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The web of relationships between Israel, Germany, and Palestine is complex, especially because its historical coordinates are easy to decode, indeed obvious: That Germany committed monstrous crimes against the Jews in the 20th Century and that Jews carried out the Israeli state-building process on the backs of the Palestinians is evident. However, the question arises of the causal relations between both historical events and their relevance for the current
web of relationships. The foundation of the Zionist State is based on the urgency of a sanctuary for Jews as a consequence of the Shoah (Holocaust) and accelerated by the international consensus in its favor. Therefore, the connection between the Shoah and Israel arises by itself. However, consequently, as well with the necessary adaptation made, the connection of the Palestinians to Germany: If the foundation of Israel was a consequence of the Shoah caused by the Germans, this also implies a German connection with the historical injustice committed to the Palestinians by Jews through the founding of the state.
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