazy these days that one never knows.

Also, Abdulhakim Muhammad has a point. Attacks like his are not criminal cases. He is a soldier in a war. He should be regarded as such.



“Man who shot 2 soldiers in ’09 loses appeal bid Terrorist defense rejected,” by Hunter Field, Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette, January 31, 2020:


The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out the appeal of the man who shot two soldiers, killing one, at a Little Rock recruiting station in 2009.

Abdulhakim Muhammad had argued that he shouldn’t have been tried for murder in state court because several congressmen and government officials had referred to the shooting as “international terrorism” by a “foreign terrorist organization.”

Muhammad, a radical convert to Islam, shot and killed Pvt. William Long of Conway and injured Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula of Jacksonville at the Little Rock Army-Navy Career Center on Rodney Parham Road 11 years ago.

Muhammad, who pleaded guilty in 2011 and was sentenced to 12 life sentences plus 540 months in prison, contended that only a federal court had jurisdiction over his crimes. He said he was denied the ability in state court to raise some defenses available in federal or military court….

Muhammad, who said the shooting was retaliation for U.S. military actions in the Middle East, filed the petition for a writ of habeas corpus. He was not represented by an attorney.

Muhammad in his appeal also pointed out that Long and Ezeagwula were eventually awarded Purple Hearts. The two soldiers were initially denied Purple Hearts because they weren’t injured in a traditional overseas conflict, but the commendations were awarded after Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., authored a provision to extend the awards to people killed or injured by people in contact with and inspired by terrorist groups.

MINNESOTA: HAMAS-LINKED "CAIR" COMPLAINS; CATHOLIC PRIEST APOLOGIZES FOR SAYING ISLAM IS THE "GREATEST THREAT IN THE WORLD"

Sharia Alert! The Marxists have burrowed so deeply into the Catholic church to the point where their leaders defend and revere Islam, the ideology that calls for their death. They pave the way for the suit wearing Jihadis from Hamas dba CAIR to call the shots and infect the church with the Trojan Horse of the Interfaith Dialogues. Recently a Minnesota priest told the truth about Islam in one of his sermons. Then CAIR put the hammer on the Archdiocese of St Paul and they made the Catholic priest apologize. That is a prime example of bowing down to Sharia…..very tragic! Here is the article from the local Marxist newspaper http://www.startribune.com/in-sunday-...
MINNESOTA: HAMAS-LINKED "CAIR" COMPLAINS; CATHOLIC PRIEST APOLOGIZES FOR SAYING ISLAM IS THE 

"GREATEST THREAT IN THE WORLD"

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/minnesota-hamas-linked-cair-complains-catholic-priest-apologizes-for-saying-islam-greatest-threat-in-the-world; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research 

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This article encapsulates so much about what is wrong with the contemporary Catholic Church and the imperative of “interfaith dialogue,” and illustrates the apparently impenetrable confusion people have today between criticizing ideas and discriminating against human beings.

The Rev. Nick VanDenBroeke apologized “for saying in a sermon that Islam was ‘the greatest threat in the world’ to the United States and Christianity.”

There have been over 36,000 jihad attacks around the world since 9/11, each committed in the name of Islam and in accord with its teachings. Jihad groups routinely call for jihad massacres in the United States and of Americans. As for Christianity, in 2019, Christians faced “extreme, very high or high levels of persecution” in 73 countries, affecting 245 million Christians. In the Middle East, the Christian share of the population has shrunk to about 5 percent (if that), down from more than 20 percent at the turn of the last century. The decline attests to a century of ruthless persecution — bookended by the Greek, Armenian and Assyrian genocides committed by Turkey a century ago and the recent one attempted by ISIS. The ten worst countries in the world today for Christians, with the worst ranked first, are North Korea, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Pakistan, Eritrea, Libya, Iraq, Yemen and Iran — eight Muslim countries, one with nearly fifty percent Muslim population, and North Korea.

