Berlin’s backing for Israel in the current context has irrevocably ruined Germany’s international standing.
At the same time, as a result of Germany’s neoliberal restructuring, processes of de-democratisation have been ongoing for years.
The deliberate erosion of democracy has paved the way not only for the selective application of international law, but also for the restriction of fundamental rights within Germany itself.
The German population is firmly against their country’s participation in the extermination of the Palestinian people. In a recent poll, 73 percent said they had a negative view of Israel, while 80 percent have rejected further weapons exports to Israel. Despite this, German arms export licenses to Israel have surged, enabling the state to continue committing war crimes.
While the German government’s blatant disregard for the will of its own people already points to a process of de-democratisation, this is exacerbated by domestic restrictions on fundamental rights, including freedom of assembly, freedom of opinion and speech, and academic freedom, alongside violations of due process - all in the service of the Zionist slaughterers.
Typical of the Merz government. Instead of any actual consequences for crimes against humanity, they prefer to suck up to Israel.
Merz is a tiny little coward.
Just as tiny as his little hair island. I’m sad that there is no legal way for the population to force him and his greedy and irresponsible cabinet to resign.
Put him in a little castle for prison, surround the castle with a moat guarded by well paid, trans, synchronized swimmers who get good quality healthcare and support for being employed to keep Merz at bay 24/7 in shifts while putting on beautiful routines for the crowd watching from the far embankment above.
Every square inch of the far embankment of the moat around Merz’s castle/prison must be covered with ethnic food stalls of every type imaginable, all wafting smells that as much as Merz wants to get a Xenophobic hard on from hating… kind of smell good… but Merz will only be fed a narrow diet of unseasoned boiled food in his prison. The prison will be self funding and be Merz’s most successful project as it transforms into a popular international tourist destination for people coming to “pay their respects” by laughing at the sad tiny man finally safe and supreme in his throne…
In this castle will also be a free (unless you are a white man, in which case you must apologize for being a white man to pay for your entrance) Tower of Terror-esque ride where it is rumored sometimes when the doors open on the hallway full of smoke, lasers and theatrical effect to deliver the thematic punch right before the coaster drops into freefall that you can spot the real monster through a real window pane, ugly and mundane sitting at a desk reading Mein Kempf, all alone.
what about the others, like Reiche, Spahn, Klingbeil, Dobrindt, …
And that castle sounds like a huge investment we lifestyle part-time jobber can’t possibly afford.
And a big a-hole
Don’t let the other parties get off this easily, it’s an elite project supported by the Greens, SPD, FDP, CDU and all major news organizations public or private.
Basically from the 17th of October 2023 onward it was a genocide, the intent had been made clear by multiple figures in the Israeli government and army, and it had been put into practice by indiscriminately bombing civilians and civilian infrastructure. The Ampel government was completely aware of this (any functioning country has departments whose job it is to know what is actually happening on the ground) and they decided to make this genocide Staatsräson.
This had nothing to do with Merz.
Nah, for the Greens it is a really mixed bag and hotly debated within the party. Like half of the people elected into office are against supporting Israel and the other half is for it.
That’s why knowing who you vote for specifically matters. It’s also reasons why I press my fellow Greens to not vote for candidates who ignore Israel’s crimes.
The more people within the party we have who hold Israel to the correct standards (not violating international law, not committing warcrimes and not violating human rights), the better it gets. It is not a lost cause.
The party as an institution is complicit in genocide, there might be historic reasons for this, there might be individuals within that are unhappy about it, but once an institution is complicit in genocide, it’s time to dismantle it.
Do you want to dismantle Russia, China, Serbia, Turkey, France, UK, Japan, Canada, US, etc. then?
Dismantling institutions isn’t going to do shit unless they are built upon genocidal ideology to begin with.
In cases like the Greens, you simply need reappraisal and atonement.
I hope you understand that countries and political parties are incommensurable.
As a voter you have the choice to boycott a party that is complicit in genocide, I would strongly argue you even have the moral duty to do so.
In Germany there are multiple parties, you can vote for another. In Germany you have the right to found new parties and passive suffrage. The Greens can be dismantled wholly within legal and democratic means.
and you have chosen Hamas over international law correct?
No. Fuck Hamas. But at this point the Israeli government and the IDF are no better. This stopped being defense like two months after Israel started it’s incursion into Gaza and began to resemble a genocide not even a year after.
Israel’s actions has shifted my opinion to supporting the Isratin solution.
Israel are murderes and nothing else. As a german i’m ashamed of my government!
I am a german and i am also ashamed. Fuck fascism. Fuck Netanjahu.
And AfD couldn’t be more happy about that…
No surprise here, they are criminals too. Embezzling funds meant for roads and infrastructure to fund pensions as well as being openly corrupt.
They’re just arseholes who have no real economic agenda except filling their own poket.
Germany is more than the current CDU government. Chancellor Merz is the most unpopular chancellor ever in the history of the federal republic.
The state’s commitment to the murderous Netanyahu regime outstrips its dedication to preserving democracy at home
That’s total bullshit.
