Swiss government and banking officials denied a statement by World Jewish Congress President Edgar Bronfman that they were ready to pay “more than $1 billion but less than $10 billion” as a so-called global settlement of all claims relating to Switzerland’s handling of dormant Jewish bank accounts from the World War II era. Bronfman responded to their denials with impatience, telling an interviewer, “It’s coming to a point where it has to resolve itself or it has to be total war. I can’t be sitting on my thumbs forever.”
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