The “Palestinians” have a new media darling (she has just been featured in Vogue) to symbolize their “struggle” against the Israeli “occupiers.” She’s a 17-year-old girl named Ahed Tamimi, who comes from an Arab village, Nabi Saleh, in the West Bank, where everyone is related to everyone else, both by blood and through cousin marriage. Ever since she was a tiny ten-year-old, she has been sent out by her parents to “confront” Israeli soldiers, a ritual as stylized as Kabuki, in which, cute as a button, she walks right up to them and “defies” those big bad soldiers by cursing them, while they never react, and this little scene is captured, by prearrangement, on her mother’s video camera. She’s performed this scene on at least six occasions in recent times. Eight months ago she did it again, but this time, at the age of 16, she went further, by kicking and slapping and cursing an Israeli soldier who stood there, stolidly taking it, not moving, as this supposed act of brave defiance of the “occupier” was again recorded by Ahed’s mother Nariman. When I first heard about this December 2017 encounter, I assumed that the soldier must have done something in response, at the very least have grabbed her by her hands so she could not keep hitting him. I suspect that many others who have not seen the video thought the same, but no, he took her blows impassively, thereby disappointing Ahed and her mother, who as always was right there with her video camera (those impoverished “Palestinians” do manage to have a few luxuries, though not as many as Mahmoud Abbas and his sons have, with their hard-earned $400 million, or Hanan Ashrawi enjoys with her reported $187 million), filming the event for propaganda purposes.
Ahed Tamimi has two things going for her: she’s 17, and she’s an attractive frizzy-haired blond, possibly the result of some Crusaders in her ancestry. She’s a pretty face. She’s unhijabbed. She looks Western. She knows how to turn her head for the camera. The media go for that. What helps her image, too, is the fact that the international media don’t bother to have what she says translated from the Arabic, so that the world remains largely unaware of the venom spewing from her sweet mouth. How many people know that at the time of her attack on the Israeli soldier last December, after the Israelis left, and at the urging of her mother, Ahed made a statement, a “message to the world,” calling for “stabbings, martyrdom-seeking operations [i.e. suicide bombings], throwing stones – everyone must do something”?
But there’s much more to Ahed Tamimi, and she cannot be understood except in the larger context of her family, and especially her worship of her aunt, Ahlam Tamimi. This is the story the media owe their audience, it’s what the world ought to know about, before making these ludicrous comparisons of Ahed to Joan of Arc or La Pasionaria or Malala Yousafzai.
There is first of all her mother, Nariman, who arranges and films these “confrontations” between Ahed and Israeli soldiers. She has long been an ardent supporter of terrorism. When the “stabbing intifada” began in autumn 2015, and Israelis were being killed every day, according to historian Petra Marquardt-Bigman “Nariman Tamimi eagerly shared a Facebook post with graphic instructions on where to aim a knife to achieve a lethal outcome. Whenever there was a terror attack targeting Israelis, Nariman Tamimi would again take to Facebook and praise the perpetrator as a hero. No act of murder was too gruesome: in June 2016, after a teenaged Palestinian terrorist broke into a home and killed a 13-year-old sleeping Israeli girl [Hallel Yaffa Ariel] in her bedroom, Ahed’s mother shared a Facebook post from another Tamimi family member that praised this savage act for “return[ing] to the homeland its awe/reverence. Nariman Tamimi also ensured everyone knew that her admiration for Palestinian terrorists extended to those who had perpetrated attacks before there was Facebook. She shared a post that praised several notorious female Palestinian terrorists as admirable ‘rebels;’ these terrorists had murdered 55 Israelis, including 21 children, and wounded more than 300 people.”
But just as important a figure in Ahed Tamimi’s life is her aunt Ahlam Tamimi, of whom she is so proud. And Ahlam Tamimi, living and thriving comfortably in Jordan, must now be just as proud of her. Before there was Ahed, Ahlam Tamimi was — and remains — a heroine of the “Palestinian” cause. But you don’t hear anything from reporters covering the Ahed Tamimi story about Ahlam Tamimi, do you? Perhaps you remember the suicide bombing of the Sbarro Pizzeria in Jerusalem, on August 11, 2001, exactly one month before the 9/11 bombing. The target was chosen because it was a favorite of families with children. And the suicide bomber detonated himself at the moment when the pizzeria was full. Fifteen people were murdered, including 8 children, and 130 were wounded, many of them very seriously. One survives in a permanent vegetative state. Perhaps the media could take some time from their attention to Ahed Tamimi and spend a little time investigating Ahlam Tamimi, who planned the attack on the Sbarro Pizzeria, chose the bomber, and led him to the pizzeria at the moment when it would be at its busiest serving families with children.
