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The Embarrassing U.S. Criminal Complaint against Hamas
(National Review) Andrew C. McCarthy - The U.S. Justice Department's criminal complaint against six Hamas leaders includes three terrorists who are already dead - Ismael Haniyeh, Mohammed Deif, and Marwan Issa. The Justice Department well knows that the dead cannot be prosecuted. This is not a criminal case. It's theater. A powerful nation that takes its defense seriously never responds to a foreign military enemy's mass-murder attacks by filing a lawsuit. As the administration well knows, none of these alien enemy combatants will ever be arrested and extradited to the U.S. While timed as a response to Hamas's cold-blooded murder last week of American hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin, 23, the administration took no meaningful action against Hamas throughout his 11 months of captivity by a terrorist organization designated as such under U.S. law for almost 30 years.