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Israel arrests Bosnia genocide suspect
Aviad Glickman
Published: 18.01.11, 11:12
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1. Another flop
Dr D ,   Jerusalem   (01.18.11)
Did anyone performed a background security check on him BEFORE letting him in to Israel??
2. MUSLIM BOSNIANS KILLED THOUSAND SERBS BUT WHO CARES ...?
Scorpion   (01.18.11)
3. Good, Send Him Back
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (01.18.11)
Let him face the people he murdered. The evidence must be overwhelming for Israel to agree to the extradition process. Although how he got into Israel in the first place, even married to a Jewish woman are there background checks run in Israel? Although we did catch many Nazi war criminals here in the U.S. after WW2. Did he use his real name? When was it known he was involved is this massacre?
4. True face
Jack   (01.18.11)
5. Is that why he married the Jewish Woman?
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6. I found a frog in my house..
dan guralnek ,   brisbane australia   (01.18.11)
Something tells me that the removal of this evil man from israel is more than just a regular legal proceeding. It has the feeling of divine Intervention. Almost like a stock market correction, except it is an Israel correction. The presence of this guy makes Israel something it was never ment to be. It feels as though he penetrated gods filter. Like shen you are choosing apples at the supermarket, you come home and realise that you accidentally picked one bad apple, you remove it from the bag and discard it as quickly as possible to reduce the possibility of spreading the imperfections to the rest of the apples. If he is guilty I won't shed a tear.
7. as long as he
JL   (01.18.11)
wasnt asian im sure the ministry of interior welcomed him with open arms
8. Background checks
Non-jewish Israeli ,   Tel Aviv   (01.18.11)
Background checks are merely a formality. When you are married to an Israeli citizen you do have to provide a declaration of good behaviour at the time of applying for an A5 visa, but these declarations are easily forged, even if they carry an apostille stamp. And when you get to Israel from another country than your country of birth you could argue you'd need declarations from more countries anyway. I was asked for declarations from a few countries where I'd lived, for instance, but since it soon became clear that I had no way to get these, the request was scrapped and I merely supplied one from the country where I was born. I am no war criminal, but I would say it is relatively easy to get here. But I also believe that there's no way to avoid this. Every country suffers from bad apples amongst its immigrants. There are plenty of similar cases across Europe and the US where war criminals were give refugee status or other visa categories.
9. What a bunch of hypocrites!!!!
Salma ,   Palestine   (01.18.11)
10. Most ridiculous thing to do.
Tejas ,   India   (01.18.11)
This shouldn't be happening. Tomorrow, arabs will demand to extradite some IDF soldiers involved in war. . If you look at the history Balkans, Serbs are the actual victims and not the Bosnians. . And do you want to know one most interesting thing. Jews and other minorities are forbidden in the Constitution of Bosnia from running for the position of president.
11. Thanks to brave Jewish woman Madline Olbrait who bombed Serbs
Amir Karic ,   Dubai,UAE   (01.18.11)
12. Genocide? Ridiculous!
AJ - Raalte   (01.18.11)
The sheer fact that those massacres during a CIVIL WAR are termed "genocide" is ridiculous. Many of those "poor, slaughtered men" were themselves murderers of Serb men, women and children in the Serb villages around Srebrenica, who fled just before the Serbs took the city, callously leaving their own women and kids in the lurch. Of course, the Serbs allowed those Muslim women and children free passage to their own side.
13. There are laws
Yossef   (01.18.11)
of behavior, this is how we are jews. Such a criminal has no place in our land. If he has not to be judged there, I should have suggest to execute him here and send his body back.
14. #9 Salma
Emma ,   London   (01.18.11)
The very fact that the Israelis are sending him back proves that they are not hypocrites. He is not Jewish or Israeli and even if he were, he would be made to pay for his crimes under the due process of law. The hypocrites are the Palestinians who delight in the murder of Israeli citizens, use their own people as human shields and make heros out of murderers like Kuntar.
