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by Soeren Kern
• June 10, 2015 at 5:00 am
- "Muslim
children, too, need to come to terms with German history." —
Günther Felbinger, MP with the Free Voters Party.
- "At a
time of increasingly rampant anti-Semitism and even anti-Semitic
terrorism across Europe, the Steiner Bavarian plan, together with
your generous Federal Islamic education program seems a recipe for
Jihadism, ISIS recruitment and incitement to Jew-hatred, to be
inevitably followed by attacks on other traditional Nazi victims:
Roma, gays, women and disabled." — Shimon Samuels, Simon
Wiesenthal Center.
- "We must
never consider it normal that for a Jewish child growing up in
Germany his kindergarten, his school and his synagogue must be
guarded by police. This circumstance should provide us with an
incentive to combat anti-Semitism by all means available to us
within the rule of law." — German Interior Minister Thomas de
Maizière.
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A German high-school class visits the Dachau
concentration camp memorial, in Bavaria. (Image source: Gymnasium
Gerabronn)
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A debate has erupted in Germany over whether Muslim students should
be exempted from mandatory visits to former concentration camps as part
of Holocaust education programs.
The dispute centers on a proposal that would require students in all
secondary schools in the southern state of Bavaria to visit Holocaust
memorials as part of the school curriculum.
Such visits are already compulsory for students who attend the
Gymnasium (a type of secondary school with a strong emphasis on academic
learning), and the proposal would extend that requirement to eighth- and
ninth-grade students in all other types of secondary schools, including
special-needs schools.
The proposal, sponsored by a political party called the Free Voters
(Freie Wähler), calls for the official educational curriculum to be
amended to make it mandatory for students to visit the Bavarian
concentration camp memorials in Dachau und Flossenbürg and the
Deutsch-Deutsches Museum in Mödlareuth.
by Shoshana Bryen
• June 10, 2015 at 4:00 am
- The French
draft corresponds with President Obama's own -- strongly held --
belief that Israel has to ascribe to the President's view, despite
just having elected a Prime Minster who disagrees.
- The air is
poisoned. The CEO of the French cell phone company Orange declared
his desire to boycott Israel, while Orange rakes in money from its
operation in the Republic of Congo, a major human rights violator.
- Smash the two
stories together and you get an American President supporting France
in its efforts to be a major player in the Middle East in exchange
for French support for the P5+1 deal with Iran.
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Is President Obama supporting France in its efforts
to be a major player in the Middle East, in exchange for French support
for the P5+1 deal with Iran? Above, Secretary of State John Kerry
(left) is pictured meeting French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, on
February 27, 2013. (Image source: U.S. State Dept.)
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Sometimes, if you smash two stories together, you end up with
something interesting; sometimes you get something worrisome. This is one
of the latter.
The first story is about France, a member of the P5+1 negotiating a
deal with Iran on nuclear capabilities. The French government has
expressed increasing concern that the emerging deal is flawed -- perhaps
fatally. Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius reportedly told the French
Parliament, "France will not accept [a deal] if it is not clear that
inspections can be done at all Iranian installations, including military
sites." He added, "Yes to an agreement, but not to an agreement
that will enable Iran to have the atomic bomb. That is the position of
France, which is independent and peaceful."
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