Joe Biden recently met with Jordan’s King Abdullah. It was a meeting all full of smiles. The King was assured of continued American support, financial and diplomatic. Jordan receives $1.3 billion a year in American aid, more than any country save our ally Israel. But in return, the Jordanians have not been asked to do the one thing they should be willing to do: to extradite to the U.S. for trial the mastermind of the Sbarro pizzeria bombing. 

It is not only that Jordan has given this terrorist refuge, but that she has been lionized in the Kingdom.

Tamimi had been tried and convicted in an Israeli court, but released in the 2011 prisoner swap between Hamas and Israel that Jerusalem agreed to in order to obtain the release of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit. Hamas freed Shalit, and Israel – regrettably – freed 1000 Arab prisoners. That is how Tamimi ended up in Jordan.