Word: israel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...president-elect of the American Psychoanalytical Association, Dr. Grete Bibring, has been appointed to the Medical Professorship of Psychiatry at Medical School. Dr. Bibring is presently an associate professor. She is also serving as the Psychiatrist-in-Chief of the Beth-Israel Hospital and is vice-President of the International Psychoanalytical Association...
...Still," he continues, "there is a question whether Israel has made a reasonably sound choice. One possibility, as Mr. Telford Taylor has suggested, would have been to arraign Eichmann in an Israeli court with full opportunity for the prosecution and the accused to present charges and defenses, and then to remit Eichmann to the United Nations for any further action that body might decide to take. Would that course have led merely to a flasco? It is at least clear that the United Nations did not come forward to claim Eichmann after his capture. Neither did Western Germany...
...events the burden now falls on Israel to establish Eichmann's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt and to provide him with a fair chance to make his defense...
...similar argument is enunciated by Hans J. Morgenthau, visiting Professor of Government during the fall term of this year. "The jurisdiction of the Israeli court," Morgenthau writes from Chicago, "cannot be based on any existing rule of international law. Should then the government of Israel have let it go at that, once it had been appraised of Eichmann's where-abouts? This would have meant that Eichmann could have lived in Argentina happily ever after, since no other government has claimed jurisdiction over...
...trial is not justice, it is punishment. And punishment is a human and understandable motive." But to clothe revenge in the garments of legality is dishonest. "Either real justice, if that had been possible, with scrupulous attention to legal technicalities, or summary human revenge" would have been preferable to Israel's course of action...