Arnold Roth addressed this week's Jerusalem News Syndicate Global  Summit in Jerusalem.  Here's what he said.

Seven weeks from today, August 9, 2026, a crushing milestone arrives: the 25th anniversary of the Sbarro massacre in downtown Jerusalem, just steps from where we are sitting at this moment.

My family's home is here in the city but I learned of the attack not via the boom, but from CNN. A young Arab man, freshly radicalized, walked into the pizzeria carrying a guitar case packed with explosives and nails designed to shred human flesh. He was, in every meaningful sense, the bomb. The mastermind who sent him was a woman called Ahlam Tamimi. She chose the target precisely because it was filled with Jewish children on a school holiday. She has repeatedly boasted that she dedicated the operation to Allah and that Allah granted her success. And if anybody has ever seen things that she says about occupied territories, green lines and Israeli occupation, you're hallucinating. What she talks about is God's happiness at the killing of Jews.

Tamimi was then a 21 year old and a journalism student who left the scene by taxi-van and returned to Ramallah. That same evening, she presented the news on the Al Istiqlal TV channel. The name means independence. It still exists there. It's housed in the building of the Ministry of Culture, an arm of the authority that controls Ramallah.

Key to her broadcasting was her straight-faced, cold-blooded recounting of what she later called her ‘operation’. That was not what she called it then. She's a Jordanian. She lives freely in Amman, and for years she hosted a television show glorifying terrorists in a country where nothing goes on the air without the approval of the Royal Hashemite Court.

Jordan is a close US ally, in case anyone has missed that point. And a major recipient in the very top tier of American taxpayer-funded aid, Jordan refuses to extradite her despite the fact that there's a treaty. Everyone agrees that the treaty is in force except for the Jordanians.

My daughter Malki was one of the three American citizens murdered there that day. In 2013, as a result of my visiting Washington and having a closed-door meeting with officials of the Department of Justice and the FBI, the US charged Tamimi under seal with federal terrorism offences.

After the charges became public  years later, Jordanian judges suddenly - a matter of a few days after the publishing of the charges - declared the 1995 extradition treaty invalid a treaty that had been signed by King Abdullah's father, King Hussein, with the Clinton administration. These judges determined that the 1995 extradition treaty was invalid, a claim that no one outside Jordan takes seriously. It is simply a pretext to protect Tamimi.

Last year, from this very podium, I called for moral clarity and courageous US leadership. That clarity has not come. Tamimi remains free, celebrated as a hero across the Arab world, in particular in Jordan, while she sits on the FBI's Most Wanted terrorists list.

Let me pause and say that I often ask people when I've got more time: How many people do you imagine are on the FBI Most Wanted terrorists list? Sometimes people say 5,000, sometimes they say 500. But actually it's 22 and there's only one woman and it's her. There’s also a $5 million reward which comes - in a counterintuitive way - from the State Department. No one has claimed that reward. No one ever will. It has not been paid. It will not be paid.

The US continues to insist that the treaty is valid, but in insisting it speaks in almost a whisper. The gap between American words and reality keeps widening.

We have received letters calling her extradition a foremost priority. I'm going to spare you the suspense and not tell you whose letter that was, but you would certainly be surprised. And other letters, including one that we received about ten days ago, saying that we will not rest until Tamimi is brought to justice, yet we are still waiting.

The cabinet-level secretary who wrote that probably has no idea of how enraging it is for the father of a murdered child to be told that no one has ever done a better job than they have in putting this woman behind bars. She's not behind bars.

When we sued the State Department under FOIA (for the non-lawyers here, that’s the Freedom of Information Act), they settled with us almost right away and sent us some key documents. But they continue until today to withhold others claiming that disclosure would harm.

These words are not meant to be a joke. Ongoing efforts, they tell us, aimed at convicting and extraditing her. 13 years after she was charged.

As the 25th anniversary looms, American justice has not been done. It has been defeated.

A recent biographer of King Abdullah told JNS just a few weeks ago that Jordan hasn't extradited Tamimi because the United States has never truly prioritized it. What he didn't say, but I will, is this. One: All of Tamimi's victims were Jewish. She gloats about that. Two: The major American Jewish organizations have largely, overwhelmingly stayed silent on this. Three: Officials tasked with fighting anti-Semitism have never publicly mentioned her name.

What are all of these people waiting for? It's a rhetorical question. I'll be happy to engage with whoever wants to be engaged with on that question. What are they waiting for?

In the post October 7th world, we've seen the deadly cost of silence. From here. I'm calling on America's Jewish storytellers, pundits, analysts and conscience to drag this case out from under the rug where it's been swept. Put it in your columns, in your broadcasts, in your briefings, in your pods. The White House, the Congress, the National Security Council, the State Department - all of them have powerful tools, diplomatic pressure, aid conditions, sanctions. I could deliver a lecture about each one of those elements, but they have not yet been used. Not one of them, and the media have not held them accountable. Most Americans, and especially American Jews, still don't know or don't care.

Terrorism thrives when nations waver and allies equivocate. By insisting on Tamimi's extradition – which it does not do - America will send an unmistakable message: terrorists cannot escape accountability.

The Jewish world deserves principled, determined leadership. We will know it's arrived when justice for Malki and the other innocent victims of terror receives more attention than the savages who murdered them.

This is a goal that should unite us all. I urge you to help make it happen. Thank you.