Jerusalem News
(30 November 2020, 14 Kislev 5781)
Contents:
1. 29-Nov-20: After years of embracing terror against Israelis, what will it take for Jordan to extradite the Sbarro bomber to Washington?
2. Obama Allowed Iran the Use of Billions! Money went to subsidize Muslim Rebels, Terror, and work on Nucleasr Bombs
3. Palestinians Continuing to Spread Blood Libels About Israelis!
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1. 29-Nov-20: After years of embracing terror against Israelis, what will it take for Jordan to extradite the Sbarro bomber to Washington?
http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/
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King Abdullah II has tolerated, and even capitalized, on the hatred and extreme violence that Ahlam Tamimi personifies; is he finally leading his people away from all that?
BY GREGG M. MASHBERG AND ARNOLD ROTH
Are we perhaps, just perhaps, seeing the beginning of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan finally purging itself of FBI Most Wanted Terrorist Ahlam Tamimi?
You may remember the massive terrorist bombing of a Sbarro pizzeria in central Jerusalem during the deadly summer of 2001. The attack killed 15 people, including eight children, and approximately 130 were wounded, many grievously.
[Two of her Sbarro victims were American nationals.]
Tamimi, the Hamas operative who selected the busy restaurant for unspeakable carnage, went on record afterwards saying it was all about the children. Her goal was to kill as many of them as possible.
Tamimi delivered the human bomb, a young Islamist zealot with a guitar case slung across his shoulder filled with explosives encased in nails to magnify the flesh-ripping effect, to the target site. She chose Sbarro precisely because she knew it would be filled with kids having lunch.
The spearhead of the massacre, Tamimi was 21 at the time, Jordanian by birth and upbringing, and a student at a Palestinian Authority university with a night job reading the news on camera at a Palestinian Authority TV station. As police and rescuers thronged the smoking remains of the pizzeria, helping survivors and tending to the maimed and murdered, she made it back to the Ramallah studio in time to present that evening's bulletin. For perhaps the first time in the annals of journalism, the horrific crime that opened the program was the work of the person icily delivering the news report.
What's extraordinary about the events that followed is how Jordan has kept the Sbarro mastermind safe, famous, comfortable and influential in the most toxic sense of the word for the past nine years.
Under a treaty between the two countries signed in 1995, Jordan has handed over a string of fugitive terrorists who are now incarcerated in American prisons. But not Tamimi.
Little reported in the US media, Jordanians, with no apparent sign of dissent, have embraced Tamimi as a hero and inspiration. But now there are signs that Jordan's King Abdullah II, whose government has spent most of the past decade shielding Tamimi from American justice, may finally be looking to bring her nine-year Jordanian honeymoon to an end.
Upon her release from an Israeli prison in 2011 as part of a prisoner deal, Tamimi received a tumultuous welcome back in her native Jordan. Within weeks, she was hosting a TV program of her own. With its dreamy title, 'Breezes of the Free' was a Hamas/Muslim Brotherhood production, beamed by satellite from Jordan every week to Arabic-speaking audiences the world over, promoting the cause of Palestinian Arab terror.
In the summer of 2012, Tamimi married a cousin from her Tamimi clan, Nizar Tamimi, himself a convicted murder whom, like her, Israel released, despite having sentenced him to life. Their festive wedding was covered live by several Arab TV stations.
She has gone on to develop a high profile in Jordan and, via a series of speaking tours in the region, beyond its borders and in the Arabic media.
Ahlam Tamimi's triumphant career in the public eye has sent a profound message. The Tamimi juggernaut tells Jordanians and her fans everywhere that terror is not terror when its victims are Israelis. Israeli children, infants included, are fair targets for atrocities. Imprisoned terrorists are not prisoners but mere detainees and captives, victims of injustice who await the breezes that freed her from 16 life terms in an Israeli cell.
On March 14, 2017, the US Department of Justice unsealed a criminal complaint charging Tamimi with murdering two American nationals by means of a weapon of mass destruction. DOJ had kept the complaint under seal since 2013, as it attempted to extradite her to the US. The Jordanians refused and American diplomats apparently viewed themselves as helpless in the face of Jordanian intransigence.
Late last year, however, Congress provided authority, if not a mandate, to stop bankrolling Jordan to the tune of approximately $1.5 billion per year if it continues to dishonor its extradition obligation.
Just days later, and with no media coverage, Jordan notified Nizar Tamimi that his residence visa was ending and would not be extended. On October 1, Nizar Tamimi, who unlike his wife is not a Jordanian citizen, left for Qatar, declaring he had been deported.
Ahlam Tamimi, outraged, promptly launched a public relations campaign claiming Jordan had violated her human rights by depriving her of the company of her husband.
Ahlam Tamimi has never made a secret of how much she wanted to murder Jewish children
Yet despite the hopeful signs, is the Sbarro monster right when she proclaims that Jordanians 'are all Ahlam Tamimi'? Will Jordanians rally to protect her?
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2. Obama Allowed Iran the Use of Billions! Money went to subsidize Muslim Rebels, Terror, and work on Nuclear Bombs
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Iranian MP Alireza Zakani says the Obama administration gave Iran's regime $1.7 billion in unmarked cash, with $400 million in suitcases.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1328366027307180034.html
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/former-iranian-official-pro-tehran-lobbyist-hosted-obama-white-house-dozens-times/
Adam Kredo - JANUARY 23, 2017 2:15 PM
Sources familiar with the nature of the meetings told the Washington Free Beacon that both Parsi and Mousavian helped the [Obama] White House craft its pro-Iran messaging and talking points that helped lead to the nuclear agreement with Iran. These efforts were part of a larger pro-Iran deal "echo chamber" led by senior Obama administration officials who were tasked with misleading Congress about the nature of the deal.
Mousavian, who also served as Iran's spokesperson during negotiations with the international community on the Iran deal, visited with White House National Security Council official Robert Malley, who advised the former president about the Middle East and the Islamic State terror group.
"Mousavian was Iran's ambassador to Germany back in the 1990s, when that embassy was the central node of Iran's European terror network and those in Germany were murdering dissidents in Berlin," one veteran Iran analyst who frequently works with Congress on the issue told the Free Beacon. "Later he came to the U.S., where he's being paid for with tens of thousands of dollars from the Ploughshares Fund, which funded the Ben Rhodes echo chamber."
Peter Kohanloo, president of the Iranian American Majority, which opposes the hardline regime in Tehran, said that advocates such as Mousavian and Parsi played a key role in ensuring the Iran deal was inked.
"I would say the fact that the Iranian regime's top advocate had such a high level of access to the Obama White House tells you everything you need to know about how the nuclear deal was made and why President Trump rightfully called it a bad deal," Kohanloo said. "The new administration should immediately rethink its approach to the Iranian threat and discard the policies of the past."
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3. Palestinians Continuing to Spread Blood Libels About Israelis
https://www.jns.org/pa-kids-show-israel-deliberately-killing-palestinian-children/
(November 25, 2020 / JNS) To mark International Children's Day, Palestinian children were taught that Israel deliberately targets and murders them, Palestinian Media Watch reported on Tuesday.
In the Nov. 21 episode of the children's program 'The Best Home,' which airs on official P.A. television, host Walaa al-Battat said: 'Unfortunately, and this is a very painful thing that I want to tell you about, a number of friends have lost their right to live because the occupation is deliberately killing the Palestinian children, and this is a very painful thing.'
The same claim was made during an official P.A. TV news broadcast the day before by a reporter stating that Israel murders Palestinian children in 'random summary executions,' according to PMW.