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...Handlin, professor of History, reasserted the ancient Jewish faith in moral law last night and accused Isreal of deviating from that in its abduction and prosecution of Adolf Eichmann...
...While Handlin spoke, Eichmann remained in a barred jail cell in Jerusalem, the third day of his trial for complicity in the annihilation of six million Jews during World...
...himself as "a friend of Israel," but not a Zionist, Handlin addressed chiefly to the ehtical aspects of the Eichmann case. Speaking eloquently passion, the historian quoted frequently from the Old Testament and Jewish religious texts. He lamented Israel's "departure from the line of " and its quest for "a retribution which is other than justice...
Many critics would set aside technicalities in favor of quick and sure justice. To them, Handlin replies: "The desire to see the wrong-doer brought to retribution may lead only to an act of 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...
Baer's stand is representative of one group of Faculty members who declined to be quoted. Their argument takes into account the identical objections posed by Handlin, Hughes, and McCloskey, but all, with varying degrees of rationality, brush them aside. Some couch their feelings in legal terms. Some do not bother.15H. STUART HUGHES...