So is Islam a threat to the United States and Christianity? That is obvious. But when VanDenBroeke noted this, Hamas-linked CAIR complained, and no one involved seems to have pointed out that CAIR has ties to Hamas, and has opposed virtually every counterterror initiative that has ever been proposed or implemented. Instead, Roman Catholic leaders immediately compelled VanDenBroeke to apologize, and note the statement of Archbishop Bernard Hebda: he “quoted Pope Benedict XVI as saying that the church looks with esteem to Muslims, who worship God through prayer, fasting and the giving of alms,” and said: “If all of us who believe in God desire to promote reconciliation, justice and peace, we must work together to banish every form of discrimination, intolerance and religious fundamentalism,” Hebda said. “He added that Pope Francis also has stressed the importance of dialogue between Catholics and Muslims and has urged all Christians and Muslims to be ‘true promoters of mutual respect and friendship, in particular through education.’”

All right. But none of what Hebda said actually speaks to the point VanDenBroeke was making. To note that Islam is a threat does not mean that one does not esteem Muslims as human beings. This point is constantly confused nowadays, often by people who want to discredit those who raise awareness of the jihad threat by claiming that they hate Muslims as people. In reality, however, to criticize an ideology is not to hate anyone. To note that Nazism was a threat did not mean that one hated Germans, or did not esteem them as human beings.

Nor did VanDenBroeke promote any form of “discrimination, intolerance and religious fundamentalism.” He simply noted a threat, which is a real threat. He said: “I believe it is essential to consider the religion and worldview of the immigrants or refugees.” Well, isn’t it? Wouldn’t it be reckless not to do so?

One thing is certain: VanDenBroeke is right, at least regarding today’s Catholic Church, when he said: “I realize that my comments were not fully reflective of the Catholic Church’s teaching on Islam.” All too many Catholic hierarchs behave as if it really is a dogma of the Church that Islam is not and cannot be a threat. They are, of course, ignorant of their Church’s own history, as The History of Jihad demonstrates in detail.

“Leave them; they are blind guides. And if a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” (Matthew 15:14).



“Minnesota Priest Apologizes For Calling Muslims A ‘Threat,’” Associated Press, January 30, 2020 (thanks t0 David):


LONSDALE, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota Roman Catholic priest apologized Wednesday for saying in a sermon that Islam was “the greatest threat in the world” to the United States and Christianity.

The Rev. Nick VanDenBroeke apologized in a statement issued by the St. Paul-Minnesota Catholic archdiocese. He had made the comments in a Jan. 5 sermon at the Lonsdale, Minnesota, church where he serves as pastor.

The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group, had called earlier Wednesday on Minnesota’s Roman Catholic church leaders to repudiate the sermon. CAIR’s request came after the newspaper City Pages published an article Wednesday about the sermon.

In his statement Wednesday, VanDenBroeke said his homily “contained words that were hurtful to Muslims. I’m sorry for this. I realize that my comments were not fully reflective of the Catholic Church’s teaching on Islam.”

In the statement from the archdiocese, Archbishop Bernard Hebda said that the church’s teaching is clear, and he quoted Pope Benedict XVI as saying that the church looks with esteem to Muslims, who worship God through prayer, fasting and the giving of alms.

“If all of us who believe in God desire to promote reconciliation, justice and peace, we must work together to banish every form of discrimination, intolerance and religious fundamentalism,” Hebda said. He added that Pope Francis also has stressed the importance of dialogue between Catholics and Muslims and has urged all Christians and Muslims to be “true promoters of mutual respect and friendship, in particular through education.”

The homily was recorded and posted on the church’s website. In it, VanDenBroeke said parishioners must remember that immigrants are humans deserving of compassion. But he added that sovereign nations have the right and responsibility to control their borders to protect their citizens and lands.

“Both as Americans and as Christians, we do not need to pretend that everyone who seeks to enter America needs to be treated the same,” he said. “I believe it is essential to consider the religion and worldview of the immigrants or refugees.

“More specifically, we should not be allowing large numbers of Muslims (seeking) asylum or immigration into our country. Islam is the greatest threat in the world both to Christianity and to America,” he said….

