Monday, September 05, 2005

U.S. Court Freezes all PA and PLO Assets

From Arutz Sheva - Israel National News: 18:06 Sep 04, '05 / 30 Av 5765 By Hillel Fendel ...

Nineteen months after a U.S. Federal Court awarded $116 million to the parents and children of a victim of Arab terrorism, the same court has frozen all PA assets in the U.S. - $3.5 billion worth.

In January 2004, the Rhode Island Federal Court ruled that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority must pay $116 million to the parents and children of Yaron and Efrat Ungar. Yaron, an American citizen, and his wife Efrat were murdered in an Arab terrorist drive-by shooting in 1996, near the city of Beit Shemesh. The couple's two sons, who were 1 and 2 years old at the time, have grown up with Efrat's grandparents, Rabbi Uri and Yehudit Dasberg of Alon Shvut.

... repeated attempts by the Dasbergs' lawyer, Atty. David Strachman, to effect the payment were thwarted. ...the freeze-order ...is a major thing, something on State Department level, because all U.S. banks are now forbidden from honoring even a small check written by the PLO.

...Mrs. Dasberg is not optimistic that the PA will pay the money in the very near future. "...They will fight it, and try to take it to the Supreme Court... On the other hand, Bush wants to be known as a great fighter against terrorism, so he will have a hard time if his government retracts a decision against a terrorist organization. So we will see." ...

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