On the anniversary of a daughter's death, lives upended by terrorism and lessons learned

...Nearly two years after the Shalit deal, we are still desperately seeking justice. To watch and hear our child’s murderer on the Internet addressing adoring crowds throughout the Arab world; hosting a TV show; boasting of the massacre she planned and executed; smiling about the number of children she killed; and promising that, if she could she would repeat it – this is an indescribable torture.

Frimet Roth..
This Ongoing War..
24 July '13..

According to the Jewish calendar, this coming Sabbath, July 27, 2013, will mark the twelfth yahrzeit of our precious daughter Malki whose life ended in the Hamas attack on a central Jerusalem pizza shop.

Will More Freed Murderers Bring Peace? Twelve Years After the Sbarro Massacre
Frimet Roth

Twelve years ago, the Jewish nation was rocked by a terror bombing that now symbolizes the Second Intifada more than any other attack. Photographs of the charred shell of Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant accompany countless articles about terrorism, even if their text makes no mention of that specific horror.

The Sbarro massacre was significant for several reasons.

Its fifteen victims included seven men and women, and eight children. Among them was a decimated family: a mother, a father and three of their eight children. Another victim, a woman pregnant with her first baby, was the only child of her parents. One of the injured, who should be counted among the dead, has lain comatose ever since, leaving her toddler motherless. And one victim was our daughter.

In their last moments on earth, the fifteen victims were enjoying a light lunch on a hot, summer's afternoon in the bustling center of Israel’s capital.

Ahlam Tamimi, the main perpetrator of this Hamas massacre, bore an incongruous profile: a young and attractive woman, a student of journalism at a Palestinian university and a newsreader for a Palestinian TV station.

This was a particularly cruel, gruesome and shocking act. Its iconic role is not surprising

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