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From London to Ramallah: The West is Encouraging Jewish Death

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Jay Engelmayer
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The West’s Newest Export: Blood Money for Abbas,

Mahmoud Abbas is having quite the diplomatic week. The unelected “President” of the Palestinian Authority, clinging to power seventeen years past his last election, is strutting around the United Kingdom. He bows before Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the freshly polished face of Britain’s Labour Party, who all but promised to unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state. Starmer didn’t even ask Abbas to negotiate borders, security arrangements, or any of those pesky “details” that define real states. No, Abbas gets his statehood on layaway simply for showing up and shaking hands.

And as Abbas is smiling for the cameras in London, two of his citizens were busy in Jerusalem, turning a Monday morning rush hour into a slaughterhouse. They boarded a bus, opened fire, killed Jews, and were themselves killed in return. The Palestinian Authority wasted no time: their families will now collect a government-issued pension under the infamous “Pay-to-Slay” scheme, a grotesque incentive program that transforms murder into a sustainable family business.

Pay-to-Slay: A Career Ladder in Terror

The PA’s terror economy runs on a pay-grade system more orderly than most Western bureaucracies. Stab a Jew and wound them? A modest stipend. Fire a gun and injure multiple Jews? A bump in salary. Murder one Jew? A premium paycheck. Rack up multiple murders in one spree? Congratulations, bonus time. If you’re martyred in the process, your family cashes in at an even higher rate.

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is codified Palestinian Authority policy, sustained by billions of Western aid dollars. And yet, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Justin Trudeau’s successor Mark Carney, Anthony Albanese in Australia, and the parade of self-styled “human rights” leaders are throwing Abbas a diplomatic coronation in advance of the UN General Assembly circus later this month.

Let’s not mince words: recognition of a Palestinian state is a tacit endorsement of a government program that pays salaries for killing Jews.

Negotiating With Terror, Pretending It’s Peace

Abbas is not a democrat. He is not even a particularly talented tyrant. He is, however, an old terrorist in a suit who discovered that the West’s appetite for self-delusion is endless. His party, Fatah, was founded on the principle of exterminating Jews. Yasser Arafat massaged the language during Oslo in the ’90s, but the goals never changed.

Every single time the Palestinians were offered a state, at Camp David with Barak and Clinton, in 2008 with Olmert, during the Abraham Accords, they said no. Why? Because peace doesn’t pay. Violence does. And as long as Western leaders keep cutting checks and hosting Abbas in their halls of power, why on earth would he stop?

Handing Hamas A Lifeline

And then there’s Gaza, the never-ending sideshow of blood and theater. President Trump just handed Hamas what he called their last offer: total cessation of hostilities, all hostages returned, and an opening for a ceasefire. His warning was clear, take the deal or watch Israel unleash the full fury of hell, this time with Washington’s blessing. Yet, even as Hamas weighs its options, Macron, Starmer, and their junior partners in Ottawa and Canberra are preparing to dangle the ultimate incentive: statehood. Why on earth would Hamas stop the violence when Europe and its hangers-on reward them precisely for keeping it alive?

We’ve seen this play before. Back in July, Hamas supposedly agreed to a ceasefire and a mass prisoner-for-hostages deal. Qatar, Egypt, even U.S. envoy Witkoff confirmed Hamas had nodded yes. And then, surprise, they reneged. Why? Because just as the ink was drying, Macron leapt onto the world stage to declare France would recognize a Palestinian state. France, Britain, Canada, Australia, each in their own way made sure Hamas got the message: terrorism pays.

October 7: Terror Live-Streamed

Let’s not whitewash who they’re dealing with. Hamas isn’t a misunderstood resistance group. These are the men who butchered 1,200 Israelis and foreigners on October 7, raping, burning, and looting their way through southern Israel while shouting “Allahu Akbar” like they were playing a championship match. They phoned their parents to brag about body counts, live-streamed murders on their victims’ own accounts, and turned mass rape into a TikTok highlight reel. For Palestinians, they became instant gods. For the rest of us, they are the devil with Wi-Fi.

And yet Western governments, so refined, so civilized, so endlessly smug about “human rights”, are preparing to reward this death cult. Let’s be clear: Hamas isn’t only sworn to exterminate Jews. Their founding charter, drafted under the Muslim Brotherhood, openly calls for the annihilation of Christians, secular Muslims, and anyone who refuses submission to Islam, globally, not just in the Middle East. That’s who Europe, Canada, and Australia want to crown with legitimacy.

And maybe that’s the point. Look at the demographic math. Europe’s native birthrates are plummeting, while Islamist communities in London, Paris, and Berlin are out-breeding their hosts at a rate of four to one. Gulf states like the UAE and Saudi Arabia wouldn’t touch these migrants, but Europe rolled out the red carpet. Afghan radicals, Pakistani Islamists, men steeped in values utterly incompatible with the Judeo-Christian principles that once built the West, these are the populations Western leaders import by the millions. At this rate, Sharia law in Europe isn’t a paranoid fantasy; it’s a pending policy shift. Why wait until the Muslim majority arrives? Macron and Starmer seem content to start rehearsals now.

The Hypocrisy of Western Leaders

Not one of these leaders, Starmer, Macron, Carney, Albanese, has had the decency to mention Palestinian terrorism in their declarations of support for Abbas’s would-be state. Apparently, “human rights” now includes the right to incentivize murder.

And here’s the irony: by handing Abbas the prestige of statehood, these leaders aren’t just endangering Israel. They’re setting fire to their own backyards. Every Islamist radical in London, Paris, Sydney, or Toronto will see this for what it is: Western approval of murder as political currency. If it’s legitimate in Jerusalem, why not in Birmingham, Marseille, or Montreal? After all, if the Palestinian Authority can pay terrorists in Gaza, what’s to stop them from paying “martyrs” abroad once the cash starts flowing from UN-approved aid pipelines?

Already Funding Murder

Western taxpayers are already underwriting this blood money. Billions in aid to the PA vanish into Swiss accounts, Hamas tunnels, and yes, Pay-to-Slay salaries. Recognition of a Palestinian state simply formalizes the arrangement: you kill Jews, we’ll pay your family. Europe cuts the check, Abbas hands it out. Congratulations, Western liberal democracies, your foreign policy has officially become a terror-financing operation.

The Coming Farce

Nothing anyone writes, not me, not you, not a thousand editorials, will stop what’s coming at the UN General Assembly later this month. The world is about to rubber-stamp the creation of a “state” that is defined by its obsession with killing Jews. Let’s drop the diplomatic niceties. This is not about peace, not about two states, not about justice.

It is about the West giving formal approval to a political culture that treats Jewish blood as currency.

Call it what it is: a diplomatic endorsement of murder. Or, to put it in terms even Abbas would understand, a promotion in the Pay-to-Slay program.

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