JN-1292. 9 June 2025, 13 Sivan, 5785.
Contents:
1. Frimet and Arnold Roth demand Justice!
Parents of Sbarro bombing victim urge US to demand Hamas terrorist's extradition.
2. Ecuador forms Israel Allies Caucus, bolstering bilateral bonds.
3. The Borders of King David, 'from the Euphrates to the River of Egypt.'
Or Us or them!
The Modern Jewish Prophet Who Predicted France's Two-State Betrayal
by
Elie Mischel
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1. Frimet and Arnold Roth demand Justice!
Parents of Sbarro bombing victim urge US to demand Hamas terrorist's extradition
Ahlam Tamimi, who played central role in 2001 Jerusalem attack that killed 16 and injured 130, has lived freely in Jordan since her 2011 release
https://www.timesofisrael.com/parents-of-sbarro-bombing-victim-urge-us-to-demand-hamas-terrorists-extradition/?utm_source=The+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=daily-edition-2025-06-04&utm_medium=email
By Nava FreibergToday, 3:27 pm
Extracts:
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee meets with Frimet and Arnold Roth at the US Embassy in Jerusalem on May 13, 2025. (Courtesy)
Frimet and Arnold Roth, the parents of Malki Roth, a US citizen who was killed at age 15 in the 2001 Sbarro Pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem, met last month with US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee to deliver a petition urging the extradition of the attack's orchestrator, Hamas terrorist Ahlam Tamimi, from Jordan.
'This is a matter of justice for the families of murdered Americans,' Arnold Roth told Huckabee during a May 13 meeting at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, according to a statement released by the family on Tuesday.
The Roths presented Huckabee with a petition bearing 30,000 signatures demanding that Washington press Jordan to extradite Tamimi, who was convicted in an Israeli court of playing a central role in the suicide bombing that killed 16 people, including seven children and a pregnant woman, and injured 130.
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Tamimi found shelter in Jordan after being released from prison in a 2011 deal in which Israel freed 1,027 terrorists in exchange for captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
There she has lived freely, holding citizenship, hosting a TV program, giving lectures and making numerous public appearances extolling the bombing.
'What brought us to the embassy was remembrance, but also justice,' Arnold Roth said at the meeting with Huckabee. 'Justice in the Tamimi prosecution has been thwarted for years and barely mentioned publicly by the very US officials who bear the responsibility of bringing the fugitive to trial.'
'We came to implore the government represented by Ambassador Huckabee to carry out its duty to protect and stand for American victims of terrorism abroad.'
The petition was submitted for delivery to US President Donald Trump, US Attorney General Pam Bondi, and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio. It urges Jordan to honor its 1995 extradition treaty with the US, according to the family's statement.
'Tamimi has never shown the smallest degree of remorse. The massacre she spearheaded made her a celebrity in Jordan and beyond,' Arnold Roth said in the meeting.
"It is unconscionable that Jordan, a lavishly funded beneficiary of US taxpayer-funded aid, has enabled her to be glorified as an icon while her victims' families ' including American families, are ignored," he said.
The Roths presented Huckabee with a photo of Malki's shattered phone, recovered from the attack site, on which she had written a Hebrew message about the Jewish prohibition against speaking ill of others. 'This phone is one of the few physical traces we have left of Malki,' her father told the ambassador.
The Roths have for years lobbied the American government to pressure Jordan to extradite Tamimi in accordance with a US-Jordan bilateral agreement. In 2017, the terrorist was indicted in US federal court and a $5 million bounty was put on her head by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Police and medics surround the scene of a suicide bombing inside Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant, Thursday, August 9, 2001. Fifteen people were killed, and 130 injured. A sixteenth victim died in 2023. (AP/Peter Dejong)
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2. Ecuador forms Israel Allies Caucus, bolstering bilateral bonds.
Ecuador announces it is launching an Israel Allies Caucus in August, comprising 10 lawmakers, to strengthen bilateral ties, particularly in security cooperation.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409657
Extracts:
Members of the new Ecuadorian caucus have signed a Declaration of Solidarity and Friendship with the State of Israel, reaffirming Ecuador's longstanding support, including its 1947 United Nations vote for the establishment of the Jewish state. Diplomatic ties between Israel and Ecuador were established in 1950 and have remained robust for 75 years.
Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa visited Israel in May, where he inaugurated an innovation center in Jerusalem and met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog.
Noboa also visited the Western Wall Plaza while in Israel, where he was seen wearing the hostages' pin on his lapel.
Following his Israel visit, Noboa indicated that Israel, alongside the United Arab Emirates, would provide intelligence to assist Ecuador in its efforts against drug cartels.
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3. The Borders of King David, 'from the Euphrates to the River of Egypt.'
Or Us or them!
The Modern Jewish Prophet Who Predicted France's Two-State Betrayal
by
Elie Mischel
https://israel365news.com/409461/the-modern-jewish-prophet-who-predicted-frances-two-state-betrayal/?utm_
Extracts:
The Torah defines our inheritance clearly: 'from the Euphrates to the River of Egypt' (Genesis 15:18). These boundaries appear repeatedly whenever God speaks of the land promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
..... these frontiers 'are not arbitrary limits' but reflect divine geopolitical wisdom.
.... Our enemies correctly recognize that Jewish return to any part of this land will lead to expanding frontiers. This is why they demand not just a Palestinian state but Israel's complete destruction, rooted in both territorial ambition and the Islamic belief that Jews are heretics who deserve death. ....
Recent polling shows that 59% of Arabs in Judea and Samaria still approve of Hamas's October 7th massacre. The world wants us to uproot hundreds of thousands of Jews and hand their homes to a Palestinian state governed by those who celebrate Jewish death.
Over 500,000 Jews now live in the very territories that the world insists we abandon. Jewish children attend schools in Ariel and Efrat. Torah learning fills the hills where Abraham walked and David ruled. ...
This is where we need the vision of King David. When the tribes of Israel were scattered and disunited, David envisioned a united kingdom and made it reality. When Jerusalem was still an unconquered Jebusite city, David saw it as Israel's eternal capital and the site of the Temple. David was called Poretz, the one who bursts forth, breaks through barriers that others accept as permanent. Like his ancestor Peretz, whose very name means 'bursting forth.' David refused the world's limitations and shattered the narrow 'realistic' perspective that had paralyzed his people.
The prophet Joel warned that God would judge the nations for dividing his land (Joel 3:2).