By David Bedein
October 16, 2005
The Fatah-led Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) has taken credit for carrying out the murder of three teenage boys at a bus stop today at the Etzion Junction. The PA-backed Voice of Palestine 7PM News reported that these unarmed boys were killed in an "armed clash with settlers."
On Friday, President Bush extended a waiver to the congressionally mandated downgrade in the status of the Fateh Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Office in the United States with an October 14, 2005 memorandum to the secretary of state.
The waiver is effective for 180 days.
The downgrade of the PLO office was mandated in the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1987.
Implementation of that provision of the law has been delayed because of U.S. national security interests, according to the memorandum.
Without that waiver, the PLO would not be able to maintain an office (or any official presence) in the U.S.
If an organization registered in the US proudly took credit for murdering people in cold blood because they had black skin, there would be a public outcry to close down that office.
The PLO office is located at 888 16th Street, 7th FLoor, at the office of Bannerman Associates, and run by Edward Abington, who served at the US Consul in Jerusalem, 1993-1997. Abington was directly responsible for opening up the vistas of US aid for the PLO's Palestinian Authority during his term of office. The day after he left his office, he became the PLO lobbyist in DC, registered as a foreign agent of the PLO.
At a time when American citizens who advocate peace and justice in the Middle East often search for a way to express their activism, it would seem that the office of the PLO in the US capital is just waiting for their attention ... only a few days before the scheduled Oct. 20th, 2005 meeting between President Bush and PA chief Mahmoud Abbas.
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