When Hitler became Abu Ali

The Miami Herald ^ | June 7, 2002 | Julian Schvindlerman

[Ptarmigan]

Forty years ago last week, SS-Oberstumbannfuehrer Adolf Eichmann was executed in Israel. He had been arrested at the end of World War II and confined to an American internment camp, but he managed to escape to Argentina. He lived there for 10 years under the name Ricardo Klement until Israeli secret agents abducted him in 1960 and spirited him to Israel.

Eight months after his trial opened in Jerusalem, Eichmann was found guilty of crimes against humanity and the Jewish people and was sentenced to death. He was executed on May 31, 1962; his remains were cremated and the ashes scattered over the Mediterranean Sea -- outside Israeli waters. This is the only case in which the death penalty has been carried out in Israel.

Eichmann's record is notorious. He was the head of the Department for Jewish Affairs in the Gestapo from 1941 to 1945 and was chief of operations in sending three million Jews to the extermination camps. After the war, he became one of the most sought-out Nazi fugitives.

The international community condemned Israel's kidnapping of Eichmann, but it was nonetheless able to see the justice in, and legitimacy of, Israel's action. The trial itself, marked by strict adherence to legal procedure, elicited worldwide admiration, and the Nazi's execution was seen everywhere as a crucial vindication in the post-Holocaust era.

Everywhere, that is, but in the Arab world. There, Eichmann's capture, trial and execution were condemned, and Eichmann was venerated as a ''martyr.'' The Jordanian daily A-Ra' ai praised him for exterminating ''members of the race of dogs and monkeys.'' The Saudi periodical Al-Bilar saluted him for his courage. The Lebanese newspaper Al-Anwar published a cartoon lamenting the fact that the Nazi officer had not killed more Jews.

[Ptarmigan]

Don't know if this is the right place to post or was ever posted before here. I am new here. Old article, but very disturbing and sickening. Adolf Hitler is venerated in the Muslim world. Muslims rushed to the defense of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazis caught in Argentina in 1960. He was the engineer of the Holocaust and Muslims called him a hero and martyr for what he did. Their only regret was that Eichmann did not kill all Jews.

[jocon307]

"I am new here."

Welcome to Free Republic. The whole Nazi/Arab thing is very disturbing, and very little noted and known, which is also disturbing.

I think it is all just evil, it is just the devil in disguise.

[TwoEyesOpen]

I don't feel the Arab hatred of the Jewish religion is surprising; I've become numb to it, as it seems to be their entire purpose in life. What I seethe with anger about is the hatred of the Jewish religion by the international community as a whole. America, Israel's strongest ally, refuses to support its actions against attacks on Israeli soil. France and Old Europe are as anti-semitic as the Nazis of old. How the world can condemn an entire body of people whom they don't know on the grounds that they worship differently then they makes me sick.

[stockpirate]

Here is an interesting sight concerning the Nazi's and Muslums and Terrorists.

http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/

[stockpirate]

Here is an interesting sight concerning the Nazi's and Muslums and Terrorists.

http://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/

[Ptarmigan]

I have seen that site before. Very eye opening. It just proves that Nazism is not dead, it just went somewhere else. It also mentions of Nazis fleeing to the Middle East, like Egypt and Syria.

[stockpirate]

Just keep in mind that the Muslums worked withthe Socialist Nazi's> That is why you don't see hard core Socialists opposing the Muslums.

[garbanzo]

Full name of former Iraqi ruling party: Arab Ba'ath National Socialist Party. Draw your own conclusions.

[Ptarmigan]

Baath Party is modeled after the Nazis party. It is no surprise why Syria and most likely Iraq gave shelter to Nazis war criminals.