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There is no Business like Shoah Business
By Gilad Atzmon
According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz , Finance Minister
Yuval Steinitz will demand between 450 million to 1 billion
euros in reparations from Germany on behalf of Jews forced into
slave labor during the Holocaust, it emerged on Sunday.
"Israel to seek another 1b euros Holocaust in reparations from
Germany." (haaretz.com, 20.12.2009)
Regardless of the question of what qualifies an Israeli minister
to demand money on ”behalf of Jews” or even Israeli Jews, I
wonder whether it is symbolic that this happens in the same week
as Auschwitz’ entrance sign was stolen.<
For those who fail to remember, the Auschwitz sign says ‘Work
Liberates’ (Arbeit macht frei). Clearly, as far as Minister
Steinitz is concerned, it is actually Schnor (extracting money)
that sets him free.
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