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A thunderous explosion surprised Israel’s capital Aug. 9, 2001, destroying a crowded Sbarro pizzeria.
Seven of the 16 murdered in the Jerusalem blast have been kids. One was my daughter Malki, 15, killed as she waited in line to order lunch.
The United States has failed for more than a decade to implement the extradition of the bragging jihadist who faces trial in Washington for what she calls “my operation.”
Ahlam Tamimi, a native Jordanian, walked free from an Israeli jail as half of a 2011 deal the Jewish state was extorted to do with Hamas. She has since lived a life of celeb in Jordan.
But President Trump can carry justice to a murdered American.
Frimet and Arnold Roth search justice for his or her murdered daughter Malki. Jonathan Bloom
Consider whom Jordan harbors.
Tamimi, then a journalism pupil, part-time TV newsreader and at 21 the first lady ever admitted to Hamas’ terrorist ranks, fastidiously chosen the fast-food outlet.
She boasted in a viral interview she focused the pizzeria as a result of of the crowds of Jewish kids inside and the proximity of a Jewish spiritual faculty.
Tamimi’s Hamas handlers furnished her with a human bomb — a younger, radicalized Islamist lugging a guitar case filled with explosives and flesh-ripping nails.
She introduced him to the entrance of the crowded Sbarro, then fled to security as he detonated, ending his own life and plenty of others.
A 2001 terrorist assault on a Jerusalem Sbarro killed 16 people. AP
Confessing to all costs in an Israeli court docket, she was convicted and sentenced to 16 life phrases with a judicial suggestion that she by no means be launched in any future deal.
The judges have been ignored. Israel freed 1,027 convicted terrorists together with Tamimi in 2011 to get the release of Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit, held hostage by Hamas for 5 years.
Tamimi’s arrival at Amman’s airport was a riotous celebration.
Settling back in Jordan, Tamimi’s celeb soared alongside along with her affect.
She hosted a weekly made-in-Jordan speak show on Al-Quds TV for 5 years, selling terrorism. Her standing as an advocate for ideological homicide earned her broad help throughout the Arab world.
Few Americans knew since mainstream US information channels didn’t report it.
Arnold Roth celebrating his birthday together with his daughter Malki simply a few months earlier than her homicide. Courtesy of Arnold Roth
Noting the deaths of three Americans (Malki was one) in the Sbarro assault, in 2017 the US Justice Department unsealed long-secret terrorism costs towards Tamimi and requested that Amman extradite her underneath the bilateral 1995 US-Jordan treaty.
That identical week, a Jordanian superior court docket declared the long-standing treaty invalid. The grounds have been doubtful, citing a failure Jordan alone precipitated and will have fixed.
The State Department pushed gently back towards the Jordanian ruling, asserting in a 2024 terrorism report the extradition treaty “is in force” underneath worldwide law.
Jordan, stonewalling, persists in shielding Tamimi — however retains pocketing $1.7 billion in annual US assist.
The State Department’s response? Toothless mantras about “impressing upon” Jordan that Tamimi must face justice.
This bureaucratic inertia betrays Tamimi’s American victims.
The bloodbath mastermind, Ahlam Tamimi, hosted a weekly speak show selling terrorism. YouTube
Jordan performs a cynical sport, appeasing its Islamist base because it retains Tamimi protected whereas posing as a reasonable although very needy US ally, reaping White House visits and congressional reward.
My spouse, Frimet, and I are in a years-long battle to get justice. We’ve sought media interviews, met US ambassadors, despatched letters, delivered a petition with 30,000 signatures — however face silence and bureaucratic partitions that protect the decision-makers.
The State Department treats us as a nuisance, evidently swayed by Jordan’s “loyal friend” image.
Tamimi mocks us and the different victims’ households. She bragged to Al Jazeera in 2019 that Jordan’s safety provides her “strength.”
On that, she’s proper. For too long, US taxpayer {dollars} have protected our daughter’s assassin, abetting her standing as a form of divinely sanctioned icon.
President Trump can break this cycle by demanding Jordan extradite Tamimi as the treaty requires.
Taking this long-thwarted measure will ship a important message: Breaching bilateral pacts has a price.
Jordan, depending on the United States in a number of methods, can not defy a decided administration.
Extraditing Tamimi would underscore that Trump prioritizes American life and honor over political deal-making.
Justice — for Malki and different Americans murdered by jihadist terrorists — calls for that Middle Eastern leaders rediscover some respect for the United States.
A retired lawyer and supervisor in Israel’s advanced-technology industry, Arnold Roth devotes his time to advocacy for special-needs kids. He and his spouse, Frimet, established the Malki Foundation to honor the reminiscence of their murdered daughter.
