Berlin Gives Hypocrisy a Bad Name
After supporting a genocide, Germany’s leaders are lining up behind a war of aggression
Say what you will about Germany’s current “elites,” but they are consistent: Once they don’t give a damn about international law, elementary fairness, rudimentary human decency, and, last but not least, basic logic, they really won’t quit before their country’s reputation is ruined as it has not been since 1945. Hyperbole, you think? Can it really that bad, you wonder?
Leave it to chancellor Friedrich Merz and company to achieve what seems almost impossible. For almost two-and-a-half years, not one but two German governments have been, in effect, complicit in Israel’s continuing Gaza Genocide. Under former chancellor Olaf Scholz from the Centrist Social-Democrats – otherwise remembered for gutless evasion when US ex-president Joe Biden announced, in essence, that he was going to blow up North Stream – as well as under his unusually dishonest successor Friedrich Merz from the Centrist Christian-Democrats, Berlin has supplied Israel with arms (and probably misled the International Court of Justice about it), diplomatic cover, legal support, media propaganda, and the often brutal suppression of protests against Israel’s crimes.
