Word: bulut
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Dates: during 1973-1973
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Though Israel failed to capture any terrorists in forcing down an Arab-owned jet last week, the principle behind the act already has been legally established -at least to Israel's satisfaction. No one knows that better than Faik Bulut, a 23-year-old Turk. Last February Bulut was captured during an Israeli raid on an Al-Fatah camp in northern Lebanon, 100 miles from the Israeli border. He was brought to Israel where he was indicted as a civilian for endangering the security of the nation. Last week Bulut was convicted and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment...
...Bulut's conviction is the first decision stemming from an unusual new law, passed by the Israeli Knesset last year, that gives Israel jurisdiction to try according to Israeli law any person who commits an offense abroad that would be regarded as a crime against the state if done in Israel. Coupled with the established precedent that it is irrelevant how a defendant is brought before a court-a precedent reinforced in the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann, who was kidnaped by Israeli agents in Argentina and tried in Israel-the new law appears to make Israel self-appointed...
...defense of Bulut last week, Israeli Lawyer Leah Tseml argued that his seizure violates international standards governing extradition. In the Eichmann case, she said, Israel was simply enforcing the earlier Nurnberg-tribunal conviction of Eichmann for crimes against humanity. "There is no such agreement about Al-Fatah," she told the three-man military court, and therefore Israel has no right to force its own laws upon foreigners outside Israel. Indeed, the young Turk had not been accused of committing an overt act against Israel-only with being a member of Al-Fatah, which is a crime in Israel. He denied...
...convicting Bulut, the judges supported the legal underpinnings claimed for the new law. Israel's Attorney General Meir Shamgar says the new law amplifies the principle of extraterritorial jurisdiction, present in Palestine law since the Ottoman Empire and an integral part of legal systems derived from the Napoleonic Code. Thirteen European and South American countries have a law similar to Israel's, notes Shamgar. The main difference, he says, is that Israel lacks regular extradition procedures with its Arab neighbors, and the Arabs are reluctant to prosecute terrorists themselves...
Politically, Bulut's conviction serves as a clear warning that Israeli courts intend to back up the nation's worldwide war against terrorism. It is notice, as Lawyer Tsemel stated, that "anyone anywhere in the world who commits an act Israel thinks harmful to its security is liable to prosecution in Israeli courts." Ten fedayeen captured in Lebanon almost a year ago will follow Bulut into court later this month as the next defendants to be tried under the same...
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