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AMERICAN EDITION June 24, 2012 Dear Friends: Normally I say Im glad that the summer is upon us. Its time to get away from it all, to visit the country (or some other country) or the beach so we can escape from the worlds problems. However, With the European economy teetering on the rim of self-destruction, rockets from Gaza again raining down on southern Israel; Egypt in another state of tumultuous upset (with Sinai practically lawless); Iran continuing to play for time while working on developing a nuclear bomb; Syria, Israels northwestern neighbor, engaged in a civil war; increased anti-Semitism in Hungary (click here); and a fractious presidential election campaign underway in the U.S., it should be a great time to get out of town. However, unhappily, it would all be waiting for us when we got back sowe might as well face it and deal with it now. http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/06/24/3098946/oppose-anti-semitism-inhungary-us-congressmen-tell-hungarian-pm Talk about dealing! For the last couple of months Ive been trying to deal with, and make sense of, the very complicated European economic situation. My simple mind tells me that everybody wants Germany to pony up more money which theyre not happily willing to do. They feel they earned and saved and do not want to pay off everybody elses debts and end up behind the fiscal eight-ball like Greece. On the other hand they know unless they do more the eurozone may come apart and carry them down with the poor relatives countries. It seems that Chancellor Merkel wants to strengthen the eurozone while asking (demanding?) that the other countries change their spendthrift ways. Like all those authority figures that require others to exhibit more discipline, shes become the bad guy. (She must have taken lessons from my mother). Below I try to explain where I think the majority of Germans stand on the matter. Ive 1

tried not to be a homer and injudiciously take their side but there is, indeed, another side to consider and you should, at least, know what it is. Following that, Ive added a little travel piece about Jewish Berlin, one on the submarine situations deeper meaning (pardon the pun) and another on antiIsraelism and anti-Semitism. Maybe I should have gone to the country. However, I didnt, so lets get on with the news IN THIS EDITION IS GERMANY THE BAD GUY? Should Chancellor Merkel be wearing an economic black hat? GERMANY & ECONOMICS Can they carry the load themselves? HATRED OF ISRAEL (& THE JEWS?) Related, always related or not related? JEWISH BERLIN It aint Brooklyn or the Bronx, but THE SUBMARINES RAISE A DEEPER QUESTION NOW SURFACED Germanys commitment to Israel IT IS, INDEED, A PROBLEM Salafism that is!

IS GERMANY THE BAD GUY? In the last few months hundreds of articles have been written about the dire economic situation in Europe. Greece (especially Greece), Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland are all in a position to go over the financial cliff. No question! The Euro zone and maybe the entire Western World is in trouble including the U.S. If there is a bad guy in this situation it seems to many to be Germany. Chancellor Merkel and her government are seen as the possessors of the only available lifesaver and, seemingly, they are unwilling to toss it to the other floundering European nations. Many Germans on the other hand are sick and tired of helping out the other spendthrift poor relatives who cant seem to or are unwilling to help themselves. Who should get the blame? Angela Merkel above all else is a politician (In my opinion a very good one). She represents a political entity. As a leader she can get out in front of her citizen base but not too far if she wants to remain in power. And, besides she has an opposition to deal with and that further constrains what she might want to do. As a good politician she keeps her ear to the ground and, thus, German public opinion seems

