Middle East Madness > PA continues it's Pay-for-Slay program; Saudi blasts Palestinians in video

 

Palestinian Authority Keeps On Keeping On with Its

‘Pay For Slay’ Program

May 11, 2025 2:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald

The Palestinian Authority’s “Pay-For-Slay” program provides generous monthly subsidies to imprisoned terrorists and to the families of terrorists who died while committing their attacks. In this way, the PA both rewards past terrorism and incentivizes future terrorism. This program has angered the American government, which in 2018 passed the Taylor Force Act— named after Taylor Force, an American serviceman who, while walking in Tel Aviv, was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist. The Act requires that the American government halt payments it provides to the PA as long as it continues with its “Pay-For-Slay” program. Biden, disgracefully, was able to obtain waivers to the Act’s enforcement. And more recently, Mahmoud Abbas has tried to disguise his Pay-For-Slay program by describing the payments as “welfare benefits” for the poor, which fooled no one. And just as it did previously, the Palestinian Authority (PA) announced in early April that it would be paying February’s monthly “allowances” to Palestinian prisoners, terrorists, and their families. More on this announcement can be found here:

Palestinian Authority continues Pay-for-Slay, notwithstanding Abbas’ proclamation

by Ephraim D. Tepler, Palestinian Media Watch, April 9, 2025:

Just as it did last month, the Palestinian Authority announced yesterday that it is paying February’s monthly “allowances” today. One announcement was made laconically by the Postal Service while the “PA employees’ salaries” Telegram channel mentioned in two separate statements that these payments were particularly for “Martyrs, prisoners, and the wounded,” as can be seen in the chart below: While the Palestine Post announcement again did not specify to whom the payments were going, the employees’ channel said explicitly (twice) that they were meant for terrorists. Palestinian Media Watch has no doubt that these are terror salaries since the PA postal service only began facilitating them after the PA banks closed 35,000 terrorist bank accounts. The reason the bank accounts were closed was because PMW warned the banks that if they would continue facilitating those accounts, they would be violating Israeli law and therefore subject to civil and criminal liability.

It is noteworthy that the payments being made today are for February 2025—a month’s delay. PMW has reported that the PA had skipped the payment of a full month’s salary to its employees in 2023 and has not made it up. This is due to the PA being mired in financial crisis because of its high expenditures on payments to terrorists and the resulting losses in international support….

By sleight-of-word, Abbas had hoped to fool the Americans into believing that the money being given to imprisoned terrorists and the families of dead terrorists were not part of “Pay-For-Slay,” but instead, simply increased payments for the most impoverished. No one in Washington believed it, but under Biden, the American payments to the PA continued despite the Taylor Force Act, for which the administration managed to get a waiver from Congress. Trump is made of sterner stuff. He has already cut hundreds of millions of dollars in direct aid to the PA, as well as payments to UNRWA. Mahmoud Abbas has kept up his defiant tone, the one set in his remark that even if he were “left with one penny, it [the generous monthly stipends] will be paid to the families of the Martyrs and the prisoners.”

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Boom! Saudi Arabian Publicly Blasts “Palestinians”

in Scathing Video

written by Phil Schneider February 20, 2025 15.9K views

The most common criticism of what Israel has supposedly done to the supposed “Palestinians” in what has been coined “Palestine” is that Israel has stolen the Land from those who have an indigenous claim to the Land. This triple lie should be studied in marketing courses across the world in order to study how an alternative reality can be created out of thin air in order to promote a specific cause. 

The Arabs who live in Israel today are nearly all originally from Egypt, Syria, or other countries in the Middle East. They chose to move to the area under the Ottoman Empire that is near the Mediterranean in order to have a better life. Most of them moved in the late 19th century or early 20th century when the Jewish people began their return. The Jewish pioneers had a few major supporters who helped them finance their efforts to bring the Land back to life. Arabs from neighboring countries took heed and found out that they could live better near the Jewish pioneers than where they were living in other areas under the Ottoman Empire.