Arnold Roth remembers one of the victims: “My sweet-natured daughter Malki, brimming with empathy and generosity toward others, always with a smile on her face, was 15 when she was murdered in the Sbarro pizzeria massacre 17 years ago this week.” He notes that “as it happens, the person who selected the Sbarro pizzeria, and led the suicide bomber to his target, was Ahlam Tamimi. We know who plotted the Sbarro barbarism. It was not Ahed Tamimi. But when her clan, the Tamimis of Nabi Saleh, get together to celebrate it, as we know they do, she is an enthusiastic participant.”
Ahlam Tamimi was eventually found, brought to trial and — since Israel doesn’t have capital punishment, even for the worst Arab mass-murderers — she was sentenced to 16 consecutive life terms. But she was then freed as part of that appalling exchange in 2011, whereby 1000 “Palestinian” prisoners were released in order to get back one Israeli, Gilad Shalit, a most regrettable act by the Rabin government.
Ahlam was deported to Jordan.
Jack Cade says
Ahed Tamimi is not underfed, so things aren’t really bad.
StellaSaidSo says
My first thot, too, Jack Cade. Indeed, she is quite chubby by Vogue standards. (Another product for the boycott list.)
R Russell says
I did some research online and just under 45% of Arabs in Gaza and Judea and Samaria are overweight. Evidence they don’t need that aid money they then pay to the terrorists.
revereridesagain says
The Left will claim it’s because they are “forced” to eat “unhealthy” foods. You cannot win with these people.
Actually it’s probably from her stuffing her fat mouth with candy every time an Israeli is killed or injured by a Muslim.
mortimer says
The Pallies have one of the world’s highest diabetes rates.
Ann Marie says
Islam knows how to play the West. They know what buttons to push, they know the tactics to ensure that Islam is considered ‘just’ a religion and nothing else. Their manipulation of the West’s belief in the innocence of children is amazing… And they use these kids to fool us and yes, kill us..
People are starting to get a little wiser to the manipulative methods of Islam.. That photo is typical… She’s smiling, hair blowing in the breeze: a Western teen-ager. After that picture is snapped, the hijab or burka go back on again..
Berengaria says
I subscribed to all the Major Fashion Magazines & for Months I have been forced to see these Ugly, Hijab & No Hijab, Angry & Pushy Muslim Females. And always the little Horror stories that go along with their putrid lives.
I am a Proud American & there are very few models, who ever appear
In Vogue, Bazaar, Marie-Claire, etc.,
who look like American or Western Models.
It started with the Ugly HADID Sisters & progressed downhill from there. We were inundated with the Minnesota Muslim Mob & then, the African Muslims, Sickening!
My Subscriptions Cancelled.
The Phony Palestinian, Tamini Muslim,Terrorist Tribe are the worst.
A POX On the Left-Wing Fashion Rags!
Cold Cream 'n' Roses says
I cancelled my subscription to Allure before it expired and didn’t re-up my subscription to InStyle when it expired. I subscribed to Allure and InStyle as they had been relatively apolitical. No longer. Both became politicized after Trump was elected.
I don’t like Gigi and Bella Hadid (and their brother Anwar who is also a model) as they identify with their father’s phony “Palestinian” identity.
I don’t mind models who don’t look like American or Western but I do oppose normalizing hijab.
StellaSaidSo says
I used to write for glossy magazines. These days there are few that I care to even read. Some are so toxic that they should be touched only while wearing Hazchem gloves.
carpediadem says
I wanted to Tweet this but Twitter have put me into a gulag for Tweeting the truth about jihad, Palestinians and Islam. So it will have to wait a few days.
Elisha says
They should put some female soldiers on duty, then the MSM can’t complain (as much) if a woman gives her the flogging she so richly deserves. Ahlam Tamimi can burn in Hell …
R Russell says
Why is the place she lives in called the West Bank? It’s correct name is Judea and Samaria.
dumbledoresarmy says
Yes.
Judea and Samaria, Judea and Samaria. Judea and Samara, the mountains of Israel.
