German newspapers gave prominence this weekend to a front-page editorial in the “Allgemeine Wochenzeitung, “only Jewish newspaper in Germany, advocating establishment of diplomatic relations between Germany and Israel as quickly as possible in 1954.
Karl Marx, publisher of the Jewish weekly, declared in the editorial that Israel could be charged with applying a double standard by refusing to maintain diplomatic relations with West Germany while maintaining them with Austria without regard to what he called the latter’s anti-Jewish past and present policy. The editorial says that establishment of German-Israeli relations should not await fulfilment of Germany’s material obligations.
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