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Oprah's Tears For Suicide Bombers-My daughter was murdered. Oprah's heart aches--for her killer?
Frontpagemagazine ^ | 6-2-05 | Frimet Roth

Posted on 06/02/2005 5:34:07 AM PDT by SJackson

My daughter, Malki, was murdered in a pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem. How come Oprah's heart aches -- for her killer?

Anyone who has ever watched television’s successful The Oprah Show knows that its host is no ordinary celebrity. “The most powerful woman in the world” is the way her web site describes her.

When Oprah Winfrey says she has read and liked a book, it rockets to the top of the best-seller lists. When Oprah vents about her childhood sexual abuse, 22 million Americans reach for the tissues. When Oprah urges other victims to proudly speak out, they rush to share their story on her show.

The June 2005 issue of ‘O’, Oprah's magazine ­ with 2.7 million readers - features a sympathetic article about an imprisoned 18 year-old Palestinian woman, convicted of conspiring to perform a suicide bombing. The journalist's sentiments will undoubtedly move that impressive multi-racial, multi-religious following.

So here I am at my keyboard.

Immediately after the Beslan massacre, Oprah chatted on her show with several of its victims and declared: "The Beslan terror attack has been a watershed event. The terrorists showed the world that there are no holds barred. Even children are fair game."

Her words bowled me over. My daughter, Malki, and fourteen other innocents including eight children were murdered in a pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem two years before Beslan. By time of the September 2003 Beslan massacre, tens of Israeli children had already perished at the hands of Palestinian terrorists. Had they never blipped on Oprah's radar screen?

In Oprah’s world, not all murdered children were created equal. There are those who do not merit a mention ­ provided their murderers “define their situation as hopeless”, as ‘O’ magazine’s Palestinian terrorist defined hers. There are those who do not warrant any tears or tissues since their murderers “feel that they have no way to respond against what they see as Israeli military aggression" to quote Oprah's magazine.

When it comes to child molesters, Oprah tosses the psycho-drivel out the window and gets very direct. She holds those criminals accountable for their acts ­ period. But not my daughter's murderers.

Oprah may not be a political figure yet, but TIME magazine named her one of its 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2005 ­ the third year it has done so. Her name has been seriously bandied about as a future candidate for some high office. And if Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwartzeneger could pull it off, why shouldn’t she?

Hannah Laszlo, Israel’s icon of the hour, aped Oprah last Saturday in her acceptance speech for the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. She too felt obliged to dabble in politics and offend murdered Israelis. "I want to share this prize with my Mum, who is a Holocaust survivor and also with the victims on the Arab and Palestinian side. It's time we sit and try to solve the problem." The above version of Laszlo’s remarks, carried by Reuters and such major papers as the Toronto Globe & Mail, was egregiously offensive to Israel’s forgotten victims. An only slight-milder version, still stinging to Israeli sensibilities, was heard by Jerusalem Post and New York Times reporters. They quoted Laszlo saying: "I dedicate this award to my mother, a Holocaust survivor, and "the victims of both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict", lumping the victims together with their murderers.

I wonder how Laszlo would react if someone leveled the World War Two playing field and memorialized her mother's murdered family in the same breath as "all the casualties from both sides" of that war?

At the close of the ‘O’ piece on the female terrorist, Oprah’s readers are urged to help "prevent Palestinian children from becoming suicide bombers by donating money to Oprah's Angel Network or to UNICEF". Oprah should be told about my fifteen year old Malki's murderer. He was the son of a well-to-do restaurateur and lacked for nothing. Many other terrorists enjoyed lives of comfort. My advice to Oprah’s followers: Save your dollars. No amount of hand-outs will convince them to spare the lives of the innocents they intend to kill.

Oprah should be informed of the machine guns the Palestinians distribute to their children like roller-blades, only costing a lot more. She should know about my precious child ­ a true angel ­ who devoted herself to helping disabled children and who was a gifted flutist, a caring sister and a loving daughter.

Once enlightened, Oprah will surely realize that evil can lurk not only in the hearts of sexual molesters but even in those of teen-age girls like the one profiled in her magazine. Because there just is no “explanation” for murdering angelic children like my Malki --­ ever.


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To: SJackson

Oprah's still waters do not run deep. She is not what one might call a classical "thinker."


21 posted on 06/02/2005 6:01:50 AM PDT by Petronski (A champion of dance, my moves will put you in a trance, and I never leave the disco alone.)
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To: katieanna
#12..The liberals have brought propagandizing to an art form.

They let the leash out one bit at a time....

...and along the way, they do or say some 'good things' that are generally acceptable to all.

Then they snare you!

You think Oprah as trying to see the good in all.

I see her as a tool of the left, and a very effective one !!

22 posted on 06/02/2005 6:04:41 AM PDT by Guenevere
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To: veronica

On of the best SNL sketches was a parody on the Oprah give-away shows. With each gift that was given out the audience became more and more hysterical. One woman lost a leg, one wet herself, another started to give birth on the riser stairs. It was dead on.


23 posted on 06/02/2005 6:05:13 AM PDT by CaptainK
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To: SJackson
"I want to share this prize with my Mum, who is a Holocaust survivor and also with the victims on the Arab and Palestinian side. It's time we sit and try to solve the problem."

Hannah Laszlo is Jewish, I presume?

Hannah, the Palestinian solution is for you to wade off into the Mediterranean and disappear...drown, swim, whatever. The Palestinian solution is to drive Israelis into the sea. They'll get to rounding up and killing the rest of the world's Jews later on. For now, six million Israelis will do.

Six million more Jews.

24 posted on 06/02/2005 6:06:31 AM PDT by Petronski (A champion of dance, my moves will put you in a trance, and I never leave the disco alone.)
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To: SJackson
Her name has been seriously bandied about as a future candidate for some high office.

