Sonntag, 20. Juni 2010
Niebelungen
The current german Minister of Economic Cooperation and Development, Dirk Niebel (FDP, liberal party), was not allowed to visit the Gaza strip (telepolis, german).

I wonder if this has to do with the secret service agent who recently was arrested in Poland (spiegel, german). German court demands extradition. It seems like he helped another agent to obtain a german passport. The delicate thing: he claimed to have been persecuted during the third reich.

I find it interesting that Niebel lived for one year in a Kibbutz in Israel.

update: It seems like in the last time no higher foreign politician was allowed to visit Gaza and Niebel probabily was aware of it. (s1, s0)

update2: European politicians invited to visit Gaza (spiegel, german)

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