Micah Lakin Avni, the son of terror victim Richard Lakin, said that the Palestinian Authority (PA) “could decide whenever they want, to stop allocating those funds to terrorists.”
A Knesset committee approved a bill that would deduct the Palestinian Authority’s payments to terrorists and their families from tax payments that the Israeli government transfers to the PA.
Brig.-Gen. (Ret,) Yossi Kuperwasser, a former director general of the ministry for strategic affairs who is currently with the Jerusalem Center of Public Affairs, said that he does not see a PA collapse as a result of the reduction in the amounts they receive from Jerusalem.
He said that even though the PA would complain about the penalty, and “they may have to cut a little bit on corruption and other expenses, they’re not going to even cut the payments for terrorists. they will not collapse.”