Norway’s Ruling coalition instructs gov’t to freeze aid to Palestinians

The ruling coalition members of the Norwegian Parliament sent a letter instructing the government to reduce or withhold financial payments to Palestinian Authority over “references to violence, martyrdom and terror” being taught in PA school books.
– The statement read, “The coalition considers this to be devastating…and finds it unacceptable that Norwegian funds support a school system that promotes such destructive values.”

By Marcy Oster/JTA,

 

Parliament members in Norway, one of the world’s main donors to the Palestinian Authority, demanded these contributions be suspended over incitement in school textbooks.

Members of the ruling coalition said in a statement Thursday that it is instructing the government to “reduce or withhold financial support to the Palestinian Authority if they do not provide satisfactory improvements in school materials” soon.

The instruction is not legally binding but politically difficult to ignore for Norway’s center-right government under Prime Minister Erna Solberg.

If implemented, it spells a loss of $24 million in funding for the Palestinian Authority, according to a statement on the move by the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education.

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The coalition’s statement cites a recent review by the Institute of textbooks being used in Palestinian Authority schools.

“Examples of content in the school books include references to violence, martyrdom and terror. The coalition considers this to be devastating to the peace process and the development of democracy in the region, as well as being an expression of irresponsible pedagogy, and finds it unacceptable that Norwegian funds support a school system that promotes such destructive values,” the statement read.

Last month, the Dutch government cut funding for the Palestinian Authority over its salaries to terrorists serving time in Israeli jails.

Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jail, all making far more money via ‘Pay to Slay’ Jews, than the average wage paid to PA civil servants. – Palestinian propaganda blog

In 2017, the Palestinian Authority paid about $198 million to a fund for the families of terrorists killed during their attacks and about $160 million to Palestinians being held in Israeli jails, according to Israeli Defense Ministry figures. [‘Pay to Slay’ Israelis spent $358 million in total for 2017]

 

View original Arutz Sheva publication at:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/272760

 

 

 

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