As regular readers of this blog know, the “Lost Tribe” is my name for Jews, and non-Jews, who support Israel but somehow figure out ways of supporting the Obama administration\’s position on Israel as well.
Here\’s another one for them to ignore – via excerpts from Brooke Singman\’s article at foxnews.com:
The Obama administration has signaled it may intervene next week in a civil lawsuit in which 11 American families won a potential billion-dollar judgment from the Palestinian leadership over a series of bombings and shootings that killed or wounded dozens of U.S. citizens, a move that critics say would find the government siding with terrorists over its own citizens.
The families won a $218.5 million judgment in February after a seven-week trial in Manhattan Federal Court in which a jury found the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority were responsible for a string of attacks from 2001 to 2004 that killed 33 and injured hundreds. A 1992 law that requires damages in such cases to be tripled, as well as interest on the award, would push it to as much as $1.1 billion. The judgment, which the Palestinians are appealing, would equal nearly a third of the Palestinian Authority\’s annual operating budget.
Late last month, the Department of Justice, which had previously not been involved in the 11-year-old case, informed the court it was considering filing a “statement of interest” in the case by Aug. 10, but officials would not elaborate. A source said the Department of Justice was working with the State Department on the matter.
The plaintiffs included the estates of four U.S. citizens who were killed and several dozen Americans who were physically or psychologically injured in the attacks as well as their families. Kent Yalowitz, the families\’ attorney, has requested that the Palestinian leadership be required to place $30 million per month in escrow while the case is appealed. Yalowitz suspects the U.S. government is considering intervening to help the cash-strapped Palestinian leadership avoid the bond.
“An administration which claims to be fighting terror is planning to weigh in favor of the terrorists,” Yalowitz told FoxNews.com. “If our government actually came in favor of convicted terrorists, it would be a really sorry statement about the way our government treats terror.”
Is that really what Barack Obama and his hand-picked toady/eric holder replacement, Loretta Lynch, are going to do?
If so, I can\’t wait to hear the “explanation” Lost Tribers will come up with. This is going to be one for the books.
In the previous blog, I quoted H. L. Mencken. I think I\’ll use that quote again here…but in somewhat altered form:
“No one in this world, so far as I know, has ever lost money by underestimating the ability of otherwise intelligent people to explain away the outrages of political figures they are determined to support unconditionally”.
On the streets of Brooklyn and Queens, where I grew up, we would just shake our heads and call them schmucks.
Y\’know, that description still fits pretty well.
