Israel seeks fresh Holocaust reparations deal with Germany

Minister for Pensioner Affairs Rafi Eitan is seeking to reopen the 1952 reparations agreement between Israel and Germany.

Eitan, the minister in charge of the talks with Germany on reparations for Holocaust survivors and retrieving Jewish property, intends to discuss the matter with the German finance minister when he comes to Israel in two weeks' time.

Eitan told Haaretz that the original reparations agreement, the Luxembourg Agreement, did not take into account many issues relating to Holocaust survivors and should therefore be reopened. That agreement stipulated that Germany would give Israel $833 million in money and merchandise, and Israel would look after the survivors, who would not be permitted to sue Germany directly. More....

Totally ignoring the fact that the vast majority of Germans alive today had not been born when WW2 happened, and indeed the government that committed those crimes is long vanished.

The present-day government of Germany was not in control of events in the middle of the last century. Why hand them the bill?

and while we are at it, why is the US sending money TO Israel. We sacrificed much blood and gold to STOP Hitler. Israel should be paying Americans reparations!

But money is money and any excuse to soak the present day Germans (and anyone else they can sucker into it) will suffice, it seems.