17-04-2011, 03:30 PM
How different might the world be if Israel had "pardoned" Adolf Eichmann by sentencing him to life imprisonment under humane, internationally monitored conditions?
How many holocausts since the Eichmann execution might have been prevented if Israel had said to the world, in effect, "No good can come from six million and one"?
The life of Adolf Eichmann and the life of Anne Frank were equally sacred.
Did the execution of Eichmann save a single life?
As Eichmann's neck snapped, did the mass graves of eastern Europe suddenly erupt into seismograph-shattering mass resurrections?
Justice? By all just means.
Vengeance? Never!
Until the lives of Holocaust perpetrators are held to be as sacred as the lives of Holocaust victims, the Holocaust will be repeated.
How many holocausts since the Eichmann execution might have been prevented if Israel had said to the world, in effect, "No good can come from six million and one"?
The life of Adolf Eichmann and the life of Anne Frank were equally sacred.
Did the execution of Eichmann save a single life?
As Eichmann's neck snapped, did the mass graves of eastern Europe suddenly erupt into seismograph-shattering mass resurrections?
Justice? By all just means.
Vengeance? Never!
Until the lives of Holocaust perpetrators are held to be as sacred as the lives of Holocaust victims, the Holocaust will be repeated.
Charles Drago
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene
Co-Founder, Deep Politics Forum
If an individual, through either his own volition or events over which he had no control, found himself taking up residence in a country undefined by flags or physical borders, he could be assured of one immediate and abiding consequence: He was on his own, and solitude and loneliness would probably be his companions unto the grave.
-- James Lee Burke, Rain Gods
You can't blame the innocent, they are always guiltless. All you can do is control them or eliminate them. Innocence is a kind of insanity.
-- Graham Greene