The Malki Foundation

Keren Malki, the Malki Foundation, a non-political, non-sectarian, not-for-profit organization honors the tragically short life of a girl dedicated to bringing happiness and support into the lives of special-needs children

This site, and the work of Keren Malki (the Malki Foundation), are dedicated to the memory of

Malka Chana Roth Z"L 1985-2001

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"...The Checkpoints are Absolute Necessities"

Published in the 14th October 2005 edition of "In Jerusalem" is a letter to the editors from Frimet and Arnold Roth. ("In Jerusalem" is inserted into the paper edition of the Jerusalem Post.)

The Roths' letter responds to an article written by Nathan Burstein 3 weeks earlier about the Kalandiya Crossing.

Because a key paragraph of the Roths' original letter was deleted in the published version, we publish the full original text here. (The article as published is here.)

The Editors,
"In Jerusalem"

How we wish we could escort our child, Malki, to school and wait with her on line like Fuad and his daughter Aris. But we never will.

Nathan Burstein’s article “School Crossing” belongs to a popular journalistic genre that carps about Israel’s checkpoints without putting matters into the necessary context.

On 9th August 2001, two young, fresh-faced Palestinian students, one male, one female, passed through that same Kalandia checkpoint described

by Burstein. An in-depth investigation by The Times of London says that Israeli security at Kalandia that day was relaxed. The students had no difficulty getting through they were barely noticed, and the guitar case carried by the woman attracted no attention.

The price paid by Israeli society and by other despairing parents like us could be seen an hour later in the Sbarro restaurant. Our Malki and fourteen other innocent Jews - eight of them children. 130 were injured.

The “unsmiling and businesslike soldiers” described by Burstein save lives every day with their thoroughness. They, their colleagues and all the other checkpoints operate for one reason: because five years ago this week, on Rosh Hashana, the Palestinian leadership launched a war of terror on Israel. This is true even if, for reasons that a thinking reader simply cannot comprehend, Burstein fails to mention the word terror even once in telling his story about Kalandia.

His article quotes a Machsom Watch activist who grumbles “that a child on his way to school must have his bags checked by a soldier is bad enough. If the checkpoints are better now, that is something, but it’s not an answer.”

It is rare that we can agree with the members of that strange organization, but this time, they are right. The checkpoints are not an answer. The answer the only one - is for the Palestinians to end their terror war against us. Until that happens, the checkpoints are absolute necessities.

Frimet and Arnold Roth
Jerusalem

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