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Thu, 06/17/2010 - 17:18
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German Jewish group slams Israel's "criminal" behavior
Berlin, Jun 17, IRNA -- A German Jewish organization here Thursday lambasted Israel's "criminal" behavior for its ongoing inhuman siege of Gaza.
Speaking to the German Press Agency dpa in Berlin, Kate
Katzenstein-Leiterer, a leader of the German Jewish Voice
organisation said, "We want Israel to behave in a way that it can be
recognized as a democratic state. Now it is recognised as a criminal state. That is not what we want."
She announced plans for her organization to send an aid ship to Gaza in mid-July to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
On May 31, dozens of people were killed and injured when Israeli naval forces stormed ships in a flotilla carrying aid and unarmed activists bound for the Gaza Strip.
The massacre caused international outrage and condemnation further isolating the Zionist regime.
Meanwhile, Katzenstein-Leiterer stressed that her organization
which is part of the European Jews for a Just Peace movement, wants to show that the current Israeli policies were wrong.
"The whole blockade, the whole siege of Gaza is illegal. It is
against international law and human rights," she said.
"We want to deliver musical instruments and school material. The
children and deprived of every kind of school material; clothes,
shoes, candies. We don't see that that is any kind of safety risk,"
the German Jewish peace activist added.
Katzenstein-Leiterer accused the German media of not reporting the truth on Gaza.
"The German press doesn't show what is going on. People think all
Gazans are terrorists, like West Germans used to think that all East
Germans were informers for the Stasi (secret police)," she said.
"Normal people here don't understand very much what is going on in
Israel and Palestine," Katzenstein-Leiterer added.
She lashed out at Germany's 100,000-strong Jewish community for closing its eyes to Israeli atrocities in Palestine.
"Most of the Jews in Germany are immigrants from the former Soviet
Union, and they are not on our side. The other members of the
community are not on our side either. They say that everything that
Israel does is OK, and they close their eyes to what is going on."
A small but vocal number of German Jewish peace activists, critical
of the Zionist regime, have turned up the heat on the illegal Jewish state in the wake of its wars in Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2008/9.
A senior activist in the Jewish Voice movement, Rolf Verleger,
was reportedly expelled from his position in the influential Central
Council of Jews in Germany because he initiated a petition saying the
2006 Israeli attack against Lebanon was "not in our name."
Underscoring Verleger's stance, another prominent German Jewish activist, Evelyn Hecht-Galinski has reiterated Israeli leaders should be tried for war crimes in Gaza.
The daughter of the late German Jewish leader Heinz Galinski
accused the Zionist regime of conducting "a creeping genocide" in
Gaza./end
Speaking to the German Press Agency dpa in Berlin, Kate
Katzenstein-Leiterer, a leader of the German Jewish Voice
organisation said, "We want Israel to behave in a way that it can be
recognized as a democratic state. Now it is recognised as a criminal state. That is not what we want."
She announced plans for her organization to send an aid ship to Gaza in mid-July to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza.
On May 31, dozens of people were killed and injured when Israeli naval forces stormed ships in a flotilla carrying aid and unarmed activists bound for the Gaza Strip.
The massacre caused international outrage and condemnation further isolating the Zionist regime.
Meanwhile, Katzenstein-Leiterer stressed that her organization
which is part of the European Jews for a Just Peace movement, wants to show that the current Israeli policies were wrong.
"The whole blockade, the whole siege of Gaza is illegal. It is
against international law and human rights," she said.
"We want to deliver musical instruments and school material. The
children and deprived of every kind of school material; clothes,
shoes, candies. We don't see that that is any kind of safety risk,"
the German Jewish peace activist added.
Katzenstein-Leiterer accused the German media of not reporting the truth on Gaza.
"The German press doesn't show what is going on. People think all
Gazans are terrorists, like West Germans used to think that all East
Germans were informers for the Stasi (secret police)," she said.
"Normal people here don't understand very much what is going on in
Israel and Palestine," Katzenstein-Leiterer added.
She lashed out at Germany's 100,000-strong Jewish community for closing its eyes to Israeli atrocities in Palestine.
"Most of the Jews in Germany are immigrants from the former Soviet
Union, and they are not on our side. The other members of the
community are not on our side either. They say that everything that
Israel does is OK, and they close their eyes to what is going on."
A small but vocal number of German Jewish peace activists, critical
of the Zionist regime, have turned up the heat on the illegal Jewish state in the wake of its wars in Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2008/9.
A senior activist in the Jewish Voice movement, Rolf Verleger,
was reportedly expelled from his position in the influential Central
Council of Jews in Germany because he initiated a petition saying the
2006 Israeli attack against Lebanon was "not in our name."
Underscoring Verleger's stance, another prominent German Jewish activist, Evelyn Hecht-Galinski has reiterated Israeli leaders should be tried for war crimes in Gaza.
The daughter of the late German Jewish leader Heinz Galinski
accused the Zionist regime of conducting "a creeping genocide" in
Gaza./end
