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: January 28, 2021: Israel had a good year in 2020 when it came to security. There was a lot less terrorist violence and military threats. For example the terror attacks/Israeli dead for the last three years were 430/3 in 2020, 564/ten in 2019 and 581/sixteen in 2018. This trend may reverse in 2021 because of more violence in the West Bank. More major foreign aid cuts are threatened if the ruling Fatah party continues using aid money to reward jailed terrorists and the families of dead terrorists. These payments gave Palestinians an economic incentive to commit terrorist attacks and it worked, as it has done throughout the Arab world. The Palestinians are urging a newly elected American government to restore aid cuts made to the West Bank over this issue. Fatah has threatened more attacks be made as part of an effort to get aid restored.