GOP senators: US subsidizes payments to Palestinian terrorists

Published February 28, 2017 5:21pm ET



U.S. taxpayers are subsidizing payments that the Palestinian Authority uses to reward individuals who carry out terrorist attacks in Israel, according to congressional Republicans who want to cut off the funding.

“If you serve 25 years in jail for committing an act of terrorism in Israel, you will get paid equivalent to a major-general in the Palestinian security forces,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., told reporters Tuesday.

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