I do I do want to include I don't think that what I'm about to say should end up at the end of the episode I just want to include it because I read it to Tark off the record before and I just wanted you guys to hear this too

Elizabeth Shapiro who eventually was like the director of the federal programs branch,

she handled the civil trial that we discussed in our last episode.

She also became a member of the prosecution team in this case.

She's in Justice's announcementsments of the Sentencing and everything.

She later wrote for a U.S. Attorney's Bulletin that I found that I was reading today a case study about the Holy Land Foundation case and about Hamas financing.

And I think her opening paragraph is such a perfect summary of how the government viewed this case.

So her opening paragraph is that in January 1993, a used car salesman from Chicago traveled to the Gaza Strip with over $300,000 in his briefcase.

Mohammed Sala, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in

Jerusalem claimed to be on a humanitarian mission. Shortly after his arrival he was

caught handing money to militants from the Islamic resistance movement known as

Hamas.

Right, so that's our opener.

And then she says, he was not, however, the biggest fundraiser operating for Hamas in the United States.

That honor belonged to the Holy Land Foundation for relief.

Right?

Jesus.

It's a total fucking smear.

Their activity has nothing to do with this guy's activity.

And her opener is to just try to connect it.

Yeah. Well the press release too you know that they put out I mean you know like

trumpeting the sentences where it's they're like he's the cousin of a

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