Abbas's New Law Provides "Social Security" For Terrorists In Prison

One of the indications that the Palestinian Arabs are ready for a state is that they are a state of laws--like the following:

PA to pay salaries to all terrorists in Israeli prisons

Financial aid from many donor countries goes directly to PA budget from which salaries are paid


A law published in the official Palestinian Authority Registry last month grants all Palestinians and Israeli Arabs imprisoned in Israel for terror crimes a monthly salary from the PA. The Arabic word the PA uses for this payment is "ratib," meaning "salary." Palestinian Media Watch has reported numerous times on Palestinian Authority glorification of terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons. Following the signing of this new law, the PA is now paying a salary to these prisoners.

The PA has defined by law which Palestinians would be considered "prisoners."

"Anyone imprisoned in the occupation's [Israel's] prisons as a result of his participation in the struggle against the occupation."
[Ch. 1 of Law of Prisoners, 2004/19, passed and published by the PA Chairman and Government, December 2004.
The Prisoners' Centre for Studies,www.alasra.ps Accessed May 9, 2011]

In other words, all Palestinians in Israeli prisons for terror crimes officially join the PA payroll. According to the definition in the PA law, Palestinian car thieves in Israeli prisons will not receive a salary, but Hamas and Fatah terrorist murderers will.[emphasis added]

Well, it certainly nice to know that Abbas and the Palestinian Authority has scruples.

Question: If a car thief steals a car in order to make a car bomb to blow up kids near a school--does he get a salary then?

And doesn't it make the EU feel good that their money goes to paying the salaries of these murderers?

UPDATE: From This Ongoing War we learn that it's not only the EU, and it's not as if the money that the PA gets is a pittance either

Who funds the PA? Who provides the PA's insiders with the means to channel money at the terrorists and their families? The colossally wealthy Arab oil states? No. Malaysia? No.

"The majority of aid to the Palestinian Authority comes from the United States and European Union. According to figures released by the PA, only 22 percent of the $530,000,000 received since the beginning of 2010 came from Arab donors. The remaining came from Western donors and organizations. The total amount of foreign aid received directly by the PA was $1.4 billion in 2009 and $1.8 billion in 2008. [Source]"

With the majority of the money the PA receives coming from the US and EU, it's fair to ask what percentage of US and EU funds are being used to pay the salaries of murderers.

Technorati Tag: Abbas and West Bank and Terrorism.