The concept of a unique “palestinian people” was usually not used. If it was used, it was generally in order to refer to the Jewish people. The Jerusalem Post was called the Palestine Post before the State of Israel was founded in 1948. The Palestine theatre was a Jewish theatre. Arabs rarely used the term Palestine. Jews did. 

But in the early and especially the late 60’s, the Arabs who lived in and around the State of Israel decided that they need to create a new national entity in order to claim national rights to the Land. It has certainly taken root among the younger generation of Arabs in and around Israel. But what drives it is not the nationalism of the 19th century. It is the age-old anti-Jewish hatred that has been alive and well as long as the Jewish people exist. 

But even those who have bought into the idea of a legitimate nationalism of a nation of so-called “palestinians” cannot deny today that what truly drives those who yell and scream “from the river to the sea” is the genuine intention to drive the Jewish people out of the Land of Israel and into the sea. Israel has one choice and only one choice. Fight back or be driven into the sea. 

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Islam - Current Day > New Police Chief for Iran not good news for the girls; Saudis Arrest 15,000 Illegal Expats in one week; Times Square Jihadist; Young Danes Turning against migrants

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Iran replaces police chief amid protests

General Ahmad-Reza Radan sanctioned by US in 2010,

and later on by European Union

Published:  January 07, 2023 17:45

AFP

  

This handout picture provided by the office of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on January 7, 2023

shows him meeting with the newly-appointed police chief General Ahmad-Reza Radan in Tehran.

Image Credit: AFP

Tehran: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed on Saturday a new police chief, nearly four months into protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death.

The Islamic republic has been gripped by unrest since the September 16 death in custody of Iranian Kurdish Amini, 22, following her arrest for allegedly violating the country’s strict dress code for women.

Khamenei, who has the final say in major state policies and is commander-in-chief of Iran’s armed forces, appointed General Ahmad-Reza Radan to replace Hossein Ashtari, said a statement posted on the leader’s official website.

Khamenei ordered the police department to “improve its capabilities” as well as “train specialised forces for various security sectors”.

This doesn't sound very promising for the girls.

Radan, born in 1963, was deputy police chief from 2008 to 2014 and went on to lead the police’s Centre for Strategic Studies. He was replaced as deputy by Ashtari, who was made the force’s commander in 2015.

Both Radan and Ashtari began their military career in the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

The new police chief was sanctioned by the United States in 2010, and later on by the European Union, over “human rights abuses” in connection with protests that followed Iran’s contested presidential elections of 2009.

In the statement announcing Radan’s appointment, Khamenei expressed “gratitude and satisfaction” with Ashtari’s eight-year service.

Iranian authorities describe the current nationwide protests as “riots” and say hundreds of people, including members of the security forces, have been killed and thousands arrested.

Saudi Arabia: Expat held for harbouring 17 absconding women

in Riyadh

In recent months, Saudi Arabia has intensified clampdown on illegals, facilitators

Published:  January 07, 2023 15:22

Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent

  

Cairo: Police in Riyadh had arrested an expatriate for illegally employing and accommodating 17 female expatriates, reported to have absented themselves from their official workplaces, Saudi media reported.

The male suspect, an Egyptian national, had harboured the absentees in a housing unit in Riyadh in violation of law.

They all were arrested and referred to public prosecution, police said, without giving further details.

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry has repeatedly warned that those who facilitate the entry of infiltrators into the kingdom or provide them with transportation, shelter or any sort of assistance face penalties of a maximum of 15 years in prison, and a fine of up to SR1 million, as well as confiscation of the transport and the accommodation means, in addition to naming to shame them.

In recent months, Saudi Arabia, which hosts a large community of migrant workers, has intensified a crackdown on violators of its labour, residency and border security laws.

Last week, Saudi authorities arrested two citizens for transporting and sheltering illegal expatriates in the south-western region of Asir.

