HLF Mistrial: Was the Prosecution Mishandled?

Here is some analysis on the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial in which was declared a mistrial because of a hung jury.

Correspondent Erick Stakelbeck produces the opinion that the Prosecution screwed up in the presentation of the evidence. Stakelbeck believes the evidence should have been a slam dunk conviction; however a previously successful Prosecutor of terrorist villains failed to connect the evidence in the mind of the jurors. In addition Stakelbeck believes some of the jurors had their thinking in the unpopularity of President Bush combined with the thinking this is an Israeli problem not an American problem.

The thinking goes Hamas are murderers of Jews in Israel, how does that terrorism affect me. If Stakelbeck is correct then truly the Prosecution screwed up because terrorism is terror no matter the point of origin.

I would also like to point out that terrorist organizations like Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza and the Fatah dominated Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) terrorists have also directed their venom toward America. It is just that Israel is the primary object of Dar al-Islam.