The Executioner (of Adolf Eichmann)

HaMishpacha / aish.com ^ | 1 May 2005 | Rachel Ginsberg

[anotherview]

Israel has the death penalty for only one crime: genocide. Adolf Eichmann is the only person ever to have been sentenced to death in Israel.

[lilylangtree]

Why in the world did Israel decide to pollute their territorial waters with this murderer's ashes? The ashes should have been spread over the same concentration camp that he sent millions to. At the very least, use his ashes as fertilizer.

[Calpernia]

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[OldFriend]

Glad to know the person for whom there are no words, was incinerated.

[null and void]

OUTSIDE their territorial waters...

[Sterco]

I think his ashes belonged in a hog yard.

[Alouette]

Israel has the death penalty for only one crime: genocide.

It would not be inappropriate to apply the crime of genocide to captured terrorists, like Marwan Barghouti, since their stated goal is the eradication of Israel and the genocide of all its Jewish citizens.

[Alouette]

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[AzSteven]

Why in the world did Israel decide to pollute their territorial waters with this murderer's ashes?

From the article: "...where a Coast Guard boat carried them beyond Israel's territorial waters, so that they would not defile the Holy Land."

[Paradox]

From the description, it sounds like his neck was not broken, and thus, he died a horrible, asphixiation death. The rope had worn off some skin of his neck, he had struggled and suffered horribly.

Good.

[meandog]

from his being given his last glass of wine...

How many of the six million who went to the chambers at Auschwitz, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen, et al were accorded the same courtesy?

[rahbert]

I wonder if Alois Bruenner is still alive and still
in Damascus? He is the only one of Eichmann's assistants
remaining alive (as of 2000). Israel still has some
unfinished buisness with him.

He would be in his late 90's.

Its ironic that so many ran to South America - if they had
remained in Germany to face German courts they might have
recieved a prison term, as did the Einsatzkommados in the
late 60's.

[jla]

Shalom Nagar, having retired from the Prisons Services, was living in Kiryat Arba and learning in kollel from dawn to midnight.

What does this mean?

[righttackle44]

This is NOT an anti-business or anti-capitalism post.

But an interesting historical sidelight to me is that Eichmann, in carrying out Hitler's orders, used the data processing equipment of a very successful American corporation to keep track of the whole Final Solution process, from keeping track of families by street address, to scheduling of trains and boxcars between departure points the arrivals at the death camps to shipping of foodstuffs (they didn't want to send too much, apparently).

The administration of the whole grisly process was so huge and involved that Eichmann's administration gave free data processing classes to German citizens, then put them to work when they had completed the course.

[fish hawk]

Don't worry, it was French wine. It was a punishment.

[Publius6961]

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[Publius6961]

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[anotherview]

It would not be inappropriate to apply the crime of genocide to captured terrorists, like Marwan Barghouti, since their stated goal is the eradication of Israel and the genocide of all its Jewish citizens.

While I can't disagree with you I think you and I both know why it won't happen. The results would be an upsurge in Palestinian terrorist attacks and it could even be the pretext for some Arab nations to join in a war against us. For a people that cherish the sanctity of life it simply isn't worth it to execute Barghoutti. That's what is so different about the Jewish people when compared to our enemies. We place the highest value of all on human life. If executing Barghoutti would mean more Jewish deaths is can't be justified.

[anotherview]

Mr. Nagar is spending his life studying the (Jewish) scriptures, most especially the Torah.

[LetsRok]

Why was Israel allowed to get away with the kidnapping and execution of a person who had never been in their country? What did the U.N. have to say after the fact?