Posted on 04/08/2025 4:29:10 AM PDT by Red Badger
A billionaire American-Palestinian businessman has been sued by grieving families whose loved ones were victims of the October 7 terror attack in Israel.
Bashar Masri, once named one of the 'world's greatest leaders', has been accused of allowing Hamas to construct the infrastructure needed to carry out their sick attack, which left 1,200 dead and sparked the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
The lawsuit accuses the wealthy developer of knowing that Hamas militants were constructing elaborate tunnels underneath his properties in Gaza to 'store and launch its rockets at Israel.'
Those tunnels have been central to Hamas' operations, concealing hostages taken from the 2023 attack on the Nova Music Festival alongside scores of weapons.
'The properties defendants developed with Hamas were not only part of the infrastructure Hamas used in connection with the Oct. 7 attack itself,' the lawsuit stated.
'Their development deliberately advanced Hamas's false narrative that it was interested primarily in the economic development of Gaza and a grudging coexistence with Israel.'
Masri, named by the World Economic Forum as a 'Global Leader of Tomorrow' and a graduate from Virginia Tech, maintains the allegations are baseless and is seeking to have the lawsuit dismissed.
'Neither he nor those entities have ever engaged in unlawful activity or provided support for violence and militancy,' his office said in a statement.
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“...It was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington...”
DC is a magnet for all kinds of filth
He ain’t an American.
He’s got Citizenship by marriage, that’s about it.
There is nothing American in his heart.
From wikipedia:
a businessman who is the founder and chairman of Massar International since its establishment in 1994. He is the founder of Rawabi, the West Bank’s first planned city, and the founder and the CEO of Bayti Real Estate Investment Company that built the city.[1][2] He founded and manages the first Palestinian equity fund, a $90 million investment initiative known as “Siraj Fund”.[3] He is on the list of the “Top Ten Richest People of Palestine in 2016.” Masri was named by the World Economic Forum as a Global Leader of Tomorrow and ranked among the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2018 by Fortune magazine.
Masri is chairman of the Palestine Development and Investment Company [4]
Masri was born in Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, then under Jordanian rule.[5][6] At 14 years old, Masri began throwing stones and organizing demonstrations, leading him to be jailed by Israel eight times.[7] At age 16, Masri’s father sent him to school in Egypt after he was released from prison and missed exams.[8] After leaving Nablus, Masri continued his education in Egypt, before moving to the United States, where he graduated from Virginia Tech with a B.S. in chemical engineering in 1983.[9][10]
It sounds like he aided a terrorist organization to commit murder and kidnappings. If he is a US citizen he deserves due process under the law. If he is not a US citizen, he should be immediately returned to his nation of origin. He can apply for citizenship from there, and the decisions about if he is a terrorist can be made before re-admission.
He is a US citizen.
But of course, Israel green-flagged it—and nothing has come of that for them.
Should have sued him in Texas!
Stay out of corrupt DC courts!
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How could someone like him NOT know about the attack?
There is no such thing as an American-Palestinian. You are an American or you aren’t.
Sounds like he was a Jordanian occupier of Jewish land before 1967 when it was liberated, and he became a terrorist. And now he is helping terrorists with his money, that he got from stupidly being allowed to come to America. Did I miss anything?
Where is Masaad?
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Deport him with all the other leftists.
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