The timing of this…
According to a Fox News report, a lawsuit claiming the Biden Administration is funding Palestinian terrorism has been given the green light to move forward; Federal judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk, of the Northern District of Texas, made the decision.
America First Legal (AFL) filed the lawsuit in 2022. The suit claims that Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Biden resumed payments to the Palestinian Authority (PA) in violation of the Taylor Force Act —a federal law preventing taxpayer dollars from funding terrorism.
“This case is about the Palestinian Authority’s decades-long program of financial payments, social services, misinformation, and indoctrination to incentivize terrorist attacks against persons living in or visiting the State of Israel. The program is known as ‘Pay to Slay,’” AFL’s lawsuit states.
“Under Pay to Slay, the Palestinian Authority rewards terrorists and/or their families with increased rewards in proportion to the casualties inflicted. Terrorists who are married, or have children, or are Israeli residents/citizens receive an additional payment. Terrorists who spend more than 5 years (in a single term or cumulatively) in prison are paid a guaranteed salary by the Palestinian Authority for the rest of their lives,” the lawsuit continues.
“Every terrorist, regardless of their affiliations or the identity of their victims, is paid by the Palestinian Authority. This includes members of designated terror organizations, such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who kill U.S. citizens,” the lawsuit alleges.
Judge Kacsmaryk found that the AFL’s “recent production of records shows that the Government knew its economic support fund (ESF) funding in the West Bank and Gaza was benefiting Palestinian terrorists, thereby ‘increasing the risk of terrorist attacks against the Plaintiffs and others similarly situated.’”
“And they aver that the Government’s ‘admission that its activities in the West Bank and Gaza benefit Hamas suggests, with reasonable particularity, the possible existence of other facts, currently hidden, establishing traceability,’” the order says.
“These reasons, in concert with Hamas’s recent attack on Israel that killed fourteen Americans and resulted in others being held hostage, provide a sufficient basis for Plaintiff’s Request,” Kacsmaryk wrote.
The Biden Administration’s track record of terrible foreign policy decisions remains intact.
