Aharon Barak, the Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, must be forced to resign at once, this very day if possible, for his nefarious role in putting the murderers of Dani Katz back onto the streets of Israel. The man is a menace to society.

Eighteen years ago, a 15 year old boy, the son of Holocaust survivors, was kidnapped off the street near his home in Haifa and was never seen alive again. The boy was kidnapped by a group of Arabs from the Galilee. One theory held this was some sort of initiation ceremony into a terrorist organization. The boy was tortured His corpse was sodomized and mutilated by the terrorists.

Five Arabs from the Galilee were later arrested for the murder and confessed. In their confessions they relayed details of the murder that only the murderers could have known. They were convicted, appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court, and were reconvicted at every stage along the way.

The problem was that these child murdering nazis had hired Avigdor Feldman as their lawyer. Feldman is a very shrewd shyster, a Marxist and an anti-Zionist extremist who has specialized in defending Arab terrorists and especially in trying to get Arab murderers of Jewish children released or at least granted retrials. He represented a Bedouin murderer of a Jewish girl in Beer Sheba who was released, retried, and reconvicted thanks to the courtroom manipulations of Feldman. (Feldman also recently represented Teddy Katz, the Meretz MA student who fabricated a massacre of Arabs at Tantora in 1948 by the Palmach, and later admitted his whole claim of a massacre was an invention.)

Feldman took over the defense of the nazi child murderers of Dani Katz. He screamed that they had been railroaded into confessing, and had been beaten into confessing. (There are very few criminal trials on the planet where such claims about confessions are NOT made.) Never mind that none had sustained any injuries from these "beatings". ALL of the police involved denied any such beatings. Feldman claimed that the provocative speeches at the time by Rabbi Meir Kahane of Kach had prejudiced the court and so made a fair trial impossible.

No one took such arguments by Feldman seriously, especially since two of the five convicted Arabs was ALSO convicted of murdering a Jewish girl in Jerusalem. Feldman is famous for using Chamish-like invention and bending of facts and Tawana Brawley-style doctoring of truth to make his point. But there was one single person in Israel who was convinced by the theatrics, and that person was Mister Judicial Activism himself, the anti-democratic Chief Justice of Israel’s Supreme Court, Aharon Barak (no relationship to Ehud Slobodan Barak).

Aharon Barak three years ago issued a fatwa based on nothing but his own leftist prejudices, trendiness-yearning and Feldman’s antics, and ordered a retrial of the five nazi child murderers. Even worse, he ordered that three of them, the three who were NOT also in prison for the murder of the Jerusalem girl, be set free and allowed to walk the avenues.

The retrial was a challenge of astronomical proportions for the prosecution. After 15 plus years, witnesses were dead or long disappeared. Evidence out of date or missing. Nevertheless, they did their best. Last year the court ruled that the confessions of the five were indeed admissible, in spite of Feldman’s theatrics about how they were supposedly extracted through beatings. From that point onwards, the results were a sho’ in.

The drama came to a close this evening. The five Arab nazi child murderers of Dani Katz were once again reconvicted. Proving that Aharon Barak was motivated by nothing but his usual judicial imperiousness when he set them free. As far as we know, they did not murder anyone else while they enjoyed the three years of freedom granted them by Aharon Barak, but that of course does not mean that they did not murder anyone. If they did, then we have a triple Willie Horton here.

But the most important conclusion from this whole shabby and ludicrous affair is that Aharon Barak is not fit to sit on the Bench. Aharon Barak is a menace to Israeli society. We have long known that he is a threat to Israeli democracy, but now we know he is also a threat to the lives of Israeli children. He and only he put the convicted child murderers back onto the streets and ordered a retrial for the nazis with no serious legal basis for this decision. He has no place in Israeli jurisprudence, other than possibly in a prison.

Aharon Barak must go!! And he must go NOW!!

(Willie Horton was a black murderer who was released on furlough by Governor Michael Dukakis and while on furlough murdered again. His actions cost Dukakis the US Presidency.)