Not every miracle involves falling out of a thirty-story building and walking away without a scratch.

Not everyone knows that Winston Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953. He certainly had his fair share of brilliant statements that are often invoked as appropriate. So, I’ll join with his comments at Mansion House in London after the victory over Rommel’s tanks at El Alamein: “Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” I felt that this sentiment had incredible relevance this week, when the United States Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit handed down an important verdict.

My son and I were wounded in a suicide bombing on March 21, 2002. For the first six months, we were busy keeping the Bauer ship afloat. Then, in October of that year, a short article appeared in the Hebrew press describing all of the characters involved in the attack. They were all Palestinian Authority (PA) employees. The bomber was a PA policeman, the one who sprung him from a Ramallah jail and sent him with two women guides to Jerusalem was a PA intelligence officer. PA parliamentarian Marwan Barghouti paid money to the terror cell, as did the current heir apparent of the PA leadership, Hussein Al-Sheikh. I wanted justice and I started doing Google searches for lawsuits against the PLO. The one name that showed up over and over was Nitsana Darshan-Leitner. We met in late 2002 and joined 10 other American families harmed in Jerusalem for a lawsuit, Sokolow v PLO, filed in New York in 2004. Why were we suing the bad guys in the US?

In 1985, Leon Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old wheelchair-bound American, was murdered by Palestinian terrorists aboard the Italian ship Achille Lauro. Because the attack occurred at sea, there were piracy-related laws that allowed suit in the US. But there was nothing to allow........

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