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Strained relations?

Prof. Carole Fink, a Jewish New Yorker and researcher on German history shines some light on a long and sometimes tense relationship between Germany and Israel.

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Prof. Carole Fink is a researcher from Ohio State University, and is the Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa. ‘The Jerusalem Post’ spoke to her to gain an understanding of the way in which Germany has related to Israel during the various incarnations of the countries’ bi-lateral relationship since the end of the Second World War.

Germany is currently considered one of Israel’s strongest allies in the European Union and, while it currently pursues a policy of even-handedness that has been an irritant to many Jews descended from Holocaust survivors, it has contributed to Israel’s defense, including building and subsidizing the IDF’s submarine fleet, which many observers believe will prove crucial in any conflict with a nuclear Iran.

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