Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa W. Lappen write that it's time for the PA to PAY UP on the judgments they've been handed by US Courts for their support of terror. Writing a check sure beats the just alternative -- war and destruction: No more appeals
The Palestinian Authority (PA) recently asked U.S. federal courts to reopen cases it lost after refusing to defend itself against terror-funding charges.
Judgments would come from U.S. and international aid, the PA argues.
In both cases, Palestinian terrorists murdered American citizens. In New York, Aharon Ellis' widow sued the PA for the lethal 2002 shooting of her husband and the father of their six children, during an Al Aqsa Martyr Brigade attack of a Bat Mitzvah, in Israel. The court awarded Leslye Knox $193 million, including interest, but the PA refuses to pay.
A Rhode Island case centers on the June 1996 double murders of U.S. citizens Yaron Ungar and his pregnant wife Efrat, both 25. Three Palestinian terrorists shot them to death in Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem. The PA was ordered to pay their families $116 million, which the PA also refuses to do.
Neither award was "by default," as the PA now argues. Several law firms represented the defendants in New York making hundreds of procedural motions and appealing twice, all while the PA refused to answer to the charges. However, they never denied their guilt...
Related is my podcast with the lead attorney on the cases, David Strachman: Solomonia Podcast: Conversation with Attorney David Strachman
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I've referred to the Ungar case numerous times before here. (Hurting Americans should hurt back, Palestine must pay terror victims, Good Legal News: Terror Victims Can Chase the PA to Israel, Judge Upolds $116 Million Judgment Against PLO in Ungar... Read More
If what Fatah owes comes out of US and International aid, watch for them to cry crocodile tears that these judgments are nothing but "collective punishment". After all, if they owe $300 million in legal fees, that's food on the table and millions of starving palestinians.