Because it implies an actual dedication to preserve democracy. There is none. Like all “conservatives” they understand that they can either do at least some amount of reasonable policies for the people of work to undermine democracy to keep catering to their billionaire buddies. And like all “conservatives” they chose the latter and are (once again) planning for fascism and an authoritarian regime over democracy.
“Conservatives” as well as the alleged “centrists” only have one single playbook: Flood everything in populism and culture war and parrot far-right talking points to push far-right parties. Extort other parties to support them in the name of democracy (“or we have to -with a very sad face of course- cooperate with the far-right for majorities”). Cooperate with the far-right once they burned through every other partner stupid enough to play along. Look surprised when they get inevitably eaten up by the far-right after spending years brain-washing the population into believing that everything not on the very right side of the spectrum is dangerous radical left ideology.
So no. The German government is not at all sacrificing democracy because of their support for Israel. They are actively trying to destroy democracy to stay in power despite their insane governing against the people. Cozying up to other far-right movements like Israel’s insane pseudo-fascists and US’ MAGA is just a byproduct born of common interest and a united hatred for actual democracy.
and i thought that Auschwitz had ruined Germany’s international standing.
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Israel is antisemetic
It seems to me a whole lot of really smart, amazing jewish scholars over generations and generations of jews have established a pretty rigorous body of knowledge and wisdom about how to integrate as a potentially targeted minority into society and how to immunize that society against being manipulated into xenophobia and racism/religious discrimination.
What is happening in Gaza and the West Bank… and Lebanon… as confident as I am there are no words to describe what is happening, I am confident there is no god that would ever call for that in their name, I guess that is not a statement I can prove or disprove… but at the same time I feel entirely sure any god that would demand that would be an abomination… so what else can this genocide occurring be, other than first and foremost a betrayal of judaism at a basic level? An insult to god, whoever and whatever you identify god as?
If you think god is a many armed spaghetti ball floating in the ether and I think god is a giant spacecrab, we can disagree about a whole lot in how those two beliefs intersect in political and real world ways, but on the other hand it is pretty easy to establish that whether god is a many armed spaghetti ball or a giant spacecrab, god made the universe and thus doing something that feels needlessly violent and destructive clearly can’t be something god desires to be done, in general… Would the spaghetti ball really want you to do needless violence upon the spacecrab heretics even if they worship forbidden beliefs? Vice versa would the spacecrab desire their followers to obliterate followers of the flying spaghetti monster just because their path to worshiping god erred in the details?
What is happening now goes beyond any distinction between one human and another you can possibly draw, it goes beyond any single evil act anybody or anything could commit to deserve an equally evil response, it is an atrocity and it threatens to drag us into WW3 :(
Why is the german government doing this?
Isn’t it obvious? Because they feel they have a debt towards Jewish people and the state of Israel that can never be repaid
Overcompensation.
Because they don’t like brown people. Simple as.
Helping Israel kill brown people will make everybody see how bad the Jews really are: 4D nazism
Mostly money and intelligence sharing?
We’ll see show much those 73/80% really care in the next election.
Ireland has a high support for the Palestinian plight (in the seventies last time I checked), but it doesn’t transfer electorally. However our poll did not ask the same questions of course, so the two electorates are not exactly comparable.
21% for CDU/CSU in the polls. So that pretty much accounts for the other 20%.
The issue is that the left in Germany is completely unable to have the discussion about paying reparations for a genocide against the Jews and what that means when a Jewish state namely Israel is committing a genocide. Unfortunatly extremists on both ends tend to become violent about that.
You know better than me, but surely this is not a serial issue, where one part must be dealt with before the other? Saying we can’t stop a genocide until we have taken care of prior business seems absurd to me from any party.
Reparations and hard sanctions do not work well together.
For example;
Reparations: we will fund your hospitals and universities, we will give you preferential access to our services and goods.Sanctions: we will no longer offer you potential genocide supplies, military training or false-narrative complicity until you return all stolen land, prosecute settlers, begin reparations in Palestine, and define your fucking borders.
If that would work, then Hamas would have never done the October 7th attacks. As that is pretty close to what Germany did in the Gaza strip.
Even with weapon deliveries to Israel. Germany did stop those in late 2023 nearly fully silently, when the Gaza war became pretty bad and only restarted when the ceasefire was signed. There are also things like Germany being the single largest donor to the UNRWA to feed the people in Gaza. There are also EU sanctions against Israeli settlers and the like, which Germany does support.
There’s a German citizen, Albert Einstein, who would tell these politicians to get lost for supporting a bunch genocidal maniacs.
Speaking as a europhile, I am begrudgingly beginning to accept the EU project is cooked. We are being ruled by the billionaire Epstein-class whether we want to admit it or not. The voting public have the means to get rid of these tools and they have to go.
and for that, i am ashamed
Considering where the money is going, I wouldn’t feel bad about not ratting out a German for committing tax fraud.
Germany Will Defend Israel Against South Africa’s Gaza Genocide Claim at ICJ - Business Insider
Jan 13, 2024 is when the “social democrats” (=liberals) and greens in Germany became guilty of aiding the genocide in Gaza and became unelectable. No wonder that the conservatives are joining the fray. And the democratic socialists aren’t much better.
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