UNRWA's Palestinian Refugee Permanence, 'Pay-for-Slay'

"Once again we have witnessed the nauseating spectacle of western governments -- which sanitize, fund and pump up the genocidal Palestinian Arab cause -- expressing shock and sympathy with Israel over these attacks [while continuing] to fund the Palestinian Authority despite the PA's 'pay-to-slay[' policy of rewarding the families of terrorists for every Israeli Jew they murder, and despite its never ending incitement to murder Jews and steal Israel's land."

Melanie Phillips, British journalist

 

"It's time to admit that Palestinian institutions are broken, and that they have developmentally harmed generations of Palestinian men and women, boys and girls, by whipping them into a constant froth with violently antisemitic educational and media content that celebrate 'martyrdom' attacks against Israelis."

"The Palestinian Authority provides a financial incentive for terrorism by providing pensions to the families of those who attack Israelis."

Palestinian political analyst Bassem Eid

"We will neither reduce nor prevent [payment] of allowances to the families of martyrs, prisoners and released prisoners, as some seek, and if we had only a single penny left, we would pay it to families of the martyrs and prisoners."

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

AN ISRAELI flag hangs as a religious man ponders at the scene of a terror attack at the entrance to Jerusalem.

(photo credit: YONATAN SINDEL/FLASH90)

This is the man who presents himself on the world stage as the aggrieved partner-for-peace while denouncing Israel as a cruel occupier of Arab land that just happens to be located on ancestral Judean geography. But then such bothersomely inconsequential details are an irritant that Mahmoud Abbas is accustomed to dealing with. As he iterates and reiterates the misconceptions of history, personally giving his assurance that this land always belonged to Arabs who were, he avers, the original Palestinians

 

Even the Roman Empire got it wrong, and out of the goodness of his heart, Abbas stands prepared to correct their misimpression and he has already started, publishing maps identifying no Judean land, only a large swath labelled 'Palestine" as he lobbies the United Nations member bodies to proceed with giving its imprimatur to a unilateral announcement of the State of Palestine becoming an honoured member of the General Assembly. Or who knows...the permanent Security Council for its expertise in war and peace.

 

As for paying the martyrs and the prisoners and ex-prisoners of justifiable and honourable 'resistance' to the occupation that annoyingly keeps resisting the violence streaming at it from the West Bank and Gaza Strip, nothing, ever, will deter their handsome emoluments for a job well done. Recently the human rights group Palestinian Media Watch revealed that recently-released prisoners Karim and Maher Younig each collected close to $100,000 for their murder of Avraham Bromberg, a corporal in the Israel Defence Forces.

Where does an incipient 'nation' given refugee status in perpetuity by the United Nations' UNRWA get the funding to award such munificent sums to its terrorists from? An Arab-administered area so penurious that the international community through the United Nations, United States, European Union and other Western countries feel obligated to fund its civil infrastructure to enable the Palestinian Authority (Fatah/PLO) and Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza to operate?

It has long been documented that the PA schedules rewards for the terrorists it incites into the martyrdom death cult, from childhood onward through school curricula to social media programs to identify Jews as their enemy, to teach the vulnerable young of their duty as Palestinians to 'resist' the 'occupation' of apartheid Israel -- with its two million Palestinian citizens, along with Christian, Druze, Baha'i, Bedouin citizens --  creating in them a passion for martyrdom.

The PA has a per capita GDP of about $3,500, and an unemployment rate of 25 percent. Many Palestinians find employment and a working wage through jobs offered them in Israel where they can earn more than working in the West Bank or Gaza, if they can find jobs there.  Without outside funding for civic services, for hospitals, schools and social programs, there would never be finances available to pay for the PA's well-institutionalized 'pay-for-slay'.

 

That funding arrives through the generosity of the United States, its largest funder which provides hundreds of millions to the PA and Hamas through UNRWA. Canada too is a large contributor to the extended programs that effectively pay salaries to terrorists or to their families should they die in the line of duty to kill Israeli Jews. The countries that gasp in horror at the atrocities committed in Jerusalem against Jews are those very countries that fund the actions of the murderers.

