Jury Finds Palestinian Authority, PLO Liable for Attacks

federal jury said the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization held liable for supporting fixed terrorist attacks in Israel … the kids now have to pay the victims’ families … two hundred and eighteen point five million dollars for the attack … took place more than a decade now … for more NS were joined by WSJ’s Christopher Matthews … Chris thanks very much for being here thanks for still I really realize that you can actually bring a lawsuit … like this against essentially a government sends an organization how did this work … so there’s the … along the two thousand for in the terrorism Act which allow was … U S citizens to bring lawsuits … against those who sponsor terrorism in U S courts … so the plants your work and families were affected by the attacks in the basically said that … the PLO in the key a … financially supported these groups Hamas ALM … that they carry the tax out … an ETF not that you guys were the extremists in fact it’s more about cutting off money supply … that’s exactly what it’s about time there’s been a couple other cases recently in the US to one in Brooklyn involving air bank where they were held … liable for … supporting financials pointers attacks to … the US in your pictures or become this jurisdiction for holding the finance fears of a terrorism response to twenty eight PM growling like this he does this open the floodgates for there is this an … create a new pathway to call the than other types of organizations responsible for financing terror … I think it does this coupled with the air being cases for it set the path for that … there’s other cases pending aam … and I think people look at these verdicts in the numbers and and they think a you know I mean the action filed suit … and course but that these orientations say that they think that this is not and I’m just rolling a sale have anything to do with it right they say we have nothing to do with that we should help response both the actions of the few individuals … actually the interesting thing to is the verdict actually bigger than the … two hundred I think it’s and it’s the can the numbers here it’s six hundred fifty five million because under that Act all images are crippled by Apple and what is this process and like for the families who were talking about attacks that happened … over a decade ago … and the third setting a new legal precedent … what the of the litigation is dragged on for a decade I’m a visit to CA in the pillows that you have jurisdictional Scott cost out … filing with the trial and that he was an emotional trial you know the victims are out there testifying about … some pretty horrific things … and so I think there ought to be happy with the outcome but you know it’s it’s been a long road to Chris thanks for joining us of history …

(via WSJ)