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=== Unsafe or illegal abortions ===
'''Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding''' is a 2020 book by Daniel Marwecki covering seven decades of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany after [[World War II]]. The book covers the [[1952 reparations agreement]], the growing cooperation between the countries before the [[Six Day War]] in 1967, and [[Konrad Adenauer]]'s ''[[Vergangenheitspolitik]]'' ("policy for dealing with the past") to gain Israeli recognition for the official position of Germany that [[West Germany]] represented a clean break from [[Nazi Germany]]. This included Israel's cooperation in not criticizing the "wall of silence" that was constructed around the Nazi period, including the integration of ex-Nazi's into political offices.<ref name=Stauber>{{cite journal |last1=Stauber |first1=Roni |title=Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding by Daniel Marwecki (review) |date=2022 |journal=AJS Review: The Journal of the Association for Jewish Studies |volume=46 |issue=1 |pages=218-220 |doi=10.1353/ajs.2022.0038 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/851732}}</ref>
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==== Deaths of women ====
The controversial thesis of the book is that Germany's material support for the fledging Israeli state was offered in exchange for the whitewashing of its Nazi past.<ref name=devita>{{cite journal |last1=De Vita |first1=Lorena |title=Germany and Israel: White Washing and State Building by Daniel Marwecki |date=2022|journal=German Studies Reivew |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=190-192 |doi=10.1353/gsr.2022.0015 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/847646}}</ref> Marwecki characterizes the diplomacy between the two countries as rational and morally nihilistic, based on Israel exchanging a post-Holocaust "whitewashing" and normalization of Germany's international standing for military and economic assistance in support of its statebuilding project, noting the differences in the terminology used by the countries to describe the 1952 reparations agreement (Israel called it ''Shilumim'', a debt paid but unforgiven, while Germany used the term ''Wiedergutmachungsabkommen'' meaning 'to make good again').<ref name=Stauber/><ref name=Sullivan>{{cite journal |last1=Sullivan |first1=Rory |title=Germany and Israel: Whitewashing and Statebuilding |journal=Asian Affairs |date=2020 |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=698-701 |doi=10.1080/03068374.2020.1794589 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03068374.2020.1794589}}</ref> Marwecki says that Germany acted in its own sovereign interest and "never assumed the role of the penitent".<ref name=Sullivan/>
Links to include:
* [[Becky Bell]], an American teenage girl who died as a result of an [[unsafe abortion]] in 1988.
* [[Rosie Jimenez]], an American woman who was the first recorded death due to an unsafe abortion after federal Medicaid funds for abortions were removed by the Hyde Amendment in 1977.
* [[Gerri Santoro]], an American woman who died because of an unsafe abortion in 1964.


Some scholars have disagreed with Marwecki's characterization of Adenauer's support for Israel. Roni Stauber notes that Israeli historian [[Yeshayahu Jelínek]] "emphasized Adenauer's complex motivations". Agreeing with Jelinek, Stauber says that [[realpolitik]] alone "cannot explain the extraordinary decisions that Adenauer made in 1960 to provide military and financial support to Israel".<ref name=Stauber/> Lorena De Vita notes that a growing body of work on German-Israeli relations undercuts the author's claim of "academic negligence".<ref name=devita/>


==== Criminal convictions =====
Marwecki's book includes discussion of closer ties with unified Germany including [[Angela Merkel]]'s 2008 declaration in the [[Knesset]] that Germany had a "special historical responsibility for Israel's security" as part of its [[Staatsräson]].<ref name=Sullivan/>


[[Gerardo Flores (murderer)|Gerardo Flores]], convicted in 2005 on two counts of capital murder for giving his girlfriend, who was carrying twins, an at-home abortion.
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Revision as of 10:33, 26 July 2024

Unsafe or illegal abortions

Deaths of women

Links to include:

  • Becky Bell, an American teenage girl who died as a result of an unsafe abortion in 1988.
  • Rosie Jimenez, an American woman who was the first recorded death due to an unsafe abortion after federal Medicaid funds for abortions were removed by the Hyde Amendment in 1977.
  • Gerri Santoro, an American woman who died because of an unsafe abortion in 1964.


Criminal convictions =

Gerardo Flores, convicted in 2005 on two counts of capital murder for giving his girlfriend, who was carrying twins, an at-home abortion.