US-born Israeli settler on trial for murders

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"A US-born Jewish settler suspected of having murdered two Palestinians and carrying out a string of hate attacks against missionaries and gays went on trial Wednesday.

Jack Teitel, 37, refused to stand before the judge in the Jerusalem court or make any statements, saying only "the Lord is king."

Teitel is accused of killing two Palestinians in the late 1990s while visiting Israel as a tourist. He was also believed to be behind a string of bomb attacks since 2006.

Police said he confessed to the murder of a Palestinian taxi-driver in east Jerusalem and a shepherd in the West Bank, saying they were to avenge Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel.

Teitel, who immigrated from the Unites States, is also alleged to have placed a bomb near a convent outside Beit Shemesh, west of Jerusalem, two years ago, wounding a Palestinian.

In another bomb attack, a 15-year-old boy was seriously wounded when a device was concealed in a parcel sent to his parents, members of a Jewish sect that embraces Jesus.

Another bomb wounded a leading left-wing Israeli professor, Zeev Sternhell, while two other attacks targeted police stations, Frenkel said."

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[damntexdem]

1. We send our scum to Isreal to be settlers.

Wanna-be cowboys itching for genocide against fantasy Indians.

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2. Recent Arrests Spark Calls for Tighter Screening of Immigrants to Israel

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"Two high-profile arrests in Israel of immigrants in violent and shocking crimes have prompted calls in the Jewish state for far-reaching changes to immigration procedures.

Yaakov “Jack” Teitel, who hails from Florida, allegedly perpetrated a decade-long campaign of terrorist-style attacks in Israel. In late October, Teitel confessed to a long list of crimes, mostly against Palestinians and left-wing Israelis, including murder and planting bombs. In November, he was indicted on 14 charges, including two counts of first-degree murder, three counts of attempted murder, holding and manufacturing weapons and inciting violence. And according to Israeli police, when Teitel became an Israeli citizen in 2000, he was wanted by law authorities in the United States for alleged violent criminal activity.

Just after Teitel’s confessions became public, it emerged that police suspect another immigrant in a multiple-murder that gripped and appalled Israel. On October 17, six members of the Oshrenko family of Rishon LeZion were killed, and Damian Kerlik, a sacked waiter from the family’s restaurant avenging his dismissal, has been indicted for the crime. Kerlik is suspected of leaving behind a dark past when he moved from Russia to Israel in 2004. Russian authorities suspect him of robbery. Two years ago they requested his extradition. The request was under consideration when the murders took place.

The Israeli media drew a clear lesson from both cases: Immigration authorities need to research the backgrounds of immigrants more carefully. The cases “reveal a major weakness in Israel’s immigration system,” said a report in Haaretz. The existing procedures are “murderously negligent,” wrote Jerusalem Post editor David Horovitz, calling for "immigrant profiling."

One influential politician has gone even further, saying that these cases prove that the premise of the Law of Return, namely that Jews should be granted instant citizenship, is outdated. “The Law of Return should stop being a cover for the arrival of unwanted persons,” Kadima lawmaker and former interior minister Meir Sheetrit told Army Radio in early November."

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[LeftishBrit]

3. I agree with those points; some people are clearly abusing the Right of Return...

to the detriment of Israel.

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4. I thought they did checks when people were immigrating...

Obviously they don't, which is incredible...