Jamil Tamimi, who killed a British exchange student in Jerusalem, is getting away with an 18-month sentence.

By TPS

Jamil Tamimi, an Arab resident of east Jerusalem who stabbed a British exchange student to death on a Jerusalem train in April 2017, will serve only 18 months in jail after reaching a plea bargain with prosecutors. They were concerned that he could escape punishment altogether, as he suffers from mental illness.

According to Israel’s public broadcaster Kan, Tamimi will also escape having to pay compensation to the victim’s family.

Tamimi stabbed Hannah Bladon, 20, as she rode on the Jerusalem Light Rail. A religion, theology and archaeology student, she was in Israel on an exchange program from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

According to media reports at the time, Tamimi was known to security services. He had been convicted of molesting his own daughter and spent time in a psychiatric ward. The day before the attack, he was released from a mental health center after being involved in a violent incident.

The State Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement that prior to any agreement being signed, it could not comment on the details.

The office is in “constant contact with the parents of the deceased through their attorney and any decision will only be made after hearing the position of the victim’s parents,” the statement said.

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“The prestigious soccer club of Real Madrid embraces a terrorist inciting to hatred and violence. Shameful,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon tweeted.

By: Adina Katz, World Israel News

Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian anti-Israel teenage activist who recently completed an eight-month sentence in an Israeli prison for slapping and kicking an IDF soldier in December 2017, was welcomed to the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium by the Real Madrid soccer club on Friday, reported Spanish sports newspaper Marca.

“Along with her family, the teenager has been spending time in Spain this week and has taken part in several political and social events,” Marca said.

Read Madrid football legend Emilio Butragueno welcomed Tamimi at the Bernabeu, where he presented her with a shirt with her name and the No.9 printed on the back.

“The prestigious soccer club of Real Madrid embraces a terrorist inciting to hatred and violence. Shameful,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon tweeted.

“Ahed Tamimi is promoting violence against Israeli citizens. @realmadrid-receiving a terrorist that incites hatred and violence is something that has nothing to do with universal football values,” he added.

In an interview with AP upon her release from jail, Tamimi , who has praised the Hezbollah terrorist leader Hassan Nasrallah, said she wants to become be the “new face of Palestinian resistance” and expects to have a “political future.” She is currently on a speaking tour in Europe with her father, Bassem Tamimi, who has traveled abroad to promote an anti-Israel agenda.

In 2011, Bassem Tamimi he was convicted and jailed for inciting minors to commit violent crimes when he was caught organizing children in his village of Nabi Saleh, where the family lives, to march towards the neighboring Israeli community of Halamish and throw stones.

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“There is no legal prohibition, and clearly there is pressure from the Israeli security forces, so we will ask to remove this injustice,” Bassem Tamimi said of the alleged ban.

By: World Israel News Staff

Members of Ahed Tamimi‘s family claim that Israel is barring their exit from the country, the Ha’aretz daily reported Saturday.

According to the family, they were notified by the Palestinian District Coordination and Liaison Administration of the ban.

The report quotes an Israeli security source who confirmed the family’s claim, but the Shin Bet (Israel’s Security Agency) stated that Tamimi, her parents and one of her brothers are barred from entering Israeli-administered territory only.

Tamimi was released in July from an Israeli prison after serving eight months for assaulting IDF soldiers and for incitement to terrorism.

Bassem Tamimi, Ahed’s father, told Ha’aretz that the family had been invited by human rights organizations for meetings in Europe. The flight was planned for Friday, but then they were allegedly notified of the ban.

“This is a pre-planned round of meetings for Belgium, France, and Spain for about 20 days, and the whole family has been invited,” Bassem said.

He charged that this was an arbitrary decision and “a continuation of the political persecution of Ahed and all members of the family.”

He said he would fight the decision. “There is no legal prohibition, and clearly there is pressure from the Israeli security forces, so we will ask to remove this injustice and we will also consider appealing to the courts.”

The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit did not comment on the report.

The notorious Tamimi clan

Nabi Saleh, a Palestinian village located in Samaria, is home to about 600 members of the extended Tamimi clan, which has been engaged in provocations and terrorism against Israel for years.

Tamimi’s mother Nariman was also imprisoned for incitement.

Bassem was arrested multiple times for rioting and inciting children to commit acts of terror. Israel has already banned him from traveling abroad.

