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Published: 05 June, 2009, 18:07


After a speech to the Muslim world, President Obama makes symbolic and politically-minded visit to a Nazi concentration camp, says professor Stephen Zunes, politics and international studies at San Fancisco University.

 
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Manuel Santos June 06, 2009, 06:41 quote
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Obama visit to a concentration Camp in Germany,and the fact he does not like when someone does,nt believe on the holocaust,makes me wonder as to why is it, that we all must believe in something,someone impose on us?Do we must believe everything we are told?It surprises me no one asks how many Palestinians were killed by the Zionists since 1948;don,t they count?Why is it this people is so special and those they kill don,t ?I recommend Mr Obama to go to Gaza, and see a much bigger Concentration Camp than he has ever seen;or to the West Bank and see the check points filled with concrete barriers filled with razor blade wire,with Tyrants armed to their teeth,daily humiliating and Oppressing the People of that land.And these leaders tell the World they are the only democracy in the region. If they believe that to be a democracy I rather consider it an absolute Tyranny. I also recomend Mr Obama to go check the conditions of the Palestinian priso ners rotting in jail and how they are treated.But apparently they don,t count,only victims of the holocaust must be respected Palestinians don,t .It really surprises me how,can these holocaust survivers after being victimised in such brutal way,move into someones Land steel it,and keep killing their owners up to this very day.This surprises me very much,since victims never go on and victi mise others,much less take their land and everything.they depend of for their survival.Mr Obamas actions and speeches since he toke office have shown .that he has already changed his color,and is doing what the white has been doing for very long. Sincerely Manuel

Marzipan6 June 06, 2009, 07:53 quote
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Accompanying President Obama on an emotional visit to Buchenwald, German Chancellor Merkel spoke of the German responsibility “to do everything possible that something like that never happens again.” She added, “I bow before all the victims.” I have never heard any Russian leader, from the President to the Prime Minister to the Foreign Minister to members of the Duma to a local village mayor, say anything even vaguely comparable in publicly dedicated themselves to the mission of ensuring that the horrors of totalitarianism can never again be repeated in Russia. As far as I know, none has even spoken of what they have personally learned from their country’s Soviet experience, or whether they have even learned anything at all. And certainly none has ever bowed in the direction of the Baltics before the victims of the ghastly Soviet criminality there.

JACQUELINE June 06, 2009, 11:33 quote
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Russia could be a blessing to the world if it stood against Obama and helped Israel to remain Israel and not be divided. Bless Russia and her people may they be united with Benjamin Netanyahu and not bow down to the controlling forces that try to dominate the earth.

Tomas June 06, 2009, 13:17 quote
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I tried reading MI6 comment, but after reading third line, I wondered who was it to post with such perversive logic, misleading and manipulative piece of ´stench´. But then I read what name was behind that comment. Russophobian ideology ftl. Even Poland´s leadership has some light in their heads. But Baltics of inferiority complex, financed by Washington is something on a next level. Hypocrisy at its best. Pot calling kettle black. In anglo-saxon world which rules baltics, they should have told you that even ´democracy´ is the free cheese. And the only free cheese is in the mouse trap...Of course ideology-driven heads will turn everything how they like, just not to take a look at their own faults and evil in them.

Aimilios G. Moschovitis June 07, 2009, 00:15 quote
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Germans use crematories for dead people. Some believe that jews were burned alive. No! They died of hunger, ill health etc. After 1943 some were poisoned with cyclon B. Six million jews out of 11 million and they call it holaucaust. 500.000 gypsies out of 1 million, they call it extermination and no body ever refers to it. 1,5 million Armenians out of 2 million, they call it genocide. About 90 million indians out of about 90 million indians - they call it "they perished". 20 milllion Russians was the price for winning the war against Germans...they died of cold and hunger. Obama must visit the concentration camp in order to expain why the defence of "Israel" is more important than the defence of USA. Instead of visiting Gaza to prevent what Tsipi Lini said: "We will Bombard Gaza Again." Does that mean again 400 kids, 1300 total unarmed dead, 4000 building flattened out, 20.000 damaged and now 70 % unemployed, some without eletricity and water and food.

Aimilios G. Mosschovitis June 07, 2009, 00:31 quote
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Americans love to manipulate, bully small nations, menace, make wars, establish dictatorships. So... the Sixth Fleet , here it is in Thessaloniki and other ports of Greece. After years.. why today? Tommorow is election day. We choose European parlement members and the presense of the Sixth Fleet is meant to discourage votting in favor of the party that courrently developes good relations with Russia.

Marzipan6 June 07, 2009, 01:18 quote
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Perhaps Tomas could explain to us in logical terms why it is quite all right for no Russian leader to have ever made a commitment to do all they can to ensure that the horror of totalitarian rule will never again descend on the Russian people. Perhaps he can also explain why it is entirely appropriate for no Russian leader to have ever expressed the least regret, let alone offered expressions of condolence to the people of the Baltics for the mass atrocities which Russians, under the Soviet flag, commenced inflicting on the Baltics from June 1941 (before Russia was at war with Germany and at a rime when the Baltics were neutral), and which continued in one form or another all the way until 1991, when Lithuanians were crushed under Soviet tanks in their own capital. June 14 is the annual day of mourning in the Baltics – that day in 1941 saw the commencement of mass deportations of innocent men, women and children to Siberian slavery. In that one 24-hour period, approximately 10,000 Estonians were torn from their homes, and more than that number each from Latvia and Lithuania. Eventually the combined Soviet toll in the Baltics reached hundreds of thousands of individuals, a colossal figure in view the Baltics’ small population. National leaders from around the world always send messages of condolence to the Baltic countries on this day of mourning; why not Russia, their nearest neighbour, and the home of those who actually committed the crimes? And one more question for Tomas. Germany has prosecuted its war criminals; why has Russia not brought even one single, solitary person to trial who committed crimes against humanity in the name of the Soviet state? Why has it never even investigated one? Are there not tens of millions of dead in Russia, killed by the Soviet state, and are there not many, many more millions who were enslaved in the GULAG by Russians serving the Soviet state? Russians’ complicity in the crimes of its Soviet era will continue to hang as an albatross around Russia’s neck, hindering its foreign policy, poisoning its relations with its neighbours and preventing closure and healing from happening within Russia itself, until Russia brings appropriate and decent closure to its Soviet-era crimes. Angry bluster such as Tomas’ post offers does nothing to remedy anything.

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