JERUSALEM, (AP) – An Israeli Cabinet minister and onetime spy who helped kidnap Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann and bring him to trial thinks the same tactic could be used on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Ahmadinejad is feared and reviled in Israel because of his repeated calls to wipe the Jewish state off the map. His aggressive pursuit of nuclear technology has only fueled Israel’s fears.

“A man like Ahmadinejad who threatens genocide has to be brought for trial in The Hague,” seat of the international war crimes tribunal, Rafi Eitan said Tuesday. “And all options are open in terms of how he should be brought.”

Asked if kidnapping was acceptable, Eitan replied “Yes. Any way to bring him for trial in The Hague is a possibility.”

Eitan, a member of Israel’s inner Cabinet of ministers with security responsibilities, said he was expressing his own opinion and nothing more.

Eitan, 81, was one of the Mossad agents who kidnapped Eichmann from Argentina in 1960 and brought him to Israel. Eichmann was tried and executed for carrying out Adolf Hitler’s “final solution” to kill European Jewry.

Eitan later headed a shadowy Defense Ministry unit that recruited Jonathan Pollard, a Jewish-American naval analyst who was caught spying for Israel in 1985 and sentenced to life in prison. The affair was one of the most damaging episodes in Israel-U.S. relations.