A spokesman for Asir police said transportation and accommodation of violators of the border security rules is a major, dishonouring crime punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a hefty fine.

Saudi Arabia earlier this month said it had arrested 15,328 illegal expatriates in one week.

The arrests, made over the period from December 22 to 28, included 8,808 violators of the kingdom’s residency system, 4,038 more violators of the border security rules and 2,482 others who breached the labour regulations.

During the same period, authorities arrested 10 persons for involvement in transporting and sheltering violators of residency, border and work regulations.

Times Square 'jihadi', 19, was arrested with chilling manifesto 

Ordered family to convert to Islam to avoid 'hellfire' -

and apologized to mother for 'not having been a good enough son'

Trevor Bickford, 19, of Wells, Maine is accused of slashing two NYPD cops 

Bickford allegedly wrote a manifesto in which he told family members to 'repent to Allah'

In a message to his brother who is in the Army, Bickford said 'you have joined the ranks of my enemy. And for that I can give you no kind words'

The attack happened around 10pm near Times Square on New Year's Eve

Two officers, including a rookie NYPD cop, were injured in the attack

By ANDREA CAVALLIER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 10:07 EST, 1 January 2023 | UPDATED: 17:26 EST, 1 January 2023

Please go to The Daily Mail for the full story.

Survey: Young Danes opposed to their children being educated alongside immigrants

A third clearly oppose integration as they would never consider

entering into a relationship with one

Trampolinhuset prefers to blame the politicians, not the people (photo: Trampolinhuset)

January 4th, 2023 1:10 pm| 

by Ben Hamilton

The Copenhagen Post

It’s often said that Danes are fiercely protective of their culture, but that younger generations are far more open to societal change and diversity. However. a new study of young ethnically-Danish people’s attitudes towards immigrants would appear to buck that theory.

It suggests that while young Danes are generally sympathetic to the plight of refugees, they would not like to see them, or immigrants, educated at the same schools as their children.

Last summer, around 500 Danes aged 18-30 took part in ‘Changing Minds – Improving Citizens’, a survey conducted by Trampolinhuset in collaboration with partners in Romania and Spain, where a further 1,000 young adults were interviewed. 

A third of the sample in Denmark concur there are too many immigrants in Denmark, and that they have no interest in entering into a relationship with one.

Positive about economic benefits

Some 85 percent agreed that there were many/a fair number of immigrants in Denmark – of these, 45 percent said there were too many.

Some 41 percent believe the immigrants are far more likely to commit crimes than ethnic Danes, and only 36 percent said they would be comfortable with having one as a neighbour.

While the women in the survey said they empathised with the challenges faced by immigrants, most men said they were mostly indifferent to their situation, with some saying they felt threatened.

Those who were positive about immigration said they were happy about the increased cultural diversity and economic growth it caused.

Politicians’ rhetoric to blame

Trampolinhuset regards the survey as a wake-up call that Denmark “cannot live in isolation from the outside world”, but is not surprised by the findings.

“The survey reveals attitudes that are natural for a generation that has grown up with governments, politicians and opinion makers over the last 25 years using immigrants and refugees actively as enemy images in their political campaigns,” it contended.

This is a typically far-left observation that is nowhere near reality. It's not the conservative politicians who have influenced opinion, it is the liberal governments who decided that cultural suicide was a good thing. It was also the reality of migrants bringing criminal behaviour to Denmark, as well as a religion that has no tolerance for Christianity.

“We need their ideas and labour. Today’s Danes already come in all colours and with many different cultures in their luggage. If we want democracy for all of us, we must stop thinking in ‘them and us’ terms. Since our politicians live in the past, it is a task that civil society must undertake.”

