Israeli President Shimon Peres to address German Parliament

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Source: dw-world.de

Israeli President Shimon Peres will address the German parliament on Wednesday - the first time that an Israeli president has spoken to the Bundestag on Holocaust Memorial Day.

On Tuesday Peres, accompanied by the German president, Horst Koehler, and Holocaust survivors of German descent, visited the Platform 17 memorial in Berlin. The memorial marks the place at the Grunewald station in the south of the city where the journey started for many thousands of German Jews who were murdered by the Nazis in the camps at Theresienstadt, Riga and Lodz.

Earlier he had talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel. The two leaders discussed Iran's anti-Israel stance. Peres stated that his "country had nothing against the Iranian people, but rather the Iranian regime."
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According to Peres' spokeswoman, Ayelet Frish, his speech to the Bundestag, which will be delivered in Hebrew "will mourn the six million Jewish lives that perished in the Holocaust," but will conclude with Peres' "vision and hope for the future of Israel, Germany and the Middle East."

Read more: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5172769,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-ger-1023-rdf

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"January 27 marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi death camp. In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated this day as International Holocaust Remembrance Day (IHRD), an annual day of commemoration to honor the victims of the Nazi era. Every member nation of the U.N. has an obligation to honor the memory of Holocaust victims and develop educational programs as part of an international resolve to help prevent future acts of genocide. The U.N. resolution that created IHRD rejects denial of the Holocaust, and condemns discrimination and violence based on religion or ethnicity."
(source: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/ihrd/comment_post.php )

and here's some stories, from a DU thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7580484

[Behind the Aegis]

1. R

This is a good first.

[demoleft]

2. ciao you there. yes, a good first. n/t

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Grazie.

E grazie a tuo. (It is bad Italiano, but you already know mine is bad.)

[JNelson6563]

4. Nice

I hope this helps to further relations, in a good way of course.

Julie