Jordan To Extradite Terrorist If US Also Takes Rest Of Palestinian Population

Recent actions and statements by government officials may indicate a shift in their assessment of her benefit to them.

Amman, May 18 – Hashemite Kingdom officials announced today they will consider a longtime US request to detain and hand over the perpetrator of a 2001 bombing in Jerusalem that killed 15 and wounded 130, including US citizens, if the Trump administration agrees that along with her, they can send millions of other troublesome residents of the same group.

Aides to a high-ranking member of the Jordanian royal family disclosed today that King Abdullah II is weighing a decision on whether to extradite Ahlam Tamimi, who scouted and selected the target for the 2002 attack on a Sbarro’s restaurant, then dropped off the suicide bomber. The aides indicated that while His Highness has hesitated to comply with an existing extradition treaty with the US, he has come to appreciate the potential benefits of leveraging its application to further the country’s shifting interests, in this case getting rid of a population that has threatened the kingdom’s stability for decades.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the aides revealed that a change in thinking has occurred in the king’s mind over the last several years. “Palestinian unrest has long served as a safety valve for various social and political pressures,” explained one. “It follows more or less the same model as in other Arab and Muslim countries: exploit Palestinian suffering to deflect or distract from your own problems, and thus maintain regime stability. But His Highness has always been aware that could work to his disadvantage; many Arabs came here in 1948 and gained citizenship, but their focus has remained vengeance. We even fought a war in the late sixties and early seventies against Palestinian terrorists we had thought it would be a good idea to harbor. Palestinians are effectively a majority here, which complicates things. If we can kill two birds with one stone, so to speak, this could be a real achievement.”

Tamimi served time in Israeli prison for her involvement in the mass murder, but was released in a deal for a kidnapped Israeli soldier. In the time since, she has taken up residence in Jordan, where she has repeatedly and publicly celebrate the murders, even expressing initial disappointment that the death toll did not climb even higher. Jordan has accorded her celebrity status, though recent actions and statements by government officials may indicate a shift in their assessment of her benefit to them.

“It’s kind of a microcosm of the entire Palestinian issue since 1948,” observed another palace aide. “Initial ‘solidarity’ and ‘support’ for our Palestinian brethren that masks political ambitions – we in fact annexed the West Bank for ourselves after sending the Jordanian Legion to ‘protect’ Palestinian Arabs, expelled all the Jews, gave everyone left there citizenship, then revoked that citizenship after Israel took the territory in 1967; followed by using Palestinian resentment to focus dissatisfaction on Israel instead of ourselves; followed in turn by all the cumulative resentment on our part over the Palestinian ‘issue’ hijacking everything we need to accomplish. Enough already. No one else considers the descendants of those who actually fled ‘refugees.’ But ooh, the Palestinians are so special. They can be special somewhere else.”

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