The term ‘west bank’ should never be used by any person engaged in the resistance against Jihad. I never use it, not in writing nor in conversation.
Nor ‘east jerusalem’, let alone ‘arab east jerusalem’.
It’s Jerusalem, period.
PRCS says
When she was younger:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK-af5lh8y4
carpediadem says
Shrieking ferals.
If Not Now When? says
Looks like Washington DC last week.
FYI says
Using screaming ill-mannered “palestinian” children tsk-tsk
What next?Human shields
Watch the muslma mum filming it all:is that any way habib to teach children?
But of course,in islam,the little mites are taught to hate.
They really shouldn’t complain:they are lucky even to have Gaza..
I’m quite impressed by the forebearance and professionalism shown here of the IDF
Shouldn’t these little “palestinian” sweethearts be in school?
PRCS says
Yes, that was her “mum” video taping this.
The children were sent to elicit a hoped for aggressive reaction from the IDF–all to be videotaped–and creatively manipulated–for “victimhood” purposes.
mortimer says
It makes me sick to say this: I expect some thuggish, Pally lout will take a fancy to Ahed Tamimi and rape her on some pretext. It is inevitable. At that stage she will be dishonored and in her honor culture, her only solution will be to leave the country and disappear.
When she has been spurned, she will probably lose her naïve faith in this Cult of Misogyny, Violence and Misogyny.
Jean says
mortimer.
Actually, it is often the other way around in the Islamic world. In Iraq, there has been an actual recruiting program where girls and women were routinely raped as a strategy to make them so sick of life that they agreed to become suicide bombers:
https://newsone.com/100991/iraqi-woman-used-rape-to-recruit-suicide-bombers/
As for the Palestinian youth… According to surveys, it is the most frequently sexually abused group in the world.
The burning hatred these young people show is basically a result of the violence (often including sexual abuse) and mental cruelty that many have experienced from a very young age. Boys as well as girls. According to one survey, the boys were abused most frequently: a staggering 50 % of the boys from the group surveyed were abused before the age of 13 – it was 31 % among the girls:
“A recent survey of Palestinian society[42] indicated child sexual abuse to involve 50 percent of boys and 31 percent of girls aged six to twelve, in a study involving 184 subjects. The author considered this to signify a “prominent presence….of [this] dangerous phenomenon,” and also indicated the unusual predominance of boys among the victims (on international statistics, see below).”
http://jcpa.org/article/hatred-of-the-jews-as-a-psychological-phenomenon-in-palestinian-society/
Another article indicates something even more horrifying:
“A recent study published in the scholarly journal Child Abuse and Neglect” reported on a careful survey of 652 Palestinian undergraduates about their memories of being sexually abused by a family member, a relative or a stranger. The study concluded that “18.6 % were used sexually by a family member, 36.2 % by a relative and ‘45.6 % by a stranger.
Since these figures add up to more than 100 %, some of those questioned obviously were abused by two or three of these categories. But the figures are so much higher than anything I have found in my extensive research over the past three decades into the history of child abuse that they confirm other evidence that the Palestinians, like other Islamic cultures, routinely abuse their children, sexually, physically and emotionally, from birth.”
Read the whole article here for more details on the important link between child abuse and terrorism:
https://www.scribd.com/document/305822580/If-I-Blow-Myself-Up-and-Become-a-Martyr-I-ll-Finally-be-Loved
StellaSaidSo says
Good post, Jean. Here’s another item for your archive (tho you’ve probably already got it!). During the Iran-Iraq war, children were deliberately used to clear minefields.
http://www.trackpersia.com/iranian-regime-appalling-violation-childrens-rights/
Jean says
STellaSaidSo.
Thank you. I knew about the practices, but did not have this article. I love the Iranian people and grieve for their misery.
Indiana Tom says
She’s unhijabbed
Surprised the devout have not stoned her.
