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17-Aug-22: Blood money: The Sbarro terrorists and how it’s working out for them

http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2022/08/17-aug-22-blood-money-sbarro-terrorists.html

Source: PMW (Click to enlarge)

The central role played by money in enticing, inciting, incentivizing and rewarding Palestinian Arabs to kill and be killed doesn’t get seen as the weighty and consequential factor it so clearly is.


Maurice Hirsch writing last week for Palestinian Media Watch, has compiled and published a valuable table of data that makes the point concrete.

In his August 9, 2022 post, “Blood money: The PA has already paid $1,421,940 to the terrorists who blew up the Sbarro pizza shop murdering 15 and injuring 130“, he says

As a reward for carrying out the attack [on Jerusalem’s Sbarro pizzeria for the Hamas terror organization], the Palestinian Authority pays a total of US$8,937 (27,800 shekels) each month to the 5 imprisoned terrorists and the families of the 3 dead terrorists who were involved in the attack. The current total paid to the terrorists is $1,421,940. The monthly payment to each terrorist will continue to rise the longer the terrorists are in prison.

It’s clearly a reward. And like all rewards, particularly in the blighted, failed, chronically insolvent regimes suffering under the boots of Hamas and Fatah/PLO, cash is also a powerful incentive

Three of the Sbarro plotters remain, as of this writing, inside Israeli prison cells. The remainder are either dead or living free. For the dead, their families receive pensions as compensation. 

For those still alive, the monthly Palestinian Authority payments relieve them of further economic woes. It’s an extraordinary situation for the two rival regimes that are utterly dependent on the generosity of other governments to enable them to do what governments are supposed to do.

Mahmoud Abbas presides over the Palestinian Authority

And for millions of Palestinian Arabs, cheated by the kleptocrats who run their lives, the PA Rewards for Terror (“Pay2Slay”) scheme is a bright shiny billboard, reminding them that murder pays. And that if you want to take care of those who depend economically on what you bring home, all is not lost. There’s hope. 

In an analysis we published almost four years ago to the day of the cash rewards handed to the Sbarro plotters by the chronically-insolvent Palestinian Authority led by the despicable Mahmoud Abbas, we wrote here [“24-Aug-18: What aid funds handed to the Abbas regime ($1 million and growing) have done for savages who kill Jews“] that 

If there’s outrage among Palestinian Arabs in whose name
taxpayer-provided funds are donated so that killers can be rewarded, there’s no
sign of it at all. Quite the opposite…

And we went on to quote the still-accurate-today observations of Eli Lake in a July 1, 2016 article for Bloomberg [“The Palestinian Incentive Program for Killing Jews“]:

“[T]he prisoners and the families of the prisoners themselves are
actually paid a higher wage than what most Palestinians earn for nonviolent
work… [P]ayments to terrorists’ families are exceedingly popular these
days. Ziad Asali, the president and founder of the American Task Force on
Palestine, told me that in recent years the media and politicians have elevated
these payments to something “sacred in Palestinian politics.” Asali
said the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, and others are too
weak to stop it. “This is where we find ourselves now. The vast majority
understand there has to be an end to violence; it’s not serving the
Palestinians in any way,” Asali said. “But I think nobody really has
the stature and clout to confront these issues publicly.”

In the table below (alphabetical by surname), we have incorporated Adv. Hirsch’s updated 2022 payments data with our own background and status report from 2018 on the men and women who murdered the innocents in the pizzeria that day. 

TERRORIST    

BACKGROUND

STATUS

PMW 2022

Jamal Abu al-Hija


Headed Hamas’ military wing in the
Samaria city of Jenin.
In addition to his role in the Sbarro attack, he had direct involvement in
the bombing of a full commuter bus traveling from Haifa to Tzefat at Meron Junction (9
killed, 38 injured, September 4, 2002). After being arrested and tried, he
was sentenced to 9 life terms of life imprisonment plus 20 years. 

For now, continues to reside in an
Israeli prison cell.

Every month, the PA pays terroristJamal Abu Al-Hija 8,300
shekels ($2,668). 
Having now completed 20 years in
prison, this month 
Abu Al-Hija’s will rise to 8,300 shekels from 7,300
shekels.

Qeis Adwan


Emerging as a popular leader in the
student union of the notorious An Najah National
University
 in Nablus (they honored the Sbarro bombers
by erecting an on-campus replica of
the destroyed pizzeria the month after the massacre), he became a senior
manager in the Hamas terror hierarchy. Described by the New York Times as
an “inventive bomb maker“, he is said to have taken
responsibility for the murdering
 of no fewer than 77
Israelis. He played a managerial role in several of the most savage Hamas
atrocities including the Sbarro massacre, the bombing of the Nahariya railway
station
 (3 killed, 94 injured, September 9, 2001), the
Passover bombing of Netanya’s Park
Hotel
 (29 killed, 64 injured, March 27, 2002), and the
bombing of the Arab-run Matza
restaurant 
in Haifa (16 killed, 40 injured, March 31, 2002).

