berlin brief

Tsipi Livni, Israel’s former Foreign Minister and the head of the Kadima party, came to Berlin last week where she met with Foreign Minister Westerwelle. Livni is touring Western capitals to fight, as she said in a speech in Berlin, the deligitimization of the Jewish State of Israel in the free world.

Ms Livni spoke at the Deutsche Parlamentarische Gesellschaft (German Parliamentary Society) on 24 March 2010, at an event hosted by NAFFO (Nahost Friedens Forum/Middle East Peace Forum). (more…)

Speaking yesterday at the UN General Assembly’s annual meeting in New York, the Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu strongly condemned the speech of Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad on Wednesday, in which the Iranian President again denied the Holocaust.

In his hands, Netanyahu held a document that he had been given during a recent visit to Berlin (read the NY Times article of 27 August, 2009): the original document of a construction plan of Auschwitz concentration camp. (more…)