Holocaust; overlevende kræver mere i økonomisk støtte

Repræsentanter for Israels 250.000 overlevende fra Holocaust protesterer foran præmierministerens Ehud Olmerts hus, fordi de kræver mere i statslig støtte.

Statens tilbud om, at give 20 dollars i månedlig  støtte  blev stemplet af de overlevende fra Holocaust, som “hån” med den begrundelse, at det var for et lille beløb, og i den anledning havde de organiseret en demonstration, som protest..

Overlevende fra Holocaust siger, at de kæmper med, at betale for medicinsk behandling og i andre tilfælde også mad, hvilket de 20 dollars ikke dækker alle udgifterne;

Dubi Arbel, director of one of the survivor organisations, told the BBC that their needs were not being met.
“They wake up every night with nightmares,” he said.
“They have cancer 14 times more than the regular population. They break their bones due to the malnutrition they had years ago. And now when they need the help, there is nobody to turn to.”

Ja - det er frygteligt, at skulle have været udsat for forfølgelser og massakre, og ligeledes befinder, der sig mange palæstinensere, der også har mareridt. Gad vide hvad Olmert vil gøre ved dette…? Og om han vil erstatte deres tab, søvnløse nætter med nogle dollars el. vil man i Israel fortsæt kæmpe for, at gøre en ende på palæstinenserne…?

The protesters are calling their protest a “March of the Living” - a name which echoes the annual march at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day - and some are expected to don prisoners’ clothes and yellow stars.

One Israeli cabinet minister, Yitzhak Herzog, said the use of such imagery on a march over a financial dispute with the government was “an insult to the collective memory of the Holocaust”.

Medical bills
Holocaust survivors - who include all those who suffered from Nazi persecution - already receive support from a number of sources, including Germany and the Israeli government.
But they have long complained of neglect in Israel, where some 250,000 live.
Many of the elderly survivors say they struggle to pay for medical treatment and, in some cases, food.
Six million Jews were killed by the Nazis during World War II.
The Holocaust is often cited as one of the key reasons as to why a Jewish state must exist. (BBC NEWS)

At Holocaust er en begrundelse for, at den jødiske stat skal eksistere er jeg ikke enig i, en stats eksistens på bekostning af en anden nation - kan jeg desværre ikke forstå ….

Ellers synes jeg, at det er trist hvad der er hændt for disse overlevende, og håber så sandelig, at de kommer over det - selvom det nok er svært.