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Germany | 05.05.2006
Merkel: Israel's Right to Exist "Must Never be Questioned"
Merkel at Jerusalem's Holocaust memorial in January
Speaking at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) annual meeting in Washington, German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced Iran and the Palestinian militant group Hamas for questioning Israel's right to exist.

"The right of existence of the state of Israel must never be questioned," Merkel said at a gala event in Washington celebrating the 100th anniversary of the influential American Jewish Committee. "This is why it is intolerable for any German government when the Iranian president questions the right of Israel's existence."

She was referring to stepped up anti-Israeli rhetoric by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last fall, who has called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Merkel also said that Tehran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons.

Urged to reject violence

The German chancellor, who was joined at the event by US President Bush and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, also recalled the horrors of the Holocaust and pledged that her country would remain committed to fighting anti-Semitism, racism and xenophobia.

She urged the new Palestinian government led by Hamas to "reject violence and acknowledge without ambiguity Israel's right to exist."

"The decision lies with Hamas," Merkel said. "And it will have to answer to the Palestinian people for its policies."

Merkel was the first German chancellor to address the Jewish body which was founded in 1906 by American Jews concerned about the repression of Jews in Russia.

Merkel greets AJC chairman E. Robert Goodkind as Bush looks on
Bush said that the United States has an "unshakeable" commitment to defend Israel and pledged that his administration would have no contact with the militant Palestinian group Hamas so long as it refuses to recognize the Jewish state.

"America's commitment to Israel's security is strong, enduring and unshakeable," Bush said.

He added that the United States and Israel were "natural allies and these ties will never be broken."

No nukes for Iran

Merkel said the standoff with Iran over its nuclear program was of great cause for concern and added that it was essential for the international community to stand together on the issue.

"Iran must be prevented from getting nuclear weapons," she told her audience of some 2,500 Jewish leaders, US politicians and diplomats. "We need to stand together and show a united front."

Bush said the United States was "concerned because the Iranian regime is repressing its people, sponsoring terrorists, destabilizing the region, threatening Israel and defying the world with its ambitions for nuclear weapons."

Bush and Merkel avoided topics of discord such as the secret CIA rendition flights or Guantanamo Bay

"American will continue to rally the world to confront these threats," he said.

The United States is leading a bid to make the UN Security Council take action against Iran over its nuclear program, which Washington and its allies fear hides an attempt to make an atomic bomb. Iran insists its program is for civilian purposes.

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1993811,00.html


 
Posted : 14/07/2006 4:41 am
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That is a good beat dog, now import more turks and arabs so the Germans can have more ethnic diversity.


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Posted : 14/07/2006 5:07 am
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She means "Greater Israel's right to exist".

But when other countries, like Iraq, are discussed, oh, that country is just a bunch of lines on the map somebody drew. Iraq was created and can be uncreated, but Israel, now that's different!


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Posted : 14/07/2006 5:37 am
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"The right of existence of the state of Israel must never be questioned," Merkel said at a gala event in Washington celebrating the 100th anniversary of the influential American Jewish Committee. "This is why it is intolerable for any German government when the Iranian president questions the right of Israel's existence."

Naturally. It probably sends chills down her spine just to imagine that all those israelis might be back to Europe. :D


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Posted : 14/07/2006 6:12 am
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I think there was a Nazi or anti-Nazi film called "A City Without Jews"? So that has led us to "A World Without Israel". Jews are certainly making wonderful progress with whatever they are trying to do.

This is just two points made against Israel, part of a much longer article, I didn't read. From frontpage.com, by Josef Izzy Jeffers in 2005:

"....Now to the hard version. Ever so subtly, a more baleful tone slips into this narrative: Israel is not merely an unruly neighbor but an unwelcome intruder. Still timidly uttered outside the Arab world, this version’s proponents in the West bestride the stage as truth-sayers who dare to defy taboo. Thus, the British writer A.N. Wilson declares that he has reluctantly come to the conclusion that Israel, through its own actions, has proven it does not have the right to exist.

And, following Sept. 11, 2001, Brazilian scholar Jose Arthur Giannotti said: “Let us agree that the history of the Middle East would be entirely different without the State of Israel, which opened a wound between Islam and the West. Can you get rid of Muslim terrorism without getting rid of this wound which is the source of the frustration of potential terrorists?”

The very idea of a Jewish state is an “anachronism,” argues Tony Judt, a professor and director of the Remarque Institute at New York University. It resembles a “late-nineteenth-century separatist project” that has “no place” in this wondrous new world moving toward the teleological perfection of multiethnic and multicultural togetherness bound together by international law. The time has come to “think the unthinkable,” hence, to ditch this Jewish state for a binational one, guaranteed, of course, by international force.

So let us assume that Israel is an anachronism and a historical mistake without which the Arab-Islamic world stretching from Algeria to Egypt, from Syria to Pakistan, would be a far happier place, above all because the original sin, the establishment of Israel, never would have been committed. Then let’s move from the past to the present, pretending that we could wave a mighty magic wand, and “poof,” Israel disappears from the map..."


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Posted : 14/07/2006 7:15 am
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Why doesn't Ms Merkel gave a part of "Germany" to her beloved jews? After all she believes that 6 million sheenies were gassed by Germany.

Palestine would be free and in Europe it would be the final straw to make us explode with anger, rise and destroy the kikenvermin.


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Posted : 14/07/2006 11:03 am
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