Why Amman Will Not Deliver Ahlam Al-Tamimi to Washington

Amman The | Dina Kawar, Jordanian ambassador to Washington, received a signed letter from seven US lawmakers, four of whom served in the military in various places, including Iraq and Afghanistan, regarding the released prisoner, Ahlam Al-Tamimi, who lives in Jordan. The letter, dated April 30, 2020, is a complaint about Tamimi’s “normal life” living in the kingdom and includes freedom of movement, public appearances, and even her work in the media, without authorities taking any measure to avoid this or even respond to demands that Tamimi be extradited to Washington for trial. In view of his participation in the guerrilla operation known as “Pizza Sparrow”, in which Israelis of US nationality died. The last one was carried out by the martyr Izz al-Din al-Masry in 2001 in occupied Jerusalem, and was planned by prisoner Abdullah al-Barghouthi, the highest ruler in history. The role of al-Tamimi was the delivery of the martyr, until he was arrested, tortured and sentenced to 16 life terms, which he spent ten years before releasing and returning to the Kingdom in November 2011, who will be welcomed by popular, partisan and union.

A follower of the Al-Tamimi case understands that it is always talked about, but there are no new demands through the US legislative frameworks for his extradition, nor the strong position expressed by the Jordanian judiciary in 2017 when the Court of Cassation, the highest judicial body, ratified a decision issued by “Appeal Amman” Decides to refuse to hand over Tamimi because she has Jordanian citizenship. Fadi Farah, who is the decision of the “National Committee of Jordanian Prisoners and Missing Persons in Zionist Detention”, told Al-Akhbar that “Al-Tamimi came out in an exchange and cannot be handed over, and what he did is an act of Legitimate resistance, and there is a refusal to extradite her, supported by a Jordanian court decision. “

Those who addressed the Jordanian embassy are Trump Republican lawmakers.

In the legal aspect, the international expert, the lawyer Anis Al-Qasim, says that technically, legally and legally, Al-Tamimi committed a “crime” and was tried and punished (far from the legality of what she did), and although did not complete the entire sentence, is covered by the terms of the agreement that ceases to prosecute “Crime itself. On the other hand, adds Al-Qassem, it is by no means permissible to judge someone for the same” crime “twice And this is what the US legislators demand. He adds in an interview with Al-Akhbar: “The aforementioned speech does not mean anything. Congress has not ratified it, it has not adopted it and it has become a bill that the administration is being voted on and presented as a law that has been successful in the majority. Assuming this was accomplished, the White House is not bound by Congress on foreign policy, which is limited to the executive branch, in accordance with the Constitution .
At the Jordanian level, Al-Qassem explains that “no Jordanian citizen can be extradited to a foreign entity unless a final judicial judgment has been issued against him, and that there is a treaty for the extradition of the wanted, and this is not present after the nullity of the treaty between Amman and Washington (to which the letter refers) is unconstitutional. ” ». Thus, the claim by seven US lawmakers to Amman to act unconstitutionally in the Al-Tamimi case appears to be “a form of futility, so how can a lawmaker demand that its laws be violated?” Regarding the threat of sanctions, he says: “This is not accurate, and Washington will not force its relationship with one of its most important allies and friends in the region on an unreported issue like Al-Tamimi, and the error of those who they believe that the sanctions, if approved, will come in one day and one night. “
Therefore, it is clear that the Tamimi case is a quintessential political issue and is not without the horror of the upcoming US elections, especially that those who addressed the Jordanian embassy are Republican deputies from Donald Trump’s party, as it can be read as part of continued blackmail due to Amman’s position rejecting the annexation of the Jordan Valley, as well as the absence of Ambassador Kawar at the “Deal of the Century” announcement conference. In the Kingdom, the matter is seen only as a “summer cloud”, especially with the official devotion of the internal situation almost entirely and the absence of activity in foreign policy. On the contrary, talking about sanctions may contradict the image published by the American embassy in Amman and the Minister of Planning appears Jordanian international cooperation, Wissam al-Rabadi, and the director of USAID, Jim Barnhart, during the signing of aid agreements for the kingdom worth $ 340 million, they are part of the $ 1.085 billion that Congress allocated to Jordan within the U.S. budget for 2019.