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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...There seems to be doubt in some quarters that Israel may legally try Adolf Eichmann. In this connection I quote an old statement on the law of piracy: "Piracy has always been regarded as a crime against all humanity; therefore, a pirate, wherever his crimes were committed, and against whomever committed, wherever he is captured, and regardless of by whom he is captured, may be tried anywhere and punished anywhere." If this is true of one whose crime consists of the seizure and plunder of a single ship, surely it is true of one who murdered millions of his fellowmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...what right has the State of Israel to violate Argentine sovereignty and capture one of its citizens? What right has Israel to put on trial a subject of another state for crimes committed outside its territory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...your Eichmann article is factual, the Israelis are as vengeful as the Nazis and are equally culpable in flouting common law. For the Israel government to perpetrate and condone such acts can only cause the world to lose sympathy. L. W. HUNCKE Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1960 | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...theologians (there has never been a woman theologian of note) tend to equate the restless self-concern that results from this state with sin, and to extol the opposite (feminine) qualities of quiet, self-surrendering passivity. Such theologians as Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sweden's Anders Nygren and Israel's Martin Buber see man as estranged from himself and from God and filled with anxiety because of his estrangement; that anxiety, in their view, results in sins of "pride, will-to-power, exploitation, self-assertiveness, and the treatment of others as objects rather than persons ... It is clear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Male & Female Theology | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

...profound motivation and supreme moral justification of this act." But Eichmann would probably not go back; Israeli feeling against the Nazi murder expert runs so high that Ben-Gurion would scarcely dare to return him, even if he wanted to. If he does not, Argentina promises to hale Israel before the United Nations, where it is likely to have plenty of support from other Latin-and African-bloc nations. Many could sympathize with the Israelis' hatred for Eichmann. But their high-handed disregard of international law-and even of diplomatic niceties-was costing them much of that sympathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Sovereign Wrong | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

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