When questioned about the Left Party foreign policy spokesman MP Norman Paech, who favors a nuclear-armed Iran and compares Israel with Nazi Germany, Niebel said, “The problem with the Left Party is that, in the East German tradition, they camouflaged their anti-Semitism as anti-Zionism over the decades. They always said, ‘We have nothing against Jews, but the evil Zionists…’ And this thinking, of course, is still part of the Left faction’s foreign policy. An exception is someone like Gregor Gysi, for example, who of course sees things very differently because of his own background.” http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017499165&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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http://www.israelnetz.com/themen/nachrichten/artikel-nachrichten/datum/2008/10/10/dirk-niebel-hisbollah-verbieten/