Solomon Morel is an 86-year old Jew from Poland, now residing in Israel (after Sweden had rejected his application to stay there years ago). His family was killed by the Nazis during the last war.
Morel claimed he wanted revenge so after the war he joined Stalin’s political police, the NVKD. In that unit, he specialised in torture. He beat, shot, starved, tortured and killed prisoners, particularly Nazis, with gusto. He was a man who enjoyed his work. His favourite trick was to hack the prisoner's head off with a wooden leg of a table. It isn't surprising that he has been described as brutal.
Poland tried to extradite him seven years ago on torture charges but Israel refused to consider the Polish application. Polish prosecutors now wants him on a charge of genocide, for which there is no statute of limitations. The prosecutor said:
"There should be one measure for judging war criminals, irrespective whether they are German, Israeli, or any other nationality."
He was wrong as far as Israel is concerned. To the government of Israel, no Jew can ever be a war criminal, regardless of their conduct. Only Germans, Austrians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Latvians, Poles, French, Italians, some Dutch, Russians, Arabs (especially Palestinians) and Iranians, etc, may be - and in Israeli eyes, probably are.
Israel has again refused to hand him over. If the charges of war crimes are true, that means there are now 2 war criminals free in Israel.
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