political offense exception exists in the extradition treaty between the United States and Israel.2 He claimed Israel sought his extradition because of his past association with the Palestine Liberation Organization and in any event, the bombing was a political act aimed at the State of Israel. Following a lengthy hearing, a federal magistrate in Chicago found probable cause existed to extradite Abu Eain and the charged offenses did not fall under the political offense exemption.3 Six months earlier Peter Gabriel John McMullen successfully raised the same defense when Great Britain sought his extradition from the United States4 for involvement in the 1974 bombing of a British Army Installation in England by the Provisional Irish Republican Army.5 The federal magistrate concluded this bombing was part of a political disturbance and was directed at the British army-a prime target for guerilla warfare.6 These cases illustrate a highly intricate extradition jurisprudence. The political offense exemption is found in virtually every modern treaty of extradition and its application calls for findings of fact and conclusions of law concerning crimes, events, and political situations halfway around the world. In Abu Eain, for example, the magistrate declined to take judicial notice that there is now, and has existed for more than three decades, a military and political conflict between the government of Israel and the several Arab states and the people of Palestine.' In McMullen, however, the magistrate did take notice an insurrection and a disruptive uprising of a political nature existed in Northern Ireland in 1974.8 * Professor of Law, Northwestern University; B. A., Northwestern University; J. D., University of California at Berkeley. ** B. S., Columbia College; J. D. Northwestern University, 1978. 1 The bombing occurred on May 14, 1979. Tiberias is a resort area on the Sea of Galilee. The area was unus-