Family members of Eish-Kodesh Gilmore filed suit yesterday against Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian Authority in a U.S. Federal Court. Gilmore, an American citizen, was shot and killed on October 30, 2000 by Yasser Arafat’s Force 17 terrorist unit when he was standing guard in the eastern Jerusalem branch of the National Insurance Institute. The $250 million lawsuit is enabled by a ten-year-old U.S. law allowing American citizens to sue terrorist organizations for attacks carried out on foreign soil.
Eish-Kodesh\'s widow Inbal explained today, \"This is our way of fighting back against those who were responsible.\" When asked where she expected the money to come from and what she would do with it if she won the case, Inbal responded, \"The corrupt Palestinian Authority has more money than the amount we are asking; the fact that many Palestinians do not see any of it is the fault of their leaders... I imagine we will use whatever we are awarded to benefit IDF soldiers, for instance, as Kodesh would have wanted.\"
Reuven Gilmore, father of Eish-Kodesh, told Arutz-7 today, \"I hope, between our case and the other [similar] ones, that we bankrupt them [the PLO]. Some people say that if you eliminate Arafat, his successor might be worse. But our opinion is that there is no one worse. His goals are the same as those of Hamas... He is more dangerous, though, because he has succeeded in tricking Israeli governments as to his true intentions...\"
Eish-Kodesh\'s widow Inbal explained today, \"This is our way of fighting back against those who were responsible.\" When asked where she expected the money to come from and what she would do with it if she won the case, Inbal responded, \"The corrupt Palestinian Authority has more money than the amount we are asking; the fact that many Palestinians do not see any of it is the fault of their leaders... I imagine we will use whatever we are awarded to benefit IDF soldiers, for instance, as Kodesh would have wanted.\"
Reuven Gilmore, father of Eish-Kodesh, told Arutz-7 today, \"I hope, between our case and the other [similar] ones, that we bankrupt them [the PLO]. Some people say that if you eliminate Arafat, his successor might be worse. But our opinion is that there is no one worse. His goals are the same as those of Hamas... He is more dangerous, though, because he has succeeded in tricking Israeli governments as to his true intentions...\"