Israel won't extradite Polish Jew accused of WWII genocide

[bocian]

Israel has refused to extradite a Polish-born Jew accused of war crimes against Germans in World War II.
Solomon Morel, an 86-year-old Holocaust survivor, is said to be responsible for the deaths of up to 1,500 prisoners.
Mr Morel commanded a Russian-run camp where Germans were held after the Soviets occupied Poland in 1945.
Mr Morel moved to Israel in 1994 when inquiries began in Poland. A previous extradition call was refused in 1998.
Israel's Justice Ministry told the BBC that Poland's extradition request had been turned down, but gave no further details.
Polish prosecutors say Israel refused the request, saying there was "no basis whatsoever" to extradite Mr Morel, the Associated Press reports.
Israel has no extradition treaty with Poland.

'One measure'

A prosecutor at Poland's Institute for National Remembrance - which investigates war-era crimes - criticised the decision, alluding to Israel's support of the prosecution of elderly people accused of genocide against Jews during the war.
There should be one measure for judging war criminals, irrespective whether they are German, Israeli or any other nationality

Ewa Koj
Polish Institute for National Remembrance


"There should be one measure for judging war criminals, irrespective whether they are German, Israeli or any other nationality," Ewa Koj told the Associated Press news agency.
Mr Morel had survived incarceration in Auschwitz concentration camp earlier in the war, and lost many members of his family in the Holocaust.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Jewish human rights organisation, regularly pressures foreign governments to prosecute those accused of Holocaust-era crimes.
Last year the organisation launched a "last chance" campaign to bring former Nazis and other Holocaust-era criminals to justice.

Second try

Mr Morel's case was brought to light in the 1990s when a US Jewish journalist, John Sack, published a book detailing alleged "revenge killings" by Jews placed in charge of prison camps at the end of the war.
Poland attempted to extradite Mr Morel in 1998, but Israel refused the request on technical grounds.
Poland's post-war communist government imprisoned some 100,000 Germans in 1945, and at least 15,000 are estimated to have died in captivity.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4659985.stm

[Dr. Solar Wolff]

So, what will the Fat Pig fall back on after his run as PM is over? Were his parents killed by Palestinians? What will be given as a reason he won't be turned over to The Hague as an indited war criminal? Clue: it is rumored that there are 5,000 different words for "no" in Hebrew.

[Aeternitas]

I've read this too, here:

Israel won't extradite Polish Jew accused of WWII genocide

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.

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[Carnyx]

What did the polish prosecutors expect to? He's not a criminal, he's just killed goyim... This is their logic I guess.

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.

We're dealing with the Lex Talionis here. They apply it, we don't and it's a pity for us gentiles.

[Aeternitas]

Oddly enough, I've heard that a book about his life called "An Eye for an Eye" writes that while he wasn't inprisoned by the Germans, his family was indeed killed by Poles who collaborated with the 'Nazis'.

I can imagine the story would have been a bit different, had the victims been Jews and not Germans.

[Carnyx]

They're the Christians' chosen people, by God.