Don says
There is definitely No “crusader blood” in her family. No Muslims from that era are still there. You need to read the article Strange Bedfellows in the Jerusalem Post, May 7, 2008. Large numbers of white Muslims and white antisemites volunteered in the 1947 war, to wipe out the Jews. Even Azzam Pasha said as much in his genocidal threat interview. Also, I would think an author for Jihad Watch would know this, Muslims move people around and tell them what to say for Jihad. An Arab may have fought in the Russian Ottoman wars for example, many, many did, and a Chechen or convert may be pretending to be “paleswill” today. Also there are many Christian volunteers for any antisemitic “cause”, always have been. On top, ISIS doesn’t want the “paleswine” “cause” to get besmirched with the IS brand, so when most ISIS are doing that colonialist Jihad, they very quickly take on the different narrative, and are no longer ISIS. Just as Gazans were Egyptians until 1967 and throughout history prior, when they were Egyptians like all Egyptians in Sinai they had 92% FGM rates, the exact moment they became “paleshittinas” they had almost zero FGM rates and were ancient “paleswine”, they began wearing jeans and became far more secular overnight.
Carol says
To Don,
That’s interesting. I was pondering how an Arab Palestinian girl would have blond hair and blue eyes unlike her other family members. I thought she was an offshoot from the Ottoman slave trade, as they raided the coasts as far as England and took thousands of European prisoners as slaves for their Harems and labor.
Most converted to Islam to stop the Islamic torture and death for the unconverted. Usually fair-haired girls fetched a good price. Even today ISIS slave traders look for fair headed victims. If this is true, she is a brainwashed slave to those who stole and enslaved her ancestors from their native land.
gravenimage says
Quite possible, Carol.
dumbledoresarmy says
Of course, blond hair and blue eyes are recessive genetic traits, so don’t necessarily appear every time; two dark-eyed dark-haired people can produce a fair-haired blue-eyed child, if both are carrying the recessive genes. We don’t know what all her relatives look like – she may have had fair-haired and/ or blue-eyed kin, a couple of generations back. One can encounter green-eyed people in, for example, Afghanistan.
But the point made above, about Bosnians, for example, holds. Muslims from the Balkans were moved to ‘palestine’ by the Ottoman Muslims; and they would have included people – descendants of converts to Islam – who were ethnically Greek, Albanian and Serb, among whom there are naturally people who are fair-haired and blue-eyed, as well as many who are darker.
She might have Albanian, or Greek, or Serb ancestry, some generations back.
Mario Bernkopf says
Is there a term “Palestinian trash”?
Frank Day says
Pallitrash?
Don says
Also, “ahed” is not an Arabic female firstname it’s a Jewish one Ahad Ha-am is a famous Israeli leftist, and a longtime rightwing commenter used that name as a first name, which is 100% where they stole the name from, (her handlers) other rightwing Israeii commenters used the name Ahed as a first name. It is a male name, and before the Israelis not a first name. Israelis are the only group in the Mideast to give females male names. So like everything else the antisemites do, they stole the Israeli naming tradition. She was probably given the name years after her birth. Likely by watching right wing Jews, a few of whom use that name. I really couldn’t imagine anything worse than the “paleswill”, theyre like the perfection of millenia of antisemitic hatred schemes.
Halal bacon says
What, no head bag?
Elliott says
There’s one minor mistake at the end of the report: “a most regrettable act by the Rabin government”.
I’m almost certain the exchange was carried out when Netanyahu was Prime Minister.
Rabin has been dead for over 20 years.
Shame on Netanyahu for this act; although we see that the “palestinians” admit that just one Israeli is worth a thousand of theirs.
Frank Day says
” But she was then freed as part of that appalling exchange in 2011, whereby 1000 “Palestinian” prisoners were released in order to get back one Israeli, Gilad Shalit, a most regrettable act by the Rabin government.”
1,000 palestinian lives = 1 Israeli life. i reckon that’s a fair exchange rate. Even the palestinians think they’ve got a good deal.
if that same priciple had been applied to muslim suicide attacks the toubles would be over by now. There’d be no palestinians left.
gravenimage says
Meet the Tamimis: Ahed, Ahlam, Nariman, Nizar (Part One)
……………….
Of course, if these dishonest Muslims *really* thought that Israelis were a threat, they would never do this.
Would a Jewish mother have urged her little daughter to spit at and kick a Nazi soldier? Of course not.
But while the Israelis present no threat to the Tamimis–even when abused by their children–some of the Tamimis–Ahed’s aunt, for one–clearly present a danger to them. Fifteen civilians were killed in the Sbarro pizza restaurant massacre in 2001, including seven children and a pregnant woman, and 130 were wounded.
