In a just world, the New York Times would have to pay

... for the pain they have caused the Roth family and the entire family of Jews. I am so angry and so hurt by this. I would say it is unspeakable, unbearable, but I would be proven wrong... as you will see.

Page E9 of The Arts Section of the New York Times, Wednesday June 27, 2007:

Ahlam Tamimi in a scene from the documentary “Hot House.” Ms. Tamimi is among about 10,000 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails.

An Odd Understanding Reached in Israeli Prisons

Television Review / "Hot House"

by Neil Genzlinger

The parents of Malki Chana Roth write:

Dear friends,

Today's New York Times carries a review of a film called "Hot House" that goes inside Israeli prisons and examines the lives of Palestinian prisoners. We're not recommending the film or the review. But we do want to share our feelings with you about the beaming female face that adorns the article....

The film is produced by HBO. So it's presumably HBO's publicity department that was responsible for creating and distributing a glamor-style photograph of a smiling, contented-looking young woman in her twenties to promote the movie.

That female is our child's murderer. She was sentenced to sixteen life sentences or 320 years which she is serving in an Israeli jail.

Fifteen people were killed and more than a hundred maimed and injured by the actions of this attractive person and her associates.

.... Neither the New York Times nor HBO are likely to give even a moment's attention to the victims of the barbarians who destroyed the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem and the lives of so many victims. So we would be grateful if you would pass along this link to some pictures of our daughter whose name was Malki. She was unable to reach her twenties - Hamas saw to that.

Though she was only fifteen years old when her life was stolen from her and from us, we think Malki was a beautiful young woman, living a beautiful life. We ask your help so that other people - far fewer than the number who will see the New York Times, of course - can know about her. Please ask your friends to look at the pictures - some of the very few we have - of our murdered daughter. They are at http://www.kerenmalki.org/photo.htm

And remind them of what the woman in the Israeli prison - the woman smiling so happily in the New York Times - said last year.

"I'm not sorry for what I did. We'll become free from the occupation and then I will be free from prison."

With so many voices demanding that Israel release its terrorist prisoners, small wonder she's smiling.

With greetings from Jerusalem,

Frimet and Arnold Roth
On behalf of Keren Malki

We remember

- Giora Balash, 60, of Brazil
- Zvika Golombek, 26, of Carmiel
- Shoshana Yehudit Greenbaum, 31, of the U.S.
- Tehila Maoz, 18, of Jerusalem
- Frieda Mendelsohn, 62, of Jerusalem
- Michal Raziel, 16, of Jerusalem
- Malka Roth, 15, of Jerusalem
- Mordechai Schijveschuurder, 43, of Neria
- Tzira Schijveschuurder, 41, of Neria
- Ra'aya Schijveschuurder, 14, of Neria
- Avraham Yitzhak Schijveschuurder, 4, of Neria
- Hemda Schijveschuurder, 2, of Neria
- Lily Shimashvili, 33, of Jerusalem
- Tamara Shimashvili, 8, of Jerusalem
- Yocheved Shoshan, 10, of Jerusalem

The police phoned to the Roth home immediately after the mourning week (the shiva) was over to say they had found Malki's cell phone in the wreckage of the Sbarro restaurant.

Its ballistic nylon holder was shredded by the nails and other shrapnel; a nail and a fragment are at the right of the phone in this photo.

On the phone itself, Malki had written: "Assur ledaber lashon harah"; a reminder (in Hebrew) to herself that it is improper to speak ill of other people.

Frimet and Arnold Roth's lives were entirely private up until the murder of their daughter. Since August 2001, each of them - in somewhat different ways - speaks out or writes publicly, trying to alert people everywhere to the ugliness and threat of terror, to remind them of Malki's life and ambitions, and to generate support for the work of the Malki Foundation.

The Malki Foundation (in Hebrew, Keren Malki) is one family's effort to honour the memory of a much-loved child, Malka Chana Roth, who was murdered in the name of hatred and intolerance. [Their] website and the Malki Foundation's work are a memorial to her life.

The scope of our work in empowering families who care at home for a special-needs child, is growing steadily and quickly. Our entire budget comes from donations, and almost everything we do is done by volunteers.

Donations are essential to the work of Keren Malki, and are the most practical way to ensure Malki's life is never forgotten.

You can give your support and do a positive and valuable deed in these difficult times by donating in any currency. To delay probably means to forget - so please make your donation decision today...

"Justice, justice shall you pursue, that you may live and possess the land the Lord, your God, is giving you." -- Parshat Shoftim

Comments

[jpundit]

This is not the first time the American media has abused Frimet and Arnold Roth in connection with the death of their 15-year old daughter Malki. The Palestinian terrorist who took credit for masterminding her murder and those of 65 others was the subject of a CBS “60 Minutes” program in 2006. If your heart is not already broken by Yael’s post, it will be by the Roth’s Open Letter in response to that interview, which you can read here: http://thisongoingwar.blogspot.com/2007/04/10-apr-07.html. It would be nice, when you take the action of memory and compassion that Yael urges, that you note you heard about about them on an American blog, so the Roths not only know they are not alone, but that people 10,000 miles away care about them.

[Yael]

Note also this NYT writer of television reviews has his own "take" on the NeverEnding Arab War on Jews and Other Infidels. He writes: "These enemies know each other absurdly well. They learn from each other, and talk openly about doing so. Yet they can’t seem to break the cycle: a cat and mouse addicted to their own game." Shmuck.

[Arnold Roth]

My wife Frimet and I live private lives. We write and speak whenever we can because we have learned things from the death of our beautiful middle child. It's not presumptuous of us to want to teach people because it's not based on our being smarter than other people - we're not - but being affected more than other people. That's one of the things which the murder of your child by people of hate will do to you. Plainly there's little we can do in a direct fashion to the people who carried out the barbaric actions at the Sbarro restaurant and at hundreds and thousands of other sites, in Israel and beyond our borders. But there is a great deal we can do to point out to people how appalling is the role played by the reporters, the editors, the photographers, the producers and the spinners. Their passivity (at best) and agenda-driven activism (at worst) constitute one of the most serious threats to people who want to live decent lives. Your work here on this site is invaluable. We especially want to thank you for publicising our open letter, and for pointing people to the Keren Malki website (www.kerenmalki.org). Tizku lemitzvot!