Even well known facts can make the headlines. It happened twice last week: In Tehran Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s contesting the obvious, namely the existence of the Holocaust, brought about international condemnation; in Berlin Israeli PM Olmert’s admitting what everybody had already known, Israel's nuclear capacity, made a big fuss at home and abroad.

Iran’s openness about its willingness to gain nuclear capacity to change the future of the Jewish State, coupled with its attempts to rewrite the Jewish people’s history, are always embarrassing for Germans in particular.
The political burden of history is heavy enough, and is only exacerbated when an Israeli PM comes over for a short visit. No wonder then that leading lawmakers of the ruling Christian Democratic party (CDU) competed with their partners to the Grand Coalition, the Social Democrats (SPD) in clarifying again the ongoing commitment of Germany to the security of Israel and to the memory of the Holocaust.

Mr. Olmert’s slip of the tongue, mentioning Israel as one of the world’s nuclear powers, occurred in an interview to a German TV program. But it caused a commotion in the hosting country only after Israel’s Channel Two signalled out at home the acknowledgement of the bomb as a possible change in the Israeli policy of nuclear ambiguity.
German media quickly followed suit, and then Mr. Olmert was challenged on his own words, and the nuclear attention was shifted from Iran to Israel, much to the dismay of the Israeli delegation.

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