Yeah?

By whom and under what circumstances?

The liberal, goody-two shoe birkenstockers?

Not likely, as she would detract from their idiotic message with her own idiotic messages and would draw votes from frumpy, sit-in-front-of-the-TV-all-day-long crowd of stupid cow women, who rarely get off their fat butts to do anything, much less vote.

And if Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwartzeneger could pull it off, why shouldn’t she?

Because she doesn't appeal to the same crowd.

Read the aforewritten assessment of Okra's followers.

Nobody but the mustachioed welfare queens take her seriously and the majority of them are unable to even read the books she "recommends", so her "message" kinda withers on the vine.

And no one on the political action scene takes them seriously, so there ya have it.

She will continue to suck millions from the Colgate-Palmolive and Kimberly-Clark advertising agencies (not that her viewers actually ever use those products) and will continue to promote her simpering silliness on national TV and true conservative men and women will continue to do as I have just done, which is to ridicule her and her followers and render her even more ineffective on the political stage.

Stick a fork in her, she's done.

25 posted on 06/02/2005 6:08:29 AM PDT by OldSmaj (Hey Islam...I flushed a koran today and let my dog sniff on it first. Come get me, moon bats!)
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To: SJackson
At the close of the ‘O’ piece on the female terrorist, Oprah’s readers are urged to help "prevent Palestinian children from becoming suicide bombers by donating money to Oprah's Angel Network or to UNICEF". Oprah should be told about my fifteen year old Malki's murderer. He was the son of a well-to-do restaurateur and lacked for nothing. Many other terrorists enjoyed lives of comfort. My advice to Oprah’s followers: Save your dollars. No amount of hand-outs will convince them to spare the lives of the innocents they intend to kill.

This must be remembered. People must be reminded of this again and again. Like Osama bin Laden, terrorists simply do not arise out of poverty. They arise out of educated middle-class families.

26 posted on 06/02/2005 6:11:39 AM PDT by Piranha
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To: joylyn

"Show business kids.....makin' movies of themselves.....they don't give a f*k about anybody else...."


27 posted on 06/02/2005 6:13:15 AM PDT by NRA1995 (Support your local Minutemen)
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To: SJackson

Oprah is smart and talented (which is why people watch her), but sometimes she is exceedingly unwise and blind (which is why no one should take her seriously). Too bad some people forget she's an entertainer and start acting like she is some sort of prophetess. She's just an emotional, confused person who happens to have a successful TV show.


28 posted on 06/02/2005 6:19:13 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: SJackson
Oprah has a Schrader valve attached to her caboose so she can pump her size up with a bicycle pump whenever she wants to make the front page of the tabloids.
29 posted on 06/02/2005 6:25:05 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws spawned the federal health care monopoly and fund terrorism.)
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To: SJackson
These are not faceless names, Oprah:


Malki Roth

Just an innocent kid with her whole life ahead of her.

I get so mad I could spit.

30 posted on 06/02/2005 6:34:15 AM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: joylyn

"The woman seems totally unaware"

She isn't. She has the same intellectual capacity as a Tickle Me Elmo doll. People seem to like them too. I guess it doesn't take much to amuse the easily amused.


31 posted on 06/02/2005 6:36:54 AM PDT by monday
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To: NRA1995

Outrageous! ;0)


32 posted on 06/02/2005 6:46:57 AM PDT by Bring Back Old Sparky (Teddy K : Drink! Drive! Swim for your life!)
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To: SJackson

Oprah backwards = Harpo


Harpo Marx had the good sense and the great gift never to Grow Up. Oprah has none.


33 posted on 06/02/2005 6:50:44 AM PDT by boothead
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To: MarMema
The worst thing I can remember was the museum they made from the bombed pizza place.

Yes, at a "university" in fact.

34 posted on 06/02/2005 6:55:04 AM PDT by SJackson (Israel should know if you push people too hard they will explode in your faces, Abed. palestinian)
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To: kcvl
And get this, The Discovwery Channel was running an ad for folks to get online saying who thet thought was a great American , influencing the lives of people.

Guess who one of the people named was?.......OPRAH! (YUCK!)

Goes to show were a lot of peoples priorities are.

35 posted on 06/02/2005 6:56:34 AM PDT by Pippin
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To: csvset
Lest we forget. I still don't understand why President Bush wants to give $50,000,000 to the PA.

If you start from the position that establishing a state, now, is important to American foreign policy, there's not much else you can do. You have to cleanse terrorist groups like Hamas, terrorists like Abu Mazen, and aid is essential because no one is going to invest in Gaza, thus no economy will develop. Other than Israel, and Israeli investment isn't allowed.

36 posted on 06/02/2005 6:59:58 AM PDT by SJackson (Israel should know if you push people too hard they will explode in your faces, Abed. palestinian)
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To: CaptainK

"On of the best SNL sketches was a parody on the Oprah give-away shows."

When Oprah had the show where cars were given to every member of her audience, Oprah purposely did not disclose who was actually giving away the cars so that people would think that she was the generous donor. General Motors donated the cars, Oprah scooped up the glory.


37 posted on 06/02/2005 7:01:32 AM PDT by ArmedNReady (Islam, the Cancer on Humanity.)
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To: veronica

Be nice!


38 posted on 06/02/2005 7:02:34 AM PDT by SJackson (Israel should know if you push people too hard they will explode in your faces, Abed. palestinian)
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To: veronica

Oops, wrong thread.


39 posted on 06/02/2005 7:03:00 AM PDT by SJackson (Israel should know if you push people too hard they will explode in your faces, Abed. palestinian)
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To: SJackson

I always try to be nice, with people who deserve niceness. :)


40 posted on 06/02/2005 7:07:04 AM PDT by veronica (Never trust a Worm...)
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