(Communicated by the Foreign Minister's Bureau)

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman said that "The decision of the court in New York to order the Palestinian Authority to compensate the terror victims of the second intifada to the sum of $654 million is first and foremost a moral victory for the State of Israel and the victims of terror."

According to FM Liberman, "The court's decision confirms what those familiar with events in Israel in the first decade of this century knew, but what many in the world did not wish to admit, whether out of hypocrisy, extraneous interests, or pure antisemitism. This decision by the federal court must be a wake-up call for the Palestinians themselves and those in the world who support them, to recognize that terrorism is an integral part of the structure of the Palestinian Authority. In order to deal with it, they must first of all internalize the fact that the Palestinians' glorification of terror and terrorists must be uprooted through re-education, and this responsibility falls on the Palestinian leaders."