The Patriot Post® · PA Terrorists Get a Little White House Help

As Arnold Ahlert wrote earlier this month, “On February 23, 2015, a federal jury in New York sided with 10 American families, finding the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) liable for six terrorist attacks occurring in Israel over a decade ago. The families were awarded $218.5 million for a series of terrorist acts attributed to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and Hamas, perpetrated between 2002 and 2004 during the Second Intifada.” However, that was before the Obama Justice and State Departments intervened — on behalf of the terrorists. The New York Post reports, “[T]he judge hearing the case ordered the PA to post $10 million cash plus another $1 million a month as a bond while the case is appealed. That’s a far cry from the $30 million a month the victorious plaintiffs had sought. And it’s a pittance next to what most other defendants would have to post.” Why the sudden change? “[T]he administration pushed Judge George Daniels not to hit the PA too hard for fear it might collapse and endanger ‘a two-state solution’ to the Middle East conflict.” Ah, of course, the “peace” process. The Palestinian Authority already receives $400 million a year in foreign aid from U.S. taxpayers, with which it perpetuates conflict with our ally Israel. And that cash is nothing compared to the sanctions relief Iran is about to enjoy courtesy of Obama’s deal — money even he admits will be used to fund terrorism. “[L]et’s stipulate that some of that money will flow to activities that we object to,” he casually said while hammering his domestic political opponents. So what is it with this commander in chief supporting America’s enemies?

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero