On Tuesday, The Daily Signal posted an article about a recent U.S. Supreme Court action that ruled in favor of holding terrorists accountable.

The article reports:

The Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority lost again at the Supreme Court, this time in their effort to stop a settlement to pay American victims of attacks.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday signed an order rejecting an emergency application from the Palestinian authorities to stop a $656 million judgment in favor of Americans killed or wounded in Israel. The victims were injured or killed in attacks in Jerusalem in the early 2000s that killed 33 people and wounded hundreds.

The Palestinian Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority argued in court filings that making the payments to victims and their families would destabilize government services in the West Bank, The Associated Press reported. They also have argued that the cases shouldn’t be allowed in American courts.

The victims and their families have claimed Palestinian agents were either involved in the attacks or incited them.

The first judgment in favor of the victims was awarded in 2015, but it was reversed on appeal when the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that U.S. courts lacked jurisdiction. The Supreme Court initially rejected the plaintiffs’ appeal in 2018.

The plaintiffs then sued under the revised Anti-Terrorism Act, a 1992 law updated in 2019 to allow the victims of the Palestinian attacks to seek damages in federal courts.

This is a valid weapon against terrorism. As long as the Palestinian authority has the money to pay the families of terrorists killed in suicide attacks, the attacks will continue. Unfortunately, the culture of the Palestinian authority encourages those attacks by honoring the people who carry them out. However, sometimes bad things decrease when they begin costing the people who do them serious money.