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i read a series of articles on the Eichmann trial in 1961. I had a lot of problems with Israel presiding over the trials. The following were my reservations:

-Israel illegally extradited him from Argentina to Israel for trial.
-Israel tried him under laws that had been created after his crimes by a state that didnt even exist during his crimes.
-Isreal claimed to be the "home of all jews worldwide" this is simply not true, not to mention completely irrelevant.
-There was not a chance in hell Eichman would recieve a trial that was the least bit fair.

Many Israeli scholars claimed that the case had to be tried in Israel by Israeli Jews because of the sufferings those people had experienced. I see a real problem with this. it completely overrides any system of "justice" we might claim to have in our society. what makes us able to make laws after a crime and prosecute one person for them, but does not allow us to prosecute others? i think that this case should have been tried in an international court and that Israel made a fairly large mistake by showing that they had less interest in justice than they did in revenge.

im not really sure why i wrote this post, but this article had really been bothering me and i had things to write about it and felt like this would be a nice place to put it. to anyone who thinks this is some sort of anti-semitic statement, I was born in Poland and both of my grandparents died in camps not because they were Jewish, but because they were Polish. Which may give me the biased opinion that ALL nations should have tried Eichmann, but i believe that all nations were wronged by him and that there actually were international laws against such behaviors, as opposed to israeli law which was created after the case. i think justice was not served here but that it may have been better served in an international court.

rj