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"Whoever threatens Israel also threatens us!"
Angela Merkel
Canciller Alemana
En el pleno del COngreso de EUA
"Whoever threatens Israel also threatens us!"
Angela Merkel
Canciller Alemana
En el pleno del COngreso de EUA
Though it received scant coverage in this country, German Chancellor Angela Merkel's major policy address before a joint session of Congress on Nov. 3 was significant in its references to Israel and the Holocaust.
At the outset of her speech, Merkel referred to the 60-year old German constitution and its statement that "Human dignity shall be inviolable." She then added:
"This was the answer to the catastrophe that was the Second World War, to the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust, to the hate, destruction and annihilation that Germany brought upon Europe and the world. November 9 is just a few days away.
Germany and the US defend Israel's Gaza air raids which have killed over 300, saying they are meant to protect the country's civilians even as pro-Gaza protests grow in the Arab world and Europe.
Germany on Monday blamed Hamas for the outbreak of violence in the Gaza Strip and urged the Islamist group which has controlled Gaza since 2007 to stop firing rockets so that Israel's attack on the territory could end.
"It is the legitimate right of Israel to protect its civilian population and to defend its territory," German government spokesman Thomas Steg told a press briefing in Berlin.