Posted: 19 Aug 2015 08:10 AM PDT
When Obama took office, his first phone call to a foreign leader
was to the head of a terrorist group.
"This is my first phone call to a foreign leader," Obama told the
PLO's Abbas. "And I'm making it only hours after I took office."
Obama
repeatedly bent, twisted and mutilated existing laws to keep the money
flowing to the PLO’s
Palestinian Authority.
When Hamas and the PLO temporarily reconciled, Obama sent them money anyway.
When Congress froze aid after the PLO defied the peace process by trying to
join the UN, he signed a waiver claiming that aiding the terrorist network
was “important to the security interests of the United States.” Earlier this
year, when the PLO went after Israel at the International Criminal Court,
Obama defied a Congressional law and bipartisan demands mandating a cutoff of
aid.
If Abbas personally flew a plane into the new World Trade Center, Obama would
find some excuse to keep the money coming to his terrorist group anyway. But
now his determination to aid terrorists has hit a new low as he sides with
terrorists against terror victims.
Eleven years ago, ten families who had suffered at the hands of the Muslim
terror network filed a lawsuit against the PLO, Arafat and assorted PLO/PA
officials. The American families suing the terrorists included Jamie Sokolow
whose eye was damaged by shrapnel in the Jaffa Street bombing that injured
100 people and killed a 81-year-old amateur painter who had been out shopping
for painting supplies.
"I'm 12 years old, I'm from New York, and I’m going to die," she
recollected in court thirteen years later.
Shayna Gould was a 19-year-old college student waiting at a Jerusalem bus
stop in the rain when a PLO terrorist opened fire. She had no life signs when
she arrived at the hospital.
Janis Coulter was killed when a PLO terrorist set off a bomb in the Frank
Sinatra cafeteria at Hebrew University. Her family has been fighting for
justice for a long time.
Dr. Alan Bauer was walking down the street with his 7-year-old son when a PLO
terrorist set off a bomb in the French Hill bus station. “I couldn’t find my
son. I then saw him face down. I picked him up and heard him moaning, so I
knew he was alive,” he said.
A screw had torn through his son’s brain. “He was put in coma to let fluid
drain out and was then left blind and paralyzed on his left side.”
Some of the killers were part of the “police force” armed and trained by the
Clinton administration. They were dispatched by the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade,
which is listed as a terrorist group even though it’s part of the PLO network
whose regime in the West Bank is funded by the United States.
Finally the families won their case in court. A jury found the PLO/PA guilty
and ordered the terrorist network to pay $218 million to the families. The
Antiterrorism Act tripled that award. The PLO appealed, but the terror group
was required to post a bond to show that it was willing to pay the judgment.
And that’s when Obama came to the rescue. The State Department stepped in to
warn the judge that depriving the PLO of money would “severely compromise the
P.A.’s ability to operate as a governmental authority”. This would not
necessarily be a bad thing as the PLO/PA’s operations mainly involve giving
money to terrorists, incitement against Israel and the United States, and
assorted criminal enterprises.
The PLO doesn’t have an economy. It has the American taxpayer. It wouldn’t
exist without the US, Japan, the EU and the UN shoving money into its giant
gaping terror hole. The money immediately disappears into a bunch of foreign
bank accounts and the PLO/PA declares that it’s facing another financial
crisis and needs a few hundred million more to tide it over or it will
collapse.
It’s currently in the middle of another one of those “financial crises” which
somehow prevents it from posting a bond, but hasn’t stopped it from funding
terrorism.
The
Palestinian Authority is not a government. There are no more elections.
Everything is run by Abbas and the PLO Central Council. Abbas’ Fatah dominates
the PLO and funded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade which just claimed
responsibility for new terrorist attacks against Israelis. The Palestinian
Authority is the PLO. The PLO is Fatah. When Obama sends more money to the
PA, he is funding terrorism.
And the United States should not be funding terrorists. It should not be
paying the killers of Americans. It should not be standing up in a court of
law for Muslim terrorists and against their American victims.
But that’s exactly what Obama and Kerry did.
"Money is the oxygen of the terrorist," Ron Gould, Shayna's father,
said. "And what we hope to do, is deplete some of that."
Unfortunately Obama is determined to keep terrorism alive with a little legal
CPR performed on the PLO.
“If my shooter hadn’t been killed, he’d be sitting in jail, being paid,”
Shayna said. “The person who helped him plan the attack is still being paid.”
“If the PA has enough money to pay convicted terrorists,” her lawyer said,
“it has enough to pay the judgment in this case.”
The PLO/PA pays out $144 million a year to terrorists in Israeli prisons and
the families of suicide bombers. The money doesn’t just go to PLO terrorists,
but also to their Hamas terror colleagues.
President Bush made the case that Saddam’s payments to the families of
suicide bombers, an event that took place under portraits of Arafat and
Saddam, solicited terrorism. So why is Obama determined to help the PLO
continue soliciting more terrorist attacks by funding killers and suicide
bomber clans?
Obama’s involvement sends the message that terror victims will be blocked
from holding the PLO accountable. This administration has fought Congress to
keep money flowing to the PLO. Now it will fight the men and women who
survived PLO terror. It will fight them to keep funding Muslim terrorism.
You
might call it a new low, but as with a lot of "lows," the Clintons
were there first.
Alisa Flatow was a New Jersey college student murdered in a bus bombing in
1995. When the Flatow Amendment that would hold Iran accountable came up,
President Clinton’s Secretary of State threatened to shut down the government
if the amendment wasn’t dropped.
When Congress stood up to Clinton, he instead threw in a signing statement
claiming that allowing terror victims to collect judgments against Iran
“would encroach on my authority under the Constitution to ‘receive
Ambassadors and other public ministers.’"
The Clinton administration fought the Flatows every step of the way to
protect Iranian properties in the United States. It dispatched fourteen
lawyers to fight the family’s lawsuit. When a US company was sending money to
Iran, Clinton blocked efforts by terror victims to seize the money. He even
blocked attempts to seize the New York building owned by the Alavi
Foundation, Iran’s arm in the United States.
The Alavi Foundation would later become a donor to the Clinton Foundation.
Congress stood up to Clinton over Iran. It’s time for Congress to stand up to
Obama and end funding for PLO terrorism once and for all with no loopholes,
excuses or waivers.
Daniel Greenfield is a New York City based writer and blogger
and a Shillman Journalism Fellow of the David Horowitz Freedom Center.
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