"israeli 'get out of jail free' pass expires"
"Or does it?
If the latest verdict applying a new extradition treaty between the US and israel is upheld, dual citizen Americans who hold israeli passports can kiss their 'get out of jail free' pass goodbye - they'll be staring down the anti-semitic abyss of equal accountability before the law.
An Israeli court on Sunday approved the extradition to the U.S. of an American Orthodox Jew wanted on suspicion of multiple sexual attacks two decades ago, the Justice Ministry said.Abraham Mondrowitz, 60, a member of the Gur Hasidic Jewish sect, was arrested in Jerusalem in November for allegedly abusing dozens of children at his unlicensed private clinic at his Brooklyn, New York home during the 1980s. He fled to Israel in 1985 as police were investigating charges against him.
Israeli Justice Ministry spokesman Moshe Cohen said the Jerusalem District Court approved the extradition order, but Mondrowitz has the right to appeal.
Court spokeswoman Tal Rosner said the state would make the final decision about whether to extradite Mondrowitz, who could appeal to the Israeli Supreme Court against Sunday's ruling.
Last September, the United States resubmitted an extradition request first made in 1985, months after Mondrowitz fled Brooklyn for Israel.
Un-flipping-believable! This guy has been wanted since 1985 for multiple sex crimes against children and has been living life scot-free in israel, as if nothing ever happened.
The renewed U.S. request came after Israel and the United States amended their extradition treaty to include all crimes whose punishment is more than one year imprisonment, according to the Israeli state prosecutor's office. Before the change that took effect a year ago, the extradition treaty between Israel and the United States did not include sodomy.
Incredible - for 59 years, israelis could get away with sodomy in the US.
I guess that's their idea of 'equal protection against the law.'"