He added he planned to hold a call with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week to tell him “to not overdo it,” though for “historical reasons,” Germany would always be more guarded in its criticism than some European partners.
“But if lines are crossed, where international humanitarian law is really being violated, then Germany, the German chancellor, must also say something about it,” Merz said.
“No longer justified”, “don’t overdo it”, “IF lines are crossed”!
Please tell me it’s not only the pro-Palestine protesters in Germany who find this language absurd.
I spent a weekend dealing with a couple of Germans and I must say that in some things there is some kind of mental barrier and some kind of guilt pride that got smeared in my face more than once in 2 days, but we really need you to be better than this and I want to have faith you can be.
(There were also Israelis, but I stopped talking to them the second they introduced themselves as such.)
German brains started malfunctioning as soon as you criticize Israel’s actions, and they easily end up justifying Nazi atrocities, in support of Israel. Kinda explains those past Nazi rallies where people from all walks of life were chanting Heil.
It got worse, if possible.
At some point I got in an elevator with them and one of them was judging me for getting in the elevator skipping one person in the queue (to my defense Romero’s zombies move faster) and even the position I took in the elevator which was “not efficient”.
Jokingly, I commented of all that sounding “so German” and immediately him and his colleague started saying “oh the Italian now will start saying…” and then bursted in the most chilling collection of German=Nazi stereotypes I ever heard.
I could only stare at them and wait for the elevator to end its run.
In some minds “Never again” means “We must never do what we did in WW2 again”. It should mean “We can never allow what we did in WW2 to happen again”.
Beautifully said. Saving the comment.
It is absurd, and complicit at this point. I think most people who are informed about what’s happening in Gaza would agree on this. But it’s not much of a topic in public discourse here and quite a few people still believe that the IDF is fighting against terrorists, so there’s not enough pressure against this. Especially amongst the conservatives.