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Source: http://www.jcpa.org/israel-europe/ier-gerster-05.htm
Confronting European-Israeli Misunderstandings
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Interview with Dr. Johannes Gerster - The Islamic fundamentalists view Christianity as too secularist and weak to be counted as a religious power. It is Western democracy they consider as a threat to the Islamic fundamentalist culture. Many Europeans do not realize that the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians is part of this larger battle. A democracy located in the Arab world is a thorn in its side. Radicals are like wolves. The first prey that stills the initial hunger does not satiate them; on the contrary, it makes them more hungry. Dr. Gerster, the representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Israel from 1997 to 2005, was president of the German-Israeli parliamentarian group in the Bundestag and has been working for improved Israeli-German relations for forty years.