The Taylor Force Act

Taylor Force was an ex-marine visiting Israel who was gunned down on the promenade in Tel Aviv by a Palestinian terrorist in 2016. They do not discriminate, they murder Israelis, Greeks, Arabs and Americans.  What was most galling about this incident was that the Palestine Authority pays the dead terrorist’s family a stipend for each person shot. And the overall amount of the stipends paid to all terrorists and their families is about m$50, about the amount of aid that the USA has been paying to the PA every year.  This is apart from funds paid to UNRWA and other benefits.

This direct support for terrorism, despite denials, is a continuation of the terrorism that has been practised in one form or another by the PA since Yasir Arafat returned from exile in 1994.  Finally, the Congress has had enough, and with the support of the Trump Administration passed the Taylor Force act that prohibits the US from paying aid to the PA until it stops its support for terrorism.

Since Trumps’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, Pres. Abbas of the PA denounced and has stopped all negotiations with the US.  He recently called the US Ambassador to Israel a “son of a dog”, and the US deducted m$25 from its donations to UNRWA.  Abbas has continued in his strategy of trying to obtain diplomatic recognition for a Palestine State at the UN.  But that is futile, because even if the UN recognizes a non-existent Palestine State it will have no validity without the agreement of the USA and Israel.

Now with the appointment of John Bolton as Trump’s security adviser, Abbas has lost again. Bolton is a well-known critic of the PA and is against the much-hallowed two-state solution for the simple reason that a Palestine State would be both a failed State, with total corruption and no effective government, and it would be a magnet for all the crazy Islamic terrorists around the world, looking to kill Jews and Americans after losing out in Iraq and Syria.  It looks as if the Taylor Force Act and the appointment of Bolton will be the final nails in the coffin of Palestinian Statehood.