Remembering, failing to remember, denying the obligation to remember

...As a bereaved mother, I feel a bond with victims everywhere, including non-Israelis, over the loss of loved ones murdered by terrorists. And as someone who grew up in New York, that bond is particularly strong toward my compatriots. Nevertheless, it is unconscionable for Israel to accord foreign victims, even those of our most loyal ally, the United States, preferential treatment over our own victims.

Frimet/Arnold Roth..
This Ongoing War..
11 September '13..

As people who have felt, and continue to feel, the pain of losing a loved one to the cynical hatred of the terrorists and those who sustain them, we feel a permanent connection to the memorial events marking 9/11.

September 11, 2001 also happens to be the day on which the Malki Foundation was formally established. The registration papers were issued that morning by the Israeli government office that takes care of registering not-for-profits. Later that day, we learned to our horror how widely the experience we had undergone a month before had spread. It has continued to spread much more widely since those fateful 2001 days.

For the past decade, we have mounted a struggle here in Jerusalem for what we see as the failures of a headless bureaucracy (in truth, it may be even worse than that) to remember, to honour, to respect the lives of victims of the terrorists.

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