like to have this insignificant piece of information.

I expect this will be a major story on tonight's network news. The question is how will they describe him? Several options are obvious: Israeli Arab, an Israeli-born Arab with US citizenship, etc. But if they simply describe him as an Israeli, many will assume he was a Jew, and one who brought the violence of his homeland to these shores. And that would be neither fair nor accurate.

any way handcuff and jail Abu El Azam ,this is what he deserves

If he is indeed a serial killer it doesn’t matter if he is an Israeli Jew or an Israeli Arab as he is still an Israeli citizen. Unlike other posters here I do not distinguish or discriminate between Israeli Jews or Israeli Arabs neither do I discriminate between White Americans or African Americans -- to do so would be racist.

The implication of the poster to which I responded was that Israel does not extradite or try Jews. Guess what, world citizen? You aren't too terribly worldly if you have failed to notice that there are hundreds of wanted Nazi war criminals that the German government refuses to extradite. I simply chose to make the point to German Johan. Oh -- by the way -- the serial killer arrested and removed from the airplane? He's an Arab. Got any comments about that? I can't wait to read them.

Yeah. They're Arabs. Ever been to Yemen? Who else in the wide world walks around with a dagger at their waist? TO ALL ARABS: IT IS 2010. SOON IT WILL BE 2011. PLEASE CATCH UP.

And, Salma, unless I miss my guess, he's an Arab, just like you, correct?

elias abuelazam is a christian arab, according to his mother in law, mrs. hirth. these are the news coming out of flint michigan after they interviewed the family. ms. hirth says he married her daughter in texas and lived with her in michigan in the arabic community there. HE IS NOT A JEWISH ISRAELI, BUT AN ARAB ISRAELI OF CHRISTIAN DESCENT WHO LIVED IN ISRAEL AND MIGRATED TO THE USA, GOT MARRIED THERE WITH MRS. HIRTH DAUGHTER, DIVORCED LATER AND LIVED IN MICHIGAN ALONE. HE IS AN ISRAELI ARAB CHRISTIAN, NOT AN ISRAELI JEWS. hameed aboughaze, iranian

he is an arab israeli. periuod. according to all news reports and even his ex mother in law, mrs. hirth from michigan, she identified him as an israeli arab that migrated to the usa some years ago and married her daughter who later divorced him. HE IS AN ISRAELI ARAB. NOT A JEWS! hameed aboughaze, iranian

but you still try to twist and propagandize. Get a job.

It seems of the greatest interest to me, that even in the times of political correctness, Germany finds it so easy, to protect it's Nazi war criminals... Sarah thanks a lot, for never letting off...

When it read: "ISRAELI" I immediately assumed he was Jewish and as such extremely desponded. The "murder streak" in Israel lately paints a very ugly picture as well...although most by non-Jews.

ARAB NOT a Jewish Israeli. Big damn difference. Although it appear she's not a Moslem, but a Christian.

from a religious, political and criminal point of view. I've seen Christian contributions on crime boards in the USA doing "Sminiot be Avir" to "prove" that he's not a "real Christian."