A verdict at last regarding the Holy Land Foundation:
On the very day, November 24, 2008, that the United Nations spent all day and countless sums of money “mourning” the alleged Palestinian catastrophe, a federal jury in Dallas found all five former officials of the Holy Land Foundation, guilty of having illegally raised money in the United States to assist the Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas, in its hot war against Israel.
According to terrorism expert, Steven Emerson, the defendants, “Shukri Abu-Baker, Ghassan Elashi, Mohamed El-Mezain, Mufid Abdulqader and Abdelrahman Odeh, could face up to 20 years in prison for their convictions on conspiracy counts, including conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. The verdicts, read Monday afternoon, ended a two-year saga in what is considered the largest terror financing case since the 9/11 attacks.”
All five defendants are “Palestinians” and/or American citizens as well. Elyashi was born in Gaza; Abu-Baker moved to the “Palestinian territories” as a child; both Abdhulqader and Odeh were born in the West Bank; El-Mezain was born in Gaza.
It is this sort of stern effort on the part of the Bush Administration which has curbed terrorism and kept us safe since 9/11 – and it is the same sort of thing Obama will have to do if he wants to build on the amazing success of the Bush Administration in this area. The worry is that Obama and Administration simply won’t have their heart in this sort of thing – much as the Clinton Administration let things slide out of indifference.
It remains a dangerous world out there, and anyone who thinks that Obamania will magically turn those who hate us for what we are into people who love us for what Obama does are ignorant fools.
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