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August 9, 2001 Palestinian Ahlam Tamimi chose the target: a Sbarro restaurant packed with kids in the heart of Jerusalem. She escorted the suicide bomber to the door and then walked away smiling. She is still smiling today as she lives free and celebrated in Jordan. The Hamas bomber detonated a device packed with nails, screws, and bolts designed to kill and maim as many people as possible. 15 civilians were murdered on the spot. 8 were children. Among the dead: Two parents and three of their children. A pregnant American woman. 15-year-old Malki Roth. Among the 130 wounded: Chana Nachenberg, a young mother left in a permanent vegetative state for 22 years before she finally died of her injuries. 15-year-old Miriam Shoshan, who had 60 nails driven into her body, a hole torn through her thigh, a ruptured spleen, and third-degree burns over 40% of her body. When Tamimi later learned the real death toll was higher than she first thought she said it made her happy. When told how many children were killed, she smiled. She received 16 life sentences in Israel. In 2011, she was freed in the Gilad Shalit deal and went to Jordan, where she received a hero’s welcome. Today she lives openly in Amman. She has hosted television programs, given interviews, and spoken with pride about the massacre. She has never expressed a single word of remorse. On the contrary, she is quite pleased with the number of Jews she helped murder. The United States charged her with murdering American citizens. She is on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list. A $5 million reward is offered for her capture. Jordan refuses to extradite her. Successive American administrations have never forced the issue. 25 years later, the Palestinian woman who helped blow up a restaurant full of children lives free as a hero while the families of her victims are still waiting for justice.

Arafat backed Saddam’s rape of Kuwait. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians paid for it in blood and exile. The world never cared and has completely forgotten. Arafat went to Baghdad and stood publicly with Saddam after the invasion. In January 1991, he rallied the mob: if the Americans want war, “then I say welcome, welcome, welcome to war… Iraq and Palestine… [will stand] together, side by side.” When the Americans struck, Saddam fired Scuds at Tel Aviv while the United States forced Israel to absorb the attacks on its civilians without responding. Under Iraqi occupation, Kuwaitis were systematically raped (thousands of women), tortured with electric drills and acid, hanged, beaten, and executed. The country was stripped bare. Palestinians in Kuwait were widely viewed as collaborators. After liberation, Kuwait expelled them. A community of roughly 350,000–400,000 was reduced by about 90% within months. More than 300,000 were thrown out of the country. And yet, there were no endless UN resolutions. No academic industry of “Nakba” books. No campus protests. No media saturation calling it ethnic cleansing. Arafat later claimed what Kuwait did was “worse than what Israel did.” The world shrugged. A massive, deliberate expulsion of Palestinians by an Arab state (carried out against the entire community regardless of any alleged collaboration) happened in full view of the modern world. The response was total silence. The same people who turn every consequence of Arab-initiated wars against Jews into the eternal crime of the century treated this one as if it never happened. That is the real hierarchy of refugee suffering. That is the lie at the heart of eternal Palestinian victimhood. It’s not about concern for Palestinian lives. It’s about demonizing and delegitimizing the world’s only Jewish state.