The New York Times and the worship of terrorists

Tamimi, who received 15 life sentences but was one of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners released in 2011 in exchange for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, remains unrepentant. You can watch her in a chilling video interview on YouTube, beaming with pleasure when she learns she killed more kids than she’d originally thought. But you’d never know any of this by reading the cover story of the March 16th New York Times magazine, a romanticized tale of the oppressed but perennially plucky inhabitants of Tamimi’s native West Bank village, Nabi Saleh.

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The op ed below appears in yesterday's edition of the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin (April 19, 2013) and is reprinted with the author’s permission.

Let those who worship terrorists live in the obscurity they deserve
Barbara Crook

She was pretty and smart – a university student with a part-time job as a Palestinian TV journalist. But in the summer of 2001, Ahlam Tamimi had a more important mission: killing Israeli civilians.

In the weeks before the August 2001 suicide bombing at the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem, Tamimi made several scouting missions to find a target that would be full of women and children.

She packed the bomb – enhanced with nails and bolts for maximum destruction – in a guitar case, and crossed into Israel with the suicide bomber.

At the entrance to Sbarro, she briefed “the Martyrdom-seeker” on where and when to detonate the bomb, and told him to wait 15 minutes so she could get away safely.

The bomber blew himself up and killed 15 people, including three members of one family. Eight of the victims were children, including 15-year-old Malki Roth, a volunteer counsellor at a youth camp for the disabled and the devoted older sibling of her special-needs sister.

Tamimi, who received 15 life sentences but was one of 1,027 Palestinian prisoners released in 2011 in exchange for kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, remains unrepentant. You can watch her in a chilling video interview on YouTube, beaming with pleasure when she learns she killed more kids than she’d originally thought.



But you’d never know any of this by reading the cover story of the March 16th New York Times magazine, a romanticized tale of the oppressed but perennially plucky inhabitants of Tamimi’s native West Bank village, Nabi Saleh.

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