But it is not in fact as a “bridge-builder” between Israelis and Palestinians that Felicia Langer is known in Germany, but rather as a ferocious critic of Israel who does not hesitate to draw parallels not only between Israel and the South Africa of the apartheid era, but indeed, if somewhat more coyly, between Israel and Nazi Germany. She has, among other things, called for war-crimes trials against Israeli leaders, dismissed Palestinian suicide bombings as the product of “suicidal desperation,” endorsed the charge that Israelis were behaving like a “master race,” and insisted that Germany is somehow obligated by its history to “intervene” in the Middle East conflict…on behalf of the Palestinians. http://www.newmajority.com/a-german-medal-for-an-israel-basher/