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2025-12-04 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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US shelved sanctions on PA leaders after Abbas fired minister over prisoner payments
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[IsraelTimes] Ramallah believes quick dismissal of minister convinced Washington that Palestinian Authority is serious about implementation of reform to end ‘pay-for-slay,’ officials tell ToI
Uh huh. Pull the other one, it has bells on it.
The US threatened last month to personally sanction Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....>
and other senior Paleostinian officials over illicit payments to Paleostinian security prisoners, but ultimately held off on the move after Abbas fired the minister who had signed off on the stipends, a US official, a Paleostinian official and three other sources familiar with the matter have told The Times of Israel.
US President Donald Trump
...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
’s administration planned to designate Abbas, his deputy Hussein al-Sheikh, PA Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa, then-PA finance minister Omar Bitar and senior PLO official Ahmad Majdalani as Specially Designated Global Terrorists after getting wind of the payments to the families of prisoners made through an old mechanism that awarded them based on the length of their sentence, the sources said.
The terror financing sanctions would have significantly curtailed the PA’s ability to continue operating, as foreign governments would risk exposing themselves to secondary sanctions from the US if they provided further assistance to Ramallah, which the cash-strapped authority desperately needs.
But days after its sanctions threat was passed along to Ramallah in early November, Washington decided to hold off on the far-reaching move, with Ramallah understanding that Abbas’s ousting of Bitar had been enough to convince the Trump administration that the PA was serious about ensuring illicit payments to security prisoners would not continue.
Abbas signed a decree in February ending a controversial welfare system that included monthly stipends to Paleostinian security prisoners — including convicted turbans — based on the length of their sentence, as well as to families of dead assailants. The reform had long been demanded by the US, Israel, and many of the PA’s Arab and European backers, with some accusing Ramallah of incentivizing attacks on Israelis and dubbing the old policy "pay-for-slay."
The February decree signed by Abbas established a new system under which welfare stipends are distributed strictly based on financial need, and Majdalani was tapped to head the program.
However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
an internal review conducted in early November found that while the new system had indeed been established, some prisoners — including ones recently tossed in the slammer
Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!
— were able to receive stipends through the old mechanism.
A Paleostinian official told The Times of Israel at the time that the PA’s leadership hadn’t been aware of the illicit payments, arguing that it was Ramallah that invited a US delegation to come to the West Bank and certify that the new welfare system is in place and that it wouldn’t have done so if it wasn’t confident about passing such an audit.
Abbas’s quick firing of Bitar — who signed off on the illicit payments — demonstrated his determination to see the reform through, the Paleostinian official claimed.
A US official said that while certain figures in the State Department had still pushed for following through on sanctioning PA officials, they were overruled by the White House, which felt that such an aggressive move risked antagonizing Ramallah, whose support was needed to get a resolution through the UN Security Council to advance Trump’s Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
peace plan.
A source familiar with the matter revealed that this wasn’t even the first time that Washington has threatened to issue such sanctions against the PA over frustration with the pace of Ramallah’s implementation of "pay-for-slay" reform. However,
women are made to be loved, not understood...
the source questioned the seriousness of the threat, given that the sanctions weighed take months to prepare.
The State Department has followed through on a less severe punitive measure against Abbas, denying him and other Paleostinian leaders visas needed to attend the September UN General Assembly in New York. That move came in response to the decisions by several leading European countries to unilaterally recognize a Paleostinian state at Ramallah’s encouragement.
Since then, the Trump administration has somewhat softened its approach to the PA, inviting Abbas to a Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh in October and partially relying on the PA to secure the Security Council support needed to pass a resolution giving Trump’s Board of Peace the mandate to manage Gaza for the next two years.
Discovery of the illicit payments broke that trend, and while Abbas managed to "stop the bleeding" by firing his finance minister, personal sanctions may again be weighed against PA officials if the welfare program reform is not fully implemented, the US official warned.
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