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PAID $150 MILLION TO JIHAD TERRORISTS AS SALARIES IN 2019

PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY PAID $150 MILLION TO JIHAD TERRORISTS AS SALARIES IN 2019 

BY ROBERT SPENCER

SEE: https://www.jihadwatch.org/2020/01/palestinian-authority-paid;

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research 

purposes:

“PMW exclusive: PA gave 517.4 million shekels to terrorists as salaries in 2019,” by Maurice Hirsch, Palestinian Media Watch, January 30, 2020:

According to recently published Palestinian Authority financial reports, Palestinian Media Watch can expose that the PA has admitted to spending no less than 517.4 million shekels ($149.7 million/€136 million) paying salaries to terrorist prisoners and released prisoners in 2019.

The PA expenditure on allowances to wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists was at least 151.6 million shekels in 2019. Accordingly, the total minimum PA expenditure in 2019 on its payments to terrorists and families of dead terrorists – its Pay-for-Slay policy- was 669 million shekels ($193.6 million/€175.8 million).

In accordance with the Israeli law, Defense Minister Naftali Bennet should present the National Security Cabinet with a report showing that the PA expenditure on its Pay-for-Slay policy was no less than 669 million shekels.

Israeli law demands that this figure be deducted from the monthly tax transfers Israel makes to the PA.

Background 
Since created in 1994, the PA has implemented a “Pay-for-Slay” policy according to which it pays millions of shekels/dollars/euro every year in monthly salaries to reward Palestinian terrorist prisoners and released prisoners and monthly allowances to reward wounded terrorists and the families of dead terrorists (so-called “Martyrs”).

The PA codified the policy in the Law of Prisoners and Released Prisoners in 2004. Since then, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, has twice approved substantial hikes in the monthly salaries paid by the PA to the terrorists (2006, 2010).

According to sworn testimony given by a senior official on behalf of the PA, the PA payments to the wounded terrorists and families of dead terrorists are not codified in PA law, but rather only stipulated in undisclosed internal documents.

While the PA policy has been widely condemned, with four countries (Canada, the US, Australia, and Holland) cutting off all direct aid to the PA until the policy is abolished, and while the PA continues to request (and receive) considerable amounts of foreign aid, the PA itself carries on squandering hundreds of millions of shekels/dollars/euro on terrorist salaries every year, incentivizing and rewarding Palestinian terrorists.

In 2018, Israel passed a law to combat the PA policy. According to the law, at the end of each year, the Israeli Minister of Defense must submit a report to the National Security Cabinet detailing the PA expenditure on terrorist salaries and allowances in the passing year. Once the Cabinet approves the report, the PA expenditure in the passing year is deducted in twelve equal parts from the taxes that Israel collects and transfers to the PA in the coming year.

The new Israeli law was first implemented in February 2019, after PMW exposed that the PA had admitted to spending no less than 502 million shekels to pay the monthly salaries to the terrorist prisoners and released prisoners in 2018.

In response to the Israeli decision, Abbas positively decided to plunge the PA into a self-inflicted financial crisis by refusing to accept all the tax revenues from Israel, if Israel deducted any sum. Since the tax revenues account for almost half of the PA budget, rejecting their receipt had a substantial impact on the PA economy.

To overcome the crisis, the PA decided to temporarily cut salaries to the law abiding PA employees by 50% and to suspend referrals of Palestinians for medical treatment in Israeli hospitals. The PA also attempted to hide its financial reports, until PMW highlighted these actions. However, at the same time, the PA doubled down on its commitment to pay the terrorist prisoners, continuing to pay them 100% of their salaries.



After 7 months, the PA finally capitulated and agreed to receive the taxes that remained after the deduction.

Following an additional PMW report on the subject of the PA payments to the wounded and the families of the dead terrorists, in late December 2019 the Israeli National Security Cabinet decided to deduct an additional sum of 150 million shekels. Since the number of wounded Palestinian terrorists and the number of Palestinian terrorists killed grew in 2019, it is reasonable to assume that the PA expenditure for these terrorists grew.