15. #9: Poor, ignorant and confused Salma
Reuven Ben-Tal ,   Jerusalem   (01.18.11)
Once again, you make these terrible and embarrassing errors that indicate the range and depth of your ignorance on a number of matters such as the Jewish/Israeli and Arab/Muslim history, the history of the proto-Semitic Middle East, as well as your own knowledge of the Koran, Hadith and the early declarations of the first Caliphates. Your recent comments about “hypocrites” now indicate that your ignorance extends linguistically. Based on this article, who are the hypocrites in your wise opinion? Before you reply, it appears that you may not fully understand the word “hypocrite” and how to correctly use it. First, it is derived from the Greek “hypokrites” meaning “actor” (i.e., one who plays a role or part); and it was later absorbed into Latin and Latin-based languages. In modern usage, a hypocrite is a person who pretends to be what he or she is not; additionally, it means one who pretends to be better than one really is, such as to be pious or virtuous when one is really not. In Hebrew, the word is “du-partzufi” meaning to have “two faces” which is quite descriptive. I do not know the correct word in Arabic but will find out. If you are suggesting that Jews/Israelis are hypocrites, I fail to understand how the content of this particular article demonstrates that. First, the man who is “suspected” of killing Muslims is not a Jew but a Bosnian who is married to a Jewish woman. It would be grossly incorrect to use the word “hypocrite” in this context if you were to suggest that Jews/Israelis are hypocrites for this Bosnian Serbs suspected acts against Bosnian Muslims when it was the latter (Bosnian Muslims) who massacred Jews living in Bosnia during WWII. Read about the proud Bosnian Muslim Handzar SS Division! While some of those Muslims returned to Israel (please note the origin of the Jami Al-Bahr Mosque in Jaffo!), would the entire Arab population of British Occupied Israel be guilty of genocide committed against Jews by your bizarre logic? Once again Salma, read, read and read! Even if you want to be a proud and hard-working representative of the Arab (unjust, fascistic, racist and diabolical) cause, be more well-read and knowledgeable.
16. The Srebrenica Myth
Orao. ,   Srbia.   (01.18.11)
The Islamic comander of Srebrenica, confessed to a Western Journalist that taking prisoners was a luxury. the Muslims in Srebrenitca did break out of the enclave, and attacked three Serbian Villages and Murdering all its Civialian inhabitants, Men,Womans and Children. http://serbianna.com/analysis/?p=158 A further information - http://serbianna.com/analysis/?p=817 This may seem to be a Talking in ones own case, if so -- so be it. Orao.Srbia.
17. "Israeli"!? Inflamatory Misinformation
IresponsibleHeadline ,   china and israel   (01.18.11)
To call the non Jewish spouse who recently arrived an "Israeli" and "Israeli guilty of genocide" is not only irresponsible journalism but yet another example of Yediot/YNET 's contribution to Jew hate in the world . No doubt that incendiery headline will be used over and over again .This is criminal and reflective of this websites sick self hate.
18. 9
Andrew ,   US   (01.18.11)
How many serbs have been killed by Muslims? After all the Muslim regimes are all modeled after the third Reich...the mufti of Jerusalem was best friends with Hitler and he help kill thousands of Bosnian Jews.
19. Kick him out the country - let him face the music
Talula ,   Israel   (01.18.11)
And then, don't let him back in.
20. Scorpion shame of you !
S. ,   Jerusalm, Israel   (01.18.11)
what happend to muslim people in Bosnia is just massacre.Little bit respect for all those people . Shame of you!
21. Murder is murder
There is NO Santa Cl ,   North Pole, Alaska   (01.18.11)
There is no sense in arguing who was right or wrong in the Yugoslavian civil war(s). Murder is murder. If this Cvetkovic participated in the murder of over a thousand people, I think it is the duty of an ethical nation to prosecute him. What made him think he could hide indefinitely from a crime like this in Israel?
22. As a Serbian Jew I want to protest
Tomy ,   Serbia   (01.18.11)
As a Jew and a Serbian citizen I wanted to protest against the fabrication and falsification of history carried out by Islamofascist Pallywood in the same manner as it is doing in Israel.Araound Srebrenica 6000 inocent Serbs were murdered by Jihadist Muslim soldiers and no one faced justice.Serbs were dehumanized by same Pallywood medias and in same fashione as Israel is dehumanized today.Serbs were always the friends of the Jewish people,bosnian muslims are one of the biggest promoters of antizionism and antisemitism in former Yugoslavia SHAME ON YOU ISRAELI UN(JUSTICE!)
