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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By "mini settlers", the pervert below means dead Jewish children blown up by the human bomb brought to the target site, a pizzeria, by #AhlamTamimi. Tamimi is a fugitive from US justice kept safe by Jordan. Jordan is bound by its treaty with the US to hand her over and refuses.
The fugitive bomber hosted her own toxic, made-in-Jordan terror-promoting TV show for 5 years. She remains a constant presence in the Arabic media. The photo below from @Facebook shows #AhlamTamimi happily present at a small gathering of admiring Jordanians in May 2024.
My thread ↓ tries to express the betrayal of seeing a fugitive #Hamas savage, my child's admitted killer, shielded from US justice by US officials.
Yes, the Jordanians refuse to extradite her.
But they get away with it only because of the quiet backing of US policy officials.
1/3 One of the most painful parts of being betrayed as we fight for the Jordanian perpetrator of a massacre of Jewish children to be brought to trial in Washington (she was charged in 2013) is the way this issue and Jordan's obstruction are ignored by America's Jewish leaders.
2/3 Now that the senior @StateDept official who wrote to us in the names of @POTUS and @SecBlinken in 2022 (below) has retired without any of the things about which she wrote having been done, it feels right for us to be more open about the failures in this scandal.
...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