Ursula von der Leyen knows that the EU’s reputation as a credible actor for human rights and international law is in tatters over the horrors in Gaza. EU leaders and officials have gone from privately condemning the EU’s double standards behind closed doors to publicly lamenting them. Instead of tackling these double standards however, the […]
    • NotAnonymousAtAllEnglish
      82·
      1 day ago

      Germany will never do anything about Israel

      True.

      because they would hate to stop another country doing a genocide.

      In the 1990s Germany sent troops to Serbia to stop a genocide. That was the first German military mission on foreign soil after WW2 (excluding missions where the German military just provided disaster relief on foreign soil).

      Germany decided a long time ago that supporting Israel to a near-unconditional degree is part of the state interest of Germany, as penance for the holocaust. No politician smart and ambitious enough to get into a position of power would dare challenge that, because it carries a big risk of being branded as antisemitic without any serious potential political gain.

      Edit: Mods, should I delete this because it quotes what was probably the reason for deleting the post I answered to?

      • federal reverseMEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        Mods, should I delete this because it quotes what was probably the reason for deleting the post I answered to?

        Nah, it’s fine to quote deleted/offensive/shit-take posts in order to debunk them. (However, IANAL, so legally YMMV.)

    • ZacryonEnglish
      31·
      1 day ago

      Yes, yes. Germans bad Nazis. As always. We got it. Why think about why Germany deals with it that way if you can just put the good old “genocidal Nazis” label back on? /s