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
with certainty because the woman who spearheaded the bombing, a Jordanian college student then 21, went on to become one of the most interviewed and publicized terrorists anywhere, ever. Her name is #AhlamTamimi and for the past 11 years she has lived free in Jordan. 3/8
Skipping many of the details, #AhlamTamimi was indicted in Washington in 2013. Malki was an American national and a US federal law entitles and obliges the US to go after terrorists who kill Americans under certain conditions - which applied here. Neither we nor anyone else 4/8
knew that Tamimi was charged because the file was sealed by the court. It stayed sealed till March 2017. She was then named an @FBIMostWanted terrorist and eloquent US officials declared that Tamimi's victims would never be forgotten and that @TheJusticeDept would "continue 5/8
to remain vigilant until Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi is brought to justice".
It's now 5½ years later and she as well as her legions of fans continue to be sickeningly present in Arab media, regaling in the glory of the killings she executed and the shelter she gets in Jordan. 6/8
In August I wrote [newsweek.com/terrorist-ling…] about the troubling - and mostly ignored - questions thrown up by Tamimi's celebrity and the bipartisan fecklessness of US political leaders. To be clear, few speak in her defense. She herself brags she did "the finest of deeds". 7/8
The free-as-a-bird Jordanian's message of lethal hatred gets wide attention in the Arab world. We and our efforts for justice certainly don't - and least of all in the US media.
Signing our petition can help bring our child's killer to US justice: change.org/ExtraditeTamimi
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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.
Hear the barbarian. Listen so the images and the sickening lust is never forgotten.
The woman who murdered my daughter Malki, just 15, in the bombing of a pizzeria filled with kids gets adoration like you see in the clip below. That woman is kept safe from US justice by Jordan.
My daughter died at the hands of this woman. She's a terrorist serving #Hamas. Because my child was a US citizen, as were another two of the many slaughtered by #AhlamTamimi, she faces charges in Washington. But so long as Jordan's @KingAbdullahII keeps her safe, she stays free.
...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.