On the anniversary of the tragic Sbarro bombing which occurred on August 9th, 2001
With King Abdullah's visiting Washington at the invitation of Pres. Biden, it is most appropriate to share this open letter addressed to the Jordanian monarch.
Don't let anyone tell you differently: money is a key enabler in the Palestinian Arab descent into the horrors exemplified by what Abbas. Ghannam and the now-deceased knifer Halabi did.
Interpol as succumbed to pressure from the Tamimi family, lawyers and clan in Jordan and has cancelled the Red Notice which operated until now to encourage member governments to arrest her if she enters their jurisdiction.
Or — perhaps, in the wake of the Abraham Accords — does King Abdullah see normalization with Israelis as the wave of the future and Tamimi as an impediment?
{Reposted from the authors' blog} No one was hurt. But that was surely not the intention of the perpetrators behind four terror attacks directed against Israelis in the past few days. In four separate attempts this past weekend, terrorists sought to carry out lethal attacks directed at Israelis targeted at random. Two happened on the […]
Tamimi, who is adept at, and depends on, social media, is currently operating yet another Instagram account. Her previous accounts there as well as on Twitter and Facebook have been shut down one after the other. This one - which we prefer not identify at this stage - is still going and we have asked for it to be taken down too.
{Originally posted to the authors' blog} This is an open letter. Minister HE Dr Ayman Hussein Abdullah Al-Safadi, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Queen Alia Airport Street, Amman 11180 Jordan Dear Mr Safadi, Thank you. In a rare announcement as Jordan's foreign minister, you […]
King Abdullah II of Jordan refuses to extradite terrorist Ahlam Tamimi to the US.
Jordan cast its vote in favor of the jihadists.
How to say this politely? As terror victims, the parents of a child murdered by an Islamist terrorist in the service of Hamas, our experience hasn't brought us to feel that the UN - or really anyone else in the world of major organizations - stands in solidarity with us.
The weaponization of Palestinian Arab children by their own society, even by their own families, is so incomprehensible to outsiders that it seems many deny its reality for that reason alone.
Finally, something worth reading in the paper that claims it "All the News That's Fit to Print,"
The deal made to release Shalit only gets worse with time.
Our partners-in-peace, the Palestinian Authority and its president-for-life Mahmoud Abbas, are taking pains once again to lay out how peace is going to come about, and more specifically, how not.
How much damage did Israel do to itself by engaging with the terrorist thugs of Hamas in the 2011 Gilad Shalit transaction?
The alert editors at JewishPress.com noticed that Jordan did condemn the shooting attack in the middle of last night - and then, shortly after, removed it.
By Frimet Roth
Why is the murder of Jewish children in Jerusalem not deemed as horrific and intolerable as that of the children in Manchester. I have one explanation for the double standard and it starts with an "A"
Jordan has a 22 year-old extradition treaty with the United States, but has decided to repudiate it. We have been writing about the implications of this brazen strategy and would appreciate the help of our readers in giving these posts some wider exposure
By Frimet Roth
Netanyahu has not raised the Tamimi extradition matter with the Jordanian king, so you’ll forgive us our cynicism when Netanyahu dons expressions of gravitas and compassion, as he undoubtedly will do on Yom Hazikaron
Barghouti paid for the explosives that destroyed Jerusalem's Sbarro pizzeria and killed our daughter Malki. He then sheltered several of the members of the Hamas gang that executed the massacre
By Frimet Roth
Please share this post, thereby intensifying the pressure on Jordan's ruler, essential to extraditing Tamimi. The US DoJ said this is the ONLY chance this evil woman will be brought to justice.
Jordan, despite protestations to the contrary, never had a problem giving Tamimi major public platforms giving her 'celebrity-murderer' status. Will Jordan ever honor its treaty obligations to the US?
The wheels of justice have finally gone into motion; hopefully, justice will soon be served.
Ahmed Daqamseh was given a rousing welcome in his home village in northern Jordan after being freed on Sunday. He expressed no remorse for the killings.