4 Killed in Missile Strike on Medicins Sans Frontieres Clinic in Yemen

Just yesterday I posted an excellent magazine article on the fate of a hospital in the southern Yemen city of Taiz. It had to close its doors because it simply ran out of medical supplies. Now hospitals are being targeted, doctors and patients killed and injured. This goes blatantly against the Geneva Convention and all sense of decency and humanity. But then, this is Islam; what can we expect?

Razeh, Yemen © Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi / Reuters

At least four people have been killed in a missile strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres medical facility in Yemen, a spokesman has confirmed. The organization “strongly condemns this,” while adding that 10 people have been injured in the attack.

The facility, which was hit by a rocket on Sunday, is in Razeh in the north of the country. In a statement on Twitter, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) say they, "strongly condemn this and we reiterate to all parties to the conflict that patients & medical facilities must be respected."

Saudi attack with prohibited weapons last June

According to MSF staff on the ground, one missile hit the Shiara Hospital, where the humanitarian organization has been operating since November, 2015. MSF say they are unable to say who was responsible for the attack, but mentioned planes were seen flying over the facility at the time the attack took place. The organization adds that the death toll could rise as there is the possibility that people are still trapped in the rubble.

“All the warring parties, including the Saudi-led coalition, are regularly informed of the GPS coordinates of the medical sites where MSF works and we are in constant dialogue with them to ensure that they understand the severity of the humanitarian consequences of the conflict and the need to respect the provision of medical services,” said Raquel Ayora, MSF’s Director of Operations.

MSF pointed out on their Twitter feed that this is the third severe incident the organization has had to deal with in the last three months.

“Our teams struggle on a daily basis to ensure the respect of health facilities,” the group stated.

In October 2015, MSF said a Saudi-led coalition airstrike hit a Yemeni hospital with patients and staff inside.

Laurent Sury, MSF’s emergency coordinator said the medical facility was targeted six times by airstrikes, even though coalition forces had coordinates of the hospital.

The hospital was completely destroyed, and several people were injured.

The Saudi-led coalition launched its anti-Houthi campaign in March 2015, after the anti-government rebels started capturing large parts of Yemen, including the capital Saana, and the country’s second-largest city, the port of Aden.

Razeh, Yemen

On January 5, the UN Security Council urged the warring parties in Yemen to participate in another round of peace talks this month and "expressed deep concern regarding the dire humanitarian situation in Yemen which continues to worsen."

The organization says more than 21 million people in Yemen need help, or about 80 percent of the population. More than 5,800 people have been killed in Yemen since March, about half of them civilians, according to the UN, as cited by AFP.

Candid and Very Interesting Interview With Bashar al Assad

ISIL Created by US Interventionism, 

Saudi Money & Wahhabi Ideology – Assad

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad

Commenting on the origins of the Islamist terrorism plaguing the Middle East, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad noted that terror groups including Al-Qaeda and ISIL have been able to find fertile soil in Iraq as a result of US interventionism, with Saudi oil money and their poisonous Wahhabi ideology nurturing the groups and helping them grow.

Interviewed by Italy's RAI UNO television, Assad was asked to respond to accusations made by some Western analysts that his government was at least partly responsible for ISIL's creation.

"Actually," the president retorted, "according to what some American officials, including Hillary Clinton, have said, Al-Qaeda was created by the Americans with the help of Saudi Wahhabi money and ideology. Of course, many other [US] officials said the same…ISIL and al-Nusra are offshoots of Al-Qaeda. Regarding ISIL, it started in Iraq; it was established in Iraq in 2006…and the leader of ISIL today – Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi – he was in American prisons, and he was put in New York in their prisons, and then he was released. So it wasn't in Syria; it didn't start in Syria. It started in Iraq, and it started before that in Afghanistan…And Tony Blair recently said that yes, the Iraq War helped to create ISIL. Their confession is the most important evidence regarding your question."

Moreover, according to Assad, ISIL has no natural incubator in Syria, given the country's long-standing ideology of secular nationalism, religious tolerance and ethnic and religious co-existence prior to the war. 

