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Weizman Visit
Breaks Deadlock

Berlin (JTA) — Israeli President
Ezer Weizman, on a four-day vis-
it to Germany, said it was diffi
cult for him to be where he heard
"voices crying to me from the
earth" from the 6 million Jewish
victims of the Holocaust.
The trip is the Israeli presi-
dent's first to the reunited Ger-
many.
The visit broke a deadlock
over financing the $137.2 million
in annual pensions for East Eu-
ropean Jews that has lasted
since German Chancellor Hel-
mut Kohl promised both Israel
and Washington in 1989 to pay
them.
Under pressure because of the
visit, Mr. Kohl's coalition re-
portedly made it possible for Par-
liament to approve payment of
German pensions to 35,000 ag-
ing Jews from formerly Nazi-oc-
cupied Eastern Europe.
When Mr. Weizman spoke be-
fore the German Parliament, he
thanked Germany for helping Is-
rael and for fostering the peace
process. But he also said in his
remarks, which were in Hebrew,
that he could not forgive Ger-
many for the crimes of the Third
Reich.
He added that as president of
Israel, he could mourn and corn,
memorate the Jewish victims of
the Nazis, "but I cannot forgive
in their name."
"It is not easy for me to stand
here and speak to you, my
friends in this house," he said.
In his speech, Mr. Weizman
also called on Germans to com-
bat neo-Nazism and movements
of the radical right and said Is-
rael and Germany needed to
"find common ground" to im-
> prove ties.
The call to combat extremism
was echoed by parliamentary
speaker Ruth Sussmuth, who
also said to Mr. Weizman in her
welcoming speech, "You are vis-
iting a different, a democratic, a
European Germany that has
learned its lesson from hate and
/-• genocide, war and expulsion, and
is aware of its responsibility."
Earlier, Mr. Weizman pro-
voked the German Jewish com-
munity and its leaders when he
said soon after arriving here that
he could not "understand how
40,000 Jews could live" in the
land of the Holocaust.
;Th Mr. Weizman, who was speak-
ing at a round-table discussion
with young Germans, also said
that "the only place where a Jew
can be a Jew is Israel."
Ignatz Bubis, chairman of the
Central Council of Jews in Ger-
many, defended Jews' rights to
live here. "The Germany of today
is not the Germany of the Nazi
times," Mr. Bubis reportedly
said.

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