Palestinian Authority paid $70 million to jihad murderers freed in hostage deal
And the EU and other entities shower money on the Palestinian Authority, allowing it to continue to pay jihadis.
PA paid $70 million to terrorists freed in hostage deal, watchdog says
JNS, October 19, 2025:
In the context of the U.S.-brokered Israel-Hamas ceasefire that went into effect last week, Israel has released 250 Palestinian terrorists who were serving at least one life sentence for murder. Of those, 160 are now millionaires thanks to the Palestinian Authority’s “pay-for-slay” program, having been paid over 1 million shekels during their imprisonment, according to Palestinian Media Watch.
The 160 released terrorists collectively received at least 229.5 million shekels ($70 million) from the P.A., according to PMW. The other 90 also received a significant sum.
PMW noted that the figure excludes additional stipends for family members, meaning the total payouts were likely far higher.
“The Palestinian Authority ensures that it very much pays to slay,” PMW stated.
“Any government that spends hundreds of millions of dollars each year rewarding terrorists should be designated for what it is—a terror organization,” PMW founder and director Itamar Marcus told JNS.
“Yet the Palestinian Authority, which openly funds and glorifies terrorists, continues to enjoy international legitimacy and generous Western support,” he added.
“Shockingly, instead of cutting ties, the European Union and many European countries partner with the P.A. by paying its civil servants’ salaries—a scheme that frees up the P.A.’s other funds to pay monthly salaries to imprisoned terrorists. This is not legitimate foreign aid; it’s complicity in terror,” he told JNS….
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Erdogan Prays That ‘Zionist Israel’ Be
‘Destroyed and Devastated’
Israel’s Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli has just condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday (October 29), noting that on March 30, 2025, Erdogan asked that “Zionist Israel” be “destroyed and devastated,” and he accused the Turkish leader of consistently seeking to undermine the Jewish people’s historic bond to Jerusalem. More on Chikli’s condemnation of Erdogan can be found here:
Jerusalem Post, October 20, 2025:
Israel’s Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism Minister Amichai Chikli condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, highlighting a March 30, 2025 prayer in which Erdogan asked that “Zionist Israel” be “destroyed and devastated,” and accusing the Turkish leader of consistently seeking to undermine the Jewish people’s historic bond to Jerusalem.
In a post on X/Twitter, Chikli wrote that the line, “May Allah, for the sake of His name… destroy and devastate Zionist Israel,” was not uttered by Hamas or Hezbollah, but by Erdogan himself during a public prayer. Israeli and international outlets reported at the time that Erdogan, speaking at Istanbul’s Camlica Mosque at the close of Ramadan, used language translated as a call for Israel’s destruction. Israel condemned the remarks.
Chikli described Erdogan as “a sworn enemy of Israel and the West, a jihadist in a suit,” and pointed to earlier statements by the Turkish leader claiming a special Turkish claim to Jerusalem. On October 1, 2020, Erdogan told Turkey’s parliament: “So Jerusalem is our city. Our first qibla…,” a passage widely reported at the time.
He also referenced Erdogan’s September 2025 comments amid a dispute over the ancient Siloam Inscription, when the Turkish president said, “We will not give even a single pebble belonging to Jerusalem to Israel.” Turkish and regional media covered those remarks at the time.
The Siloam inscription is a major archeological find, made in 1880, that provides a text in ancient Hebrew from the 8th century B.C., about the Jews building a tunnel that brought water from the Spring of Gilon outside Jerusalem into the city. The controversy between Israel and Turkey is that the Siloam Inscription is now in the archeological museum in Istanbul, and Turkey will not return it to Israel, nor even let it be put temporarily on display in Israel.
Chikli’s mention of a Turkish presence “on our northern border” refers to the Turkish military presence in northern Syria; the southern border is a reference to Turkey possibly providing soldiers to help secure Gaza when a government of Arab technocrats replaces Hamas.
Along with Qatar, but to a lesser extent, Turkey has provided refuge for some of Hamas’ senior leadership. Israel opposes Turkey’s involvement in locating the bodies of Israeli hostages because the shared task could bring Turkey and Hamas even closer together.
The End Times
Erdogan, let’s remember, condemned Israel for stopping the Mavi Marmara, a boat that was part of a larger flotilla that in 2010 was dead set on breaking Israel’s blockade of Gaza. He described the Israeli sailors who rappelled down from helicopters to take over the boat as “killers” and demanded reparations from the Israeli government (which were eventually given). Erdogan has also called for a pan-Islamic force to be created to finally destroy the Jewish state, and it was clear that he saw himself as the natural leader of that force. He has also spoken of a future conflict between “the crescent and the cross,” and left no doubt as to which side he was on.
Erdogan clearly sees himself as the 12th Imam, the Mahdi, or the AntiChrist. He may well represent the Gog and Magog. If such is the case, he has to act soon as he is getting on in years. His dream of recreating the Ottoman Empire with himself as Caliph will soon run out of time otherwise.
Despite this disturbing history, Donald Trump likes Recep Tayyip Erdogan, seemingly more than he likes Benjamin Netanyahu. At a recent meeting with Erdogan, he said: “It’s a pleasure to be with President Erdogan of Turkey, and we’ve been friends for a long time.” “He’s a fantastic man” and “a guy who’s been a friend of mine for a long time. I don’t know why I like the tough people better than the soft, easy ones. This gentleman from a place called Turkey is one of the most powerful in the world… He’s a tough cookie — but he’s my friend.”
Will Trump continue to be impressed with that “tough cookie” who has prayed to Allah to destroy Israel, who proudly proclaimed that he would be ready to lead a Muslim army to fight the Jews, and is equally ready to lead the forces of the Crescent against those of the Cross?
Or will he come to his senses about the antisemitic and anti-Infidel padishah in his 1,150-room Ak Saray, or White Palace, on the banks of the Bosphorus, and make sure that whatever happens in Gaza, Erdogan will not be part of it?
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