After watching the @WhiteHouse once again roll out the red carpet and over-the-top praise for Jordan's king on Friday, we don't know if the bill currently in a committee of the Congress that sanctions Jordan for its trampling of the 1995 treaty with the Clinton administration...
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stands a chance. What we can say is Jordan's illicit harboring of @Sbarro bomber #AhlamTamimi was unmentioned by @POTUS, his officials, @StateDept and US media. So...
❶ Is there quiet agreement to ignore the @FBIMostWanted bomber's freedom and her years of terror incitement?
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❷ Has Jordan's demeaning of its 1995 treaty with the US now been accepted de facto by the Biden administration?
❸ Is it now US policy in specific cases to pragmatically ignore #PalArab terror and the murder of Jewish children including Americans like our daughter Malki?
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In light of recent conversations we've had with, and the silence we've encountered from, senior US officials and other influential figures, we believe the answer to each of these questions is yes. No one admits any of this. But the implications for US justice are alarming.
5/ We're the parents of Malka Chana Roth. We don't intend to let justice be demeaned and ignored by politicians and we hope you will support us. There is a petition addressed to @SecBlinken at change.org/ExtraditeTamimi. We hope you will sign it today (even if you're not American).
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The Jordanian government of @KingAbdullahII has shielded and sheltered the admitted bomber, #AhlamTamimi, in Jordan since the day the @FBI announced she faces federal charges and named her an @FBIMostWanted terrorist. His Majesty is an honored guest today in the @WhiteHouse.
2/ With Jordan's king hailed in Washington this week as America's "most loyal" friend, it's hard to describe the dismay overwhelming us. We're bereaved parents of a murdered American child. Seeking justice, we instead get the cynical mantras of politicians and officials.
3/ He rules over an impoverished realm but was recently exposed as having "spared no effort to conceal his real estate holdings" [icij.org/investigations…]. @KingAbdullahII get kid-gloves treatment in the Oval Office and the media hold their nose. A disgrace all round.
In Tampa FL Friday, Jordan's king met the commanders of US Central Command and US Special Operations Command to discuss "regional and international efforts to fight terrorism within a holistic approach." rhc.jo/en/media/news/…
This is troubling.
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2/ Is a terror policy called "holistic" when it means harboring America's most wanted female fugitive terrorist #AhlamTamimi? That's what Jordan has done since 2017. The @StateDept admits (too quietly) that Jordan is breaching its 1995 extradition treaty obligation to the US.
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3/ For shabby political reasons, Jordan gets away with refusing to extradite the @Sbarro bomber who murdered 15 innocents and has became an Arab celebrity and icon. She's free because that's what @KingAbdullahII wants. US officials want him to be happy. And let justice be damned.
Qatar's @AlJazeera says it's rescreening on Feb 12 a sentimental Arabic-language tribute to @FBIMostWanted#AhlamTamimi (screen cap below minus the violins). The 15 lives she obliterated in the @Sbarro massacre goes unmentioned. Qatar's ruler was a @WhiteHouse guest last week.
For nearly five years, this is the strongest statement the US @StateDept has put out on those rare occasions when someone from the news industry asks them why this unrepentant terrorist, living free and influential in #Jordan, still hasn't been handed over to US justice.
As the fifth anniversary (March 14) of the US federal charges against #AhlamTamimi approaches, we're asking media, justice activists and America's Jewish organizational leadership to stand with us and call for unconscionably delayed pressure on #Jordan to finally happen.
@SecBlinken, senior officials told us recently that @StateDept prioritizes getting Jordan to extradite @FBIMostWanted fugitive #AhlamTamimi to Wash DC as the treaty requires. Does no mention of it in the "great" @AymanHSafadi visit briefings signify progress? Or the opposite?
2/ The Jordanian woman is a confessed bomber who has taken to urging groups of youngsters to take pride, as she does, in the fate of the victims of the savage bombing she orchestrated. Our 15 year old daughter Malki, an American, was one of the "Zionists" she blew up that day.
3/ Tamimi's face has appeared on these @FBIMostWanted posters since March 2017. Oddly the posters have never appeared publicly in Jordan in all that time. This may be connected to how the bomber was then and still is an icon and a hero in Jordan, a US ally.
Jordan's @RoyaTV deal with a German media giant has hit a wall over "concerns about anti-Israeli and antisemitic content... not consistent with the values of DW" [timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…] Good for @DeutscheWelle: the dark side of Jordan's media gets a free pass too often.
3/ The Roya Media Group's CEO in a media release today: "No one should expect us not to cover Israeli hostile actions that affect innocent civilians in fear of accusations of antisemitism." en.royanews.tv/news/33079/202…
Fighting words. Now let's talk about #AhlamTamimi...
Pause and think for a moment of the monstrosity of a woman, having just bombed a pizzeria filled with kids, rushing from the scene of the atrocity to the TV studio where she worked and blandly reporting it as the story of the day.
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2/ @AhlamTamimi's incredible fame and obscene stature in today's Jordan was underscored by how Jordan's king escaped all probing questions in his Washington stay during July. No one pressed him - certainly not the many lawmakers who honored him in Congress.
3/ Worse, official spokespersons for both @POTUS and @SecBlinken performed acrobatics to avoid answering attempts by two @AP reporters to have them answer the highly complicated question "Was the Tamimi issue raised?" So far, the same spox have avoided our questions too.