Israel’s claim to the right to try Adolf Eichmann “transcends” that of any other nation or any group of nations, Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, declared here today. He told a press conference that Israel “has not only legal grounds to try Eichmann, but also a great moral right and responsibility for bringing him to justice.”
“It is appropriate and fitting, ” Rabbi Prinz continued, “that he be brought to trial in Israel–a sovereign nation created by the Jewish people whom Eichmann sought to destroy; a country that rose on the ashes of millions of innocent men and women and children whom Eichmann put to death; a land recognized by the United Nations as the haven and refuge for hundreds of thousands of survivors of Eichmann’s concentration camps, many of whom carry on their skins the blue tattoo marking them for extermination in Eichmann’s death factories.
“Only in Israel will Eichmann’s trial serve as a great moral lesson of retributive Justice. For Israel is the living proof that Eichmann’s plans for the ‘final solution ‘ of the Jewish problem through slaughter of the Jews ended in failure.”
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