31-08-2019, 12:39 AM
James Lateer Wrote:I have been researching my biggest current question--maybe Jim DiEugenio can answer it or maybe somebody else:
Since the kidnapping and trial of Adolf Eichmann happened during the JFK administration, why have I not been able to find EVEN ONE SINGLE COMMENT by JFK or RFK on the Eichmann kidnapping and trial?
This is a key question IMHO and this is amazing that I can't find anything on it. Can somebody help me out on this?
James Lateer
You seem to frame the question without taking into consideration the time-frame was not in the age of Trump. Kennedy avoided shooting himself in the foot and had a keen sense of diplomatic restraint. Trump has no such sense (never even attempted to be POTUS of all Americans) and so far the lack of diplomatic results reinforce this as well as wholesale undermining of the rule of law. His lack of discipline and respect for the obligations of his own office drove the outcome of the Bowe Bergdahl court martial, as just one example.
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Nov 3, 2017 - Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is sentenced to a dishonorable discharge and a ... post in Afghanistan, despite Trump's call for severe punishment.
Diplomacy is a juggling act, not a CIRCUS!
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Creator: Myer Feldman Interviewer: John Stewart Date of Interview: July 29, 1967 Place of Interview: Washington, D.C. Length: 49 pages
Biographical Note Feldman, (1914 - 2007); Legislative assistant to Senator John F. Kennedy (1958-1961); Deputy Special Counsel to the President (1961-1964); Counsel to the President (1964- 1965), discusses recognizing Yemen, the Jordan River dispute, and selling Hawk missiles to the Israelis, among other issues.
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STEWART: What about the trial and the hanging of Eichmann [Adolph Eichmann]? Was there any interest or involvement in this?
FELDMAN: I used to discuss it with Kennedy. The President and I would discuss the Eichmann trial, but not from the standpoint of the United States doing anything or having any interest in it. There was never any suggestion at any time that the United States would become involved in it. But we did discuss the philosophical question of whether, and the political question of, one, whether it was wise for a state like Israel to try Eichmann, convict him and sentence him to death. We were pretty sure that would be the result. Kennedy's feeling was that although the state was almost compelled to do that, he thought they'd probably come out better if, at the conclusion of the trial, they commuted the death sentence and
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just let him live out his life in prison. He said that this would show them to be a humanitarian nation and they'd get some brownie points with the rest of the world for not being vindictive and it wouldn't really hurt them. But at the same time he said that he recognized the political forces that would compel the conviction and death penalty for Eichmann. And I never asked him what he would do if he were the Prime Minister of Israel, but my guess from our discussions was that I think he would have been inclined to just commute the death sentence.
STEWART: But certainly none of this was ever communicated to…
FELDMAN: No, no, no. He, in fact, in our discussions, why, it was absolutely clear that these were just personal discussions. We never sent a cable to Barbour [Walworth Barbour] or anybody in Israel. He didn't even ask me on any of the trips I took to Israel to convey this feeling. He always considered it was none of our business. These were just hypothetical discussions. I mean they were brief, you know, it wasn't extended ones. These were over a period of
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time. Occasionally I'd raise the subject, rather than he, because I was interested in the question myself and I wondered how he would react. So, we didn't have any official connection with Eichmann. ....
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Israeli Letters Favored Sparing of Eichmann
MONDAY, JUNE 4, 1962, P. 8
study of lrs to Ben-Zvi shows majority from Israelis favored sparing Eichmann's life...
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Israeli Public Coldly Silent on Eichmann Hanging
SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1962, P. 3
Israeli and world press reactions to execution; Argentine Foreign Min deplores it; illus of sailor who scattered Eichmann's ashes
Peter Janney's uncle was Frank Pace, chairman of General Dynamics who enlisted law partners Roswell Gilpatric and Luce's brother-in-law, Maurice "Tex" Moore, in a trade of 16 percent of Gen. Dyn. stock in exchange for Henry Crown and his Material Service Corp. of Chicago, headed by Byfield's Sherman Hotel group's Pat Hoy. The Crown family and partner Conrad Hilton next benefitted from TFX, at the time, the most costly military contract award in the history of the world. Obama was sponsored by the Crowns and Pritzkers. So was Albert Jenner Peter Janney has preferred to write of an imaginary CIA assassination of his surrogate mother, Mary Meyer, but not a word about his Uncle Frank.