U.S. Slashing Palestinian Authority Budget by 21.6% in 'Message to Abbas'

JNI Media : Oct 27, 2015
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"We need to dial up pressure on Palestinian officials to repudiate this violence." -Rep. Eliot Engel

The U.S. is cutting aid to the Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria and in Gaza by $80 million, which top Democrats in Congress have called a message to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. (Photo: US State Department/ Wiki Commons)

The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted unanimously Oct. 22 on a resolution condemning Abbas and the Palestinian leadership for "incitement" to violence against Jews in Israel with false statements accusing Israel of planning to change the status quo on the Temple Mount, and for systematic hate-mongering in Palestinian education and media. The resolution complements a State Department Sept. 25 announcement of cutting economic aid for to the Palestinians by 21.6%, from $370 million to $290 million in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, according to Al-Monitor.

The vote came while Israel was in the midst of battling a rash of stabbing, stone and Molotov cocktail attacks, as well as shooting...

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