US Scrambles to Save Funding for PA Security Forces

By Maureen Clare Murphy

December 09, 2018 "Information Clearing House"    The Trump administration, which has slashed about half a billion dollars in aid to Palestinians this year, is scrambling to introduce a loophole into a new US law that will effectively outlaw all aid to the Palestinian Authority.

The US wants to protect funding of PA security forces which cooperate with Israel.

Aid to PA security forces amounted to $61 million this year alone, according to the Associated Press.

“Security coordination” between Israel and PA forces plays a primary role in suppressing Palestinian resistance to Israel’s military occupation.

Israel frequently arrests Palestinian activists after their release from Palestinian Authority detention.

The PA also passes information it obtains on Palestinian activists to Israeli interrogators who routinely use torture.

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