 

In the very week, scant days afterward, of the slaughter of 7 Jews after Friday prayer at a synagogue  and the wounding of many others, the U.S. Secretary of State on a Middle East visit to Israel and the West Bank handed an additional $50 million over to the PA, over and above the $300 million recently given UNRWA. Funding that was revoked by Canada's former Prime Minister Stephen Harper and by former U.S. President Donald Trump in acknowledgment of UNRWA's role in transferring funds used to fund murder.

 

Funding that was speedily restored by their successors, U.S. President Joe Biden, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Both of whom give no thought whatever to what it is they are actually funding.

The family of Mohammed Tarayreh, who stabbed to death a 13-year-old Israeli girl in her bed, is now eligible for a monthly stipend from the Palestinian “Martyrs’ Fund.”
(AP Photo)

Russia, the Moral Outcast

"Now, I do not see any possibility for diplomatic contacts. And the more the conflict goes on, the more difficult it will be to have a diplomatic solution."

"[The UN has become mired in] politicization [because of the war and that has] damaged the authority of the UN and its organizations."

"We do not have any contacts with the Western delegations. On the protocol side we do not see each other. Privately we do not have any contacts, unfortunately ... we simply do not talk to each other."

"And so they will fight until the last Ukrainian."

"[Western countries are using the war] as a matter of pressure on Russia, as a tool of isolation of Russia .. damaging our position, economically, politically."

"They do not care about the Ukrainian people, the Ukrainian soldiers."

Gennady Gatilov, Russian permanent representative to the UN, Geneva

Tank barriers are seen in front of a barricade in Zaporizhzhya, amid Russian invasion of Ukraine. Photo: AFP/Getty Images

 

Ukraine has always stated it is prepared to discuss an end to the conflict; it is the victim, Russia is the aggressir. Offers by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to meet personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin have gone unanswered. Russia's main complaint is that its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is being condemned by Western democracies, leaving it in bad odour in Europe, and alarming its near neighbours that they might be next on Russia's agenda for a ;special military operation' aimed at them.

Ukraine's victimization, as far as the Kremlin is concerned is its own fault, for its pro-Nazi, fascist government. It proved itself to be just that when Ukrainians rejected Moscow's choice for President of Ukraine in favour of their own selected alternative, loyal to Ukraine, not to Russia. An event which led to an insurrection by ethnic Russians who mostly populated eastern Ukraine, declaring themselves leaders of a new Luhansk and Donetsk, one allied with Russia, and with Russian assistance fought a conflict to occupy part of the Donbas, enabling Putin to declare he had every right to seize the Crimean Peninsula.

A view of the Russian navy Frigate 'Pytlivyy' docked in the port of Sevastopol. Photograph: Filippo Monteforte /AFP /Getty

Russia's UN Ambassador Gatilov complains bitterly that the UN has failed to support Russia's claim that it has acted with honour intending to liberate Ukraine from the clutches of its neo-Nazi government. It is, in his estimation, the United Nations accepting the Western allies of Ukraine asserting that Ukraine is a sovereign nation with the right, internationally recognized, to make its own decisions how it will align itself and who its allies would be. 

It is the West, he avers, responsible for Ukrainian deaths, not Russia, for encouraging Ukraine in its unreasonable decision to defend itself against a larger, better equipped neighbour, and inciting it to fight the Russian military rather than accept the inevitable, as Moscow sees it; surrendering the eastern provinces to Russia and allowing itself to once more assume the position of satellite state to Russian hegemonic imperialism.

 

A firefighter works at the site of a Russian military strike, as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, in Mykolaiv, Ukraine. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine/Handout via Reuters

 

Ukraine will admit to having lost an estimated nine thousand servicemen in the defence of their country, to date. Western intelligence puts Russian losses at an approximately similar number, with the added loss of a surprising number of elite commanders. Russia is apoplectic with outrage that Ukraine has managed to hit its military and destroy its materiel by explosives hitting behind Russian lines. With the use of drones and long-range missiles supplied by sympathetic countries, Ukraine is holding its own.

