{"id":236898,"date":"2010-01-27T12:32:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=9703"},"modified":"2010-01-27T12:32:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T17:32:13","slug":"israel-and-germany-dark-past-new-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/236898","title":{"rendered":"Israel and Germany: Dark Past New Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli President Shimon Peres stood just a few hundred yards from spot where Nazi Leadership orchestrated the \u201cFinal Solution\u201d to the \u201cJewish Question.\u201d At his podium he wore a yarmulke and addressed the German Bundestag, or Parliament.\u00a0 He spoke on the 65<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, a day now known as Holocaust Remembrance Day. In Hebrew, he recited the prayer for the dead.\u00a0 As Peres honored six million Jews who\u2019s lives were simply discarded by Nazi Germany, every man woman and child in the chamber rose to his or her feet.<\/p>\n<p>Peres told Germany\u2019s leaders of the last time he saw his grandfather at a train station in Vishniev, Belarus, when he was just 11 years old. Then he told of how his Grandfather and family were herded in to their community Synagogue, the doors locked and the wooden building burned to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>As Peres talked about the shared darkness in their past, it was clear Israel and Germany are striving toward a unity in their future. The Israeli president was preceded by House Speaker; Dr. Norbert Lammert. \u201cWe Germans bear responsibility for the state of Israel\u201d He said, \u201cIsrael\u2019s right to exist is non-negotiable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That last line is an indicator of the unified front the two nations are now presenting to Iran. A German contractor broke an agreement for construction on the port of Bandar Abbas in Iran, because that is the port from which the weapons smuggling ship \u2018Francop\u2019 originated.\u00a0 German giant Siemens cancelled a massive natural gas contract and announced and end to future business with the Iranian regime. Both of those deals ended at the urging of the Government.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a new round of sanctions against Iran.\u00a0 She also suggested that if Russia and China block new sanctions in the UN, friendly nations should assemble their own front against Iran\u2019s nuclear ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday evening I had a conversation with President Peres in his Hotel suite. He told me, as they forge a new future together, the German leaders \u201cAre showing their friendship in words and in deeds as well.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli President Shimon Peres stood just a few hundred yards from spot where Nazi Leadership orchestrated the \u201cFinal Solution\u201d to the \u201cJewish Question.\u201d At his podium he wore a yarmulke and addressed the German Bundestag, or Parliament.\u00a0 He spoke on the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, a day now known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4733,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4733"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}