Every state has an obligation under international law to seek out and to prosecute terrorists.
It is codified directly in many different sources, and is also deducible from the binding Nuremberg Principles. Terrorism is an established crime under international law. And if these offenses were not enough of a affront to world legal order, many of the terrorists now being released from Israeli jails are immediately assuming high positions in the Palestinian Authority's various police and security services. I do not believe the law of nations imposes the same responsibility or liability on nonstate actors, such as the PLO, as it does on states and persons acting under colour of state law. The PLO as well as the Palestine Information Office, the National Association of Arab Americans, and the Palestine Congress of North America, were named defendants in this suit for compensatory and punitive damages.