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Israel - Hosting the German foreign minister, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used an especially tainted term to condemn the Palestinian demand that Israel's settlements in the occupied West Bank be removed.
"Judea and Samaria cannot be Yudenrein," a Netanyahu confidant quoted him as telling Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Asked how Germany's top diplomat responded to hearing the Nazi Holocaust term for areas "cleansed of Jews", the confidant said, "What could he do? He basically just nodded."
Protocol might have indicated that a representative of the country that carried out the World War Two genocide, and which has since made much effort to atone, be spared such invocations.
But these are not normal times for the right-wing Netanyahu coalition. It faces unprecedented U.S. pressure to make way for a Palestinian state on West Bank land that many Jews call Judea and Samaria and consider their eternal, biblical birthright.
Hence the jaw-dropper defiance of "Judenrein", which the confidant said Netanyahu had encouraged cabinet colleagues to deploy in their defence of the settlements and of Israel's insistence that Palestinians recognise it as a Jewish state.
Briefing foreign reporters last week, Deputy Prime Minister Dan Meridor, a stalwart of Netanyahu's Likud party, urged them to ask whether "Palestinians would accept that Jews will live among them, or whether it is going to be totally not allowed".
"'Judenrein' is the term that was once used in other countries," Meridor said darkly, in remarks echoed the next day by another Likud minister who briefed journalists and diplomats.
Some diplomats have quietly questioned the propriety of applying such comparisons to a Middle East conflict which is a unique mix of race and religion, conquest and coexistence.
German officials made no comment on the terminology.
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Jul 10, 2009 at 08:53 AM Anonymous Says:
good going netanyahu!! keep strong and don't give up!!! we are all behind you!!
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Jul 10, 2009 at 09:14 AM Anonymous Says:
"Judea shall not be Judenrein" seems like an especially good slogan, as both words have the same root.
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Jul 10, 2009 at 10:53 AM Anonymous Says:
Good for him.
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Jul 10, 2009 at 12:15 PM anonymous Says:
What is wrong with that, Syria harbored a war criminal who organized the deportation to Auschwitz of Greek Jews and in Thessalonika was instrumental in rounding up every Jewish child, Alois Brunner and Syria also gave sancturary to Haj Amin el Husseini
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Jul 10, 2009 at 02:00 PM Anonymous Says:
"Protocol might have indicated that a representative of the country that carried out the World War Two genocide, and which has since made much effort to atone, be spared such invocations."
Why is that protocol? That is the assumption for the whole article, and it isn't even explained. Further, it's not even definitely the protocol, it "might" be the protocol. What a pointless article.
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Jul 10, 2009 at 04:53 PM Milhouse Says:
“ "Judea shall not be Judenrein" seems like an especially good slogan, as both words have the same root. ”
R Kahane HYD pointed out that if the Romans hadn't renamed Judaea to Palestine, we'd now be dealing with "Judaean" terrorists and "liberation movements". "Jews out of Judaea".
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Jul 11, 2009 at 09:38 PM bigwheeel Says:
“ R Kahane HYD pointed out that if the Romans hadn't renamed Judaea to Palestine, we'd now be dealing with "Judaean" terrorists and "liberation movements". "Jews out of Judaea". ”
Precisely! I was just trying to point out the irony here. We're "negotiating" with the "world" about letting Jews stay in JUDEA! Doesn't this very situation point out the false claim of the so-called palestinians to Judea???!!!
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Jul 13, 2009 at 10:35 AM Mr&Mrs AmHaAretz Says:
"Protocol might have indicated that a representative of the country that carried out the World War Two genocide, and which has since made much effort to atone..." would REFUSE TO ENDORSE a racist "two state [final] solution" which targets Jewish families (in our Biblical homeland) for the "same old same old" human rights abuses that have for centuries been used to persecute Jews.
"Judenrein" is exactly the right word. And how refreshing it is to see the leadership of Israel demonstrating some cajones for a change, B"HK.