“…Jerusalem, the city where I have chosen for Myself to put My Name.” (Yahweh speaking, 1 Kings 11: 36)
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Michael Curtis—Israel, Terrorism, and United States Law:
“If the law supposes that,” said Mr. Bumble in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, “the law is an ass, an idiot.” He could have been referring to U.S. court decisions that have allowed instigators or abettors of Palestinian terrorism to evade punishment for terrorist actions against the State of Israel and its citizens. The best that can be said of them is that the law on jurisdictional issues is still complicated, imprecise, and open to differences of opinion.
On August 31, 2016, a three-person panel of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York by vote of 3-0 overturned a decision by a lower New York court that had imposed a $655.5 million verdict against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
The case brought by a number of people, including some who had been injured by the attacks, has been going on a long time. A court has first awarded the plaintiffs the sum of $218.5 million in damages. The plaintiffs went further on the basis of the Anti-Terrorism Act that resulted from a previous Palestinian attack, the murder in 1985 of Leon Klinghoffer on the cruise ship Achille Lauro. The act allows American citizens who are victims of international terrorism to sue in U.S. Federal Courts, and for the tripling of damages already ordered.
Ten families had sued under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act asking for the two organizations, PLO and PA, to be held responsible for six bombings between 2002-4 in Israel in which 33 people, including four Americans, were killed and more than 450 wounded. The acts were attributed to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade and Hamas. A federal jury in Manhattan awarded the families of victims $218.5 million which was tripled automatically to $655.5 million under the provisions of Anti-Terrorism Act 18 U.S.C. 2333 (a).
The lower court, the Federal District Court in Manhattan under Judge George B. Daniels ruled on March 30, 2016 in the case Sokolow et al v. Palestine Liberation Organization et al, that the two Palestinian organizations, PA and PLO, were responsible for supporting six terrorist machine-gun attacks and suicide bombings in Israel. The district court refused the PLO request for summary judgment on the grounds that the court lacked jurisdiction.
Judge Daniels upheld the verdict of a jury that the PA and the PLO were liable under the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act that allows U.S. citizens injured by acts of international terrorism to pursue the issues in federal court.
However, Judge John Koeltl, speaking for the Court of Appeals held otherwise. He admitted that the terror machine-gun attacks and suicide bombings that triggered the lawsuit were unquestionably horrific. Nevertheless, referring to a unanimously decided Supreme Court case, Daimler AG v. Bauman, January 14, 2014, the Court of Appeals rejected the argument that a U.S. court has jurisdiction over a foreign company because a subsidiary of the company existed in the U.S.
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SnyderTalk Comment:
The duplicity of U.S. laws and government policies with regard to Israel has been an enduring fixture during the Obama administration. It’s time for things to change. Hillary Clinton has been part of the problem since the day Obama assumed “leadership”.
When Yahweh said, “I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you”, He was referring to Abraham and his descendants through Isaac and Jacob. That promise is deadly serious. It has never changed. People who believe otherwise are risking their lives and everything they cherish.
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His Name is Yahweh, the website, is a companion of the book His Name is Yahweh.
To see videos that explain the importance of God’s Name, click here.
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“The glory which You have given Me I have given to them, that they may be one, just as We are one; I in them and You in Me, that they may be perfected in unity, so that the world may know that You sent Me, and loved them, even as You have loved Me. Father, I desire that they also, whom You have given Me, be with Me where I am, so that they may see My glory which You have given Me, for You loved Me before the foundation of the world.” (John 17: 22-24)
See “His Name is Yahweh”.
