What does Lempert think about this failure to get Jordan to budge even a tiny bit? “There’s an empty seat at the table of the Negev Forum where Jordan should be,” she told the Senate committee. But the PA people view any attempt at normalization with Israel as a hostile act against them, so Jordan, whose entire water supply depends on Israel, chose not to come. Jordan didn’t show up even for the Lapid government, because the PA people hadn’t been invited. The Negev Forum was an attempt to normalize relations with Israel through security, water, food, energy, health, education, and tourism. When the government Biden liked was still in charge, Lempert led US efforts to build upon the Negev Summit that included Israel, Bahrain, Egypt, Morocco, the United States, and the United Arab Emirates. Or, in English, nothing will be done, folks. I would want, if confirmed, to get out there and try and work on this and see if we can make progress in other ways.” But when pressed by Cruz who asked if continued Jordanian refusal to extradite the terrorist would lead to withholding military and economic assistance from Jordan, she answered, “This would need to be weighed very carefully against the range of issues and priorities that we have with the Jordanians before considering such a step, which I think would be profound. “If confirmed, I will do everything in my power to ensure that Ahlam Tamimi faces justice in the United States for horrific crimes,” she promised. Or, as Lempert put it in Diplomatese, first stressing what “a difficult and frustrating issue this has been for the Congress, for those of us in the executive branch, but most of all for the families of the American citizen victims of Ahlam Tamimi’s horrific crimes - Malki Roth and Shoshana Judith Greenbaum.” In March 2021, Interpol dropped its arrest warrant for Tamimi. There still is a $5 million reward for Tamimi’s capture, so if you’re athletic and can drive fast cars across international borders, by all means, go for it. Jordanian courts ruled that Tamimi should not be extradited, since Jordan’s extradition treaty with the US has not been ratified by the Jordanian parliament. There were also 130 injured, including Chana Nachenberg, who remains hospitalized in a permanent vegetative state. The Sbarro attack dead included 13 Israelis, two Americans: Malki Roth and Shoshana Judith Greenbaum, and one Brazilian, all of them civilians. But now things will get better.īack to Senator Cruz’s effort to challenge Lempert’s nomination: on July 15, 2013, the Obama Justice Department filed criminal charges in the District of Columbia against Tamimi for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction against US nationals outside the US, resulting in death. Yes, that had a tumultuous reception over in Amman. The “tumult” stemmed from President Donald Trump’s decision to implement the Clinton Administration’s law that called to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, following which Trump moved the US embassy to Jerusalem. Also, as Haaretz put it on Thursday, “As ambassador, Lempert would play a central role in the Biden administration’s ongoing significant efforts in reestablishing ties with Jordan following years of tumult under the Trump administration.” In her committee confirmation hearing, Lempert pointed out Jordan’s “indispensable role” in deescalating tensions between Israel and the PA Arabs. Both are Jewish, naturally, and both are in an unprecedented position to poison the relationship between Israel and the US. Of all the dangerous, anti-Israel Obama hands in the Biden administration, Lempert’s only equal is Rob Malley, Biden’s special envoy to the Iran nukes negotiations. Just to be clear, nothing appears in any Jordanian media that is not approved by the Royal Hashemite Court. She began presenting her own weekly TV show called “Breezes of the Free” (“نسيم الأحرار”), which was produced and shown worldwide weekly from Jordan by Hamas for nearly five years, starting February 2012. Just weeks after her release she began to appear regularly in Jordanian media. ![]() She was sentenced by an Israeli military tribunal to 16 terms life imprisonment but was released in 2011 as part of the Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange. ![]() There are video and photos of her presenting the evening news after the attack. She then presented the evening news on a now defunct Ramallah TV station, called Al-Istaqlal. When they reached Sha’ar Schechem, they walked together to the entrance to the Sbarro restaurant, where, by her own account, she instructed him on what to and then fled. ![]() Tamimi carried the guitar case for him through the crossing as part of the deception. Ahlam Tamimi and Al-Masri, the human bomb whose head was blown off when he detonated the explosives-filled guitar case on his back, came by taxi and bus via the Kalandia Crossing.
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