"If you want to talk about the strength of Daesh," the president noted, "the first thing you have to ask is how much of an incubator, a real, natural incubator, you have in a certain society. Up to this moment, I can tell you that Daesh does not have a natural incubator, a social incubator, within Syria."

At the same time, Assad warned, if ISIL's poisonous ideology grows roots and becomes chronic, "this kind of ideology can change the society." In the president's words, the terrorists, who have been "supported…in different ways since the beginning of the crisis" by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, "and of course the Western policy that supported [them] in different ways since the beginning of the crisis," will lose their strength once they lose the support of their benefactors. "They can be strong as long as they have strong support from different states, whether in the Middle East or the West," Assad suggested.

Asked to comment on the deadly attacks which took place in Paris earlier this month, the president once again sent his condolences, condemning the "horrible crime" and noting that Syrians like few others can understand the terror of seeing "innocents being killed without any reason and for nothing….We've been suffering from that for the past five years."

Assad emphasized that "we feel for the French as we feel for the Lebanese a few days before that, and for the Russians regarding the airplane that's been shot down over Sinai, and for the Yemenis." At the same time, the president voiced his hope that the Western world would find compassion for the victims of terror from all these attacks, and not "only for the French."

Political Settlement Requires an Accurate Definition of the Opposition

Commenting on the potential for a political settlement to the Syrian crisis, the president emphasized that there could be no discussions on any timetable for settlement so long as the terrorist threat was not dealt with. Otherwise, Assad noted that a year and a half to two years would be enough to create mechanisms for a new political system, including a new constitution, and guidelines on referendums, parliamentary and presidential elections.

Regarding disagreements with Western powers over who can be defined as the legitimate opposition, Assad explained that people who hold machine guns in their hand cannot be considered legitimate opposition. "That's the case in every other country. Whoever holds a machinegun and terrorizes people and destroys private or public property or kills innocents –he is not the opposition. Opposition is a political term. Opposition can be defined not through your own opinion; it can be defined only through elections –through the ballot box."

According to the president, only the Syrian people, via elections, can determine who they consider the real opposition. "If you want to talk about my own opinion, you can be opposition when you have Syrian grassroots, when you belong only to your country. You cannot be opposition while you are formed as a person or as an entity in the foreign ministry of another country or in an intelligence office of another country. You cannot be a puppet; you cannot be a surrogate mercenary; you can only be a real Syrian."

Refugee Crisis Hitting Syria Just as Hard as Its Hitting Europe

Asked to comment on the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who have fled Syria for Europe in recent months, Assad emphasized that "everyone who leaves this country is a loss to Syria…We feel the suffering, because every refugee in Syria has a long story of suffering within Syria, and that's what we should deal with by asking the question: 'Why did they leave?'"

According to the president, Syrians leave "for many reasons. The first one [is] the direct threat by terrorists. The second is the influence of terrorists in destroying infrastructure and affecting the livelihood of those people. But the third one, which is as important as the influence of terrorists, is the Western embargo on Syria." Assad emphasized that many people would go back to Syria in a heartbeat, "but how can he go back…while the basics of his life, his livelihood, has been affected dramatically?…The Western embargo and terrorism have put these people between the devil and the deep blue sea."

Asked by his interviewer whether he considered the Syrian war to be a religious war, the president made clear that this was actually a war with "people who have deviated from real religion; mainly, of course, from Islam, toward extremism, which we don't consider as part of our religion. It's a war between the real Muslims and the extremists. Of course, [the radicals] give it different titles –a war against Christians, a war against other sects…but the real issue is the war between them and the rest of the Muslims, the majority of whom are moderates."

On that last point, Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan would disagree completely:

IS has may have departed from traditional Islam of the 20th century, but, in fact, it follows the teachings of Mohammed much more accurately than 'moderate' Muslims. Also, IS (Daesh) resembles many versions of Islam that have existed over the past 1300 years; much more so than 'moderate' Islam.