The leader of Germany\’s main opposition party acknowledged that he may have gone too far when he wrote on Facebook that Israel is running an \”apartheid regime\” in Hebron.
Twenty years later, the mass immigration from the former FSU established distinct communities in the United States, Israel and Germany.
Members of the U.N. Security Council criticized Israel\’s decision to construct additional housing in the settlements and the United States for blocking a vote to condemn the action.
Germany authorized the subsidized sale of a sixth naval submarine to Israel.
Iran critics are calling on a German foundation to cut ties with a board of trustees member who has called for Israel\’s destruction.
German President Christian Wulff said he shared his nation’s “shock and indignation” at recent revelations of a far-right-wing murder wave aimed at immigrants in his country.
The head of the German intelligence service (BND), Ernst Uhrlau, referred on Friday to the role his agents played in the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, hailing the operation as a \”huge success\”.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has offered to facilitate the exchange of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit for Palestinian prisoners and is discussing this with Israel and Gaza\’s Hamas rulers, an ICRC spokesman said on Thursday.
Several former German ambassadors to Israel applauded Chancellor Angela Merkel\’s refusal to endorse the unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state at the United Nations in September.
Pro-Israel and Jewish organizations in a German city are fighting back against a local group that used images of bloody oranges to call for a boycott of Israeli products. Jewish leaders in Bremen, in northwestern Germany, as well as the interfaith German-Israel Society, Christian-Jewish Society and Friends of Israel in Bremen, are proposing to work with local mainstream political and religious leaders to take a stand against the Bremen Peace Forum and its political agenda.
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