Khashoggi was no Eichmann

In “Shedding light on the Saudi-Turkey rift” (November 21), Mike Evans defends the Saudi crown prince in the matter of the murder of Jamel Khashoggi, accepting the preposterous assertion that it was an operation to kidnap him gone wrong that the crown prince had nothing to do with. He wrote the same things in another article that appeared in the November 5 Jerusalem Post.

In both articles, he recounts that he personally told the crown prince that what he had done was quite understandable since it was exactly what Israel had done when Isser Harel was sent to kidnap Adolph Eichmann in 1960, resulting in his execution.

I find it extremely offensive to make such a comparison. Khashoggi was no Eichmann. He was a brave journalist who dared to say something that offended the crown prince.

There is no comparison between Israel’s action bringing a Nazi mass murderer to justice and Saudi Arabia’s action against an honest critic of the regime. It defames Harel to compare him to the crown prince and defames Israel to compare its actions to Saudi Arabia’s.

Evans may be a lover and supporter of Israel, but that does not give him the right to make statements of this sort. I am at a loss to understand how a believing Evangelist can defend actions of this sort that are in complete defiance of the morals and ethics that are at the heart of both Christianity and Judaism.

Since Evans has also proclaimed President Donald Trump to be another Cyrus, perhaps I should not be so astonished, for in that case as well Evans has ignored the many moral and ethical failings of that leader that are also in stark contrast to the teachings of Scripture. RABBI REUVEN HAMMER Jerusalem