Israel shelters mass-murderers

[Moses]

This is not the first or only case, and goes to the Israeli character and culture, which Usraelis have striven, with apparent success, to bring about in the US. This man who caused the deaths of 1,500, fled Poland in 1994, when investigators were closing in on him.

Our jurisdiction tried to gain extradition for a murderer who had fled to Israel w/ the help of his father, without success. He had murdered and dismembered an hispanic boy.

It is very clear that Israelis and their supporters believe that killing other human beings is not a crime-- so long as they are gentiles.

Last update - 17:04 06/07/2005
Israel won't extradite Polish Jew accused of WWII genocide

By The Associated Press

Israel has refused for a second time to extradite to Poland a Jewish man accused of crimes against German prisoners just after the end of World War II, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Polish prosecutors received the refusal in a letter from the Israeli Justice Ministry saying "there was no basis whatsoever to extradite" Solomon Morel, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, prosecutor Ewa Koj told The Associated Press.

Morel commanded a communist-run camp for German prisoners in southern Poland in 1945 after Soviet troops had occupied the country. Polish authorities accuse him of genocide by seeking to exterminate German prisoners by starving them to death, depriving them of medical care as well as carrying out torture and sanctioning torture by his subordinates.


Polish prosecutors charge that Morel is responsible for the deaths of at least 1,500 prisoners in the Swietochlowice camp.

Koj, a prosecutor with the government-run National Remembrance Institute in Katowice, said the Israeli ministry argued that the statute of limitations against Morel had run out. The institute investigates communist and Nazi-era crimes.

Koj quoted the letter as saying: "In light of the facts, there appears to be no basis to charge Mr. Morel with serious crimes let alone crimes of 'genocide' or 'crimes against the Polish nation.' If anything, it would seem to us that Mr. Morel and his family were clearly victims of crimes of genocide committed by the Nazis and the Polish collaborators.

Koj criticized Israel's decision, saying: "How can a statute of limitations run out on crimes against humanity?"

"There should be one measure for judging war criminals, irrespective whether they are German, Israeli, or any other nationality," she added.

Israel, which has no extradition treaty with Poland, in 1998 refused an extradition request based on charges of torture; the current request broadened the charges to genocide, for which there is no statute of limitations in Polish law.

Polish historians generally agree that the communist government imprisoned 100,000 Germans, mostly civilians deemed threats to the state after World War II. At least 15,000 died due to ill treatment, and the rest were freed by 1950.

Morel left Poland for Israel in 1994, after accusations against him surfaced.

[Parenti]

This guy is being framed by the post the post communist Polish government which wants to discredite the communist era government. Why are nazi and communist era crimes being investigated alonside each other as if being a nazi and being a communist is equivalant to each other. The communists opposed fascism more then anyone else and despite the propaganda otherwise they did not commit atrocities.

[Moses]

There is alot of animosity in Poland currently toward the Communist era repressions or as they would regard it, Russian occupation. However, the Polish government is very close to Israel, and so this is a particular affront-- but then they are close to our government and the affronts are innumerable.

The Poles feel that deaths in Soviet era are as horrendous as deaths in Nazi era.

I'm not sure that these prosecutions are connected w/ their reactionary tendencies, of late.

Of course, they are quite capable of hypocrisy -- deporting Vietnamese back to Vietnam -- a government that they would ostensibly condemn, sending troops to Iraq w/ an occupation force, etc etc.

However, the hypocrisy of the state does not diminish the crimes of any person who tortured and killed human beings that were being held in his captivity, regardless of what state prosecutes or harbors the criminal.