52 Victims, U.S. Still Dragging Feet on Finding Perpetrators

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The woman murdered by Arab terrorists in Jewish Gaza last week was the 52nd U.S. victim of Palestinian terrorism since the signing of the Oslo accords in 1993. Tiferet Tratner, 24, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, was killed when Arabs fired a mortar shell from an area under PLO rule into the Jewish town of N'vei Dekalim this past Friday, Yom Kippur Eve.

Of the 52 Americans murdered by Arabs in Israel since 1993, 42 of them were killed since the Palestinian Authority launched its war against Israel in September 2000. The latest murder of an American citizen came just one day after Musa Arafat, the head of PA Military Intelligence and a cousin of PA chairman Yasser Arafat, told Reuters, "Palestinian security forces know who was behind the killing of three Americans in Gaza nearly a year ago, but cannot act against the factions while fighting with Israel continues." The three American security personnel were killed last October as they drove through Gaza's Beit Hanoun junction in a U.S. diplomatic convoy.

The Bush administration criticized Musa Arafat's statement, but has taken no other action in response. The Zionist Organization of America is urging the U.S. government to respond to the murder of Tiferet Tratner and to Arafat's statement by immediately withdrawing its opposition to the Koby Mandell Act, which would create a special office in the Justice Department to focus on capturing Palestinian Arab murderers of Americans.

The ZOA is also urging the Bush administration to demand that Yasser Arafat hand over Abd Al-Aziz Awda, indicted by the U.S. in February 2003 as the founder and spiritual leader of an Islamic Jihad terror cell whose victims included two US citizens. One was Alisa Flatow of West Orange, N.J., a 20 year-old Brandeis University junior, who was murdered in a bombing near Kfar Darom on April 9, 1995, and the other was Shoshana Ben-Yishai, 16, formerly of Queens, N.Y., who was murdered in a shooting attack on a bus in Jerusalem on November 9, 2001.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=69573

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[xchrom]

1. i want to see israel investigated

for making the whole world suffer through the murders it commited in creating israel.

[Englander]

2. How about justice for Americans killed by IDF?

or British citizens,or UN staff ?

[Owlet]

3. This 'dual citizenship' business

is a lot of nonsense.

[Djinn]

4. it's not a problem of dual citizenship

but a problem of expecting the best of both worlds - if I am killed in Australia I do not expect the UK government to intervene even though I am a UK citizen.

if you move to Israel (particularly if you're fundie enough to move to the OT) then you shouldn't really expect the US to protect you or prosecute your killers.