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| Berlin: Hundreds call for solidarity with Israel |
| 2007-01-29 |
| Several hundred demonstrators marched to Berlin's Holocaust memorial Sunday to call for solidarity with Israel against threats from Iran's hardline president. Some 700 people took part in driving rain, according to a police estimate, some carrying Israeli flags and placards demanding that the international community "defend Israel." A group of Jewish and other organizations had organized the event to protest against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has described the Holocaust as a "myth" and called for Israel to be wiped off the map. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #6 Agreed, exJAG. There may well have been a large sprinkling of Israelis taking part as well. For some reason I kept running into Israelis who'd settled in Germany; one of my doctors in Frankfurt for instance. And, they don't have the retiring turn of mind of so many of the European Jews. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-01-29 12:09 |
| #5 German guilt drives just about everything here. Or I should say, conspicuous public displays of guilt. Honestly, 700 isn't all that impressive as Berlin demonstrations go. But good for them. |
| Posted by: exJAG 2007-01-29 10:53 |
| #4 I had to read the lede twice. I was expecting to read "solidarity" with Iran or some such orcish pest-hole. It has become shocking to me that anyone would demonstrate in favor of a liberal democracy. |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2007-01-29 09:25 |
| #3 Yeh , kinda figured that .. alas :( |
| Posted by: MacNails 2007-01-29 08:34 |
| #2 I doubt it, MacNails. That's a particularly unpopular stance in those parts. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2007-01-29 06:59 |
| #1 Crowd for Hire ! |
| Posted by: MacNails 2007-01-29 06:34 |