Mahmoud Abbas' spokesperson Nabil Abu Rudeina said the Taylor Force Act is a "declaration of war" against the Palestinian people.
The Taylor Force Act. which passed Congress on Thursday, threatens to freeze State Department funds to the Palestinian Authority unless it stops paying terrorists and the families of terrorists.
Mahmoud Abbas' official position is that not giving his government free money without strings attached is a declaration of war against the Palestinians. (Wafa in English phrased it as "tantamount to a declaration of war" but none of the Arabic sites say anything but a literal declaration of war.)
The Palestinian culture of entitlement continues in ways that beyond farcical. But this is even worse, because the Palestinian Authority is so entrenched in direct support of terror that it will defend that policy to the hilt and lash out at anyone who objects to its spending a significant chuck of its budget to terrorists and their families.
There is no better proof that despite the fawning articles and willful blindness of the nations about how "moderate" Mahmoud Abbas is, he chooses direct monetary support of terror over the well-being of his own people.