ISRAEL STARTS ACTIONS BEYOND ITS BORDERS

The Israeli parliament has passed the bill unanimously which authorizes the Jewish state to demand the extradition of foreign deniers of Holocaust in future.

This decision means that there is no practical legal obstacle to try in Israeli court foreign citizens for such crimes. Jerusalem Post, reporting the news, notes that the aim of the law is to deter Holocaust deniers visiting Israel. The newspaper also notes that the affected countries would not be too cooperative to extradite their citizens but the law is extraterritorial. Earlier MNO had written that the agents of Mosad were active in Hungary, too, and were authorized to kill if necessary. András Tóth, state secretary of national security said then that no liquidations could be made without the permit of the Hungarian authority. The announcement of the ’Last Chance Operation’ to hunt down remaining Nazis has created recently a storm in Hungary and Attila Péterfalvi, ombudsman for data protection said it was illegal to take out data collected in Hungary but Efraim Zuroff, head of Simon Wiesenthal Institute has refused the objection.

anslated by Péter Szentmihályi Szabó