United States and West German Aid to Israel (ص 38)
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- United States and West German Aid to Israel (ص 38)
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HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
The foreign policy of West Germany is in effect
formulated under the supervision of the U.S. Government.
According to Time Magazine «West Germany 1s the world’s
second largest trader after the U.S. Yet German political
influence is not remotely equal to its economic-power. In
foreign affairs Bonn is subservient not only to Washington,
but often to London and Paris.» (50)
The policy of paying «reparations» to Israel on ac-
count of Nazi persecution of the Jews is quite illogical in
addition to being a thin disguise for pouring economic aid
into Israel. The «Nazi regime», which was responsible for
the extermination of the Jews, had already accounted for
its crimes in the Nuremberg trials. And if the «present»
regime in West Germany has nothing to do with Nazism,
then on what basis do they hold the people of Germany
responsible for crimes committed by a prior regime?
On 12 March, 1965, the Israeli Government announc-
ed that the State of Israel, which had borne the brunt of
absorbing and rehabilitating the victims of Nazism, was the
only country which could speak on behalf of the whole
Jewish people, and therefore, should receive from West
Germany the sum of 1;500 million dollars as a «minimum
claim on behalf of the sufferers of the Nazi regime». The
payment should spread over a period of years and tranfer-
red in the form of goods. (51)
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- المنشئ
- Abdul-Rahman, Asa'd
- عبد الرحمن، أسعد
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