Mazor spoke of "a huge and very positive reaction" to the Fisher Fund's
campaign in Israel, where the case was featured in several leading Israeli
newspapers Friday as well as on a leading radio station. "It's not just a
lawsuit, it's the beginning of a movement," he said. "Germany will somehow
have to react to the problem. It will have to adopt not only a legal position
but also a moral position."
"People in Israel feel we are doing something moral and important," he said.
"They say we are doing holy work". The use of the term "holy" is just another
manifestation of the fact that Organized Jewry does not look upon the
Holocaust as merely another historical event, but have elevated it to the
status of a "quasi-religion", brooking no dissension.
And on May 3rd, Ingeburg Grüning, a spokesperson for the German Finance
Ministry -- which is responsible for compensation payments to Holocaust
survivors -- reiterated this position. In another article published on Spiegel
Online, Grüning explained that a precondition for recompense is that the
claimant be a direct victim of Nazi violence. That criterion has long been
part of the principles accepted by international treaties relating to
Holocaust reparations. "An amendment of the compensation principles is not
planned," she said.
Total Reparations
Grüning further emphasized that the "moral and financial reparation of the
wrongs committed by the Nazi regime" has had and continues to have a high
significance for the German
government, which has already paid out a total of around €64 billion (in
euros, which is $88 billion based on July 13th exchange rate) to Holocaust
survivors. "However, the personal suffering of millions can not be
undone and also can not be made up for in this way. Hence Germany's largest
efforts in terms of reparations are concentrated on Holocaust survivors who
were directly affected", Grüning concluded.
The True Cost of Holocaust Reparations: The $88 billion figure cited earlier
in this post is merely direct reparations payments to Jews and other victims
from the German government. It does not include payment of reparations, either
in coin or in kind, to Israel since the end of World War II. On page 306 of
his book "Jewish Supremacism", Dr.
David Duke estimates the total of all German Holocaust reparations payments to
be at least $150 billion.
Many of these reparations to Israel
were "in kind" payments, in the form of goods or services. On the same
page, Dr. Duke states that "without German reparations..., Israel would not
have half of its present infrastructure. All the trains in Israel are German,
the ships are German, and the same goes for electrical installations and a
great deal of industry...". Later in the same paragraph, Dr. Duke also points
out that "In some years the sums of money received by Israel from Germany have
been as much as double or treble the contribution made by collections from
international Jewry".
And yet they want more.
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