No one serious is saying the Palestinian Arabs don't need aid or shouldn't get it. The problem is that foreign aid to the Palestinian Arab gets turned by them into something lethal and hideous.
The fires and the price paid by Israeli society are very much in the news here. Much less reported are the very widespread sounds of celebration from right across the Arab world.
The world's most important media platforms burnish Erekat's standing, providing him with a world-class megaphone for views that it's generous to called bigoted and loathsome.
Are the minds and hearts of families irretrievably damaged by terror filled with thoughts of vengeance, of bloodshed and of evening the score? Apparently NOT.
Today, the 20th day of Av, is the anniversary of the murder of our daughter Malki. along with her closest friend and 13 other innocent victims in a Hamas terror attack inside the Sbarro pizzeria
Rule of thumb: It almost never suits BBC editors to use the word terror when describing any act of savagery, no matter how transparently jihadist in nature, when such acts are directed at Israelis.
Ahlam al-Tamimi is a genuine pan-Arab celebrity an eloquent figure energetically advocating from Jordan for more violence, more murder and more jihad - all directed at Jewish and Israeli targets.
The survey reveals a significant and ongoing passion on the part of a significant overall majority of Palestinian Arabs for Arab-on-Israeli knifing attacks:
The world doesn't know about the "near-misses" or failed attacks in daily Arab-on-Israeli terror war
The key characteristic is that many, probably most, of these attacks are done by Arab kids and teens
According to Haas, there seems to be no such thing as Arabs committing terror.
The escalating weaponization of children by the Palestinian Arab leadership goes unreported by MSM
So long as Abbas and his cronies rule, there's no hope for tolerance or non-violence from their side
The attacker at Huwwara Checkpoint was the 3rd Palestinian Arab 16 yr-old child to be killed today
Journalists, reporters, editors, photographers have a huge influence on what people THINK they know.
Reports of a dead baby, a devastated family, and indications of a gloating attacker.
In all the years (and this week it's exactly 14 years) since our daughter was murdered, we have not found a single Arabic-language post, article, tweet or speech condemning that attack in the center of Jerusalem or the killings.
Shalit Deal advocates: "Israel must do whatever it takes" to free Gilad; This proved deadly nonsense
The targets: Ordinary unarmed Israeli civilians, preferably sleeping.
BBC GUIDELINES ON TERRORISM: The word "terrorist" itself can be a barrier rather than an aid...
Australian Ambassador to Israel ran to the hospital in J'm to visit the wounded and to donate blood
It's very bad news indeed that the idea of terrorist release is once again under discussion.
The Palestinians remain below the age of responsibility; the source of their behavior always in Israel’s actions.
Our daughter Malki was murdered, because she was Jewish,, by unrepentant Arab terrorists.
Tragedies continue emanating from the decision to release 1000+ terrorists from Israeli prisons.
A rocket from Gaza failed to make it over the fence. It crashed somewhere on the Hamas-controlled side.
UNRWA's numbers mean half the refugees in the world are Palestinian Arabs.
Mrs. Obama, our daughter's murder by another Islamist terror group - Hamas - was also unconscionable.
By Frimet Roth
To commemorate Remembrance Day, Netanyahu has, so generously, dealt us yet another blow.
The grandaughter of an Auschwitz survivor was murdered in a terrorist massacre in Jerusalem.
The State Department is said to want the court to intervene on Arab Bank's behalf for foreign policy reasons.
World Council of Churches expresses solidarity with "Palestinians" 'languishing' in Israeli prisons.
Gazans are among the principal victims of the terror-addicted Hamas Islamists.
By Frimit Roth
The EU pretends it doesn't know the PA pays terrorists and murders using EU funds.
By Frimit Roth
Abbas attacked and embraced the same Obama plan in 24 hours.
The PA is not capable of making historic decisions.
Hamas spokesman Sami Abu-Zuhri has a proclivity for turning what most would consider weighty matters into 'non-issues.'
