Germany
Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said that “no doors should be slammed shut in view of developments in the United States.”
Jews are a particular obsession of Islamic terrorism, even if they’re not targeted outright. “The comments made on social networks by the perpetrators of the latest attacks or on videos of allegiance, references to Jews are constantly present, even systematic,” says Francis Kalifat, president of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France.
“I am ashamed that Jews do not feel safe wearing a kippah on the streets. I am ashamed that Jewish places of worship need protection,” said German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
“The message must be sent that the further development of this ‘market’ is taboo and beyond the norms of acceptability,” said Rabbi Menachem Margolin, head of the European Jewish Association.
The payments will go to 240,000 survivors who mostly live in Israel, North America, the former Soviet Union and Western Europe.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi: “Our signatures side by side in the Book of Remembrance is like a shared cry and oath: to remember and not to forget, and to promise never again.”
The state-of-the-art Litening targeting pod was on board German and Israel jets in last month’s historic Dachau flyover, “a statement to the world,” said a business development manager at Rafael’s Electro-Optics Division.
American authorities have been investigating the bank’s Clearstream unit for years for suspected violations of U.S. money-laundering laws and Iran sanctions.
“The BDS campaign … is an ideological issue that touches a raw nerve connected to Germany’s troubled past. It should come as no surprise, then, that Germany took a leadership role in countering the campaign,” states the report.
Athens and Ankara are holding naval exercises in the area amid an ongoing dispute over energy resources.
In a historic first, the air forces of the two countries together will honor the more than 30,000 Jews murdered at the Nazi concentration camp during the Holocaust and the 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists in the 1972 “Munich Massacre.”
It calls out Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus and Ukraine; and Poland for not passing laws dealing with restitution of private property confiscated during the Holocaust, making it “the only European Union member state with significant Holocaust-era property issues not to have done so.”