In 2011, Bassem was convicted and jailed when caught organizing the village children to march towards the neighboring Jewish community of Halamish and throw rocks.

Ahlam Tamimi, described by the Hamas military wing as their first female recruit, is a first cousin of Bassem Tamimi and a Nabi Saleh native. Ahlam was a member of the Hamas terrorist cell that carried out the August 2001 bombing of the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, which claimed 15 victims.

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A Palestinian from the notorious Tamimi family was killed while attacking an IDF soldier with a rock at close range. 

By: World Israel News Staff

A Palestinian rioter was killed in the Ramallah area on Wednesday after attempting to attack an IDF soldier with a rock at close range.

The attacker hurled a large rock at IDF troops during a counter-terrorism arrest in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah.

A riot ensued during the arrest and IDF troops responded with riot dispersal means.

At one point, “one of the Palestinians flanked the troops and hurled the rock, striking a soldier’s head,” an IDF spokesperson tweeted.

In response, the targeted soldier fired towards the assailant, who was injured and given medical treatment at the scene. He subsequently died of his wounds.

He was identified by Palestinian media as Izzeddin Tamimi, 21.

Reports indicate that Tamimi was wanted by the IDF for a year.

No IDF troops were injured in the incident, which is “being examined,” the IDF stated.

The incident occurred just weeks after an Israeli soldier was killed in similar circumstances by a block that crushed his head.

The notorious Tamimi clan

Nabi Saleh is home to about 600 members of the extended Tamimi clan – including Izzeddin – which has been engaged in provocations and terrorism against Israel for years.

His cousin is Ahed Tamimi, who is currently imprisoned for assaulting IDF soldiers and incitement to terrorism. Her mother Nariman and cousin Nur were also charged with incitement.

Ahed’s Father and Izzeddin’s uncle, Bassem, has been arrested multiple times for rioting and inciting children to commit acts of terror. Israel has recently banned him from traveling abroad.

In 2011, Bassem was convicted and jailed when caught organizing the village children to march towards the neighboring Jewish community of Halamish and throw rocks.

Ahlam Tamimi, described by the Hamas military wing as their first female recruit, is a first cousin of Bassem Tamimi and a Nabi Saleh native. Ahlam was a member of the Hamas terrorist cell that carried out the August 2001 bombing of the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, which claimed 15 victims.

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Another Palestinian woman who was documented attacking IDF soldiers, in an attempt to provoke them and then film their reaction, was arrested. 

By: World Israel News Staff

Israeli forces early Wednesday morning arrested Nour Tamimi on charges of assault after she was seen on video hitting slapping and kicking IDF troops.

Tamimi, 20, was arrested at her home in the village of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah.

Nour appeared in a social media clip with her cousin Ahed assaulting two IDF soldiers in the village on Friday. With cameras filming the incident, it appeared to be an attempt to provoke them into a violent response. The troops maintained their composure and merely defended themselves from some of the harder blows.

Ahed Tamimi, 17, was arrested on charges of assault and incitement a day before. Her mother, Manal Tamimi, 45, a leader of the Popular Resistance Organizing Committee in Nabi Saleh and an anti-Semite who recently accused Jews of “drinking Palestinian blood,” was also detained hours later.

The Tamimi family has a long history of staging confrontations with IDF soldiers, which they film and photograph to serve as anti-Israel propaganda.

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Rather than heeding Abdullah’s threats of violence, Trump can tell him to prevent that violence by ending his media’s antisemitic incitement, extraditing terrorist Tamimi to the US, accepting the credentials of the Israeli ambassador, and reopening the Israeli embassy in Amman.

By: Caroline Glick
(First published in The Jerusalem Post)

Five months ago, 28-year-old Ziv Moyal, an Israeli security officer at Israel’s embassy in Amman, was stabbed in his apartment by a Jordanian assailant, whom he shot and killed.

Moyal also accidentally killed his Jordanian landlord, who was present on the scene.

In the immediate aftermath of the incident, incited by the state-controlled media, the Jordanian public was whipped into an anti-Israel frenzy. In short order, a mob surrounded the embassy, to which Moyal and another 20 Israeli diplomats fled immediately after the shooting.

For 24 hours, those Israeli diplomats, led by Ambassador Einat Schlein, were besieged.