to be supporting her cautious approach which calls for more responsibility on the part of the other eurozone members and maybe some development help. Over an above her own conservative inclinations there are two issues that I am sure she is strongly considering in her decisions. The first has to do with politics. What are the German people saying in regard to what Germany should be doing? The second is economic. What and how much can Germany do to help the situation? For the first, I turn to a New York Times article, a note from a German journalist friend and a recent statement from Germanys Finance Minister. Hans-Werner Sinn, a German economic authority, writing in the NYT notes, For one thing, such a bailout is illegal under the Maastricht Treaty, which governs the euro zone. Because the treaty is law in each member state, a bailout would be rejected by Germanys Constitutional Court. Moreover, a bailout doesnt make economic sense, and would likely make the situation worse. Such schemes violate the liability principle, one of the constituting principles of a market economy, which holds that it is the creditors responsibility to choose their debtors. If debtors cannot repay, creditors should bear the losses. If we give up the liability principle, the European market economy will lose its most important allocative virtue: the careful selection of investment opportunities by creditors. We would then waste part of the capital generated by the arduous savings of earlier generations. I am surprised that the president of the worlds most successful capitalist nation would overlook this. This does not mean there can be no systematic risk-sharing between the states of Europe. But for that to happen, the countries should first form a common nation, with a constitution, a common legal superstructure, a monopoly on power to ensure obedience to the law and a common army for external defense. Otherwise, there is nothing to counter the strong centrifugal forces created by redistribution schemes, which would inevitably lead to political eruptions that would threaten the stability of the Continent. The European Union has enjoyed a long period of stability because it abstained from sizable interregional redistribution. This period would end if we redistributed incomes or debt without creating a United States of Europe. Unfortunately, not one of these conditions is met in Europe today and wont be in the foreseeable future, because the euro zone countries, above all France, are unwilling to give up sufficient sovereignty. It is unfair for critics to ask Germany to bear even more risk. Should Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain go bankrupt and repay nothing, while the euro survives, Germany would lose $899 billion. Should the euro fail, Germany would lose over

$1.35 trillion, more than 40 percent of its G.D.P. Has the United States ever incurred a similar risk for helping other countries? Involved in these economic questions are political ones. They revolve around how much sovereignty should Germany be giving and, secondly, when does to giving stop if it does? BTW you can read the entire article by clicking here http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/13/opinion/germany-cant-fix-the-euro-crisis.html? _r=2&emc=eta1 To buttress Prof. Sinns point of view, a German journalist friend of mine wrote to me, Actually I think that it's not helpful to pour more money into Greece. That way they will never clear up the mess they have created. I had a laughing fit every time they introduced new tax laws when the EU thru money at the problem. Their problem is not the lack of tax laws, they are just not enforced. If Greece goes bankrupt it'll do less harm to the world economy than the Lehman Brothers. The Germans had to lose two wars to sober up, perhaps the Greeks just have to lose the Euro - less bloody, but still very painful. The irony of it all is that Germany is getting a highly skilled migration this time around (Spaniards and Greeks). If you are not yet convinced, click here to read what Germanys Finance Minister Wolfgang Schuble has to say on the subject. http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20120624-43345.html Im not sure that any of them speak for all Germans. However, from what I can gather there is a strong conservative political streak that runs through many and there is great distrust of the southern Europeans. The Germans are not going to put more into the pot without stronger rules and what they see as more responsible behavior on the part of the others. In the next article I will move on to straight economics. GERMANY & ECONOMICS Even if the political balance changed toward Eurobonds and more bailout money from Germany, could Germany save Europe economically all by itself? Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff writing in CNN doesnt think so and he makes a pretty good case. He notes, Germans will be quick to point out that Germany is too small to take much of the rest of Europe onto its back. The German economy accounts for only 27% of the eurozone's output. The debt-to-GDP ratio hovers around an unhealthy 80% and might jump to around 100% given the commitments and guarantees to other European nations.

Nobody in Germany has forgotten the enormity of the task to bail out, reform and integrate East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. To this very day, 3% to 4% of GDP are spent on transfers to the former East. In 1989, East Germany accounted for roughly a fourth of the population of West Germany and no more than a fraction of its economic output. Compare that to ailing Spain and Italy, whose combined economies rival Germany's today. Therefore, it is a fantasy to assume that Germany alone can be Europe's white knight. Given these constraints, Merkel's willingness to lead Europe is remarkable. She has found a strategy to leverage Germany's limited power. First, Merkel internationalized the European bailouts; second, she broke down the effort into small steps to make them palatable to domestic constituencies in multiple countries; third, she resurrected the French-German alliance as an engine for progress; and, most importantly, she made the markets her friend and ally. In her assessment, no reform will happen in southern Europe without pressure from the markets. And there will be no pressure from the markets without limits to German largesse. There is a lot more to the article and if you want to understand where Chancellor Merkel stands and what sort of help she needs you should read it which you can by clicking here. http://www.cnn.com/2012/06/20/opinion/brockhoff-germanyeuro/index.html I fear, however, that the more you read the more you may become confused as I am. However, what choice do we have? We have to keep trying to understand the European situation, particularly the way the Germans act and feel. Why? Because what they do impacts us here in the U.S. so directly. There is no place to hide not even the country or the beach. HATRED OF ISRAEL (& THE JEWS?) Anyone who follows political issues in Germany regarding the Middle East knows that there is a growing undercurrent of strong anti-Israel sentiment. In the past it has, for obvious reasons, rarely surfaced. Politicians (local & national) and nationally known figures have been reluctant to be openly critical. However, that taboo seems to have eroded recently and while it is not yet at a tsunami level, it certainly is becoming more prevalent. Of course, throughout the other countries in Europe there is no taboo at all so their voices are even stronger. Both the media and academic writing have, for some time, been mulling over the question of whether criticism of Israel is mixed up with feelings of anti-Semitism. Frankly, there is no way to know if that is the case without crawling inside the heads and hearts of those that are openly critical of the Jewish State. Certainly, not every

