Most of the money was paid before the euro was introduced. If 60 million
Germans for 60 years paid some 12 billion Deutsche mark - it works out that
each one paid on average DM 33 per year, or less than one mark a week,
between 25 and 50 cents.
In the interim, they became one of the wealthiest countries in the world.
They owe their present standing among other things to their wise decision to
compensate the Holocaust's survivors. Had they not done so in the early
1950s, they would not have been welcomed so quickly into the family of
nations and would also not be so rich today.
None of this changes the fact that the Germans treated Holocaust survivors
more fairly than did the Israel government, especially in recent years.
Unfortunately, Israel's attitude toward people in distress is not a worthy
example to other countries: not after the Olmert government proposed raising
the allowances survivors receive by NIS 83 a month.
However, there is no reason to be impressed by the German government's
announcement that it is prepared to enter into negotiations with Israel over
additional payment. So long as there is one Jew left on earth who still
needs money to end his life in dignity, the Germans should pay, because they
alone are to blame. There are some people in Germany who are yelling they've
paid enough. They are only demeaning themselves.
At issue is not reopening closed agreements, but human needs that did not
arise previously, and people who lived most of their lives behind the Iron
Curtain and received no reparations. The Germans should be satisfied if they
don't have to give the survivors from the former Soviet Union everything
they hadn't paid them during the communist era.
The Germans' willingness to pay more to these survivors too must take into
account an important lesson of past agreements: Too many survivors did not
get what they deserved, because Israel plucked some of their money for
itself. It cannot be allowed to do so again. It was not Israel that was hurt
in the Holocaust, but rather several thousand people who now live there.
Each has a name, a story, a wound. The money reaches each by direct payment
from Germany. It's enough each have a bank account; there is no need for the
Bank of Israel.
Why don't you give credit to the author, Heinie? We know you didn't write
this.
But it's good to see that you cut and paste from Israeli sources.
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> Too many survivors did not
> get what they deserved, because Israel plucked some of their money for
> itself.
I don't see any proof for this. Did the cite get cut when you cut and
pasted this (unattributed) article?
stop whining boy
> stop whining boy
I get it, you're too damn stupid to figure how to KF me. LOL.
, who are you? of course you have no justice or forgiving bone in your
body to forgive the rothschilds for financing eetler, and then forgive
yourself for foisting the biggest lie on ww2 which is the "de
ashkenazis hgassed millions de judens.vell eet zimplee est no true,
deez surbibersseem very numerous, deze jermans not berry gut mit
killing deze jews as so muchos survived.
All you need is a calculator.