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If Biden reopens PLO’s DC office, ‘Palestinians’ would be liable for $655,500,000 for jihad terror victims

FEB 1, 2021 12:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER

Snag in the lovefest. But fear not: Biden’s handlers will find a way to resume funding the jihad against Israel. The Taylor Force Act may not be long for this world.



“Biden pledge to reopen PLO mission in Washington faces legal hurdles,” by Rami Ayyub and Matt Spetalnick, Reuters, January 29, 2021:

JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden’s plan to work to reopen the Palestinians’ diplomatic mission in Washington could be held up over a law that exposes Palestinian officials to U.S. anti-terror lawsuits, officials and advisers to the Palestinians say.

The Biden administration hopes to repair relations with the Palestinians after a sharp deterioration under former President Donald Trump, who closed the Palestine Liberation Organization’s Washington office in 2018 and cut millions of dollars in aid to the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

But under an anti-terror amendment passed by Congress and signed into law by Trump in 2019, the Palestinians would become liable for $655.5 million in financial penalties against them in U.S. courts if they open an office in the United States.

There are also questions about how Biden will fulfil a pledge to resume economic aid to the Palestinians. The Taylor Force Act, passed by Congress in 2018, restricts some aid until the Palestinians end payments to people jailed by Israel over violent crimes, among other conditions….