The State Department has a new policy: not to reveal the names of Palestinian Arab terrorists who have murdered or injured American citizens. In its recently-released report to Congress on U.S. efforts to capture such terrorists, the State Department notes that the names of the wanted Arab terrorists will not be listed. A spokesman explained that this was in order not to \"glorify\" them. However, the Zionist Organization of America notes that the State Department has no problem listing the names of terrorists who are not Palestinian Arabs. ZOA national president Morton A. Klein declared,
\"This is the latest in a series of actions by the State Department which focus us to question why it is not doing everything it can to capture Palestinian Arab killers of Americans... Does the State Department really expect the American public to believe that publishing photos of Fatah and Hamas terrorists who kill Americans would \'glorify\' them, while somehow the State Department\'s own publication of the photos of terrorists from Al Qaeda, Hizbullah, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and Libya does not glorify those terrorists?\"
Klein added, \"This incredible double standard is part of the State Department\'s appeasement policy of bending over backwards to avoid embarrassing Yasser Arafat. The State Department knows that publicly mentioning the names of the suspects in these cases would mean drawing attention to the fact that the suspects include two long-time confidantes of Arafat; three officials of Arafat\'s Palestinian Authority; three members of Arafat\'s Force 17 presidential guard; and five members of Arafat\'s security forces.\"
\"This is the latest in a series of actions by the State Department which focus us to question why it is not doing everything it can to capture Palestinian Arab killers of Americans... Does the State Department really expect the American public to believe that publishing photos of Fatah and Hamas terrorists who kill Americans would \'glorify\' them, while somehow the State Department\'s own publication of the photos of terrorists from Al Qaeda, Hizbullah, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and Libya does not glorify those terrorists?\"
Klein added, \"This incredible double standard is part of the State Department\'s appeasement policy of bending over backwards to avoid embarrassing Yasser Arafat. The State Department knows that publicly mentioning the names of the suspects in these cases would mean drawing attention to the fact that the suspects include two long-time confidantes of Arafat; three officials of Arafat\'s Palestinian Authority; three members of Arafat\'s Force 17 presidential guard; and five members of Arafat\'s security forces.\"