The first problem is that most men in the German army were conscripts (i.e., slaves) and not members of the Nazi Party. well, you either eat the wolf or the wolf eats you.” Eichmann was the one person to ever receive a death sentence in an Israeli court, and not without much hand-wringing from Jews world-wide.įor Tarantino however, “If you’re dealing with people like the Nazis. Rabbi Roth notes that Jews are prohibited from taking “the law into your own hands as a matter of legal punishment.” The scaffolding of legality-a fair trial and conviction-is paramount under Jewish law. And Leviticus 19:18 says, “Thou shalt not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of thy people.” It is actually meant to refer to monetary compensation rather than bloodletting. But the precept of “an eye for an eye” is usually cited incorrectly, according to Rabbi Joel Roth, a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York. There is a not uncommon belief that the Torah sanctions revenge. While some applaud revenge and cruelty as only fair because “the end justifies the means”: In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, “ Inglourious Basterds and the Problem of Revenge,” Jordana Horn incisively examines the theme of Quentin Tarantino’s new, fictional, revenge film, Inglourious Basterds, in which German soldiers and others in World War II are targeted by an elite Jewish-American commando unit to be killed, scalped, tortured, beaten alive, burned alive, and cruelly disfigured.
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