Merkel: Iranian nukes would have terrible consequences

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Quote:"If Iran were to obtain nuclear weapons, it would have disastrous consequences," German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday in a special address to the Knesset. "We have to prevent this."

In an emotional speech, delivered in German, Merkel said her country would always be committed to Israel's security, particularly in light of growing threats from Iran.

"Especially in this place, I emphasize: Every German government and every chancellor before me was committed to the special responsibility Germany has for Israel's security," she said.

"This historic responsibility is part of my country's fundamental policy. It means that for me, as a German chancellor, Israel's security is non-negotiable," she added.

Merkel said Germany would always stand by Israel, and that Germany must speak out against racism and anti-Semitism. She promised to be vigilant about Iran's nuclear program.

The chancellor opened her speech with a Hebrew sentence, thanking the Knesset for giving her the "great honor" of addressing them in German. She immediately paid tribute to those killed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

"The mass murder of six million Jews, carried out in the name of Germany, has brought indescribable suffering to the Jewish people, Europe and the entire world," she said.

"The Shoah fills us Germans with shame. I bow before the victims. I bow before the survivors and before all those who helped them survive," she said, using the Hebrew word for Holocaust.

Merkel grew up in former East Germany, the daughter of a pastor. In her speech, she referred to her former country's refusal to take responsibility for the Holocaust; until unification in 1990, that task was shouldered by West Germany alone.

She said Communist East Germany considered the Nazi past as a West German problem. "It took 40 years until the entire Germany ... acknowledged its responsibility for history and for the state of Israel," she said.

Merkel expressed support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but also said Israel does not need unsolicited advice from outsiders. Merkel is not meeting Palestinian leaders during her current trip to Israel.

Currently, Germany is trying to help set up an industrial park in the northern West Bank, near the town of Jenin, that could create thousands of jobs. Merkel said she would follow the project very closely.

The address capped Merkel's three-day visit to Israel to mark the 60th anniversary of Israel's founding. Israel pulled out all the stops for Merkel, a staunch ally, raising the German flag over its parliament in a red carpet ceremony that drove home the two nations' growing alliance six decades after the Holocaust.

Lawmakers made special allowances for Merkel to address them, even though she's not a head of state. Several of the 120 parliamentarians skipped the ceremony, but the protest was overshadowed by the extraordinary warmth of the relationship.

About 1,000 guests listened to Merkel, including Holocaust survivors, Jewish, Christian and Muslim religious leaders, former Israeli presidents and residents of towns targeted by rocket fire from Gaza.

Introducing Merkel, leaders repeatedly called on Germany never to forget the victims of the Holocaust, and appealed to her to do everything she could to stop Iran's nuclear program.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert praised Merkel's "strong and determined position against the horrific calls from the president of Iran to wipe Israel off the map and against Teheran's trickery and deceit," he said.

"The close bonds of friendship between Germany and Israel are not regular relations between two nations," Olmert said.

"They carry the heavy weight of historical memory to which we are obligated. But this is exactly why they [also] contain power, sensitivity and substance that are unparalleled between any two nations in the international arena."

At a gathering in the Knesset earlier in the day, Merkel said her country would do its best to assist in returning the three abducted IDF soldiers, Gilad Schalit, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. The soldier's families were in attendance.

Several MKs, including Yisrael Katz (Likud), Limor Livnat (Likud), Arye Eldad (NU-NRP) and Shelly Yacimovich (Labor) have expressed displeasure with the decision to allow the speech.

The Knesset Committee approved the speech last week, despite the fact that Merkel is not considered a head of state and therefore does not officially qualify to address the plenum.

GIL MK Moshe Sharoni, a Holocaust survivor who was an inmate in a forced labor camp in Germany during the war, said Tuesday morning that he had no objection to hearing the language of his former oppressors spoken in the Knesset.

"It was not the language that destroyed us, but rather the people in command, who change everything," Sharoni told Army Radio. "When our president travels abroad he also speaks Hebrew. We cannot forbid them from speaking their language. I mean, the British also caused us trouble, would we forbid them to speak English?"

NU-NRP MK Arye Eldad was planning to protest the speech by reading poems by Uri Zvi Greenberg about the Holocaust on the Knesset podium Tuesday morning. Eldad, the son of Holocaust survivors, said on Monday that he dreaded the time when the sound of German no longer caused discomfort to anyone in the Knesset.

"The last words my family heard were in German, and those were the orders to shoot them," Eldad said. "My protest is against the State of Israel and the Knesset, who invited her to make an address inside [the Knesset] when protocol does not necessitate it."

Eldad said that he would be walking out conspicuously as soon as the speech began.

Labor MK Shelly Yacimovich, who is also the daughter of survivors, announced that she would not be in the Knesset during Merkel's address, saying that "although Merkel is a friend of Israel, the decision to allow a German speech in the Knesset, when this is not stipulated in the protocol, is callousness towards Holocaust survivors.

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Screw Jerkel

[Admin123456]

Absolutely worth reading is this truthseeker article(especially when you are from Germany)
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=8249
But its also exactly what I would say. Merkel doesnt speak for the german people, he/she is just concerned about Israel and the media is run by Israel, our country is indeed the twin of Israel, like the article says. Even the "Bundesadler" has this sign of satan, its a hexagramm/6pointed star without a doubt. if your people only would know that this country is run by satan worshippers.

[Hans Olo]

OMG did you know the human body is a pentagram? We have a head, two legs and two arms, that equals FIVE! So does that mean God is a Satan worshipper, too?

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[Guest]

Sounds like Germany is ZOG controled too.

I should say ZOG controled AGAIN.

I've already read and confirmed who held what powerful posts in Germany when Adolph came to power.

Poor Germany... to be guilt tripped forever.

[Nyte]

I hope iran nukes Israel

Just nukes the fuck out of the government
also they can hit david rockefellers wet dream state china

but then again no

[LeveL]

"Iranian nukes would have terrible consequences"

Aaaah, a hypothetical "I pulled this shit outta my ass" attack on Iran again, lovely.

I wonder if the consequences of Iranian nukes would be as terrible as the consequences were for the citizens of Nagasaki and Hiroshima in 1945?

As usual, the media is making a "potential threat" seem like an inevitable reality, when no country has ever even used a nuke EXCEPT the USA where the fucking "news" is coming from! Fuck off.

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"Iranian nukes would have terrible consequences" - she's telling the absolute truth. Nuking Iran would have terrible consequences:(

[trueaim]

Merkel delivered the speech in German, why not in Yiddish.