The ruler of Jordan visited Australia last week. Neither Tamimi nor Malki Roth were mentioned.

Jordan's King Abdullah II presides over a state that violates an extradition treaty with its most significant ally and benefactor, the United States. This might have been raised in the media coverage of his two day, meeting-heavy visit to Canberra, Australia's capital, on October 19 and 20.

But that's not what happened.

The Australian Jewish News, which has done a fine job for years to keep alive the issue of Jordan harboring Malki's confessed killer, provided this report:

Rebuffed time and again | Roth presses for answers from DFAT
Arnold Roth seeks details after DFAT says Malki’s killer was raised during King Abdullah II’s visit. | Gareth Narunsky | October 21, 2026, 9:31 am

Arnold Roth has questioned the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s confirmation that his daughter’s killer was raised during King Abdullah II’s visit to Canberra, saying he has been told the matter was mentioned but given no detail of what was said.

“Don’t ask by whom, or to whom, or what the mention was about,” Roth wrote in a statement to The AJN. “There appears to be a limited appetite there for the actual issues.”

Malki Roth, 15, was among 16 people killed when a Hamas suicide bomber detonated explosives inside a crowded Jerusalem restaurant on August 9, 2001. Seven of the dead were children. Ahlam Tamimi, who scouted the location and escorted the bomber, was sentenced to 16 life terms in Israel, released in the 2011 Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange, and has since lived openly in Amman.

She has faced US terrorism charges since 2013 over the deaths of American nationals, including Malki, who held dual citizenship, and is the sole female on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list. Jordan has refused to extradite her.

Roth said Jordan harboured Tamimi despite being a close ally of the United States, receiving billions in annual US aid, and holding what he described as a binding, valid treaty requiring her surrender.

He said he had focused on DFAT and “been rebuffed time and again”.

“Last week, Jordan’s absolute ruler came to Canberra. In a rational world, Australia’s most senior political figures would have mildly leveraged the opportunity to do something for justice with some measured public words. But it’s not what happened,” he said.

“I can’t say this surprised or embittered me but that’s mainly because of the scars.”

Raising the matter need not have disrupted the visit’s agenda, Roth said.

“Airing the unfinished business of justice is always morally right and, though terribly late in my daughter’s case, it is a reasonable request from one partner to another.”

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Stay tuned for additional reports and opinion pieces that were published in Australia in the context of the Jordanian royal visit and that we will republish here in the coming days..

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