This terrorist–and many others–was released by Israel in exchange for kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
This is how this vicious Jihadist described the aftermath of the attack on Israeli families eating pizza:
“Afterwards, when I took the bus, the Palestinians around Damascus Gate [in Jerusalem] were all smiling. You could sense that everybody was happy. When I got on the bus, nobody knew that it was me who had led [the suicide bomber to the target]… I was feeling quite strange, because I had left [the bomber] ‘Izz Al-Din behind, but inside the bus, they were all congratulating one another. They didn’t even know one another, yet they were exchanging greetings…While I was sitting on the bus, the driver turned on the radio. But first, let me tell you about the gradual rise in the number of casualties. While I was on the bus and everybody was congratulating one another…”
After hearing an initial report that “three people were killed” in the bombing, Tamimi stated:
“I admit that I was a bit disappointed, because I had hoped for a larger toll. Yet when they said “three dead,” I said: ‘Allah be praised’…Two minutes later, they said on the radio that the number had increased to five. I wanted to hide my smile, but I just couldn’t. Allah be praised, it was great. As the number of dead kept increasing, the passengers were applauding.”
And now a new generation of “Palestinians”–Ahed was not born when this hideous Jihad attack was launched–are being taught to attack Jews.
At 17–almost an adult–Ahed is not going to be able to assault Israeli soldiers with impunity much longer–she is bound to be regularly arrested. What is she going to graduate to next? We know what her aunt did–and she herself is calling for “stabbings, martyrdom-seeking operations [i.e. suicide bombings], throwing stones – everyone must do something”.
How can anyone consider this savagery “cute”?
Edmund Carey says
I can assure readers of this article that the crowd who are convinced that Palestinians are nothing but victims of injustice are completely unimpressed by revelations like these. Anything Ahed Tamimi’s family have got up to, most definitely including the murder of women and children, they regard as legitimate use of force to resist an occupier. Miss Tamimi’s display of “resistance” they consider heroic, and if they’ve even noticed that the soldier she slapped around stoically declined to react, they gleefully interpret it as cowardice.
Palestinian fever is a maggot that gets into the head. People who have caught the fever lose all sense of proportion, sometimes all sense of common human decency. That they are looking at evil occupiers of innocent lambs, and that any action against the occupiers is to be celebrated, goes unquestioned forever afterward, once the maggot is in the head. Even Hugh Fitzgerald isn’t physician enough to effect a cure of that malady.
gravenimage says
Not all, Edmund. I know people who are sickened by Jihad terror who still believe that most of the “poor Palestinians” just want peace and freedom. Of course, it takes a lot of willful denial to think this is so–nonetheless it is quite widespread.
Jean says
Edmund Carey.
Briefly put, it stems from the Marxist view of good and evil. Only groups matter, and all means are good if the end is revolution. This way of thinking makes people capable of any cruelty and disdain for fellow human beings as individuals. It is a terrible poison of the soul.
As one of the early anarchists said, “the criminal is the true revolutionary”. This idea determines a lot of the responses to violence in the West today. It is the reason why the establishment (politicians and police) finds it so hard to do anything effective against the killing, raping, maiming, and plunder committed all around Europe by migrants against native Europeans. The migrants as a group are viewed as an oppressed minority and therefore in possession of a moral carte blanche. Marxists really believe this. The individual has no value (or even reality) for them. That is how they become capable of calmly standing by for decades while hundreds of thousands of children are being trafficked all across Britain – raped, mentally broken, and killed. There is no atrocity which will really move a Marxist… simply because he does not believe in the existence of the soul who suffers it.
Expat88 says
Watching her as a little girl screaming at the IDF soldiers as they just snickered and ignored her was the perfect reaction that she deserved. No doubt her own mother was hoping that she would be harmed in some way so that it could be caught on tape. I wish the soldiers had just shouted back at her in Arabic: “Escoot, Sharmuta!!! Halas!” Instead, they were cool and calm in the face of sending children to confront them. So sick and shameful. It is the fault of the parents to brainwash their children this way.
C.K.Mohanan says
High time to introduce capital punishment for terrorists. You can’t handle the jihadists with kid gloves.
Indiana Tom says
I imagine the Sbarro Pizza Place at your local mall is next. Coming soon to you!
reyol says
Not Crusader blood. I think she resembles North Africans before they became Arabized.
gravenimage says
+1
jacinte says
Look they made sure to pick someone who is really white and looks like a western woman. I am sure if we dig up her history, if any, she is a kidnapped child whose christian parents were killed, probably tortured and she was an infant when done. This is the usual story.