Sammy will be our guest forever and ever. The same fundamentalist Jews who are dancing over the deportation of foreign children are the ones who are responsible for his being in Israel. He ain't gonna leave Israel when he finishes his pathetic sentence of 16-24 years -- any other country would send him right back to the USA for real justice. As he is a sociopath, I don't expect any mind change in prison, nor do I expect the authorities here to keep any kind of any eye on him :( Yup, he is Jewish and all ours!

Dorothy: Perhaps he should join those that are responsible to bring him there. Once he released, the fundamentalists should care of him. The way I remember it, the AG of Maryland, agreed that he will be sentenced in Israel, and will serve his time in the Israeli jail. This is the negative-side of the Law of Return.

We are really talking about the laws concerning returning Jews and Israelis overseas to face justice. The law was changed under the Shamir administration to protect an orthodox rapist from Brooklyn, who is still in the country. Law of return remains the same. The extradition law was changed again after Sammy, to make sure that we don't wind up with such a murderer again. I am hoping against hope that he does wind up in an Orthodox community, after all, as you said it is because of them we have him. But the best thing would be if he gets offed in prison, to tell you the truth! I have friends at the NLM by the way.

Of course there is opposition in Turkey to the government. And once enough smart heads prevail, there will be a new government, and new policies. You all know the people you saw on tv burning Israeli flags in Turkey are a very small minorty. Most guys had long beards and women were all wearing headscarves, hardly any broad representation of the society.. Turkey is a big populous country, hell in one day I can get 15.000 people to protest against the use of forced neutering of street dogs by the Istanbul municipailty. We'll chant anti-governer slogans and burn the Istanbul municipal flag... It's all about economics anyway. Within a few years once you consider a week in Antalya for $400 and a Greek Island for 1.200 Euros, you'll all come back. Supply and Demand my friends supply and Demand!

Dorothy: Sammy is a very tough guy, and most likely he will make it thru his sentencing time. His crime- companion was not that strong mentally and physically, and he committed suicide in the prison a few years ago. Did you know it? I am sorry I could not crack the meaning of NLM..

Mehmet. It is good to hear your reassurance on better things to come and your comments on the narrow(er) support of the flotilla demonstrators. Unfortunately I do not share your optimism about changes in the political parties in the near future in Turkey. Erdogan will make his outmost legally and illegally to retain power. Until that happens, most of the tourist will stay away. With my wife we took an organized tour in Turkey in the past October. We enjoyed every minute of it, but until the political situation does not change,we will not even think on a second visit.

Thanks, Johan, for reminding everybody why Helen Thomas is a complete idiot. Why would any Israeli Jew in their right mind want to go back to Europe? Johans are the rule there, not the exception.

National Library of Medicine (which is in Rockville!). Yeah, I know Sammy's partner in murder committed suicide. He didn't have a second country to run and hide in. My friends at the NLM said all three of the kids were bad hats. Since kindie, and it was just a question at who would kill who and when.

Thanks Dorothy. I should have guessed it, since I was there many times. I do not remember the third one. Better not to remember them. They were a rotten bunch even before their crime. They stole computer from the school, and I think they were kicked out for it. .

Spoken like the true Islamo-Fascist you are, Tayfun.

Tayfun Israelis it is one people Zionist or not we are one people of Israel. I hope that no Israelis no Zionist or Jewish or Christian people not travel to Turkey...Get over at it is you country lose ,My country bumming with tourist , This you lost Have nice day...