23. ACTUALLY ON FACT THE MUSLIM STARTED THE RIOT AND ...
benjamin ,   singapore   (01.18.11)
IN THE END THE WHOLE CIVIL WAR WAS CLSSIFIED AS GENOCIDE. tHE WORST GENOCIDE VER RECORDED IN THE HISTORY OF EUROPE HAPPENS TO BE THE HOLOCAUST- But this fellows predated his citizenship, as such how to stop the application to extradite. Any evidence to show that he was with the scorpians, was he connected with Slobodorn Medic or Sasa Cvjetan ? mere suspecian and unfounded facts dosent warrant etradition treaty to be applied on Israeli, by convention the ICH rules that the Govet of Serbia is immune from pesecution but person who carried out the genocide directly is liable. Was he a direct participant ? I think the court should throw out the application to extradite him ! Unless they can show some evidence that warrant extradition treaty ! However his allegation predates his citizenship of Israel. Conflicts of Law eh !
24. Please correct the death toll
Jeff, Ex-Marine ,   San Diego, US   (01.18.11)
More than 8000 men and boys were murdered by the Serbs.
25. #2 (Scorpion) is correct
Nick ,   Tel Aviv Israel   (01.18.11)
The show trial in The Hague that tried to convict Milosevic revealed the truth. There was a MUSLIM orchestrated genocide against non-Muslims. The Serbs tried to defend themselves and save their historical lands. But thanks to the UN, EU, US, NATO, the Muslims won. The same gang is intending to do the same thing to us here in Israel. And it looks like they're going to get away with it.
26. #16; Orao, you raise an interesting point
Mark from Georgia ,   USA   (01.18.11)
I had heard some rumors about this before. But never have much on the subject. What I found interesting is this, the Muslims allegedly massacred according to your source's did use the same technique that the Pals and most other Muslim terrorists use today. They murder people and then retreat to civilian area's to hide among the population. Using their own people as "human shields" in multiple ways. They set up their base of operations, store weapons, set up weapon factories, launch attacks and then retreat to civilian area's. So for this reason I found your article's interesting. But does it relate to this guy and the specific incident he is accused of?
27. Headlines
Aryeh Moshen ,   NY USA   (01.18.11)
I believe that headlines are important, especially when they may lead to anti-Semitic comments and feelings. IF (stressed, as we really don't know) guilty, he was neither Israeli nor even a Jew at the time of the crime. He is still not a Jew and is only an "Israeli" by virtue of marriage to an Israeli Jew. Let us try to understand that he as anyone else is entitled to his day in court and to determination of the merits of the case before any adjudication; but neither the Jewish Nation nor the State of Israel need to answer to his actions. We must, however, answer for our own actions.
28. To 17
Gregg ,   Haifa, IL   (01.18.11)
QUOTE: Cvetković, 43, immigrated to Israel with his wife and children in 2006 and was granted an Israeli citizenship for being married to a Jew. Go back to school and lear how to read !
29. Nr 26.
Orao. ,   Srbia.   (01.18.11)
But does it relate to this guy and the specific incident he is accused of? Mark from Georgia , USA (01.18.11) Comment - Do you consider Executing Warcriminals Murdering Civilian Men-Women-Children - as a Warcrime ? I am not a Bosnians Serb born in Bosnia, but was a Volonter on the Bosnianserb side, because of Ideological Cause and Reason . The Reason the Bosnianserbs did not Exhibit all Muslim Crimes like those is, that the Serbs had already lost the Propaganda War when the West sided with the Muslims, and therefore, to cooperate with the West was considerto Execute Justice and Judgement Oneself. But Who are the Real Warmongerers and Warciminals - http://serbianna.com/analysis/?p=387 Well I do know more about those events but they are Classified. By the way - In a Civil War - Civilians kill and Murder Civillians. But I think light in the Yugoslavian Case is slowly coming forward, as one Comanding Western General in Bosnia said after the war - "We bombed the wrong People" !. Orao.Srbia.
30. Can't wait to see reaction
Nahum Litwin ,   Kfar Saba, Israel   (01.18.11)
Any bets on how the Israel-haters in the EU will play this one? How many days until a Swedish headline claims "Israel Harbors Bosnia War Criminal"?
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