Saturday May 30, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

A Federal District Court in Texas sentenced two men, members of the Holy Land Foundation, to 65 years in prison for funneling money to Hamas.
Hamas claims that the trial and the conviction are unjust and politically motivated.

Hamas is wrong.
In the United States, Congress makes the law and Congress has made this law perfectly clear: it is illegal to give money and support to terrorist organizations. Hamas is a terrorist organization.

That point having been made we must also recognize that US dollars are going to more and more causes that glorify terror.
On Tuesday the office of Palestinian Authority President Abbas opened a new computer center for children - with money given to them by USAID.
The center is named after a terrorist who, in 1978, led an eleven member terror squad that captured two school busses and a taxi and left 37 murdered Israelis, 12 of them children. Also murdered was American photographer Gail Rubin. This terrorist attack is now known by Israelis as the Coastal Road Massacre.

The name of the terrorist is Dala Mughrabi.
In addition to this computer center, a school, a soccer tournament, a summer camp and many other tributes have been named in memory of this terrorist.

Congress also prohibits idolizing terrorists with US government funds.
This miscarriage of congressional decrees must be stopped.
Trials are one way, diplomatic pressure is another.

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