United States and West German Aid to Israel (ص 43)

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United States and West German Aid to Israel (ص 43)

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pertaining to reparations. The best example on this point
is the pressure exerted on the Bundestag to amend the
proposal for winding up the compensation programme for
Jews who were let out, or came out, of the communist
countries of Eastern Europe after October 1953. The pres-
sure exerted was aimed at increasing the sum of the so-
called «compassionate fund» pertaining to this kind of
reparations. On 26 May, 1965, the Bundestag approved to
amend the law in order to cover the Jews coming from
Eastern Europe after 1953, and to increase the sum allocat-
ed for such purposes from 175 million dollars to 300 mil-
lion dollars. (62)
In spite of what Israel has received it still asks for
more. On 18 april, 1966, Nahum Goldmann declared: that
«West Germany has to pay 12,000 million marks (3000
million dollars) as reparations for personal damage». (63)
OTHER WEST GERMAN ECONOMIC AID
The termination of the 1952 reparations agreement
prompted Israel to negotiate for new agreements. On 14
March, 1960, Ben-Gurion met Adenauer, (then Chancel-
lor of West Germany) in New York for two hours.
Ha’aretz reported that Ben-Gurion had requested a loan
for 500 million dollars. Adenauer’s reply had been neither
negative nor expressly affirmative. The Israeli newspapers
reported that Adenauer had approved to give Israel the
above-mentioned loan. Such a report prompted the West
German Foreign Ministry to announce that such an aid offer
did not exist. Then Ha’aretz reported that there had been
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Abdul-Rahman, Asa'd

عبد الرحمن، أسعد

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