single person who criticizes Israel is ipso facto an anti-Semite. On the other hand, some are. How deep that feeling goes in an individuals psychology is something we can never know. Certainly, there is good reason to believe that the increasing antiIsrael statements are laced with anti-Semitic feelings or, at least, disdain for the deep commitment that most Jews have to the Jewish State if not openly for the Jews themselves. Some refer to this growing willingness to be openly anti-Israel as the new Anti-Semitism. Maybe it is. Benjamin Weinthal writing in The Jerusalem Post reports, Albrecht Schrter, mayor of the German town [Ed. Note: Its really a small city not a town] of Jena, signed a petition from the left-wing Christian peace group Pax Christi calling for a wideranging boycott of Israeli products in response to the construction of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories. On Monday he expressed the same view in an opinion article in Thringische Landeszeitung Schrters critics level harsher charges at him. As Kevin Zdiara, deputy chairman of the German-Israeli Friendship Society, pointed out, the mayors proposal might as well reflect the Nazi-era slogan Dont Buy from Jews. In response, Schrter invoked my uncompromising commitment against the neoNazis. Though the mayor played on his anti-fascist credentials, he nonetheless showed little discomfort when the local arm of the NDP, the leading German neoNazi party, praised his calls for a boycott In a statement on the NDP website, the party praised Schrters campaign, declaring him to be courageous because as nationalists who have to deal every day with these Jewish/left-liberal defamation tactics, we think of Goethe's Sorcerer's Apprentice, who couldn't get rid of the spirits he called. Vera Lengsfeld, a prominent civil rights activist born in the Thuringia region of what was once East Germany, and a former Christian Democratic Union deputy in the Bundestag, neatly captured Schrters misplaced priorities. In a post on the popular pro-American blog The Axis of Good, she wrote that the mayor failed to focus the citys resources on preventing the delivery of weapons to a neo-Nazi terrorist group, the National Socialist Underground, and is consumed instead with criticizing Israel. Like Zdiara, Lengsfeld blasted Schrter for seeking to keep the city pure from Jewish goods. Jena must immediately vote in a new head of the city, she said, because the good man can no longer govern. Schrters peculiar obsession with Israel has led him to participate in demonstrations denouncing it in the West Bank, and to deliver a lecture at a proHamas conference in Bad Boll, Germany.

