Khaled Mashaal, Hamas’s absentee lead terrorist figurehead, refused Israel’s request to disarm, according to a new report from Qatar.

Mashaal’s statement is not surprising, given that the terror group’s Charter calls for armed jihad against Israel.


It is also in keeping with Mashaal’s longstanding refusal to lay down weapons and negotiate peace with Israel.
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Victims of Hamas terrorist attacks and their family members will soon have their case against the Arab Bank heard by a federal jury in Brooklyn. The plaintiffs allege that defendant Jordan-based Arab Bank, PLC  violated the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1990 by knowingly providing material support to Hamas, a designated foreign Foreign Terrorist Organization since 1997 by the U.S. State Department.

Closing arguments took place last week before Judge Nina Gershon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Plaintiffs’ lawyer Tab Turner told jurors that Arab Bank is “[t]he bank of the stars in the world of terrorism.” The bank’s defense lawyer Shand Stevens argued that it wasn’t hist client’s responsibility to decide “who belongs on a terrorist list.”

This is a historic case because it is the first case against a bank accused of financing terrorism ever to go to trial in the U.S.

The allegations appear damning.
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