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The Economist, July 31, 2004, U.S. Edition: "Reports that bailiffs ordered Yukos to stop producing oil sent prices of crude to a new high of $43.05 a barrel. The Russian government later denied it had ordered any halt to production. Nevertheless, the Russian oil giant's woes continue to mount: a Moscow court issued an arrest warrant for Leonid Nevzlin, one of its largest shareholders. Mr Nevzlin, who is now in Israel, has been accused of being behind a murder in 2002. He denies the charges."
Removed statement
I have removed the following statement from the article:
Since Israel does not expel Jewish fugitives to other countries, he is unlikely to be ever prosecuted.
for the following reasons:
The statement is factually incorrect. Most famously, Israel expelled Meyer Lansky in 1970. [1]
Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, so speculation about the likelihood of anyone ever being prosecuted is clearly inappropriate.
While I am normally the last to see an antisemite behind every strip of bacon, this sentence reeks, because of its intentional inaccuracy and unsupportable (and purportèdly irrefutable) assertion, of an antisemitic accusation of "Jewish ethnocentricity".
I could have claimed that it was malformed (which it is, syntactically), but that's not a reason to remove, so I won't use it...but I'll let it be counted. :-)
For the record, the Law of Return allows many non-Jews to make `aliya, and at the same time explicitly denies that right to many Jews. Specifically, as detailed here, it prohibits the claiming of a right to citizenship to people with "a criminal past, likely to endanger the public welfare."
If I were to ignore Wikipedia policies, especially WP:RS and WP:NOT#CBALL, I could add a lot to the article about how the charges against Nevzlin and his officers has far more to do with Putin and his government's powerhungry attempts to gain control of ЮКОС for Mother Russia, something that was accomplished by nationalization, as the ultimate outcome of ЮКОС's officers' abdication and flight from Russia. I could go on about how ridiculous it is that their flight is portrayed as due to their guilt, when, in fact, their flight was spurred by their understanding of Russian oppression. The latest chapter in this saga, of course, is the Kremlin's fingering Nevzlin and his cronies as potential suspects in the spy-poisoning case. The concept of "motive" seems to be lost on Putin and his henchmen in this case... Shall I add it? :-) Tomertalk02:41, 28 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