According to statistics published by the PA and Israeli NGO B’tselem, no fewer than 110 Palestinian terrorists were killed in 2019. Taking into account the different PA payments, the additional expense incurred by the PA was no less than 1.6 million shekels.

During the presentation of his new Middle East peace plan, – the deal of the century – US President Donald Trump stressed the need for the PA to abolish its policy of rewarding terrorists and murderers. “To ensure a successful Palestinian state, we are asking the Palestinians to meet the challenges of peaceful co-existence.  This includes adopting basic laws enshrining human rights; protecting against financial and political corruption; stopping the malign activities of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other enemies of peace; ending the incitement of hatred against Israel — so important; and permanently halting the financial compensation to terrorists.” [www.whitehouse.gov, Jan. 28, 2020]

 Whether the PA will suddenly listen to US President Trump – for whom the PA has only shown contempt – only time will tell, but until then, Israel – if it wants to abide by its own laws – should deduct no less than 669 million shekels ($193.6 million/€175.8 million) from its tax transfers to the PA in 2020.



In the meantime, while most of the world agrees that the PA practice of paying financial rewards to terrorists is despicable, the PA continues to waste ever-growing amounts of fungible donor aid to fund this policy. To help put an end to the PA’s “Pay-for-Slay” policy, the EU and more countries should make their aid conditional on the permanent abolishment of the policy.

IPT EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: BERNIE SANDERS-MAGNET FOR ANTI-SEMITES

IPT EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: BERNIE SANDERS-MAGNET FOR ANTI-SEMITES

Bernie Sanders – Magnet for Anti-Semites is a fast-paced 9.5-minute video spotlighting the abjectly anti-Semitic views publicly espoused by several of the top campaign advisers and surrogates with whom presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has chosen to officially associate. There is a definite and ironic anti-Semitic streak to those who speak for, support, advise and officially endorse the country's potential first Jewish presidential nominee. This video includes insights on Sanders' official stance on anti-Semitism and the meaning of anti-Semitism, along with provocative and disturbing comments made by some of his surrogates, supporters and campaign staff.

SEE: https://www.investigativeproject.org/8278/ipt-exclusive-video-bernie-sanders-magnet-for; 

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational and research 

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U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., has publicly doubted Jewish Americans' patriotism and more recently, perpetuated a blood libel against Israeli Jews, without apology.

None of that is enough to keep U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders from relying on her in his 2020 presidential bid, including an appearance today in Iowa.

Bernie Sanders – Magnet for Anti-Semites is a fast-paced 9.5-minute video spotlighting the abjectly anti-Semitic views publicly espoused by several of the top campaign advisers and surrogates with whom presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has chosen to officially associate.

There is a definite and ironic anti-Semitic streak to those who speak for, support, advise and officially endorse the country's potential first Jewish presidential nominee.

This video includes insights on Sanders' official stance on anti-Semitism and the meaning of anti-Semitism, along with provocative and disturbing comments made by some of his surrogates, supporters and campaign staff.

In his November 19, 2019 op-ed in Jewish Currents, "How to Fight Antisemitism," Bernie Sanders wrote: "I will always call out antisemitism when I see it."

Not always, it seems. Not with those closest to him.

As just one example, Sanders campaign surrogate Linda Sarsour, who has a long record of anti-Israel rhetoric which crosses into anti-Semitism, said this at a November American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) conference: "Ask them this: How can you be against white supremacy in the United States and the idea of living in a supremacist state based on race and class, but then you support a state like Israel, that is built on supremacy, that is built on the idea that Jews are supreme to everybody else..."

"We were quite shocked in discovering the number of brazenly and openly anti-Semitic advisers and surrogates who have embraced Senator Bernie Sanders or whom he has embraced," said Steven Emerson, Executive Director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism, "especially since Mr. Sanders so adamantly claims to condemn anti-Semitism."