No bomber ever exploded because she or he wants to commit suicide.
A few months ago Barack Obama declared that al-Qaeda was “on the path to defeat.”
Alert Guardianistas will now appreciate that robbery is caused by banks, and traffic accidents by roads.
King’s sensitive, delicate words moved me.
There are three additional rounds of convicted-terrorist releases, 78 more killers and terrorist thugs.
Netanyahu: "The release of prisoners before the conference is not the path to peace, it is the path to terror."
The judges who sentenced him expressed regret that condemning Abdullah Barghouti to the death penalty was not an option available to them.
The news media are focused on other things, and the victims are remembered mainly by those who knew and loved them.
The Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization is having an open feud with the Hamas overlords.
It can be hard to get people to read full-length articles, especially about obscure dimensions of the incomprehensible Middle East and its never ending conflicts...
Bulgaria's sensitive relations with the Islamic world and geolocation in the eastern Mediterranean are clearly part of the squeeze in which its leaders now find themselves.
Hezbollah has not always been as open about the murderous role it is playing in the Syrian killing fields.
Playing the usual black-is-white games, the catalog notes say the people depicted are "those who lost their lives fighting against the occupation.”
It's sadly familiar to hear Abbas invoking cultural values that reject kidnapping and hostage-taking while threatening to do exactly that.
You can't blame the French for wanting to minimize their made-in-Europe Islamic terror problem. The problem is with how reality keeps messing with comfortable theories.
It was only in 20120 that Geneva Initiative featured Jibril Rajoub in their 'peace partner' ad campaign.
It's a mistake to think that it's only the Islamist ultra-extremists of Hamas that are busy promoting self-destruction among the children of Palestinian Arab society.
We have never understood how Abbas continues to be called 'moderate.'
Canadian Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Jason Kenney blamed the 'old policies' for the grant of a pardon and permanent residency to the accused terrorist.
Martyrdom-minded religious fanatics have a bad reputation in this part of the world, so this "folksy" sermon is less than good news.
Ordinary Syrians are paying with their lives for the double-talk about the 'refugees.'
The IDF's assessment, hardly surprising and certainly not for the first time, is that the attack on Eilat was made from the nearby Sinai Peninsula.
A highly regarded professor who is affiliated with Harvard engaged in anti-Israel rhetoric and a distortion of history.
When I stand silently with my neighbors while the tzefira, the siren, is sounding its awful wail, I am thinking of my daughter.
The South African doctor arrested and detained in Dubai was acquitted but may nevertheless be forced to remain there as the prosecution appeals.
The global media are roiling about the death of the terminally-ill Abu Hamdiyeh. Try googling for any mentions the one who died at the hands of Hamas.
Here's the response the New York Times didn't print regarding its feature on the Palestinian village that spawned the terrorist who killed our daughter.
One of the monsters produced by Nabi Selah is the Ahlam Tamimi, the terrorist who killed our daughter Malki and now, due to the Shalit deal, roams free in Jordan promoting violence against Israel.
Salafists are frequently refered to in relation to Islamist terror. It is a slippery descriptor that is sometimes used in contradictory ways.
There's something sadly familiar about political figures looking back at terror attacks that occurred when their rivals were in charge and declaring that it was all handled badly.
European politics is populated by a multitude of individuals who are hopelessly ambivalent about Islamists.
The UN peacekeeping force on the Syrian side of the Syria-Israel border, UNDOF, has been scaling down activities in fear of attacks.
Lawlessness in the Sinai is growing and the danger of terrorists taking control is huge.
The terror unit's leader is still at large in Gaza.
Israel supplies 125 megawatts of electricity to the Gaza Strip from the power station in Ashkelon that has come under repeated rocket fire over the past six years.
Abdullah Barghouti, who murdered our daughter and receives a monthly salary from the PA, is just one example of how the West is funding terror.
Palestinian Arab terrorism is subsidized and rewarded by money from Western sources.
Hezbollah is preparing for the next conflict with Israel.
