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Every day since March 2017 we have hoped to hear senior officials of the US @StateDept publicly call out Jordan and its leadership for failing to extradite the #SbarroBomber to Washington as the 1995 Jordan/US treaty requires. Instead through the years we get this sad mantra:
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Though there's a $5M @StateDept reward on her head, none is needed to locate the fugitive. She's lived the life of a celebrity in Jordan since 2011, proudly taking credit for the bombing. Yet no senior US official challenged Jordan's failure during @KingAbdullah's July visit...
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The fact that elected officials and civil servants are plainly reluctant to address the #AhlamTamimi scandal in public raises troubling questions about justice. And since they won't speak truth to power, what's become of the enquiring major media and their probing questions?
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We're Frimet and Arnold Roth, parents of an American child murdered in the bombing Tamimi calls "my operation". Read the op eds and interviews we were privileged to give [thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2021/07/25-jul…] during the 3-week long US state tour by Jordan's king in July. We need your help.
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We're not for or against any political party or politician or media outlet. Our efforts are non-partisan. We simply want justice to be done and so should everyone who recognizes it's a supreme value.

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23 Jul
Jordan's @KingAbdullahII met with @POTUS on Monday, with @SecBlinken on Tuesday. Their spokespeople @JRPsaki and @NedPrice were asked by @AssociatedPress reporters whether the #TamimiExtradition issue was mentioned. Neither one was able to answer this most basic of questions...
Jordan began shirking its treaty responsibility to the US in March 2017. It continues to shelter the world's most wanted fugitive female, the #Sbarro bomber, who remains free and famous despite Jordan's responsibility to hand her over for trial in DC as the treaty requires...
We're the parents of one of the Jordanian fugitive bomber's many victims. Our child, a US national, was murdered at the age of 15. And America's senior leadership isn't sure whether it raised the matter of the @FBIMostWanted terrorist's extradition with #Jordan's ruler.
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20 Jul
“Instead of engaging with us, the @StateDept issue statements where they say "in response to the #Tamimi extradition, the US is determined to see her brought to justice and we will not rest”" @arnoldroth told @DailyCaller. “It’s clearly untrue.” dailycaller.com/2021/07/20/bid…
We're parents of a child murdered in a massacre for which a Jordanian terrorist claims 'credit'. We seek to communicate our message during @KingAbdullahII's long current DC visit. @StateDept reacts mostly with mantras, derision, silence. Yet look at this
Give us a voice, ladies and gentlemen of the news industry. Let us be heard on this vital matter of moral responsibility, leaders of @StateDept. Hear us on accountability and core democratic values, @SecBlinken. We don't intend to let you keep silencing our calls for justice.
Read 4 tweets
11 Jul
Other than when Jordan militarily occupied it (1948-67), the Temple Mount has always attracted pilgrims, Jewish tourists, Israelis of all kinds to Judaism's most sacred place. So here's Jordan gov't TV now aping #PalArab hate language absurdly calling them "storming settlers".
Like most Israelis, we're looking forward to better relations between our country and Jordan. But that's no reason to allow Jordan's overt anti-Jewish bigotry to be ignored as the @JRTVmedia clip likely will be. Take their textbooks for example: adl.org/blog/antisemit…
Related issue: The stunning levels of antisemitic sentiment in the kingdom. @KingAbdullahII is now on a long visit to the US, heading to meetings in the Congress and @WhiteHouse. Isn't now the time for reporters to ask what #Jordan is doing to fix this?
global100.adl.org/country/jordan…
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29 May
Sickening speeches from Jordanian lawmakers. Both a US ally and one of the most antisemitic states anywhere, Jordan gets massive US foreign aid (3rd largest recipient) even as it breaches the US/Jordan 1995 extradition treaty to keep the #SbarroBomber safe from US justice
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In 1995 #Jordan's revered King Hussein signed a key extradition treaty with the US and then handed over Jordanian terrorists to the US on request. Now it illicitly refuses in the #AhlamTamimi case. Watch a Jordanian MP (at 1 min) insult "the Jews" for "disrespecting treaties".
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Self-defeating US kid-gloves handling of #Jordan must change. @ADL's recent report on how Jordan teaches antisemitism to its children [adl.org/blog/antisemit…] got almost no media attention despite "Jordan’s importance as a pivotal state for Mideast security, stability".
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11 May
@Jtruzmah Everything here is surreal which can mislead: the slow motion of the fireflies, the gentle mid-air ballet. In reality, it's akin to the Battle of Britain: high drama, split-second decisions, lives threatened, even ruined. Hamas with its incomprehensibly-large armory is ruthless.
@Jtruzmah Though it's coming to us via video, TV, the web, this isn't reality TV. It's reality period. Almost none of the mainstream news reports (especially the Europeans) convey this. The adherence to their networks' corporate-sanctioned narratives is appalling.
@Jtruzmah A rising sense among Israeli commentators tonight that Hamas has been allowed to take the initiative, to set the pace of escalation, to define the timing. And that this isn't in Israel's interests. At a time of transition, the big questions center on Israel's political coherence.
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25 Apr
At a time when justice-minded people are expressing outrage at lethally antisemitic violence, disingenuous judges, obstructive politicians, apathetic media - a sincere request from a murdered child's parents to please stand with us via our petition: change.org/ExtraditeTamimi
Please share. Tamimi, giggling in this video, is the world's most wanted female fugitive. She's sheltered from US law enforcement - which has pursued her since 2013 - by #Jordan, world's 3rd-largest recipient of US foreign aid and in breach of its Extradition Treaty with the US.
The extradition of admitted bomber #AhlamTamimi, sought since 2013 by @TheJusticeDept but thwarted by #Jordan and the inaction of most members of Congress and US officials, has few heroes as @TheDemocrats @HouseDemocrats @HouseGOP @SenateForeign @SenateGOP @SenateDems can confirm
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