Comment by Ozzie_osman
2 days ago
It's worth noting that if the suspect is in Israel, and he nerds to be tried in the US it might be an uphill battle trying to get him extradited.
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/israel-law-of-return-extradition...
2 days ago
It's worth noting that if the suspect is in Israel, and he nerds to be tried in the US it might be an uphill battle trying to get him extradited.
https://jacobin.com/2023/02/israel-law-of-return-extradition...
It definitely seems uphill but not infinitely so.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55795075.amp
Though that case, returning an alleged, now convicted child rapist took decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malka_Leifer_affair
As a not-Israeli Jew the reluctance of the Israeli government to send alleged criminals for trial overseas doesn’t make me happy, but I also remember that there are some reasons for this.
Unfortunately many countries have blanket extradition bans. US is one of the worst - it caused a lot of tension in the past when they wouldn't extradite IRA bombers but got UK to agree to extradite anyone US wanted.
Side-note: imagine how much work law enforcement has put into these kinds of cases over the years only for the perpetrators of fraud to be pardoned.
Can't imagine how many people who work in law enforcement are furious with the current administration.
According to the article Erez Hadari, the man supposedly affiliated with the organization, is in Canada at the time of writing
It’s so predictable by this point
Do you believe all countries should automatically extradiate every person any other country demands? Or that there should be a limit on such process?
Israel is a special case.
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No, but the pattern of criminals of Jewish background fleeing to Israel for protection after commiting a crime, is too often to ignore.
Same thing happened in my post communist country and the neighboring country too. Perp stole tens of millons through a banking scam in the 90s, then fled to Israel because he was Jewish and claimed persecution.
At which point should the pattern be acknowledged?
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