1/4 To our Jewish friends: As the heart-broken parents of #Malki Roth, a US citizen murdered at 15 in the pizzeria bombing that many remember, we are making serious efforts, against an unhelpful background, to see the central plotter of the #Sbarro massacre brought to justice.
2/4 Of all the many disappointments and frustrations that are part of that, none is quite as painful as having our requests for co-operation ignored by Jewish organizations, especially those based in the US. We're not naming names but if you have any influence at any of them...
3/4 please urge their leaders to contact us. Getting justice for what was done to our daughter is part of a larger process that ultimately affects all of us. If you think that's going well, we ought to talk.
We're reachable at thisongoingwar@gmail.com
Frimet and Arnold Roth
4/4 Please share this @Algemeiner article published today:
Ben Cohen: "Parents of US Girl Killed in 2001 Jerusalem Bombing Call for Congressional Investigation Into Fugitive Hamas Terrorist Living Freely in Jordan" algemeiner.com/2019/07/17/par…
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...But what we don't get is why the media never ask Jordan's ambassador to Washington about #AhlamTamimi. And why so many major US Jewish organizations agree to sit down with her at Jordan's embassy and fancy receptions and pretend not to notice what's in the air.
For how long can someone be an @FBIMostWanted fugitive and continue to live free, even appearing in its media, in a country that everyone somehow respects as a top-tier US ally and massive beneficiary of US aid?
@StateDeptSpox?
@JorEmbUS?
@DanaZkat?
@StateSEAS?
@ShelleyGspan?
And these two last non-rhetorical questions:
1⃣ This is about a Jordanian woman who calls the murder of Jewish children "a crown on my head" as she lives openly and famously in Jordan. How do America's serious media rationalize the years of giving this no exposure?
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It starts with how @NedPrice, @StateDept mouthpiece for the claim that accountability is needed in the cases of an @Aljazeera reporter and a girl on a Jenin rooftop, both killed in gunfights where #PalArab shooters were wildly active, avoids all mention of my murdered daughter.
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You need to follow social media posts to understand the point. Since 2017, the mainstream media suppress how Jordanian terrorist #AhlamTamimi, an indited fugitive from US justice, admits she's the bomber of a pizzeria filled with Jewish kids. Jordan illicitly safeguards her.
An Arab child is found dead on a Jenin rooftop and @StateDept spox @nedprice again calls for #accountability. But Price never utters my daughter Malki's name. An American, she was killed by a fugitive who faces US terror charges but Jordan harbors her. i24news.tv/en/news/israel…
My child, an American, is murdered in a massacre spearheaded by a bragging Jordanian savage who makes a celebrity career out of it, kept safe from US prosecutors by a Jordanian claim no one believes. Killed at 15, that lovely child has a name, Mr @StateDeptSpox.
It's Malki.
To my friends in America's Jewish organizational leadership: Your inaction is inexpressibly painful to my wife and me. Combatting antisemitism demands Jewish determination. Be honest about what Tamimi's obscene freedom in Jordan signifies. Speak out.
It's hard to convey the depths of the frustration. We're fighting to get public officials to do their duty, to prosecute an indicted, admitted bomber/terrorist. They don't say "stop" or "you're wrong". It's easier to just ignore us. Or to just say "We're doing it but..." 1/6
But what? Jordan doesn't want the headache of handing over a mass-murdering felon? One who happens to be an icon, a celebrity, widely adored and never publicly criticized over there? Has someone decided the Jordanian street's embrace of antisemitic terror can veto US justice? 2/6
If you know anything about the years-long struggle to get the @Sbarro bomber on trial in Washington, you know it from social media. On Jordan, America's major media long-ago opted to trample their own principles; to suppress the scandal; to ask no questions. 3/6
No US government official or diplomat in any of the Obama, Trump or Biden administrations has tried to justify US passivity in the face of Jordan's harboring and disgraceful empowering of the woman charged with being the @Sbarro bomber. They simply ignore it and so do the media.
Most of those who follow my wife @FrimetRoth or me or our joint account @ThisOngoingWar on Twitter know at least the basics of what brings us to be active in the social media. Others seeing this probably don't know why we want to waste their time. For them, this brief intro. 1/8
Frimet and I suffered the loss by murder of our middle child, #Malki, when she was 15. Malki was one of many children blown up in a Hamas bombing of a @Sbarro pizzeria in the center of Jerusalem in 2001, an atrocity which targeted Jewish children. That's something we can say 2/8
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Given what we've endured these past few years, it's not excessive sensitivity that brings us to share that the US @StateDept has treated us since March 2017 with incredible disdain. That month, @TheJusticeDept charged the woman in the poster below. She's our daughter's killer.