Originally Posted by DJ Happy

Paying the families may not be discouraging terrorism, but it certainly isn't encouraging it either. I don't think that offering money to the families of successful suicide bombers inspires someone to become a suicide bomber.

I can certainly see that the payments can be seen to be in support of the bombers, but I still don't consider it to be funding terrorism. But still, the question remains as to why the US would consider Palestinian suicide bombers to be a threat to their security.

What would I call the payments? Compensation to a people that have been backed so far into a corner that they can see no alternative other than killing themselves in the most public manner possible. That does not mean that I agree with it - I most certainly do not and think that the Palestinians are irrevocably harming their cause by continuing like this, but I can understand where they are coming from. They are being viciously butt-fucked by people who you'd expect would know better than most the injustice of ethnic oppression, and the rest of the world doesn't even care. The UN and the US cares more about Syrian troops being in Lebanon than they do about the plight of the Palestinians.