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A Stable Friendship

Rafael Seligmann writes in BILD about Germany’s solidarity with Israel in difficult times

Solidarity with Israel is a question of moral and political credibility for Chancellor Merkel. “For Germany, Israel’s security is not negotiable” Merkel stressed to [...]

Sigmar Gabriel, 52, enjoying a good read at the party headquarters in Berlin

Teheran uses the Language of Nazi Criminals

SPD chairman Gabriel also condemns Israel’s occupation policy

JVG: After your visit to Hebron you said that an apartheid-regime reigns there. Your reason for saying that?

GABRIEL: First of all, thank you for saying that I called the situation [...]

Günter Grass in Israel

Big-Mouth Grass loses his Credibility

Grass visits Israeli poet and Nobel Laureate Samuel Yosef Agnon in the 1960s.

The debate about Grass makes one think that it has to do with the threat to the “already endangered world peace” by “the nuclear-armed Israel,” as the writer says. Or to do [...]

Shalicar_Dtv

Jerusalem favors Diplomacy

IDF spokesman cautious but optimistic on Iran

JVG: Your family is originally from Iran. How do you feel when Iran’s spiritual leader decries Israel as a ‘cancerous tumor’?

SHALICAR: It makes me sad and is horrible. Everybody [...]

MIDEAST ISRAEL MEZUZAH

Optimism and Fresh Ink

The delicate flower of democracy was first cultivated more than 2,500 years ago in Athens, Greece. In most countries, it did not take hold, in some it did, but only temporarily. Eighty years ago, a historical blink of the eye, European continental democracy imploded. [...]