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Germany tells Iran: Improve ties with Israel in order to gain favor with West

JERUSALEM POST by Reuters July 19, 2015 German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel is on a three-day visit to the Islamic Republic. …..Gabriel, who is also economy minister, is the first senior figure from a large western government to visit Iran … Continue reading

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In huge show of support, heads of 100 major German companies to visit Israel

ISRAEL HAYOM by Shlomo Cesana June 18, 2015 While many in Europe are calling for a boycott of Israel, a delegation of 100 German industry leaders is preparing for a trip to Israel to meet with top businesspeople in an … Continue reading

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Germany: Muslims Exempt from School Trips to Holocaust Sites?

GATESTONE by Soeren Kern June 10, 2015 A debate has erupted in Germany over whether Muslim students should be exempted from mandatory visits to former concentration camps as part of Holocaust education programs. The dispute centers on a proposal that would … Continue reading

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West Germany ‘secretly funded Israel’s nuclear bomb’, despite Israel denials

THE TELEGRAPH by Justin Huggler April 14, 2015 West Germany secretly funded the development of Israel’s nuclear weapons, a German newspaper has claimed, despite Israeli denials. Welt newspaper repeated long-standing allegations that the government of former chancellor Konrad Adenauer secretly channelled hundreds … Continue reading

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German Court Rules Synagogue Firebombing an ‘Act of Protest’

DAILY BEAST by James Kirchick February 9, 2015 After three men firebombed a German synagogue, a judge let them off with just arson charges because they intended to ‘bring attention to the Gaza conflict.’ That ruling is as wrong as … Continue reading

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Auschwitz was about the Jews, review of HBO’s ‘Night Will Fall’

WASHINGTON POST by Jeffrey Salkin January 27, 2015 …“Night Will Fall” is simply devastating. There is no way that the eye can “un-see” what it portrays. Nor can the mind “un-know” why Allied cameramen filmed their visual records in the … Continue reading

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Planes Filled the Sky: Remembering the Battle of the Bulge

WEEKLY STANDARD by Warren Kozak January 5, 2015 Exactly seventy years ago, Allied forces in Europe experienced an all-too-common occurrence in war: a huge intelligence failure that led to a surprise attack, followed by a horrific battlefield disaster. That it … Continue reading

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Germany, Anti-Islam, and Vladimir Putin

HUFFINGTON POST by Stephen Schwartz December 19, 2014 On Monday, December 15, as reported by the German news service Deutsche Welle (DW), some 15,000 people massed in Dresden, Germany, under the banner of a new and seemingly informal movement calling … Continue reading

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War Clouds on the Horizon?

NATIONAL REVIEW by Victor Davis Hanson December 4, 2014 A large war is looming absent preventive American vigilance. The world is changing and becoming even more dangerous — in a way we’ve seen before. In the decade before World War … Continue reading

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Cornered but unbound by nuclear pact, Israel reconsiders military action against Iran

JERUSALEM POST by Michael Wilner November 22, 2014 Israeli official cites “sunset clause” in proposed comprehensive deal, which guarantees Iran a path into the nuclear club and may corner Israel into war. Historic negotiations with Iran will reach an inflection point … Continue reading

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