“The Justice Department has charged Yahya Sinwar and other senior leaders of Hamas for financing, directing, and overseeing a decades-long campaign to murder American citizens and endanger the national security of the United States,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “On October 7th, Hamas terrorists, led by these defendants, murdered nearly 1200 people, including over 40 Americans, and kidnapped hundreds of civilians. This weekend, we learned that Hamas murdered an additional six people they had kidnapped and held captive for nearly a year, including Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a 23 year old Israeli American. We are investigating Hersh’s murder, and each and every one of Hamas’ brutal murders of Americans, as an act of terrorism. The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’ operations. These actions will not be our last.” //

Hamas raises money to fund its terrorist activities through a variety of methods, including by soliciting and receiving cryptocurrency payments, advertising the ostensible anonymity of such transactions. //

While that may be true, it leaves out a key detail that UNWRA, the UN refugee organization meant to help stabilize the area, became embedded with Hamas with even its staff perpetrating crimes on Oct. 7. The U.S. has been the largest contributor of UNWRA, giving it $7.3 billion since 1950. //

Dieter Schultz Jim frm Palo Alto
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Political theater. The U.S. has no jurisdiction over what happens in Israel and Gaza.

It's more than just political theater!

Like the saying in the movie that "the Russians don't take a dump, son, without a plan", the Dems don't make a move like this without an ulterior motive.

mopani Dieter Schultz
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Yep. This is the beginning of making anonymous cryptocurrency illegal because it funds terrorism.

But here's our shiny new government approved crypto currency, you can use this, it will be great! //

Dieter Schultz
4 hours ago edited
The charges unsealed today are just one part of our effort to target every aspect of Hamas’ operations. These actions will not be our last.
If I were the suspicious type I'd think that this action was taken to preempt or provide leverage over Netanyahu to stop him from ending Sinwar's life...

They are trying to force Netanyahu to stop and turn it over to the US' court system. Then, if I had to guess, the plan, on the off-chance that they would be able to capture him or have him turn himself over to the US, would be to turn him over to be tried in... oh, I don't know, a federal court in Dearborn?

But... I'm not the suspicious type... nope, I'm not!