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Mideast beat: US Aiding Palestinian Terrorists
Two killers who stabbed and shot a security guard in a Jerusalem suburb “were Palestinian Authority police officers,” fumes The Wall Street Journal editorial board, and Ramallah’s pledge to analyze “is good for a laugh.”
In reality, the Palestinian Authority “glorifies terrorism by its security forces,” as a new Palestinian Media Watch research paperwork; the PA and Fatah overtly “boast” about PA security officers’ involvement in terrorism.
And although the “Taylor Force Act stops direct U.S. economic aid to the PA” for paying rewards to terrorists or their households, US help for the security forces “is another matter.”
Notably, the State Department has but to say how a lot precisely Washington sends the PASF, however “taxpayers and the public deserve to know.”
DC watch: Senate’s Chance To Cut Waste
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“This week, the Senate will vote to rescind $9.4 billion of spending Congress previously appropriated,” cheers the National Review’s editors.
The rescissions invoice “would ax funds from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and various foreign-aid accounts.”
For starters, PBS and NPR’s “progressive bias is pervasive and well documented.” But the feds shouldn’t be funding TV and radio retailers, anyway.
The invoice additionally cuts billions in “development assistance, which has a shoddy track record of fostering economic growth in poorer countries,” a “fund to promote clean energy technologies abroad” and “an account created in the 1990s to help former Soviet states transition away from communism. (Mission accomplished.)”
“If Republicans are remotely sincere about limiting the federal government’s scope, they should pass the bill without delay.”
From the left: Cheer Progress Against Terror
The finish of the TSA’s airport shoe-removal coverage is a “marker of underappreciated progress,” argues Vox’s Bryan Walsh: “The threat of devastating terror attacks in the US” and overseas “has greatly receded.”
Improved “screening for threats,” such because the use of “multi-view computed topography (CT) scanners” and “biographic vetting” of each traveler “against the Terrorism Database” has been key.
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The as soon as “highly organized international terror cells” intent on attacking the West have been cut down.
True, an assault might nonetheless “take place somewhere in the US”; the TSA resolution is, “at best, a partial victory, one that has come with costs and that could be reversed at any time.”
Yet “even a partial victory is more than many of us would have expected.”
Conservative: Butler-Shooting Questions Remain
It’s been a 12 months since Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate President Trump in Butler, Pa., however “little is still known about Crooks and his motives,” laments Salena Zito on the Washington Examiner.
Crooks fired “at the crowd and at then former President Donald Trump,” hitting Trump within the ear and mortally wounding “local retired fire chief Corey Comperatore.”
Crooks’ father “said in hindsight that the signs of his son’s mental health decay began six months before” the taking pictures.
“One year later, several agents have been suspended, a decision announced this week, but” Corey’s spouse, Helen, “says she wants more information.”
Among “people who attended the rally” and in “the suburban neighborhood of Bethel Park, that sentiment is shared.”
From the best: Brennan’s Record of Scandals
Former CIA Director John Brennan professes to be “clueless” concerning the Justice Department’s investigation of him, however his bluster, scoffs Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness, is hole, as a result of Brennan “knows full well” that “his fingerprints are on some of the greatest scandals of the last decade.”
Brennan, “who has a record of serially lying to Congress, the public, and the media,” testified in 2017 to having no information of the provenance of the “now-infamous bogus Steele dossier,” and denied it performed a key half in CIA “intelligence assessments.”
But behind the scenes, Brennan was among the many file’s “most ardent advocates” and “chief architects” of the lie that Hunter Biden’s laptop computer was a Russian op.
His file is one of “chronically lying, leaking, and weaponizing the government.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
