Journalist Robin Alexander for The Welt tweeted it is ”crass” the Adenauer Foundation compared Israel’s separation wall with the Berlin Wall, and said the parallel is completely wrong.Alexander Brakel, the head of the Adenauer Foundation in Jerusalem, wrote the Post by email. He said the Facebook post was not generated by the Adenauer office in Israel and said there “was no intention to compare Israel’s security fence with the Berlin Wall.” He apologized for the false impression the comparison made.A Post email media query to the Adenauer Foundation in Berlin was not immediately returned. According to the website of the Foreign Ministry, the number of Palestinian terror attacks in Israel dropped significantly after the separation barrier was completed.“Statistical data indicates a 30% drop in the number of terrorist attacks that took place in 2003 compared to 2002. Similarly, there has been a 50% decrease in the number of victims murdered by terrorists in 2003 compared to the previous year,” wrote the ministry.The ministry noted, “There were 17 suicide bomber attacks inside Israel that emanated from the northern part (Samaria) of the West Bank during the months April-December 2002. In contrast, since construction began on the anti-terrorist fence, throughout all of 2003 only 5 suicide bomber attacks emanated from the same area.”Zuroff said Adenauer’s comparison reminds him of why many Germans have learned the wrong the lessons from the Holocaust. “Instead of saying ,‘no more unjust wars,’ they say, ‘no more wars.’” He said it was the same message regarding walls. They can’t differentiate from “walls that are legitimate and that save lives, and other walls that may be problematic,” said Zuroff. The Israeli separation wall is not infringing on human rights, he said.Die Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung assoziiert den vermeintlich antifaschistischen Schutzwall der DDR mit dem real existierenden antifaschistischen Schutzwall Israels. Der Unterschied, @KASonline, ist: Israel verteidigt sich vor den Vernichtungswünschen tausender Antisemiten. pic.twitter.com/c9behRM2p5
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