From the UK Parliament’s website |
Here’s a good news/bad news story. On Sunday, one of Britain’s mainstream newspapers ran a major report that opened with this startling sentence:
A multi-million pound foreign aid project aimed at promoting Palestinian state building and peace has instead encouraged terrorism and led to an increase in violence, The Telegraph can disclose.
International development minister Desmond Swayne insisted that money given to the Palestinian Authority funds specific civil servants, helping to prepare a government in the event of a two-state agreement… [He] insisted ‘British taxpayers’ money does not fund terrorism’ and defended the thoroughly scrutinised list of aid recipients. He said: ‘Our taxpayers’ money goes to build the Palestinian Authority so that it is able to morph into the government of a Palestinian state when that opportunity arises and we pay named civil servants for the provision of public services.’
led to civil servants being “more likely” to commit acts of terrorism… [T]he five-year project encouraged public sector employees to engage in “active conflict” since their salaries were paid to their families even if they were convicted and imprisoned for criminal acts, including terrorism… On completing jail sentences, civil servants were able to return to their jobs which had been “kept open when they return from detention”, and continue to draw a salary funded by the UK taxpayer… DFID’s grant failed to “promote peace or peaceful attitudes” and appeared to lead to an increase in violence among Palestinians… [T]he more foreign aid money was spent on public sector employment, more “conflict-related” deaths occurred.
An increase in public sector employment by one per cent is associated with an increase in fatalities by 0.6% over this time period.” [Expressed in terms of an] “opportunity cost” hypothesis [this means” “conflict, and therefore fatalities, are more likely when the opportunity cost of engaging in conflict is lowered… For public sector employees, the opportunity cost of conflict is lowered as their employment will be kept open when they return from detention, and their family will continue to be paid their salary.”
[F]unding sent to the Palestinian Authority is used to free up money to pay prisoners who have committed attacks in the Israeli conflict.
“Surely it is not unreasonable to ask the minister and officials to check what is going on, and to say if you’re going to receive money from the British Government you should unequivocally denounce violence in all its forms… I don’t think it’s unreasonable in times of stringency that we should address the quality of that aid as well as the quantity…” [DailyMail UK]
- 20-May-11: Rewarding the Palestinian Arab terrorists: is this being done in your name?
- 28-Jul-11: Taxpayer-funded salaries to convicted Palestinian Arab terrorists. What a good idea.
- 4-Sep-12: Where’s the shame? How much of your tax dollars went to fund the pension of our child’s murderer? More than you probably thought
“adds to the mounting concerns about the support which DFID [the British government’s foreign aid agency] is providing to the Palestinian Authority”, and that she has “no confidence” in DFID’s internal review into UK spending in the Palestinian territories. “This is an issue which has been put to the department repeatedly over recent years and which it has consistently and repeatedly failed to act on,” she said.
For British readers seeing our comments for the first time, please know we can offer plenty of context. And be assured we don’t approach this with clinical coldness. We are passionately, furiously determined to expose the evil that British funding has done to people like us (yes, literally like us):
- 13-May-16: Ongoing gullibility: UK foreign aid and the Palestinian “Rewards for Terror” scheme
- 20-Apr-16: Parliamentary committee says UK govt doesn’t fully know how taxpayer funds are spent
- 13-Apr-16: Parliament will debate UK funding of the PA’s Rewards for Terror scheme
- 12-Apr-16: Wasted lives, stolen futures, obfuscatory answers
- 31-Mar-16: More on UK funding of Abbas’ Reward for Terror scheme
- 28-Mar-16: Is it time yet for UK’s foreign aid office to come clean on their part in funding Palestinian Arab terror?
- 27-Mar-16: In UK, facing up to UK Aid’s scandalous ongoing financing of Palestinian Arab jihad
- 27-Mar-16: The PA’s “Rewards for Terror” scheme and the lies that keep the pounds flowing in
As well as numerous others listed in this post from October 2015.
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