Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:10:31 +0300
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Subject: About sweet-faced young women
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. You can see it here.
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. The background is here.
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
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Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:26:55 +0300
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Subject: Frimet Roth in the New York Times: "A Palestinian Terrorist"
Dear Friends of Keren Malki:
Ten days ago, we wrote to you about the way the New York Times published an
unusually flattering photograph of our daughter's murderer to illustrate a film
review. That earlier message from us ("About Sweet-faced Women") is
online here.
The Times has today published Frimet Roth's comment as a letter to the editor.
We reproduce it below.
Good wishes,
The Team at Keren Malki
The New York Times
Published:
July 7, 2007
To the Editor:
Re “An Odd Understanding Reached in Israeli Prisons,” by Neil Genzlinger (
Television review, June 27):
I wonder when the photo of Ahlam Tamimi was taken. Perhaps when she learned
that the bombing of Jerusalem’s Sbarro restaurant had killed 15 and not 8, as
she had presumed. She helped execute that massacre and actually smiled upon hearing
that.
Ms. Tamimi decimated one family — a mother, a father and three of their eight
children; robbed another American couple of their only child, pregnant with
their first grandchild; and ended the life of my beautiful, kind 15-year-old
daughter, Malki.
The photo reinforced Mr. Genzlinger’s message: There is no black or white here.
Just intransigents playing at “cat and mouse.” But he did not mention this:
Hundreds of Israeli children have been targeted and murdered in playgrounds, on
school buses and in pizza shops.
Their murderers were not freedom fighters or militants or attractive young
women. They were simply evil people who, like Ms. Tamimi, enjoy murdering
children and babies.
Frimet Roth
Jerusalem, July 6, 2007
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Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:57:34
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Subject: In today's Haaretz: 'Hot House' - Cold Truth, by Frimet Roth
Dear friends,
An open letter written by Frimet and Arnold Roth a month ago and sent to this
list spoke passionately about the way the New York Times and HBO promoted a
film called "Hot House" by displaying a prominent photo of a smiling,
attractive-looking woman. That woman, as Frimet and Arnold pointed out, is the murderer of the
Roths' daughter Malki and of fourteen other innocent victims. If you missed it,
their letter is reprinted on their blogsite ThisOngoingWar
under the title "
About sweet-faced young women". (The Roths' letter was reprinted in
several other
blogs
as well.)
Frimet Roth has now looked more deeply into the making of the film 'Hot House'.
In today's Haaretz and on its website, she has an op-ed essay called "The cold truth about
'Hot House'". This short piece asks some pointed questions: who
funded the film; what were the goals of those who made it; who decided to give
a platform to the terrorists; what does this mean for the victims of terror and
for the societies in which they live. The results might surprise you.
Their earlier open letter about 'Hot House' and the publicity surrounding it
produced a torrent of supportive messages to the Roths from many parts of the
world. It also served to publicize the important work carried out every day
throughout Israel by the Malki Foundation. The foundation was
established by the Roths to honour their daughter's life and to help families
with a special-needs child. They believe in non-sectarian, non-political good
work like the Malki Foundation does. It's one of the very few concrete things
people like them - parents of a child murdered in the name of hatred and
bigotry - can do when confronted by the acts of the practitioners of terror and
their many, many apologists.
If you agree, please pass this letter along to your friends.
The text of today's Haaretz article by Frimet
Roth is copied below.
Good wishes,
The Team at Keren Malki
. . . . .
The cold truth about
'Hot House'
By
Frimet Roth *
Haaretz
- Tuesday 7th August 2007
Reading
reviews of the Israeli documentary "Hot House" has been a traumatic
experience for me. Is this normal? I doubt if even psychologists could say.
No
compassionate state would subject a mother to such torture. No sane government
would help a cold-blooded mass murderer ascend a cinematic soapbox, spew her
venom and get her smiling, glamorous promotional picture in the international
papers.
