To the editor:

Those supporters of the Palestinian Arabs who always insist "no justice, no peace" must be chagrined at the federal appeals court decision, which in throwing out the $655.5 million verdict against the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Liberation Organization, ruled that there will be no justice for American victims of six of their countless terror attacks.

The suit does serve as a reminder about the nature of the beast with which Israel has, for so many years, vainly striven to make peace.

It's more than two decades since Yasser Arafat supposedly agreed to abandon terrorism and peacefully settle differences with Israel. Yet he was planning the terror offensive involved in the lawsuit even before he rejected Israel's Camp David offer of a state in 2000.

Today, nearly a decade after Mahmoud Abbas walked away from another offer giving him the equivalent of all the disputed territory, the Palestinian Authority refuses to negotiate and diverts fungible American financial assistance to reward Arabs who murder innocent Israelis, with the size of the reward tied to the brutality of the terror attack.

Thanks to the increasing Palestinian rejectionism and commitment to terrorism, peace between them and America's only true friend in the Middle East is further away than ever.

Sincerely,

Alan Stein