Permanently terminated by Israeli
security forces in the northern Samaria city of Tubas on April 5, 2002

Every month the PA pays the family of the
dead terrorist
 Qeis Adwan 1,400
shekels ($450) per month.

Izz al-Din Shuheil al-Masri 

The human bomb planted by Hamas in
general and by Ahlam Tamimi in particular outside the Sbarro location. We
described the circus-like spectacle of the very public funeral given to his
remains here: “5-May-14: The
making of a martyr: it takes more than a village
“. An
extract from what we wrote: “Back in August 2001, starting just
a day or two after the Sbarro massacre, al-Masri’s father was ‘marketed’ to
both the BBC and the Australian Broadcasting Corp as a lover of peace and as
a worthy interview subject. We know this because both
the 
[Australian] ABC and the [British] BBC approached
us, astoundingly asking that we take part in double-headed interviews: on one
side, the freshly-bereaved father [Arnold Roth] of a child blown up just a
few days earlier by a human bomb; on the other, the parent of the human bomb
himself. We declined both invitations with considerable puzzlement and anger.
We soon had cause (as we wrote 
here)
to wonder what kind of soul-less reporter thinks that sort of proposal is
moral and professional. Are you reading this, 
Tim Palmer?” 
Worth mentioning that reports of payments being made to al-Masri’s parents
have never been in serious doubt since his father, Shuhail Ahmed
Al-Masri, comprehensively blurted out the facts in a television interview with NBC [archived here].
It’s likely that the regular payments to the voluble, proud and honored
al-Masri parents from Arab Bank were separate from and in addition to the
Martyrs’ Fund payment they presumably still get until today from the
Palestinian Authority. 

Permanently terminated when he pressed
the detonator on his chest inside the pizzeria and the guitar case filled
with nails and explosives did its horrible work.

Every month the PA pays the family of the
terrorist suicide bomber, Izz Al-Din Al-Masri
1,400
shekels ($450) per month.

Abdullah Jamal Barghouti


Manufactured the explosives-packed
guitar case that al-Masri, the human bomb, carried into the pizzeria. We
describe Barghouti and his egregious barbarism in this post: “1-Jul-13: 66 acts
of murder make him a hero in parts of the Arab world. What does this tell us
about parts of the Arab world?
” He’s “the self-confessed
murderer of 66 people
 including 9 in the July 2002 bombing at
the Frank Sinatra
Cafeteria of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
; 11 in the March
2002 bombing of Jerusalem’s Cafe Moment;
10 in the December 2001 triple-bomb outrage on Jerusalem’s Ben Yehuda
pedestrian mall
; and 15 (most of them children, including our 15 year old
daughter Malki
) in the August 2001
massacre at Jerusalem’s Sbarro pizzeria
 in August
2001.” His most famous quote: “I feel bad because the
number is only 66. This is the answer you want to hear? Yes, I feel bad
because I want more
.” [Quoted on a CBS site]. At
his trial, evidence was
produced to show that Barghouti’s high-profile relative (nominated for the
Nobel Peace Prize
 with the enthusiastic backing of Desmond Tutu,
a South African church figure) Marwan Barghouti –
a prominent Palestinian Arab political figure now himself serving several
life sentences for murder – paid Abdullah Barghouti $500 build the bomb. This
came on top of the $117,000 he received for his troubles from Hamas,
according to evidence given
to the court. 

Currently serving a sentence of 67
terms of life imprisonment.

Every month, the
PA pays terrorist Abdallah Barghouti 7,300
shekels ($2,347

Bilal Yaqub Barghouti

Recruiter and member of the Hamas cell
and, according to Haaretz:
“The senior Hamas activist behind the Sbarro restaurant bombing in Jerusalem,
Bilal Barghouti, told interrogators that Marwan [Barghouti – the Nobel
candidate] hid him for a few days while Israel was hunting for him and gave
him a weapon when he left.” Convicted January 16, 2003 – sentenced to 16
terms of life imprisonment (see judgement),
his only words to the court at the conclusion of his trial on terrorism
charges, and this is a direct quote, were: “Thank God. I regret that
I did not kill even more people than I did kill”
.

Still incarcerated in an Israeli prison cell 

Every month, the PA pays terrorist Bilal Barghouti 8,000
shekels (USD 2,572). Having completed 20 years in prison, in
April 2022, the PA raised the monthly salary it pays Barghouti 
to 8,300 shekels from 7,300
shekels.

 

Muhammad Wael Daghlas

Active member of the Sbarro attack
team, taking a role in its planning and execution. Arrested April 9,
2001 and convicted on terror charges on January 16, 2003. Sentenced like
Ahlam Tamimi and Bilal Barghouti to 16 life terms.

Released, like Ahlam Tamimi, in the
2001 Shalit Deal and now alive, unrepentant and completely free. Initially deported in the Shalit Deal to Turkey, reports say he currently resides in Qatar.

Every month the PA pays
a certain amount to the terrorists 
Muhammad Daghlas and Ahlam Tamimi. While they were
arrested and convicted for their part in the attack, these two terrorists were
released in 2011, as part of the deal to secure the freedom of IDF soldier
Gilad Shalit, who had been held captive by Hamas. While the PA Law of Prisoners
and Released Prisoners, No. 19 of 2004 and regulations promulgated pursuant to
the law, guarantee these terrorists a monthly salary, Palestinian Media Watch
does not have information regarding the current amounts of these payments.

