Abigail.

Gordon, this represents a major policy change.

GORDON: It does and doesn't all at the same time.

The draft of the bill has an out that if the Secretary of State

can certify he's seeing progress with the Palestinian Authority

on the issue, then the funding continues.

But this is something that hasn't come up new.

This has been there for some time.

You go to Ramallah, you can find a square,

the center of the town.

And this is the capital of the Palestinian Authority.

You go to Ramallah, in the center

there is a town square named after the refrigerator bomber.

And here's a guy.

His claim to fame is he packed a refrigerator full of explosives

and then dragged it to Zion Square

in the middle of Jerusalem and blew it up

and killed innocent people.

Now if you want to say he's some kind of combatant,

that he's some kind of hero, I'm not

going to go along with that.

But the Palestinian Authority did.

And they've done this for decades.

It's nothing new.

And to say that somehow there is a new effort here,

the Senate took it up about a decade ago.

And in that, the same arguments, that if we pull out

our funding, the Palestinian Authority will collapse.

There will be chaos there.

What about the humanitarian needs of the people?

But until we address the fundamental problem,

this is violent anti-Semitism at its worst.

They are paying people to kill Jews.

And we need to understand it and name it for what it is.

And it's been going on for decades.

It's not new.

And your tax dollars are going to the families

of these terrorists in order to pay them a monthly fee.

And the terrorists know that.

Before they make the attacks, they

know their families are going to be provided for.

And it's amazing to me the US government

hasn't awakened to this earlier and hasn't put a stop to it

earlier.

And if it means the collapse of the Palestinian Authority,

well then so be it.

And if it means a humanitarian crisis, then so be it.

The basis of this entire crisis is violent anti-Semitism

on the part of the Palestinian Authority.

And again, it's not new.

It goes all the way back to the 1920s,

the various Arab incitement against the Jews,

various massacres against the Jews.

Since the founding of Israel, the Palestinians

have been bent on wiping Israel off the map.

And their goal is not a two-state solution.

Their goal is the elimination of Israel.

Now we all need to understand this history.

And we need to understand it and let our elected representatives

know it's time to stop the pay-for-slay program

and the Palestinian Authority.

We should not support terrorism.

And we need to get this history.