{"id":58802,"date":"2017-11-30T10:56:48","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T15:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/?p=58802"},"modified":"2017-12-03T06:05:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T11:05:41","slug":"lubbock-natives-death-israel-sparks-legislation-cut-palestinian-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ou.org\/life\/news\/lubbock-natives-death-israel-sparks-legislation-cut-palestinian-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Native&#8217;s Death in Israel Sparks Legislation to Cut Palestinian Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Stuart and Robbi Force never imagined that their son would become the face of legislation\u00a0on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Force, a Lubbock native and a former Army field artillery officer, was killed in a stabbing spree in\u00a0Tel Aviv in March 2016 \u2014 the same day\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4251868\/israel-terror-attacks-vice-president-biden\/\">Vice President Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0arrived for high-level talks with Israeli and Palestinian officials.<\/p>\n<p>The 28-year-old\u2019s death sparked the \u201cTaylor Force Act,\u201d a bill that would\u00a0end U.S. aid to the West Bank and Gaza unless the State Department ensures that the Palestinian Authority is ending its \u00a0\u201cmartyr payments\u201d policy that sends money to the families of Palestinians who die or are imprisoned in Israeli jails. It has the backing of both Texas Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and 19 Texas Republicans in the House.<\/p>\n<div class=\"art-story__content-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"art-story__text-wrapper row-m row-l row-xl\">\n<div class=\"art-story__text\">\n<p>Now, Stuart Force and wife Robbi spend their retirement on the phone and in meetings trying to show lawmakers the human side of the bill they hope will bring justice for their son.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"art-story__content-wrapper \"><\/div>\n<div>Read the full article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2017\/11\/24\/lubbock-natives-death-israelsparks-legislation-cut-palestinian-funding\">The Dallas News<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Stuart and Robbi Force never imagined that their son would become the face of legislation\u00a0on Capitol Hill. Taylor Force, a Lubbock native and a former Army field artillery officer, was killed in a stabbing spree in\u00a0Tel Aviv in March 2016 \u2014 the same day\u00a0Vice President Joe Biden\u00a0arrived for high-level talks with Israeli and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":58815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Lubbock Native&#039;s Death in Israel Sparks Legislation to Cut Palestinian Funding<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"For the first time, a major secular newspaper has published its own story about the Taylor Force Act, which OU Advocacy has been 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