[NCDoc]

Countries do not revoke the citizenship of their citizens for crimes committed elsewhere. You could be convicted of drug smuggling in Thailand and be thrown in jail for life, but you would remain a U.S. citizen. And you would be entitiled to renew your passport if you ever got out of jail.

[LarryLied]

Countries do not revoke the citizenship of their citizens for crimes committed elsewhere.

But Israel is unique, I believe, in granting fugitives from justice almost instant citizenship upon arrival in the country (if they are Jewish) and then refusing to extradict them. Samuel Sheinbein chopped off his Maryland neighbors head and escaped American justice by running to Israel. Solomon Morel is wanted for involvement in torturing and killing at least 1,538 persons in Poland. Israel refuses to turn him over. Nachman Dushanski is wanted for a spree of torture and killings which lasted from 1949 to 1965. He too has found sanctuary in Israel.

Those are the three most famous cases. No doubt there are more. When it comes to hiding those wanted for murder, crimes against humanity and genocide, Israel is in a class with Paraguay under General Alfredo Stroessner.