Dear fellow signatories,

Since I last updated you on July 24, we have almost doubled the number of signatures on our petition. For the kind of impact we plan to have, it's clear that numbers count and we need more. So I am asking again that everyone please encourage friends, work colleagues, people in your church, temple, synagogue or shtiebel to come to the petition site [change.org/ExtraditeTamimi] and sign. (And as I wrote last time, please do not "donate" to their site.)

I would like to tell you that our efforts have had a measurable impact on the Jordanian authorities who keep Ahlam Tamimi - a fugitive from US justice and the FBI and the confessed bomber of a pizzeria filled with children - free, safe and influential. But unfortunately I can't say that yet. 

Jordan's blunt refusal to comply with its extradition obligations continues to get close-to-zero coverage in the mainstream media. I wish editors sent reporters to ask the Hashemite government how it justifies keeping a woman who not only doesn't deny the bloodshed she executed but positively boasts about it to an adoring public. It's an incredible reality.

I wonder why its many eloquent ambassadors in Western capitals - in London, Canberra, Ottawa, Washington, Tel Aviv - aren't being pressed to justify what I would call a strategy to defend and empower some of the most loathsome terrorists in existence. But they're not. I can't explain why. 

If you missed them, I want you to know about an article published by my wife Frimet in connection with the anniversary last week of the Sbarro massacre: "Why is Ahlam Tamimi still free, 19 years after the Sbarro bombing?"

And over at the Times of Israel, there's also my opinion piece: "I wish others knew what I know about Malki’s killer". 

This past weekend's Australian Jewish News gave a real push to our petition, making it the weekly's main story. As part of the coverage, the paper's editor Zeddy Lawrence interviewed me; the video is on YouTube. 

Thank you to the many Australians - and especially those I personally remember from years ago but haven't seen for a long time - who responding by signing. 

As I did last time, I want to ask for your help in giving me the opportunity to explain our campaign by Zoom to your community. The time difference doesn't matter; I have been doing these one-hour presentations at all hours of the day. And I will be very pleased to fit in with the needs of any audience.

Frimet and I can be reached via this email address: thisongoingwar@gmail.com We are always glad to get feedback, ideas and advice - and especially opportunities to tell about the Extradite Tamimi campaign. Please help us push towards the goal of seeing long-delayed justice finally done.

Good wishes from Jerusalem,
Arnold Roth