Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul says the occasion is wrong to proclaim a sovereign Palestinian state, and that such a decision would send a "wrong signal”.
Germany’s Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul says the occasion is wrong to proclaim a sovereign Palestinian state, and that such a decision would send a "wrong signal”.
The occasion seems to always be wrong. At peace? Wrong signal, might lead to war. At war? Wrong signal, might hinder peace process. Ongoing talks? Wrong signal, pre-defining an outcome might anger one party or both. No ongoing talks? Wrong signal, no momentum for actual change right now. We always find an excuse. Fuck our political class.
The line for ages was that Germany would recoginze Palastine, if Israel does so. Obviously that is not going to happen.
Correct, but you have to mention Germany’s particularly sensitive position here.
That’s no excuse for recognizing Palestine of course - except that there’s too many people who claim it’s against recognizing the state of Israel and therefore against German law. Which is utter horse diarrhea.
Our particularly sensitive position is that we haven’t learned “genocide bad”, only “Israel good”.
Friends don’t let friends commit crimes against humanity.
I agree. Just saying that the historic burden is part of the picture.
After two years of Genocide, I have stopped giving a flying fuck for Germany’s Staatsräson. They’re taking their own internal contradictions out on a people that had nothing to do with the Holocaust. They are externalizing their own guilt on to someone else’s sovereignty and national liberation. Go cry in a corner if you will but don’t stand in the way of Palestinians asserting their inalienable rights and definitely don’t arm the perpetrators of genocide against them.
If you want to atone to Israelis, open your borders to any of them that want out of the war, send them humanitarian aid, send them social workers and nurses and doctors. You can be there for Israeli people without aiding and abetting Israeli crimes.