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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.
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On very rare occasions, journalists have asked the @StateDept why the US allows lavishly-funded US ally Jordan, obliged by treaty to extradite fugitives like Tamimi when the US requests it, to keep getting away with harboring her. This mantra is the usual response.
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The @StateDept is acutely aware of the #Tamimi case: a fugitive shamefully harbored by Jordan from US prosecution. While @NedPrice speaks of US determination to get justice and accountability in *other* cases, he never mentions Malki Roth, one of Tamimi's American victims.
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No one in Washington thinks Jordan is entitled to shield Tamimi from the 2013 US charges. But fugitive Tamimi is widely admired in Jordan for what she did. And Jordan has powerful friends. So US officials just keep claiming to "seek her extradition" and there's no push-back.
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Mr @StateDeptSpox:
Our child, an American, was murdered in a massacre spearheaded by a boastful Jordanian savage who's built 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.
It's Malki.
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The mainstream media are content to divert US attention from the details of how Jordan, a lavishly-funded US ally and treaty partner, stands in solidarity with an indicted killer of innocents, some of them Americans. This petition [change.org/ExtraditeTamimi] is a way to protest.
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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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To our friends in the @TheDemocrats:
The extradition of @Sbarro monster, @FBIMostWanted fugitive #AhlamTamimi, has been blocked for years by Jordan. It obscenely opposes US efforts to prosecute her and says the 1995 extradition treaty obliging them to hand her over is invalid.
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But it is valid. #Tamimi doesn't deny her key role in the murder of our daughter Malki, 15. Since 2012, my wife and I have pressed the relevant parties to end this charade and get the fugitive into @FBI custody. That we haven't succeeded isn't for lack of trying.
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To our dismay, the @StateDept keeps wanting what we want - #Tamimi in US court facing US justice as US law requires - but says it via what we view as pointless mantras... while routinely praising and rewarding Jordan at every opportunity. Clearly something's wrong.
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Five years ago today, a Jordanian court rejected a US request for the extradition to Washington of confessed bomber #AhlamTamimi, whose victims included US nationals. The 1995 extradition treaty was invalid, it ruled, since Jordan had not complied with its own laws in signing it.
2/ In reality, Jordan has extradition treaties with multiple countries that it respects. As for the US treaty, it respected that too between 1995 and 2017. The legal "flaw" could have been easily fixed and still can. Jordan's leaders clearly prefer it to be thought of as broken.
3/ Documents we obtained from the @StateDept via a FOIA suit in 2021 show that (unmentioned by the Jordanian court) the 1995 treaty was ratified by King Hussein, father of today's king.