Other German critics charge Schrter of maintaining moral double standards. Thomas von der Osten-Sacken, head of the Middle East relief assistance organization Wadi, said so long as one does not find a call by Pax Christi that from now on products from Syria, Iran or Saudi Arabia (to name just three examples) should come with the logo that the goods come from a country in which torture exists in violation of human rights, the action is completely anti-Israel and antiSemitic, because Israel is issued special treatment. Ben Weinthals piece does not explain what Pax Christi is. However, Kevin Zdiara writing in Y-Net News gives some background about this organization and their growing anti-Israelism. He notes, the German chapter of the Catholic NGO Pax Christi took up this call for a boycott of Israeli goods. The difference this time is that the group does not represents some radical elements from the Left, but rather, is closely tied to the Catholic Church and is national in scope. To boost their credentials they got an endorsement from the mayor of Jena, Albrecht Schrter, who was awarded a civil courage prize for his activities against neo-Nazism and anti-Semitism. He is also the first mayor of a bigger city and high-ranking member of the Social Democratic Party to support such campaign. Nonetheless, Schrter has been known for his anti-Israel activities, including the participation in a rally against the security barrier in Beit Jala in 2008. Although the campaign is clearly crossing the lines into modern anti-Semitism, Schrter has claimed that he cant be an anti-Semite because of his political activities and because of the support of Jewish and Israeli friends. In his most recent defense he even claims that he has been and will remain a friend of Israel. But it is telling that he only talks about Israeli crimes while remaining mute on Hamas rockets and grave human rights violations perpetrated by the Palestinian Authority. Someone like Schrter is emblematic of the new anti-Semitism in Germany. It comes with a smile and claims to only care for human rights. It is a new form of the old hatred for the Jews because its advocates truly care about the remembrance of the Shoah, are active against neo-Nazism and are sympathetic to the small Jewish life in todays Germany. On the other hand, they completely lack compassion for Israels fight for its survival and see it as the devil in the Middle East. As the 2011 poll revealed, they consider Israel the Nazis of today, conducting some kind of genocide against the Palestinian people. They demonize Israel, use double standards against it and thereby delegitimize the only Jewish state in the world. This moral remodeling of anti-Semitism makes it much harder for friends of Israel to oppose this anti-Semitism. It is obvious that some of the barriers to anti-Semitic and anti-Israel speech are down. It remains to be seen whether the nastiness will increase. My guess is that it will and if it does it may find its way into government policy. As long as the

submarines keep coming and the German government continues to support Israel in the UN and the EU we are not at a danger point. However, if policy begins to change then we will have something much more troubling to worry about. JEWISH BERLIN Almost every city in Germany has a long Jewish history. Jews have resided there since the 4th Century. Both Reform and Conservative Judaism have roots in Germany so there is much Jewish history wherever you turn. However, because of the Nazi era almost all of the contemporary Jewish life and culture was erased. If youve been reading this newsletter you already know that there are many Jews now living in Berlin and, importantly beginning in 1945 and especially since the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, a Jewish renaissance has also emerged especially in Berlin. Ricarda Otte, who may or may not be Jewish, recently wrote in DW, I'm slightly stunned and embarrassed as I start my walk through Jewish Berlin: I've just noticed that the only certified kosher bakery in town is just a few steps from my front door - and I didn't even know about it. The Kdtler Bakery has been producing kosher products in Berlin's Prenzlauer Berg district since 2002. All of the breads and most of the cakes are kosher, labeled with a menorah. In this case, kosher means organic at its purest. The products are baked with only natural ingredients, and are completely vegan with the exception of eggs. Just a third of the customers are Jewish, the rest are vegans and those who are careful about what they eat. Rabbinical students and Rabbis visit the store on Mondays and Fridays to symbolically light the oven and check that the Jewish dietary laws are observed. The baker himself, however, is a Protestant. After enjoying a kosher bun, I head to Berlin's oldest Jewish cemetery in the Schnhauser Allee. It was inaugurated in 1827, then situated between open fields. Today, it is located in the middle of the city and a high wall secludes it from the surrounding apartment blocks. A cluster of ivy, maple, fern, chestnut and beech trees create the green haven that encloses the overgrown grave stones. There were 22,500 individual and 750 family graves at the cemetery until it was closed in 1880. The most famous belonged to painter Max Liebermann's family. You could spend many hours in this cemetery, but if you want an overview of some of site's most famous monuments, it might be best to consult "Jewish Life," a special cultural map of Jewish Berlin by Bill Rebinger's.

