Israel is waiting for its Holocaust survivors to die

This puts a different light on recent Israeli complaints about German failure to pay pensions to former ghetto workers. Just trying to save Israeli funds. It needs to be remembered that despite what President Obama dutifully recited, were it not for the Holocaust, the suffering and death of millions, of whom the handful of remaining survivors are the representatives, there would be no Israel. No amount of propaganda can change that hard fact.

I agree with the article's description of the shabby treatment of Holocaust survivors by the Israeli government. My parents, both Auschwitz survivors were denied reparation payments from Germany because they decided to leave Israel in the mid 1950's to emigrate to the US. Golda Meir declared that if you left Israel, Israel would take your reparations. This was a malicious act of denying survivors their right to reparation payments. Both of my parents are gone now, but as much as I love and support the state of Israel, I will never forgive them for their disdain and shabby treatment of people who went through the fires of hell and survived.

Here in Isreal, Holocaust survivors tell us the horrors they have been through, what was at stake, what they hoped for. Their stories, have been told here since Israel was born. Their stories, provided us steel in our spine, gave us motivation to defend ourselves, to never make it happen again. even if some of them are not in this world, they will always stay in our hearts and minds. Our government should stop funding the Haredim Jews which bring no good to this country, only extreme religious BS, and make the middle class in Israel tax payement sky-high for no good reason. I prefer to fight untill my last blood for the Holocaust survivors who live to live in comfort, and give them all the support they need rather then supporting the Haredim extremists. By the way the Haredim Jews probably won't be in the next coalition (Shas), instead of them the secular party (Yesh Atid) will be in the new coalition instead of them. Hopefully to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to bring Equality to Jews and non-Jews in Israel as well. If the current government and the next won't change its attitude towards the Holocaust survivors, we will loose our values and we will forget where we came from, and our debt to them will never be repayed.

Stopped building Holocaust museums would help. Also, continually redefining "holocaust survivor" has greatly increased the number of persons eligible for payment.

If this article is true it is beyond shameful. Israel is always bringing up the Holocaust to shame others. I don't understand. I also see many ads asking to support Israel's poor. The State of Israel appears to be prosperous according to news reports, why can't the country take care of it's own? Isn't this a Jewish value?

These survivors, my parents were among them, are a living reminder of that which many of us would rather forget. We and the State of Israel owe these people a debt we can never hope to repay and an old age with all the respect they are due. This shameful.

How shameful & hypocritical this attitude in Israel ! We should not be surprised of the opinion that the non-jews have of us. I share it.