Despite the fact that they are barred from doing so under the Vienna Convention, Jordanian authorities demanded to interrogate Moyal. By refusing to enable the diplomats to safely return to Israel until Moyal submitted to questioning, they effectively held Schlein and her colleagues hostage.

It took the intervention of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to end the life-threatening crisis. The price Jordan’s King Abdullah II exacted for the freedom and protection of Israel’s diplomatic personnel was high. In exchange for their safe passage, Netanyahu agreed to permit Jordanian officials to be present during Moyal’s questioning by Israeli officials. He also succumbed to Abdullah’s demand that Israeli police remove metal detectors from the Temple Mount, which had been deployed a few days before amid wide-scale violence by Muslim worshipers against Jews.

Since its diplomats were evacuated in July, Israel’s embassy has been closed. Jordan has refused to permit Schlein to return to her duties and has insisted that Moyal be tried for the death of his assailant and his landlord.

It was reported Wednesday that in the interest of ending the diplomatic crisis and reopening Israel’s embassy, Netanyahu has decided to promote Schlein to a senior position in the Foreign Ministry and appoint a replacement.

Israeli ambassador ‘not welcome in Jordan’

But Jordan isn’t interested in ending the crisis it deliberately precipitated.

On Thursday, Reuters quoted a Jordanian diplomatic source saying that a new Israeli ambassador “will not be welcome in Jordan until a due legal process takes its course [against Moyal] and justice is served.”

So, unless Israel criminally prosecutes its diplomat who was attacked in his home by a terrorist, Jordan will continue to breach its peace treaty with Israel and bar the Israeli embassy from operating in Amman.

Jordan’s latest round of diplomatic war against Israel took place while Abdullah was in Washington on a “working visit.”

More often than not, Abdullah, who is touted by the US as a moderate leader and a US ally, spends his visits in Washington lobbying against Israel. And, given his reputation as a moderate, he is usually successful.

This week’s visit was no different.

According to the Jordanian media – which he controls – Abdullah is devoting significant time in his meetings with senior administration and Congressional officials to attacking Israel.

Abdullah lobbying against US embassy move

Specifically, Abdullah is lobbying against President Donald Trump’s intention to move the US embassy to Jerusalem, in accordance with US law.

By December 4, Trump will have to sign a semi-annual waiver of the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act.

The act requires the State Department to relocate the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. If Trump doesn’t sign the waiver, the embassy will automatically be moved to Jerusalem, in accordance with the law.

Speculation that Trump may refuse to sign the waiver was raised this week by Vice President Mike Pence. In his speech at a UN event marking the 70th anniversary of the UN vote to end the British Mandate in the land of Israel and partition the land between a Jewish state and an Arab state, Pence made clear that moving the embassy is being actively discussed.

According to Times of Jordan, Abdullah told senior US lawmakers that “moving the embassy… could be potentially exploited by terrorists to stoke anger, frustration and desperation in order to spread their ideologies.”

During his visit, Abdullah also met with Pence, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Trump’s national security adviser, H.R. McMaster.

Although Jordanian media reports of those visits did not include information regarding the possible move of the US embassy, it stands to reason that Abdullah made similar points to Pence, Tillerson and McMaster.

It can only be hoped that Abdullah’s warnings were rebuked by his American interlocutors.

Decades of anti-Semitic incitement under Abdullah

Because, if terrorists are motivated to act in the wake of a US decision to move the embassy, Jordan will hold a significant share of the blame.

To understand why, it is important to remember what happened last July in Amman. Had Abdullah ordered his media organs to either tell the truth about what happened at Moyal’s apartment or simply not report the incident at all until the embassy staff were safely in Israel, the diplomatic crisis would have been averted.

Abdullah chose, instead, to stoke the passions of his people, which wasn’t difficult. Thanks to decades of antisemitic incitement at the hands of his media, school system and religious authorities, the people of Jordan are overwhelmingly antisemitic. And this suits Abdullah just fine. He, too, is largely sympathetic to anti-Israeli terrorism and terrorists.

Last March, for instance, Abdullah rejected the US’s extradition request for Hamas terrorist and mass murderer Ahlam Tamimi, the mastermind of the 2001 Sbarro bombing in Jerusalem.

Fifteen people, including eight children were murdered in the attack. Tamimi selected the Sbarro pizzeria as her target because of the large number of children who frequented the eatery during summer vacation.

