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Article: ATTACK ON AUSTRIA
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- Jerusalem Post
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- August 3, 1995
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David Rubinger
Jerusalem Post
08-03-1995
Sir, - As an Israeli born in Vienna, Austria, who has lived and fought here for over fifty years, I take strong objection to Ms. Miriam Ben-Shalom's attack (The Jerusalem Post, July 25) on the visit of Austria's Secretary of State to the Orient House.
Ms. Ben-Shalom is entitled to her opinion that all foreign visitors should be prohibited to set foot into that building. But to single out the Austrian government and wrap a purely political problem with the Holocaust demeans the issue - or worse - demeans the Holocaust.
Where was Ms. Ben-Shalom when the Austrian government was the only one in Europe to actively help us with what ...