Arab sources: Judge Mehlis' mother was a Jewess killed in Israel by Syrians
By MEMRI December 13, 2005
Reprinted with permission from a Special Dispatch by MEMRI.
An article titled "Who is Mehlis?" was posted by a writer named Khaled Khaz'al on the independent Syrian judicial website Al-Nazaha, a non-government Syrian site for law and attorneys on November 17, 2005. The article was originally posted at All for Syria, an independent Syrian site that posts articles by Syrian intellectuals. Neither MEMRI nor Israel Insider confirm the veracity of the article that follows, the translation of which is provided courtesy of MEMRI:
"The selection of the German judge [Detlev] Mehlis to head the committee investigating the assassination of [former Lebanese] prime minister Al-Hariri... was no coincidence... Mehlis was born on March 13, 1947 in East Berlin, after it was divided following World War II, when the city was still destroyed and in ruins... In the shadow of this tragedy, the wretched Mehlis was born on a cursed day, the 13th, in a cursed month, the third, and in a cursed year, the year of defeat and the establishment of the Zionist entity.
"He was born of mixed parentage, to a German Christian father and a Polish Jewish mother. Together with her wretched infant, the mother very quickly left Germany for Palestine following the declaration of the establishment of the Jewish state. There, the mother began to work for the Jewish immigration organization, and was sent to Jewish families living in Germany and Poland to urge them to immigrate to the Promised Land. Thus, Mehlis's mother played a pioneering role in bringing Jews to Palestine, and was given a distinguished medal for her services by Moshe Dayan, may he be remembered for ill, during the period when he was war minister...."
"Before [Mehlis] finished his studies, his mother was killed in the 1967 war after volunteering to be a medic in the Israeli army at the Syrian front!! It was in this atmosphere that the young Mehlis finished his high school studies in West Berlin. Afterwards, he enrolled in law school, and finished as an attorney [craving] revenge against his mother's Syrian murderers. Mehlis, who became a brilliant judge, participated in many well-known international trials in which the accused were from among the enemies of the U.S. and Israel, or from among the friends of the Arabs...."
"Mehlis specialized in international criminal law, and the American intelligence agency cultivated him, as it had in the past cultivated his father, and consulted with his legal consultation firm in Berlin...."
"In 1990, the U.N. General Assembly assigned him to write a book on international criminal law... The book was published in 1992 in New York, and its title was International Criminal Law... The General Assembly accepted the book as a legal authority upon which it relies...."
"[Mehlis] visited Tel Aviv a number of times, where he was officially and cordially received, and lectured to students at the Hebrew universities. During one of his visits, former prime minister of the Jewish state Ehud Barak received him, and Mehlis asked to visit the grave of his mother on the Golan Heights. He was sent by Israeli army helicopter, and there the son laid a wreath on his mother's grave and said a prayer for her - I don't know whether it was Christian or Jewish...."
"[In his book,] Mehlis takes us to the law of the jungle, and reveals to the world the first shoots of the world government heralded by 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.'"
It should be noted that Abd Al-Wahhab 'Adas, deputy editor of the Egyptian government daily Al-Gumhouriyya, published a similar article [on January 12, 2005], stating that "Mehlis was carefully selected [as chairman of the commission], since he is German but his mother was a Jewess who lived in Germany, emigrated to Israel in 1948, and witnessed the birth of the Zionist state... It was her will and testament that Mehlis too would emigrate to Israel, the Promised Land." 'Adas added: "Mehlis's mother played a major role in bringing Jews from Germany to Palestine... Mehlis himself was a close friend of Israeli leaders... Mehlis's mother was killed on the Golan Heights by Syrian sniper fire, as she was serving as a medic on the Israeli-Syrian front." |
