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Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė Completes Official Visit to Israel
Posted on
22 October 2015
by
Defending History
LITHUANIA TRIBUNE / DELFI
;
JERUSALEM POST
Hopes Dashed She Would Announce Cancellation of
“Vilnius Convention Center in the Old Jewish Cemetery”
and Promise to
Remove Public Memorials for Holocaust Collaborators
Leading international NGO dedicated to Jewish cemetery preservation
appealed directly to Lithuania’s president after her moving visit to Yad Vashem
(in
Matzav.com
)
President
intimated to questioner that neo-Nazi marches in major cities don’t use Nazi symbols
. Is the swastika (
legalized in Lithuania in 2010
) a Nazi symbol? See eyewitness
reports and photos of recent years’ marches
. But does the president
sing a different tune to local journalists
?
ISRAELI HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS AND THEIR FAMILIES HOPED ISRAEL WOULD POLITELY BRING UP
THE URGENT NEED FOR APOLOGIES TO DEFAMED SURVIVORS AND PARTISAN HEROES
, INCLUDING THREE OF ITS OWN CITIZENS:
YITZHAK ARAD;
JOSEPH MELAMED;
AND
RACHEL MARGOLIS
(1921-2015)
SEVEN AREAS OF LITHUANIAN-JEWISH RELATIONS REQUIRING OPEN DISCUSSION, NOT SWEEPING UNDER THE CARPET
SHE BROUGHT ALONG ECONOMY MINISTER: DID ANY
JOURNALIST ASK HIM IF COUNTRY’S TOP ANTISEMITIC, RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC BLOG-ARTIST IS STILL HIGH OFFICIAL AT THE MINISTRY
? (
SAMPLES
)
EDITOR’S COMMENT ON EVE OF PRESIDENT’S VISIT
ISRAEL ISSUES PAGE
ISRAEL SECTION
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