Ayman Adnan Muhammad Halawah

Also known as Iman
Halaweh
 – a Hamas explosives expert. Took a lead role in the Sbarro
assault, and was involved in other terror attacks on Israeli civilians including
the March 28, 2001 attack on a group of boys 
waiting in the parking lot of the Neve Yamin gas
station near Qalqilyah
 for a ride to their yeshiva in Kedumim
(two were killed, one was critically wounded, another had moderate
injuries) and the mass-casualty human
bomb attack on the Tel Aviv beach Dolphinarium (June
1, 2001)
.

Never arrested. Passed away from
violent causes on October 22, 2001 – one source [Dawn] suggests Israeli forces were involved.

Every month the PA pays the family of the
dead terrorist
 Ayman Halawah 1,400
shekels ($450) per month.

Ahlam Aref Ahmad al-Tamimi


Since we have written literally
hundreds of posts about this vicious embodiment of female savagery, we will
be brief now. Born in Jordan in 1980; moved to Nabi Saleh, north of
Jerusalem,  in about 1998 to live there with fellow members of the
notorious Tamimi clan. Then to Ramallah, while attending a nearby university,
working as a part-time reporter and becoming the first woman terrorist in the
ranks of the Hamas Islamists. Masterminded the bombing of the Sbarro pizzeria
after selecting it for the large number of Jewish children it attracted. Arrested September 14, 2001; convicted by an Israeli
court on September 23, 2003.
 A 2006 report quotes Tamimi
saying from her Israeli jail cell: “I’m not sorry for what I did. We’ll
become free from the occupation and then I will be free from
prison.” Sentenced to 16 terms of
life imprisonment. Released October 2011 in the catastrophic Shalit Deal
.

Freed in the Shalit Deal and
“exiled” to where her parents and most of her siblings live: Amman,
Jordan. She is there today, living with a husband, Nizar Tamimi, who is also
an unrepentant murdering terrorist, in his case for Fatah, and their child.
The husband also receives monthly payments from the Abbas regime. Ahlam
Tamimi was added to the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list in March 2017;
there is a $5 million prize for information leading to her arrest and
conviction. She is not in hiding and for most of her years in Jordan she has
been working in the service of Hamas, making a weekly TV program for them
along with other special promotional appearsances. We are deeply into a
campaign to have the US put real pressure on Jordan to
extradite Tamimi under the 1995 Jordan/US Extradition Treaty. So far, Jordan
has refused on grounds that we, and many of the experts we have considered,
consider bogus and an embarrassment to Jordan’s relations with the West.

Every month the PA pays a certain amount to the terrorists Muhammad
Daghlas
 and Ahlam Tamimi. While they
were arrested and convicted for their part in the attack, these two
terrorists were released in 2011, as part of the deal to secure the freedom
of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who had been held captive by Hamas. While the PA
Law of Prisoners and Released Prisoners, No. 19 of 2004 and regulations
promulgated pursuant to the law, guarantee these terrorists a monthly salary,
Palestinian Media Watch does not have information regarding the current
amounts of these payments.

Nizar Tamimi


Finally, the case of  Ahlam Tamimi’s cousin and since 2012 also her
husband. Both husband and wife are unrepentant terrorist-murderers. Both
walked free in the catastrophic Shalit Deal. And both are beneficiaries of
the Palestinian Authority’s disgraceful, foreign-funded Rewards for Terror
scheme. They may be the only double-income terrorist family to
qualify under the blood-soaked incentive scheme
. Nizar Tamimi was
convicted of the 1993 murder of Chaim Mizrachi, along
with two other close Tamimi relatives. (Another member of the clan, Bassem
Tamimi, 
father of media
starlet Ahed Tamimi
 and uncle of Nizar, was also charged but
released under strange
circumstances
.
) Nizar Tamimi was
sentenced to life in prison but released October 2011 in the Shalit
Deal. 

Nizar Tamimi now
lives in Jordan with his wife Ahlam Tamimi and their family. How much has he
earned from the Fatah/PA/PLO
scheme 
so far? At least $92,057 from the
time of his arrest until he walked free in the Shalit Deal. This is
not included in the total on the
PMW poster. What, if anything, did Nizar Tamimi earn from the PA in the
nearly seven years after he walked free? The PMW experts say he would
probably got a one-time release grant of $6,000 on top of the stipend he had
been receiving during his 18 years behind bars. He would be entitled, as a
released prisoner who served 15 to 20 years, to a privileged position and
commensurate salary in the PA with the seniority of Colonel or higher.
Calculating what this means in practice is complicated by the fact that he
and his wife live in Jordan.

Not updated

The Tamimi couple – Ahlam and Nizar, cousins and spouses – may be the only beneficiaries of the Palestinian Authority Rewards for Terror incentive scheme (“Pay2Play”) to make up a dual-income family unit. 

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