“The European past of pogroms and the Holocaust has made Israel a sensitive issue for Germany,” Fischer said during his lecture entitled Europe and Israel. “Anti-Semitism being a European invention, makes fighting it a major responsibility for the Europeans,” he added. “Because the Shoah was committed by Germany and Germans it is also a bipartisan issue for us,” said Fischer. “We have a moral responsibility for the security of the citizens of Israel.”

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