Tel Aviv – An overwhelming majority of Israelis still find it impossible to forgive Germany for the Holocaust, in which the Nazi regime killed 6 million Jews, according to an opinion polls published Sunday.
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Asked if “65 years after the Holocaust took place in Europe, is it time to forgive the German people and Germany for crimes committed in the Holocaust?” some 51 per cent said they totally disagreed with the sentiment.
Another 19 per cent they disagreed somewhat.
Only 23 per cent said they were willing to forgive, and seven per cent said they had no opinion.
According to the survey, the older the respondents, the more likely they were to forgive Germany. Secular Jews were also more forgiving than their religious counterparts.
The survey, conducted by the Geocatrographia Institute, on behalf of the Centre for Academic Studies, interviewed 500 men and women over the age of 18, a representative sample of the Jewish population in Israel.
And why should we?! Cuz it’s the nice Jewish thing to do?? Well, news flash, I don’t forgive any of the sadistic murderers (the Catholic church included) that killed us, hounded us, raped us, & tortured us, for the past 2000 years.
Willing to forgive the beasts who tortured and murdered my grandparents……? Willing to forgive the beasts who destroyed a most beautiful people….? Willing to forgive the people who stole the identity of those who think they are OK with the Germans? Our people have lost their connection to their previous generations. Most of us have no idea who we come from and who we are. All of this and much more because of beasts who emerged from a country which has practiced thousands of years of anti-semitism. Anyone with historical knowledge and a sense of self will never ever forgive!!!
Furthermore, the German beasts have the chutzpah to be involved in the peace process , saying yay or nay. The bloody Germans should just pay the reparations they promised, and not cut them. And then just shut up!
we pray each and every year in our high holly days NEKOIM L’EINEINY NIKMAS DOM AVUDAYCHU HASHUFICH
Number 6 you are right but only those like and many don’t say that. The disgrace in the Claim Conference debacle in N.Y.C. is now an article in the magazine Der. Spiegel the most prominent news magazine in Germany and the ganovim are clearly by name and the risdency Brighton Beach N.Y. This is a defamation of the kedoshim and a stain
I don’t think the nazis are still a significant force in Germany today any more than here in the USA. If these people are not the same people who killed us and are making overt strides to befriend us then what do we gain by holding the sins of their predecessors against them?
and what about the rest that do?
Interesting survey. The older generations that were most affected by the Holocaust than the younger generations are willing to forgive and it is true. I have interviewed Holocaust survivors some that even visited Germany and they say that they don’t hold the current generations of Germans responsible for their grandparents’ actions. I was always moved by that attitude.
Perhaps younger generations of Israelis are very attached to the Holocaust because it is such a central issue to existence of modern Israel. Holocaust is an ingrained topic from the day an Israeli enters a school to the day they join the IDF.
Secular Jews tend to be more rational than religious Jews so that’s an explanation why they are more likely to forgive. Religious people have an ingrained negative bias towards anything “goyim” and how they hate the Jews throughout the ages.
Secular Jews will apply logic that a current generation of people had no control over the past. This survey should be done in the U.S. as well.
What you all don’t know is how many Nazi & Terrorist training groups there are in the USA!!!! Out in the Midwest & South there are a multitude of training camps ! Just google the word Nazi & you will see what springs up at you. Just be prepared, it is quite brutal!!
forgive!!! after they watch their children get murdered! after they live in the shadow of death, and dying from hunger, seeing death at every corner, knowing the smokestack there is your beloved family, after they all test the inferno they can come ask for forgiveness and then ill just send them all to hell. those ……………
To #14 -GB Jew-I was in EY, and I was in a taxi driven by an Israeli combat veteran. The taxi was a Mercedes-Benz. So what; the Mercedes is a very well built car. There are also Israelis who live in Germany. Are we supposed to condemn them also? Should we not drive Japanese made cars, also? Germany sells Israel tanks; is the IDF not supposed to use their tanks? Please!
Forgive to the “German people”, present-day “German people”? I don’t feel there’s something to forgive. A German child born after ww2 is not responsible for what their ancestors did. I wish them a happy and fulfilling life, a good educational experience with regards to their nation’s past, but above all, rising above that and leading a good life far away from harmful ideologies. I wish no evil to anyone whatsoever for being German.
Forgive to the actual Nazis, people who actually committed atrocities or knew about them when the others were committing them and were silent? No. Some things are beyond forgiveness.