Anyone who sets out to trace Berlin's Jewish life can't overlook the Stolpersteine, or stumbling stones. These small brass plaques are embedded in the sidewalk in front of the former homes of victims of Nazi terror. The names of the victims are engraved on each plaque. The project, initially conceived as a local monument by Berlin artist Gunter Demnig, is now Europe wide. In Berlin alone, more than 3,500 such stones can be found on the city's streets. The abandoned space Berlin's renowned Mitte district has no shortage of impressive monuments. On Koppenplatz, I come across another monument to Nazi victims, "Der verlassene Raum" or "The Abandoned Space." It features a table and two chairs on a parquet floor, where one of the chairs is overturned and lying on the ground as if someone jumped up to leave in a hurry. On the floor there is an inscription from a verse by the Nobel Literature Prize laureate Nelly Sachs, a Jewish poet forced to leave Germany in 1940. A bite to eat If you are looking for something to eat around lunch time, there are two typical Berlin Jewish restaurants just a few meters away from each other. In Tucholskystrasse, the renowned Beth Caf offers excellent coffee and Israeli and Jewish specialties all kosher. Just a few doors away in August Strasse, the newly established Mogg & Melzer is already famous for its pastrami sandwiches, although the non-kosher menu features all the classics of New York Jewish cuisine. The new caf is found in the newly-opened building that once housed a Jewish girls' school. This heritage-listed building dates from 1928, and belongs to Berlin's Jewish community, which had looked for an economically viable concept for the structure for some time. The community then found Michael Fuchs, a gallery owner and a tenant willing to invest 5 million euros ($6.2 million) in the striking building to rescue it from dilapidation. Today, alongside Fuchs' gallery, the complex also houses several fine restaurants. The concept seems to work: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Julian Schnabel are just a few of the guests who have frequented the establishment. Michael Fuchs has secured one of the most beautiful areas for his gallery - the school's former assembly hall, which features large windows on both sides. The Jewish community gave the gallery owner a free hand to do what he wished with the site. When asked how his concept integrated into Jewish life in Berlin, Fuchs simply said, "This all came naturally," adding that he respected that "almost every corner of Berlin is kind of historic." So when the visitor leaves the deli with a pastrami

sandwich in hand, they will find themselves directly in front of a wall of photos that show the history of the remarkable building. Weekly ceremony At the back of the former Jewish girls' school is the one-time biology room, known today as the "kosher classroom," where each Friday anyone can enjoy the traditional Shabbat dinner. Guests, particularly non-Jews, are encouraged to join and partake in a four-course kosher meal, as well as the traditional lighting of the candles, the wine and bread blessing and the washing of the hands. While I dont usually include travel pieces in DD, I thought this one gave off the genuine flavor of what one finds in Jewish Berlin. Of course there are negative things and negative people in the capital city as well. However, you have to go far and wide to get the kind of Jewish feeling one gets in the capital city. One thing Ms. Otte did not mention and that is Jewish religious life. There are 11 operational synagogues in Berlin ranging from very Orthodox to Liberal. Stop in at one on a Friday night to get a more rounded picture of Jewish life in this fascinating city. THE SUBMARINES RAISE A DEEPER QUESTION NOW SURFACED. I have been writing about the German sale of submarines to Israel for at least a year maybe longer. Actually, the providing of subs has been going on for 4 or 5 years. One would think that almost everybody in the Federal Republic at one time or another has seen an article or articles in their local media on the subject. So, who could believe that only a few weeks ago the renown Der Spiegel ran a story where it revealed that the subs in question could actually be equipped with nuclear weapons? I wrote in my last Germany Edition, It was pretty obvious right from the beginning that the subs stood to be Israels second strike offensive weapon should an attack on Iran be deemed necessary. It was equally obvious that while Germany was not building the subs with nuclear capacity they would be quickly converted once they were in Israeli hands. After all, what did Israel need subs that only had regular torpedoes or machine guns? So, I was quite surprised when a raft of articles started to appear this past week unveiling the great secret that the subs had nuclear capacity. If this was a secret, it was the worst kept secret in the history of secrecy. If there was any surprise it was that this non-secret all of a sudden became a media sensation. Of course, the subs have nuclear capacity. They would be useless otherwise.

