Thoughts on Gentile Visitors to Israel, Germans

There are a ton of gentile tourists in Israel. In my youth hostel room in Tel Aviv, I was staying with a blond American from North Carolina, a German and a Dutch UN peacekeeper of Colombian extraction. The American and the German were studying Arabic in Ramallah. The German had lived in Israel for a year and spoke great Hebrew. When I enterred the room, I stumbled in on a conversation where the Dutchman asked the German if he ever felt any animosity from Israelis because he is German. He said no. The Dutchman proceeded to ask about education in Germany, how the Holocaust was dealt with, etc. The German, as is standard German proceduce, kept on emphasizing how Germans hate Nazis, how they are taught extensively about the period, and how removed he is from the past. I didn't get any sense of his views on Israel though. I interjected into the conversation to recommend the film "Walk on Water." The nagging thought running through my mind was "it's all well and good to repudiate your Nazi past, but do you hate Israel? And if you, have you really repudiated that past at all?"