Israeli terror victim to UN: I'll never understand hatred that killed my daughter 

By Shlomo Shamir
September 9, 2008
Haaretz 
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Israelis Arnold Roth and Danny Carmon described their experiences as terror victims to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday. 

Roth, whose 15-year-old daughter Malki was killed in the suicide bombing at Jerusalem's Sbarro restaurant in August 2001, told the conference he never imagined to himself he would get the opportunity to speak on such a stage. 

He spoke about the attack, describing how the terrorist entered the restaurant with a guitar to disguise himself as a musician. 

Nobody would have thought this was a man filled with such a religious passion to kill and main, Roth told the conference. 

We will never understand the hatred and cruel intolerance that took away her smile, he said. 

Roth was one of 18 people from different countries brought to testify at the day-long symposium on victims of terrorism at UN headquarters in New York. The special conference was initiated by Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon and included the participation of terror victims, experts on terrorism and senior authorities in the field of social aid. 

Senior Israeli diplomat Danny Carmon also spoke at the conference, speaking about the loss of his Eliora and in the bombing of the Israeli Embassy in the Argentinean capital Buenos Aires in March 1992. 29 other people died in the attack, in which Carmon himself was injured. 

Carmon told the conference of how he managed to extricate himself from the ruins alive. He and his wife had five children together, aged between two and 12 at the time of the blast. 

Senior officials at the UN have revealed that the Palestinian Authority requested to include victims of Israeli Defense Forces operations, but the request was turned down.