Forty-three years ago, the same idiots were spouting the same idiotarianism we’re seeing today. An excellent piece by Rafael Medoff at the Jerusalem Post looks at what happened when Israel put the Chief of the Jewish Office of the Gestapo, Adolf Eichmann, on trial: Saddam on trial. (Hat tip: whiner.)

In May 1960, Israeli agents captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina and flew him to Israel to face trial for his senior role in the genocide of six million European Jews. Israel immediately faced a torrent of international criticism.

The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously – with US support – to condemn Israel for “endanger[ing] international peace and security.” The Washington Post asserted that Israel’s capture and planned prosecution of Eichmann were “tainted by lawlessness,” and that Israel had no right to act in the name of Holocaust victims or the Jewish people as a whole, which the Post called an “imaginary Jewish ethnic entity.” Time magazine accused Israel’s leaders of “inverse racism” for their position that Israel could speak for the Jewish people.

The New York Times rejected the Israeli claims that Eichmann’s role in the Nazi genocide justified Israel’s intrusion into Argentina, on the grounds that “no immoral or illegal act justifies another.” The Times also denounced the idea of trying Eichmann in Israel. It preferred that he be brought before an international tribunal since “it was not against Israel but against humanity that his crimes were committed.”