OPINION
As I wrote recently, the ‘Palestinian-but-not-Hamas’ argument is as threadbare a fiction as arguing, in the 1930s, ‘German-but-not-Nazi’. Not all Palestinians voted for or fervently support Hamas, perhaps, but then, not all Germans did the Nazis, either. Even of those Germans who were members of the party itself, a relative minority (around 13 per cent) were fervent anti-Semites who wished to see the Jewish race exterminated.
None of that made a war to eradicate Nazism any less just. As Orwell pointed out, too, those who advocated such a war yet wrung their hands over the inevitable civilian deaths, were engaging in the most “disasteful”, “sheer humbug”.
As for Palestine, the sheer hatred of Jews runs so deep that even the Palestinian Authority (with its eerily Nazi-like eagle crest), run by the supposed mortal enemy of Hamas, is shelling out millions in blood money to the monsters who perpetrated the October 7 pogrom.
The Palestinian Authority will pay nearly $3 million to the families of slain Hamas terrorists who slaughtered civilians in Gaza border communities on Oct 7, Palestinian Media Watch reports.
Moreover, the Palestinian Authority will find a way to deliver the payments despite the fact that Gaza is at war and that Hamas seeks to overthrow the Ramallah government.
When push comes to shove, after all, if there’s one thing Palestinians agree on, it’s killing Jews in as horrible a way as possible.
“The PA spends every month half of the [Martyrs Fund] budget for Gaza terrorists. We see it from the budget reports. They call it ‘South Palestine,’” PMW director Itamar Marcus told the Tazpit Press Service.
“We are used to seeing the PA and Gaza as two different things, but they sit in the same money,” Marcus stressed […]
“So now according to the law the PA passed, they will pay all those retroactively, starting this month together with those who carried out the attack on October 7.”
For those who need a reminder of what the PA is paying out blood money for.
More than 1,400 Israelis were killed and some 4,100 others were wounded, with another 199 captives – or more – taken back to Gaza.
Jewish Press
Beyond that sanitised sentence, the details are horrific:
Other militants are busy mashing a dying man’s face with their boots. Another pair screams “Allahu akbar” as they use a garden hoe to try to decapitate another man.
In another house, a gunman sticks the muzzle of his rifle into a room inhabited by a family. It’s a mash of colors. In one, a terrorist is standing on an Israeli man’s chest and shoots him point-blank in the face […]
Then, the scenes of bloodied bedrooms start to blur. The rooms and the gore are the same – it’s how the bodies are arrayed in death that’s different. There are so many children. Some are jam-packed together in a slippery mass of human flesh. Huge blood stains streak the tiles.
ABC
Then there was the unspeakable butchery of children at Kfar Aza.
All this is being rewarded by the PA.
Under PA law, every Palestinian Authority terrorist who is killed attacking Israelis is classified as a ‘martyr’ and the family is rewarded with a NIS 6,000 ($1,511) grant, followed by a lifetime monthly stipend of NIS 1,400 ($353).
PMW’s report estimates that each Hamas terrorist family will receive NIS 7,400 ($1,843) for the first month and NIS 11,100,000 shekels ($2,789,430) in total for the operatives who were killed in the October 7 invasion of Israel.
In addition, there are 50 Hamas terrorists captured by Israel who participated in the massacre who will be paid at least NIS 70,000 ($17,590) in total this month.
In total, the PA will pay at least NIS 11,170,000 ($2,807,021) in payments to the families of dead Hamas terrorists and to imprisoned Hamas terrorists who participated in the Oct 7 massacre.
This is what Palestine spends its money on.
Blood money flowing straight from the pockets of the same hateful cretins marching in their thousands and chanting, “From the River to the Sea”.
“The Palestinian Authority should be sending a big thank you to the European Union countries and Norway, currently the largest funders of the PA, because the PA could not possibly make these terror payments without them,” Palestinian Media Watch pointed out.
“These donor countries like to pretend that it’s not their money rewarding terrorists, but everyone knows that the PA could not reward terrorists without this generous foreign funding.”
Jewish Press
They must be so proud.
Depressingly, they probably are.