He "threatened" a lawsuit, in the hopes that just saying he might sue would change their mind and they would allow him to put up the menorah (which they should have allowed anyway).
Instead, the Democrat supporter who runs the place decided to use the opportunity to make the Rabbi look bad and get what the democrat probably wanted anyway, by pulling down all the trees and blaming it on this "threatened lawsuit".
Now everybody's mad at the Rabbi, but all he wanted was to put up a Menorah in a public place to celebrate HIS religion, something that gets lost really in all the christmas and Kwanza stuff.
It's not like he wanted to run church services on the property -- he just wanted to put up some cultural symbols that would remind people of the jewish holiday celebration. That the ACLU fights this group, and that an airport (which obviously had no problem with christmas trees) would deny him a space, is the real story here.
And when he suggested he would fight for his right, the airport took an action which effectively shut him down -- he won't sue now, so he's lost his only avenue to get what he deserves to have -- in effect, the airport chief used public opinion against his adversary.
What is it that you and people like you do not understand that this is Christmas. That the majority of the people in this country celebrate Christmas and not a Jewish holiday. And that we have done so for decades before people like you wanted to implant other religious meanings into this holiday. I - and probably millions of other people - do not care one wit how Jews celebrate their special days and have no desire to implant Christain symbols or meanings into a Jewish holiday. I wish you - and people like you - would just let us celebrate Christmas without attempting to dilute the holiday.
Also, Sea-Tac has a problem with Christmas Trees. The basis of their position was that Holiday Trees, what tradition that represents no one has explained to me, like theirs represent all religions, thus a Menorah, specificly Jewish, would be unnecessarily injecting religion into the holiday season.