For the time being this will be a collection of random comments that i have written to papers and other locations.
"Visiting German president: Nazi past has made it our duty to defend Israel" was the header for a news item in the Israeli newspaper HAARETZ. The following is my response.
Germany certainly has a responsibility to Jews for what occurred during Shoah. This does not equate with protection of Israel. The existence of Israel - particularly Greater Israel has been at a catastrophic cost to Palestinians not to Germans or Germany. If Austria or Bavaria had been given to Jews for a homeland then Germany would have paid a price commensurate with Nazi-led German behaviour. The protection of Israel does not relate to compensation to Jews of Europe who died because of and those who survived the Shoah. It relates only to those Jews who settled in Israel and to those who sought home elsewhere. Given the anti-Jewish mindset within Europe over the centuries those Jews who stayed in Europe deserved much more compensatory attention then any others. 28/11/10 Haaretz Comments. 40 / 22
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