I know it's a controversial idea, but maybe we should stop paying Islamic terrorists to kill Americans.
Back in 2010, American Christian tourist Kristine Luken was brutally butchered by Kifah Ghanimat as she hiked in a forest south of Jerusalem with an Israeli friend.
Today, Ghanimat lives comfortably in an Israeli prison to enjoy his handsome monthly salary, courtesy of the U.S. government.
In Israel it is no secret that American financial aid to the Palestinian Authority pays salaries of Muslim terrorists in its jails each month. This bone chilling fact that is often met with disbelief by many Americans, who for some wild reason can’t imagine why their government would be part of such a heinous crime.
To make matters even more sickening, the longer the jail sentence, the bigger the salary, which means that those who have committed the worst crimes are those who receive the biggest reward. Because of this, many see this as a way that the Palestinian Authority is encouraging terrorist violence, thanks to the active assistance of the American government.
A survivor of the attack described the horror of it.
Because of the wounds all over her body, she can only sleep on her back and wakes up several times every night from the pain.
“I see he gets out his knife and he pushes my head forward and I’m just waiting to be beheaded. I think psychologically at that point I lost all sense of fear. I completely blacked out, all I could think about was that he’d make a clean cut that he wouldn’t be messy.
“I’m waiting for ‘Allahu akbar!’ but it doesn’t come.
Instead, I hear ‘Oh no, oh God,’ and I can hear them starting to stab [Kristine] a few times. The next thing I know...he’s just stabbing me.“He stabs me in the back so hard that I fall to the ground... and he is repeatedly plunging his machete into me. He's doing it with such force that I can hear my bones crunch and as he tugs out that serrated blade I hear my flesh rip”
Now the Palestinian Authority is celebrating the killer, as Palestinian Media Watch reports.
For their murder, Ghneimat and Fataftah are presented by the PA as Palestinian heroes. According to PA law, they have received monthly salaries from the PA since they were arrested in 2011. By now, entering their sixth year of imprisonment, they should be receiving 4,000 shekels/month -$1000. Since their arrest in 2011, each have received more than $30,000 from the PA.
In a PA TV broadcast last week, the TV host referred to terrorist Kifah Ghneimat as “the heroic prisoner.” The terrorist’s mother was invited to participate and was interviewed, but not about Ghneimat’s crime or what it is like to be the mother of a murderer. Rather, PA TV wished to know what this murderer’s favorite food was during the Ramadan.
The sooner we realize that this is what the Palestinian cause will always be reducible to and that this is what Islam is, the sooner we can stop being complicit in its evil.