 

As brutal and as brazen as Russia is in ordering its military to shell civilian infrastructure, giving them free rein to bomb schools and hospitals, to mutilate and murder ordinary Ukrainian civilians, Moscow is still in a state of disbelief that Ukraine would dare aim over its border into Russian towns to blow up weapons and gas depots. Ukrainian towns and villages are disposable, Russian ones are inviolate.

 

A Ukrainian serviceman rides atop a tank near a front line in Mykolaiv region on August 10, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues. Photo: Reuters

 

The Kremlin and Vladimir Putin have embarked on a mission to re-write the rules and regulations of international conflict striving to ensure they are as humane as possible in protection of civilian lives along with non-combatants, while Russia seems intent on opening the floods of wartime derangement of human values to encompass all civilians as long as they're Ukrainian.

In the initial month of the occupation, the Russian military was tasked with entering Kyiv and either killing or taking prisoner the government of Ukraine. Likely to stand trial, if they survived, charged with being Nazis deserving of capital punishment. Ukrainian pride and resolve in protecting its own, pushed them back to eastern Ukraine. Now the shortage of regular troops sees Russia releasing criminals from long sentences, to fight in the front lines.

 

Ukrainian soldiers from the Azov Battalion who surrendered at besieged Mariupol: "Some had needles inserted into their wounds, some were tortured with water", said Vladyslav Zhaivoronok, who lost a leg. "They undressed us, forced to squat while we are naked. If any of the boys raised their heads, they began to beat them immediately", added Denys Chepurko.

 

Russia's intelligence agency claims a woman from the Azov regiment planned and carried out the assassination of 29-year-old media personality Darya Dugina, daughter of Vladimir Putin's principle adviser on the Ukraine conflict, Alexander Dugin, who shares all the potent hatred that Putin has been quoted with in his 'reasons' for despising the notion that Ukraine is a nation, claiming it has no culture and is a den of Nazi scorpions. 

Russia, proud of what it considers to be military 'victories', speaks with heated contempt of base Ukrainian motives in resisting the Russian occupation. A country, as far as Vladimir Putin is concerned, that has no right to exist outside of Russia's orbit, and one he is doing his damndest bit by bit to destroy. So far, close to 6,000 Ukrainian civilians dead, towns and cities in rubble, food and energy shortages beleaguering the poorest countries of the world as well as the most advanced.

Ukrainian military officers travel on a wheeled-BTR fighting vehicle in Kramatorsk in Ukraine’s Donetsk region on 22 August. Photograph: Ammar Awad/Reuters

Reality as Opposed to the Narrative

“The designation decisions published by the National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing of Israel list extremely vague or irrelevant reasons, including entirely peaceful and legitimate activities such as provision of legal aid and 'promotion of steps against Israel in the international arena'."

UN Human Rights Office, Ramallah

 

"The Israeli government did not give us advance warning [that the Palestinian groups would be blacklisted'."

"We believe respect for human rights, fundamental freedoms and a strong civil society are critically important to responsible and responsive governance."

Ned Price, spokesman, U.S. State Department

 

"Those organizations [six named Palestinian NGOs] were active under the cover of civil society organizations, but in practice belong and constitute an arm of the [PFLP: Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine] leadership, the main activity of which is the liberation of Palestine and destruction of Israel."

"The security organizations will continue to act and intensify the strikes against terrorism and the terrorist infrastructure everywhere, and by all means."

"I call on the countries of the world and international organizations to assist in this fight and to avoid contact with companies and organizations that supply materials to terrorism."

Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz 

 

"Those funds [received from EU member states and the United Nations] served the Popular Front for payments to security prisoners’ families and martyrs, wages for activists, enlistment of activists, promotion of terror activity, promotion of the Popular Front activity in Jerusalem, and distribution of the organization’s messages and ideology."

Israel’s Ministry of Defense

 

"[The announcement by the Israeli government] confirms what our research has shown for years—this time six Palestinian NGOs were designated as terrorist organizations as part of the PFLP network."