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So, how come it became a big new story? According to Ben Weinthal of The Jerusalem Post (who I quote frequently because he likes to raise issues), The popular pro-Israel German Blogger Lizas Welt tweeted that the Der Spiegel must have right now a real problem with circulation O.K., we all agree. The secret was no secret after all. However, Ben raised a deeper question (deeper actually than a sub can go) about the commitment of Germany to Israel. He wrote after considering the public discussion on the sub secrecy issue, My take is the robust discussion about Germanys commitment to Israels security is an encouraging sign. The lively debate forces lines to be drawn in the sand about the definition and implementation of Chancellor Angela Merkels rhetoric, particularly in terms of Irans jingoistic clerical regime and its burning desire to build nuclear arms to destabilize the Mideast. Rewind to 2008 in the Israels Knesset. Chancellor Merkel said, For me as German Chancellor, therefore, Israel's security will never be open to negotiation. And that being the case, we must do more than pay lip-service to this commitment at this critical point. Fast forward to last weeks mass circulation German Bild interview with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu: I take her commitment to Israel very seriously. There is a commitment to Israels security that is exemplified by the recent sale of another German submarine, an important adjunct to our national security, so I believe this is all real and tangible. There is cause for optimism. According to a March article in the conservative Frankfurter AllgemeineZeitung, also known as the FAZ, Israels defense minister Ehud Barak convinced the Germans to fulfill aspects of their pledge to champion Israel's security. The FAZ piece reported that the Merkel administration will "immediately" support Israel and provide rocket-defense systems and specialized personnel if requested by Israel in order to bolster its defenses during a conflict with the Iranian Islamic Republic. The real litmus test, however, for a mature German foreign policy would be to follow the lead of the United States, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and place the military option on the table to compel the Islamic Republic to abandon its nuclear weapons work. In part two of the Bild interview, Mr. Netanyahu said, Israel in many ways is the beginning of Europe and the forces of militant Islam that are crashing against us are ultimately directed against you. Will Germany internalize the message that Iran is the greatest threat to Europe in particular and international security in general?

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I commend Ben for posing this important question in a much better way than I could (Hes a real writer, not a scribbler like me). I dont think there is any chance that given Germanys pacifist leanings they would ever place the military option on the table. Im sure he knows that. However, short of that there is much that can be done especially before any shooting breaks out. Germany can do more economically in its dealings with Iran to help make sure that we that we do not come to that point. Sanctions and severe economic pressure plus convincing its own population of the danger that Iran poses is probably worth a lot more than a couple of submarines. No shooting but lots of pre and post support are what is needed. IT IS, INDEED, A PROBLEM In the June 3rd edition I wrote the following, Up until a few years ago the Islamic population of Germany was made up of Turks who were very far from being Salafist and radical. Newer elements from elsewhere have become more vocal and at times violent in their demonstrations. I do not think it is as yet a major problem but it certainly is one that gets considerable publicity. The BfV seems to be on top of the situation. It didnt take long for the German authorities to conclude that the Salafists, indeed, were a major problem, and so According to The Local.de, The discovery of a fake suicide vest at a Berlin flat used by an extremist Salafist Islamist rapper prompted raids of around 70 addresses across the country by more than 1,000 police officers. The vest is a further sign of the organisation's underlying aggression," said documents from the interior ministry seen by AFP. The Berliner Zeitung reported that the vest was found in the flat of former rapper and Salafist convert - formerly called Denis Cuspert but now known as Abu Talha alAlmani. He is considered one of the most effective preachers and propagandist of militant Jihad in Germany. Officers also found audio and video messages in which the now banned Millatu Ibrahim network proclaimed war against democracy and threatened "unbelievers". Around 1,000 police officers were deployed in raids on radical Salafist Islamist groups across Germany, with reports suggesting around 70 addresses were targeted in seven states. Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich banned the Solingen-based Salafist mosque network Millatu Ibrahim - where the vest was found at the same time. "This association is against our constitutional order and against the philosophy of

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understanding between nations," he said on Thursday morning. "I believe this shows that a constitutional democracy is capable of responding to those who want to eliminate freedom and democracy," Friedrich said. Salafism is considered the fastest-growing branch of Islam in Germany and is considered radical, and even dangerous, for its fundamental views. Believers want a theocracy governed by Sharia or Islamic religious law. Finding a vest might not seem to be sufficient evidence for the Interior Ministry to put together a countrywide raid. It might ruffle the feathers of those of us who are sensitive about civil rights. However, we should keep in mind that Germany is not the U.S. and their history of not dealing with extremism gave them 12 years of Nazism and, perhaps, 1000 years of guilt. Given those facts I think we should try to be understanding in this case. **************************************************************************************** Thats it! See you again in July. DuBow Digest is written and published by Eugene DuBow who can be contacted by clicking here Both the American and Germany editions are posted at www.dubowdigest.typepad.com Click here to connect

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