France
continues funding PA general budget,
which pays salaries to terrorists
Following
PMW reports,
the US,
the EU, Norway, and other donors
stopped
funding the PA general budget
because
the PA pays salaries to terrorists,
yet France continues to fund the PA's general
budget
Itamar Marcus
Following
Palestinian Media Watch's exposure that the Palestinian
Authority general budget funds the PA hate and terror promotion and
rewards terrorist prisoners with high salaries, the
US, the EU, Norway, and other European donors all stopped giving money to the PA
general budget so that their money would not go directly to pay salaries for
Palestinian terrorists.
This is not true for France. The PA announced
last week that France signed agreements to give the PA money for various
projects and in addition: "
financial aid directly to the public treasury
in the amount of 8 million euro."
The PA general budget that
France is contributing to pays monthly salaries to terrorists like Hamas bomb
maker Abdallah Barghouti, whose bombs murdered 67 people, and Abbas Al-Sayid,
who planned two suicide bombings in which 35 were killed, as well as all other
Palestinians imprisoned for terror crimes.
The French government
should note that the PA pays more than $12 million a month in salaries to
terrorist prisoners. [Official PA TV, June 11,
2014] Accordingly, France's 8 million euro ($8.9 million)
will cover approximately three weeks of terrorists' salaries.
The
PA salary payments to terrorists have been documented extensively by PMW since
2011, most recently in the report
The PA's Billion Dollar Fraud, which documents
that despite having promised international donors that it had ceased rewarding
terrorists with salaries, the PA still continues this
practice.
Recently, Mahmoud Abbas has indirectly
confirmed PMW's charge. When the Norwegian Foreign
Minister complained to Abbas about the PA paying terrorists' salaries, Abbas did
not deny it but said it is not with Norwegian money: "In the meeting, I
emphasized that this support program in which financial payments are increased
the [longer] the prisoners serve time [in prison], is unacceptable... Abbas
responded by repeating assurances that Norwegian funds are not going to finance
the program." [
Dagen (Norway), May 4, 2016]
This is not true for
France, which funds the PA budget directly.
The following is
the article in the PA daily about French funding of the PA's general
budget:
"[PA] Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah briefed the
government members during the weekly meeting held today [May 25, 2016] in
Ramallah, regarding results of the meeting he held in his office yesterday with
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls... The [PA] prime minister expressed his
gratitude to the French government for the ongoing support that it gives to the
Palestinian people, whether directly or through the European Union. Likewise, he
praised the three agreements that were signed during the visit. They are the
agreement to fund the administration of a wastewater project in Hebron in the
amount of 13 million euro, the agreement to carry out research and for the
French Agency to give technical aid for future development of Palestine in the
amount of 500,000 euro, and the agreement to give financial aid directly to the
public treasury in the amount of 8 million euro."
[Donia Al-Watan (independent
Palestinian news agency), May 25, 2016]
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