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June 8, 2009       Share:    

Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e469701e-5232-11de-b986-00144feabdc0.html

Obama Visits Buchenwald, Calls for Arab States to Open Ties with Israel

[Financial Times-UK] Chris Bryant and Tobias Buck - President Obama Friday called on Arab states to show willingness to set up diplomatic and commercial ties with Israel in return for "tough commitments" from the Jewish state, ahead of a poignant visit to the former Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. "I will not forget about what I have seen here," the president said, referring to the ovens, barracks and barbed wire. "To this day there are those who insist that the Holocaust never happened, a denial of fact and truth that is baseless and ignorant and hateful." Obama told NBC News that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, should also visit the camp. "I have no patience for people who would deny history."

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