Word: israel
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Jewry itself was divided on the case, and the pros and cons filled pages of the Israeli press. To many, the trial seemed vitally necessary to educate the younger generation of both Israel and Germany. But other Jews were deeply disturbed by the illegal kidnap-arrest of Eichmann in Argentina. Many were shocked that Eichmann had found it impossible to recruit ex-Nazi colleagues to serve as defense witnesses. Reason: the Israeli government had refused to promise that they themselves would not be arrested if they set foot on Israeli soil...
...with Isaiah's concept of the "Suffering Servant of God" (Mark 10:45 and Mark 8:31). The title, Son of man, was not current in popular Judaism. It was only in esoteric circles of late Judaism that the nationalistic idea of the Messiah as the redeemer of Israel was replaced by the apocalyptic conception of the Son of man "as the hidden Messiah who, at the end of time, will come to judge men and rule over the 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...
...waits to see the operations of Israeli justice. It was perhaps right and certainly inevitable that the Jews should try this man once they had captured him. And it was predictable that the harpies of the world press should turn the affair into a ghoulish circus. That was not Israel's fault. It was in the nature of Eichmann's crimes that men could sensationalize them simply by documenting them. But in publicizing the trial, the Israeli government has done nothing to prevent sensationalism...
...trying Eichmann, Israel has a responsibility to create an atmosphere in which some degree of dispassionate thinking is possible. Everyone hates Eichmann and the era he represents. No one understands him or the sources of his inhumanity. Yet these publicity arrangements indicate that Israel is only interested in staging a spectacle of vengeance under the klieg lights. If Israel continues to play into the hands of the sensation mongers, the critics of the Eichmann trial will have been proven right: with all the issues blurred, executing Eichmann will mean just another body added to the heap...