State Department to lower costs of Palestinian terrorism

The crime of terror is perpetually under reported, the media only cares about death tolls, paying little attention to blown off limbs, disfigurement, blindness, living with shrapnel in one’s body, psychological damage. Usually there is a just a quip referring to the damage as ‘No one killed but several injured in explosion” and frequently I have to stop myself from glossing over the blub and take a moment to remember what “injured” really means. These crimes are committed by terrorists, so there is almost no chance to find any means of redress, no chance to find justice for these crimes. However, dozens of victims found a way to sue under the Anti-Terrorism act and they won! Years of injustice perpetuated by Palestinian terror groups against Americans will finally be addressed but the US may intervene on behalf of the Palestinians. The State Department wants to scuttle a potential 218.5 million award in damages because the “State Department fears could weaken the stability of the Palestinian Government” according to Eric Tucker article “US likely to intervene in Palestinian terror case” appearing in the August 5^th Chicago Tribune but such an intervention would be tragedy. The Palestinian Authority could have settled this on their own, they could have made peace with Israel and came up with a legal mechanism for dealing terror law suits fairly and they can still pay this off over time which means they should be able to afford to pay for their crimes and they are getting off rather cheaply. Government intervention would cast a shadow over every other future legal action against terror contemplated by any American, our American government should never find itself protecting terrorists who harm US citizens from us courts, citizens who have committed no crime other than to travel with the belief our nation wants to protect them deserve the complete support of State Department. If the US thinks it is in the best interest of the US to help the Palestinians so be it but it will never be the America’s interests to allow our citizens to be murdered, maimed and traumatized by terrorists, and semblance a rational State Department policy on this issue is lost in the woods and the State Department should declare it will not intervene against the law suit as a matter of policy.