Word: eichmanns
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JONATHAN R. WALTON, Eichmann comes to trial in Jerusalem. He stands under a special Israeli law provides the death penalty gis and Nazi Collaborators" d of crimes against the people. Eichmann, who was the authors of the "Final to the Jewish problem"--ration and extermination was captured May 11 in Aries by "volunteers", and to Israel before either Is Argentine government of of his where abouts, be tried publicly, and is ex plead superior orders; edguesses predict that the of evidence accumulated last 15 years will be suf convict...
...sovereignty were irrelevant to the cleanliness of hands of those who presume to sit as judges in the case." He calls attention to the long fight, partly waged by the Jews, for the rights of refugees against enforced extradition. Handlin goes on to challenge Israel's jurisdiction over Eichmann, as "a majority of the world's Jews do not wish Israel to speak for them...
...revenge in satisfaction of the private offense. Justice involves more than that. It calls for recognition that the offense was directed not simply against the individual who suffered but against the whole community." Again citing history, Handlin emphasizes the Jewish people's traditional adherence to law. If Eichmann is suddenly more important than the law, he suggests, that tradition has been violated...
...Israeli Premier BenGurion's frequent declarations that one of the purposes of the trial is to teach the present generation a lesson in history that it might have forgotten. McCloskey accuses BenGurion of "perhaps mixing a great deal of immorality into a moral lesson." He cites the kidnapping of Eichmann and the lack of a legal basis for Israel's claim to jurisdiction, and asks. "Can you make a moral point by immoral means...
...McCloskey maintains, "a question of Eichmann's rights but of the law's rights." He decries the posing of the issue in terms of a choice between letting Eichmann go free and punishing him. "It is certainly not Eichmann who should be preserved, but the integrity of the law, and of the principles underlying...