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March 21, 2017

What’s Behind the Palestinian Authority’s “Pay-for-Slay” Policy

Encouraging small-scale terrorism while keeping large-scale terrorism under control.

For most of its history, the Palestinian Authority (PA) has offered generous financial rewards (made possible by American funding) to terrorists and their families. It even has an entire ministry for distributing these payments, which ensure that they are directly proportional to the murderousness of the attack committed. Douglas Feith and Sander Gerber examine what this “pay-for-slay” policy suggests about the PA’s true attitude toward terror:

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March 21, 2017

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