But
Israel, in the throes of an existential war on terror, saw no reason to deny
Ahlam Tamimi - the person who planned the Jerusalem terror
massacre that killed my daughter - that privilege. She and dozens of other
Palestinian terrorists were allowed to star in a documentary film that has sold
out theaters.
Shimon Dotan, the Romanian-born
former Israeli who made "Hot House," says the Prisons Service freely
admitted him to half a dozen prisons across Israel over the course of a year.
The authorities deserve a "certificate of honor," he says, for their
permissiveness, adding: "It is difficult for me to say that, and I don't
want to brag about it."
His film
exposes astonishing aspects of life behind bars in Israel where convicted
Palestinian terrorists enjoy country-club-like conditions. They all have access
to Israeli and Palestinian radio, television and newspapers. Cells, shared with
terror-group cronies, are equipped with their choice of colorful rugs and wall
hangings. Cooking facilities allow them to indulge their personal culinary
tastes. They enjoy bi-weekly family visits. They are free to hone their
political skills, conduct internal elections and nurture their political
careers. Prison garb is waived; women sport Islamic attire, down to the
colorful silk scarves my daughter's murderer favors. Prayer halls are available
for the free practice of the very faith that inspired their crimes. And as the
film points out, many of them earn, at the Israeli citizen's expense,
university degrees. In Israel, the death penalty is never applied to
terrorists.
No one
in the Prisons Service challenges this absurd state of affairs.
"Hot
House" could have been used to counter the rampant disinformation about
Israel's treatment of Palestinian prisoners. Yet nothing was farther from the
producers' minds.
Dotan,
who has resided in the U.S. and Canada for several years, missed one of
Israel's most harrowing periods. Yet he says his motive is to "make
Israelis understand the issue of Palestinian prisoners [and] think we are doing
exactly the same things [to the Palestinians] in their civilian life. We owe them empathy."
Dotan is not alone in his conviction that to defend yourself against murderers
is no different than murder. Many Israelis espouse and express this perverted
morality.
In
Israel, as in any authentic democracy, everyone may freely voice his views. Yet
"Hot House" goes beyond free speech. It was primarily underwritten by
Israeli government sources - not Dotan's personal funds. In other words, by us
taxpayers. The New Foundation for Film and Television was established in 1993
to essentially support the production of documentary films. With 60 percent of
its budget, millions of shekels annually, coming from the Education, Culture
and Sports Ministry, this foundation was a primary source of the film's budget.
Compared
to the release of 256 Palestinian prisoners and amnesty granted to 180 wanted
terrorists, both of which Israel recently did, funding a pro-terrorist film may
seem like child's play. But films are skillful victors over naive hearts and
minds.
Israel's
leaders have been notoriously lax in their attitude toward public relations.
"Hot House" reveals that they have actually been pro-actively
blackening their country's image.
Consider
one of the human beings they have chosen to profile: my daughter's murderer.
Dotan says he sat with her for two hours, having a "gripping"
conversation. He asked whether she knew how many children had perished in the
bombing of Sbarro. Smiling, as she generally does, she guessed
"three." "It was eight," Dotan corrected her. She seemed
delighted and smiled again, asking, "really?"
Dotan and his fellow producers are
marketing this film aggressively throughout the world. If it hasn't yet,
"Hot House" will undoubtedly reach a theater near you soon. Before
entering the building, please consider this:
You will
be bringing this evil creature, Tamimi, untold pleasure. Dotan says she was
keen to publicize her views.
You will
pad the bank accounts of individuals who revile Israel.
And you
may emerge convinced that this film conveys a balanced picture of the entire
Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A film without a single appearance by a victim of
the terrorists. Not one photograph. Not even one name.
* Frimet Roth is a freelance writer in Jerusalem who frequently contributes articles dealing with terrorism, and with special-needs children. She and her husband founded and manage the Malki Foundation (www.kerenmalki.org) in their daughter's memory. The foundation provides concrete support for Israeli families of all religions who care at home for a special-needs child. Frimet Roth can be reached at Адрес электронной почты защищен от спам-ботов. Для просмотра адреса в вашем браузере должен быть включен Javascript.
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