You might know about my murdered daughter #Malki through our ongoing efforts to bring her killer to justice. But did you know that since 2001, the @MalkiFoundation has given vital support to some of the most disabled children in Israel, irrespective of religion or politics?
The Malki Foundation: It's a story of quiet determination, devotion to doing good, and years of steady but undoubted success with families at the heart of what's been achieved.
The @MalkiFoundation which my wife and I and our friends conceived as an act of transcendent goodness in the spirit of our child's life snuffed out just a few weeks earlier, was launched on a day that came with huge drama of its own: thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2019/09/09-sep…
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Like me, you may be offended or at least puzzled by views you sometimes see slipped into news reports. Could be spin; maybe bias. But only word captures how the mainstream news industry covers Jordan keeping a confessed bomber shielded from US justice.
This video clip has never been included in any mainstream news report: #AhlamTamimi, the Jordanian woman who says openly, for the record, that she bombed the Jerusalem #Sbarro pizzeria and calls it "my operation". Watch the smile as she tells it.
Hashemite Jordan could have denounced her, arrested her, tried her on terrorism charges, handed her to US law enforcement (as the treaty demands). Instead they did this: they let #AhlamTamimi host her own terror-promoting TV show, filmed weekly in Jordan's capital, for 5 years!
I sometimes need to say this to others so I can make sense of it to myself: This woman, alive, happy, protected in ways most people wouldn't believe by a government that's on fine terms with most countries, is famous because she murdered my 15 year old daughter and 14 others.
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She will stay famous, free, upbeat and adored in #Jordan where she lives until my wife and I and our friends manage to find the way to have the US government raise its voice and tell Jordan this is sickening and under the treaty she has to be sent to Washington this afternoon
3/ We've pushed for this since the US unsealed terror charges against this woman (who is a Hamas agent) in March 2017. Few people ever argue back at bereaved parents like us. Instead, as the news industry and too many officials and lawmakers do, they just stare.
The Sep'19 tweet below was just RTed by someone. I'm the father of a child murdered by this famed Jordanian terrorist. Every time I or friends reach out to Jordanian officials, they stay silent. The strategy makes sense for them since the news industry pays no attention.
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That's a shabby thing. On one hand, for the US she's one of only two women on the @FBIMostWanted terrorist list with a $5M reward on her head since 2018. On the other, Jordan shelters her, lets her live a free, unrestricted life in its capital. She's never been in hiding.
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And the news industry? Those unstoppable investigative journalists? All the moralizing about terror, justice, lives that matter? Did you ever see a mainstream news report about this confessed bomber? A celebrity with her own TV show for years? The incredible life she lives?
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Have just watched US Senate hearing into the appointment of an ambassador to Amman.
Guess how much attention the world's most wanted female fugitive living free in the capital of a strategic ally and Jordan's most important institutions shielding her from @TheJusticeDept got.
Simply beyond comprehension that the woman at the top of this thread, who boasts - boasts! - of killing many children including mine, evades US justice and lives like a queen in #Jordan because the US sees pursuing her as destabilizing its Jordanian ally.
With due respect to all the relevant parties, that doesn't strike me as the right approach. @TheJusticeDept and @StateDept have tried since 2013 to persuade @JordanGov, which is party to an active extradition treaty with the US, to honor its obligations. Jordan's highest court
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2/ declared in March 2017, less than a week after the charges against #AhlamTamimi were unsealed in Washington, that the treaty signed by the present king's father and the Clinton Administration was invalid on constitutional grounds. And had been invalid since day one!
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3/ The US says it doesn't agree [thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2019/11/03-nov…]. The confessed #Sbarro bomber, meanwhile, instead of preparing herself to face federal charges in Washington, lives the life of a privileged celebrity in Jordan. The kingdom enabled her to host a terror-inciting TV show
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1/4 Things to know about #Jordan:
- Depends on US financial, security support
- Has extradited to US under 1995 treaty whenever asked
- Keeps the savage in clip below safe from the Feds on the unlikely grounds the treaty is unconstitutional.
- US says it's valid
Media? Crickets.