She was sentenced to 16 life-in-prison sentences, but was released in Israel’s exchange of Hamas terrorists for captive IDF sergeant Gilad Shalit in 2011. Upon her release, she moved to Amman where Abdullah gave her the red carpet treatment. In her new home, Tamimi hosts a show on Hamas’s television station. She uses her platform to incite terrorism and indoctrinate her viewers to aspire to murder Israelis, as she did.

Several of Tamimi’s victims at Sbarro were American citizens, including 15-year-old Malki Roth and 31-year-old Shoshana Judy Greenbaum.

Greenbaum was five months pregnant when her body was blown apart.

By harboring Tamimi, Abdullah tells his subjects they are right to hate Israelis and to work toward Israel’s destruction.

Abdullah guarantees terror will occur

This brings us to the question of Trump’s possible decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Israel’s capital.

By having his media spew a constant diet of genocidal antisemitism, Abdullah is all but guaranteeing that the terrorism he warns of will occur if Trump enforces US law and moves the embassy. So he is not speaking as a worried friend when he tells his American hosts of the dire consequences of moving the embassy. He is threatening them with an outcome for which he will have significant responsibility.

One of the reasons Abdullah feels comfortable making the argument that moving the embassy will provoke terrorism is because that is the argument that has been used successfully to block the transfer of the US embassy to Israel in the past.

But, in October, we received a clear indication that these Chicken Little warnings are untrue.

In October, Trump overruled Secretary of Defense James Mattis, Tillerson and McMaster, and chose not to tell Congress that Iran was in compliance of the nuclear deal the Iranians were breaching. Supporters of the nuclear deal in the administration and outside of it warned that such a move would have a deeply destabilizing impact on the region and endanger the US.

As the past three months have shown, those warnings were entirely wrong.

The world did not explode after Trump rejected the received wisdom of the foreign policy establishment in Washington. Instead, the US’s Sunni-Arab allies have been empowered to join forces to combat Iran. Economically and diplomatically, Iran is far more isolated globally today than it was three months ago.

Moreover, freed from the need to pretend that Iran is a credible actor in the international community, Trump can base US policy toward Iran on reality.

No, Trump has not mapped out a clear strategy for containing and scaling back Iranian power. If he had, the US would have stopped arming and funding the Iranian-controlled Lebanese Armed Forces by now.

But, at least he hasn’t based an Iran policy on fantasy as his predecessor Barack Obama did.

Moreover, even the limited steps Trump has taken toward developing a strategy for dealing with Iran have been effective and rational. For instance, to protect the nuclear deal and maintain its claim that Iran was formally complying with its terms, the Obama administration paid the Iranian regime $8.6 million to buy heavy water that Iran produced in excess of the quantities permitted under the nuclear deal.

‘Disaster did not strike’ with Trump’s Iran policy

This week, the White House announced that it would stop this practice. As a National Security Council spokesman told the Washington Free Beacon, “The United States is not planning to purchase any Iranian heavy water. We have made it clear to Iran that it is their responsibility to remain under the heavy water limit.”

In summary, disaster did not strike after Trump bucked the collected wisdom of the entire foreign policy elite in Washington, including his top three national security advisers. To the contrary, things improved. By basing his policy on reality, Trump expanded his maneuver room, empowered US allies and began basing US policies toward Iran on reality.

By the same token, if Trump disregards Abdullah’s threats posing as warnings, and disregards the advice of Abdullah’s many friends in Washington, and moves the US embassy to Jerusalem, the sky will not fall. By recognizing the basic fact that Jerusalem is and always will be Israel’s capital, Trump will give himself the ability to develop Middle East policies that are similarly grounded in reality.

By calling the bluff of the myriad experts that insist recognizing reality will bring war, Trump can expand US power, credibility and deterrence in an unstable region. Far from causing a war, Trump can diminish the chance of war by demanding that Jordan and other disingenuous allies stop empowering jihadists and terrorists.

To this end, rather than heeding Abdullah’s threats of violence, Trump can tell Abdullah to prevent that violence by ending his media’s antisemitic incitement; extraditing Tamimi to the US; accepting the credentials of the Israeli ambassador; and reopening the Israeli embassy in Amman.

Truth is a powerful weapon. Once you base your foreign policy on it, there is no limit to the potential effectiveness of that policy in preventing war and expanding the prospects of true and lasting peace.

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