"All are funded by European [governments] and deeply involved in political warfare against Israel."

NGO Monitor, watchdog group tracking anti-Israel nonprofits  

PFLP terrorists Abdul Razeq Farraj (l) and Ubai Aboudi (r) at Netherlands Representative Office in Ramallah, Feb. 2, 2017. (Facebook)

Now that's unexpected, is it not? Israeli intelligence sources identify the background commitment of  ostensible charitable and human rights organizations for the Palestinian cause, a cause dedicated to ultimately succeeding in demolishing the presence of the Jewish state to enable Palestinians to claim 'all clear' in their assumption of creating a Palestinian state "from the river to the sea". The culmination of their public relations campaigns capturing Western support claiming and finally attaining the sovereign status on the entire area occupied by Israel, that tiny sliver of land representing a mere portion of Judean geographic heritage.

 

On Friday, Israel's Defense Minister Benny Gantz captured immediate international attention -- mostly from the sources that so generously fund the Palestinian Authority's corrupt regime with its 'pay for slay' program, glorifying the exploits of deadly attacks against Jews by Palestinian 'martyrs' exemplifying commitment to 'resistance' against the 'occupier', on territory that the State of Israel through its military defence against Arab states' attack in 1967 gained. And where all other countries in the world once success in defence is achieved, gains are absorbed, where Israel is concerned this is unacceptable.

 

Palestinian victimization is a narrative beloved of Israel's critics, and they are legion. Israel's willingness in one successive government after another to come to a bargaining table to make concessions for peace made no inroads whatever in the Palestinian mind, incited by leaders who committed to aggravated assault against Jews in their midst, vowing never to live among Jews, while Palestinian Arabs who remained on their land with the re-creation of the State of Israel do live among Jews, as citizens of the country, unwilling to live under PA or Hamas rule in the West Bank or Gaza, but resentful regardless.

The European Union, the United Nations, the United States and Canada among others sanctimoniously fund the Palestinian 'refugees' living in the West Bank and Gaza, knowing full well, proof amply given, that there is no end to corruption, to incitement of violence against Israel; that celebration of the martyrs to the 'cause' will see their families given monthly financial awards, street and social center naming ceremonies. That school curricula, television programs and songs lionize 'martyrs' to inspire children to hate and to aspire toward vengeance.

 

Palestinian celebrate during a rally marking the 46th anniversary of the founding of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (PFLP), in Gaza City, 7 December 2013. (Emad Nassar/Flash90)

 

Israel is called to account when it identifies and designates the funding connection between Palestinian charities and Palestinian terrorist groups. Any group can identify themselves as human rights organizations, groups whose specific aim is to demonize the real victims of Palestinian violence. Groups that excel in currying favour with western financial granting bodies who legitimize them, and continue portraying themselves as victims of violence while supporting those who mete out violence to Israel's civilian populations.

 

Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced on Friday that six named civil society groups have been designated terror organizations, on the basis of their having effectively operated as enablers for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror group which most European and North American countries list as a terrorist group. A backlash took no time in response, with the European Union, the Palestinian Authority, progressive Democrats, US Jewish groups, and international human rights organizations expressing outraged criticism. 

"[The] declared organizations received large sums of money from European countries and international organizations, using a variety of forgery and deceit", stated the Israeli defence ministry, while pointing out the funding supported activities of the PFLP who even though declared a terrorist group in many western countries is still viewed sympathetically, while at the same time European funding agencies balk at being tangentially linked with funding their activities. To accept Israel's findings is to proclaim themselves guilty.

Pro-Palestinian protesters march outside the White House, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2021 in Washington. (AP/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades)

And while not denying ties to the six groups identified by Israel as funneling funds to the PFLP, Kayed Al Ghoul, an official with the group, said they maintain relations with civil society organizations across the West Bank and Gaza: "It is part of the rough battle Israel is launching against the Palestinian people and against civil society groups, in order to exhaust them", he maintained. And he should know; it is part of the violent battle the PFLP launches against Israel in hopes of exhausting its will to survive.