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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...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
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Given what we've endured these past few years, it's not excessive sensitivity that brings us to share that the US @StateDept has treated us since March 2017 with incredible disdain. That month, @TheJusticeDept charged the woman in the poster below. She's our daughter's killer.
There's a reason Americans don't know about this stunning case. The same reason @CNN, @NYTimes, @60Minutes and the rest of the mainstream US media don't expose it. @TheJusticeDept want this admitted bomber tried in Washington on US federal terror charges. Jordan prevents it.
It's 2017. The US invokes 1995 Jordan/US extradition treaty, requiring Jordan to hand @Sbarro bomber #AhlamTamimi over to face terror charges in DC. Jordan refuses and keeps her safe and free. @StateDept whispers that the treaty is valid. @POTUS insists Jordan's a dear friend.
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It's 2022. As parents of an American child murdered by the fugitive Jordanian's bomb, we keep trying to engage with @StateDept leaders/diplomats/clerks who for years serve up insulting mantras. Their games sicken us. Washington pretends not to notice US justice being trashed.
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